Baumgartner, P. & Payr, S., 1995. Speaking minds: interviews with twenty eminent cognitive scientists, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer humanlike intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer science, this effort has sparked a continuing debate among the psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and linguists who have pioneered - and criticized - Artificial Intelligence. Are there general principles, as some computer scientists had originally hoped, that would fully describe the activity of both animal and machine minds, just as aerodynamics accounts for the flight of birds and airplanes? Twenty leading researchers address this and other vexing questions in the fields that make up cognitive science.
We have interviewed twenty famous people from the field of cognitive science. Unfortunately some of them are not alive anymore.
- Patricia Smith Churchland: Take It Apart and See How It Runs
- Paul M. Churchland: Neural Networks and Commonsense
- Aaron V Cicourel: Cognition and Cultural Belief
- Daniell C. Dennett: In Defense of AI
- Hubert L. Dreyfus: Cognitivism Abondened
- Jerry A Fodor: The Folly of Simulation
- John Haugeland: Farewell to GOFAI?
- George Lakoff: Embodied Minds and Meanings
- James L. McClelland: Toward a Pragmatic Connectionism
- Allen Newell: The Serial Imperative
- Stephen E. Palmer: Gestalt Psychology Redux
- Hilary Putnam: Against the New Associationism
- David E. Rumelhart: From Seaching to Seeing
- John R. Searle: Ontology Is the Question
- Terrence J. Sejnowski: The Hardware Really Matters
- Herbert A. Simon: Technology Is Not the Problem
- Joseph Weizenbaum: The Myth of the Last Metaphor
- Robert Wilensky: Why Play the Philosophy Game?
- Terry A. Winograd: Computers and Social Values
- Lofti A. Zadeh: The Albatross of Classical Logic
Das Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Kognitionswissenschaften an Hand von Interviews wichtiger Persönlichkeiten. Es gibt jeweils ergänzende Literaturhinweise, die Speaking Minds zu einem "Textbook", das für Einführungsveranstaltungen verwendet werden kann, macht. Die Idee dabei ist es, statt einen trockenen Einführuntstext die lebendige und oft kontroversielle Auseinandersetzung zeitgenössischer Forscher und Forscherinnen zum Ausgangspunkt der Beschäftigung mit diesem spannenden Forschungsthema zu machen. Inzwischen sind leider einige der Interviewpartner gestorben, was den Text aber gerade auch zu einem wichtigen historischen Dokument, sozusagen als Zeitzeuge der Auseinandersetzung innerhalb der Kognitionswissenschaften um die Mitte der 90er-Jahre, macht. –– Das Buch ist in zwei Versionen erhältlich als Hardcover und Taschenbuch.