Hassocks UK: Harvester Press (1978)
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Extract from Hofstadter's revew in Bulletin of American Mathematical Society :
http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1980-02-02/S0273-0979-1980-14752-7/S0273-0979-1980-14752-7.pdf
"Aaron Sloman is a man who is convinced that most philosophers and many
other students of mind are in dire need of being convinced that there has
been a revolution in that field happening right under their noses, and that
they had better quickly inform themselves. The revolution is called "Artificial
Intelligence" (Al)-and Sloman attempts to impart to others the "enlighten-
ment" which he clearly regrets not having experienced earlier himself. Being
somewhat of a convert, Sloman is a zealous campaigner for his point of view.
Now a Reader in Cognitive Science at Sussex, he began his academic career
in more orthodox philosophy and, by exposure to linguistics and AI, came to
feel that all approaches to mind which ignore AI are missing the boat. I agree
with him, and I am glad that he has written this provocative book.
The tone of Sloman's book can be gotten across by this quotation (p. 5): "I
am prepared to go so far as to say that within a few years, if there remain any
philosophers who are not familiar with some of the main developments in
artificial intelligence, it will be fair to accuse them of professional incom-
petence, and that to teach courses in philosophy of mind, epistemology,
aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, ethics, metaphysics,
and other main areas of philosophy, without discussing the relevant aspects of
artificial intelligence will be as irresponsible as giving a degree course in
physics which includes no quantum theory."
(The author now regrets the extreme polemical tone of the book.)
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Keywords | Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Mind Artificial intelligence Philosophy and cognitive science Philosophy of mathematics Computational architectures for minds Explaining possibilities Architectures for visual processing Development of number competences Fregean and anlogical representations |
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