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From: aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Cognitive Science Textbooks wanted
Keywords: textbook AI
Message-ID: <2481@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Apr 90 13:25:07 GMT
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Organization: School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, Sussex Univ. UK
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petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (james peterson) writes:

> Date: 13 Apr 90 16:58:10 GMT
> Organization: Colorado State University
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> I would like to solicit suggestions from any and all who have textbook
> recommendations for a beginning course in cognitive science.

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> I would like to see an introduction to the subject as detailed as AI:TVI
> but a little more balanced.
    .....
> What I would like to see is an introduction which is as detailed as Haugeland's
> text, but which introduces both approaches as well as the debate now raging
> between classicists and connectionists.

There is a book that arose out of our teaching AI to beginners in the
School of Cognitive and Computing sciences at Sussex, where we have
active teaching and research in both connectionist and
non-connectionist AI. The book is

Sharples, M. Hogg, D. Hutchison,C. Torrance,S, Young,D.
Computers and Thought: a practical introduction to Artificial Intelligence
MIT Press 1989.

It introduces various areas of AI mainly from the point of view of
cognitive science (as opposed to engineering). It includes illustrations
of AI techniques using Pop-11, a lisp-like language with a more readable
pascal-like syntax.

Aaron Sloman