Odd man out: Reply to reviewers

  • Authors:
  • Margaret A. Boden

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, UK

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This is the author's reply to three very different reviews of Mind As Machine: A history of Cognitive Science (Vols 1-2). Two of the reviews, written by Paul Thagard and Jerry Feldman, engage with the book seriously. The third, by Noam Chomsky, does not. It is a sadly unscholarly piece, guaranteed to mislead its readers about both the tone and the content of the book. It is also defamatory. The author provides appropriate responses to all three.