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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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Date: 2 Dec 91 20:24:51 GMT
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In article <3943@papaya.bbn.com> 
cbarber@bbn.com (Chris Barber) writes:

>In article <1991Nov28.173516.5976@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>The Harvard Bookstore has changed the name of its Artificial Intelligence
>>book section to `Cognitive Science' about a year ago; similar trends have
>>been observed elsewhere.  Alas, to my ear, `Cognitive Science' and,
>>especially `Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems' sound quite as offensive
>>as the original.  On the positive side, the Cognitive Science books are
>>often located next to Critical Theory...

CB:
>Actually, the Harvard Bookstore had a 'Cognitive Science' section at 
>least three years ago, but to suggest that 'Cognitive Science' is 
>merely a renaming of 'Artificial Intelligence' would be to demean
>the rest of the field.

All the maledictory power of English would be insufficient to the herculean
task of demeaning the field that suffers the continued presence of Paul and
Patricia Churchland.  Cognitive "science" is as low as porcupine poop, and
as scientific as the SDI initiative.

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