Editors Peter Baumgartner and Sabine Payr saved us a lot of time by
interviewing their “top twenty” of cognitive scientists. If you want to
distinguish Dennett from Searle, Rumelhart from Weizenbaum, catch the paperback
from Princeton, Speaking Minds (£13.95/$17.95, ISBN 0 691 02901 6),
reviewed by John Casti on 27 July last year.
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