Book Review: Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive Inquiry Edited by David J. Cole, James H. Fetzer, and Terry L. Rankin (Kluwer Academic Publishers)

This book is an anthology of papers concerned with philosophical and theoretical issues in the nature of mind and mental processes. The purpose of the collection is to provide readers with representative work by leading philosophers working on problems in cognition and the nature of the mind. The papers range in date from 1978 to 1989. The book begins with a quotation from McCarthy:Artificial Intelligence cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. ... I agree with philosophers who advocate the study of philosophy and claim that one who purports to ignore it is merely condemning himself to a naive philosophy.