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>From: cbarber@bbn.com (Chris Barber)
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Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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Date: 2 Dec 91 16:02:51 GMT
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In article <1991Nov28.173516.5976@husc3.harvard.edu> 
        zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

>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...

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.

-- 
Christopher Barber
(cbarber@bbn.com)


