Book review: Mind Design II Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence John Haugeland, editor (A 5radford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, MA, 1997 476 pp. ISBN 0-262-58t53-1 (paper) $t9.50 tSBN 0-262-08259-4 (cloth) $40.00)

Abstract

John Haugeland, professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, is well known in the Artificial Intelligence community. With interests --- among others --- in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology, he has produced numerous thoughtful works in the past and continues to do so. The title under review, Mind Design II, is the revised version of his 1981 book Mind Design. Other Haugeland books include Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea [Haugeland 1985] and Having Thought [Haugeland 1997].

References

1. Churchland, Paul M. 1989. A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Dennett, Daniel C. 1987. The International Stance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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4. Guttenplan, Samuel, ed. 1994. A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Blackwell.
5. Haugeland, John, ed. 1981. Mind Design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Haugeland, John. 1985. Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
7. Haugeland, John. 1997. Having Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
8. Nadel, Lynn, Cooper, Lynn A., Culicover, Peter, and Harnish, R. Michael, eds. 1989. Neural Connections, Mental Computation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence