Speaking Minds Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists EDITED BY PETER BAUMGARTNER AND SABINE PAYR
Speaking Minds Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists EDITED BY PETER BAUMGARTNER AND SABINE PAYR INTRODUCTION Why a Book of Interviews? The idea for a collection of interviews with notable cognitive scientists originated as early as 1989, while we were in residence at the University of California at Berkeley, working as research scholars at the Institute of Cognitive Studies. Peter Baumgartner was preparing a book on educa- tional philosophy dealing specifically with the background of knowl- edge (Baumgartner 1993), and Sabine Payr was working on her doctoral dissertation on knowledge-based machine translation (Payr 1992). So we both had already been dealing with the problems of Artificial Intelli gence and cognitive science, and we shared a focus on the philosophical and social questions raised by these fields. Take It Apart and See How It Runs When I was a graduate student at Pittsburgh in 1966, we worked through Quine's bo...