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From: rapaport@sunybcs.uucp (William J. Rapaport)
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Subject: Re: A philosopher's view of the Chinese Room
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Date: 14 Mar 89 22:38:20 GMT
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In article <1989Mar8.153202.4302@LTH.Se> janeric@Control.LTH.Se (Jan Eric Larsson) writes:
>...
>It is really a pity that there are so few philosophers on the net :-)

Well, there are _some_, even some who are also AI researchers, but this
one, at least, prefers to abide by his published commentaries on Searle
for now.  See the following of mine:

Rapaport, William J. (1985), "Machine Understanding and Data
Abstraction in Searle's Chinese Room," _Proceedings of the 7th Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society_ (_University of California at
Irvine_) (Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates):  341-345.

Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Searle's Experiments with Thought,"
_Philosophy of Science_ 53:  271-279.

Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and
the Chinese-Room Argument," _Abacus_ 3 (Summer 1986) 6-17;
correspondence, _Abacus_ 4 (Winter 1987) 6-7, _Abacus_ 4 (Spring 1987) 5-7.

Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Syntactic Semantics:  Foundations of
Computational Natural-Language Understanding," in J. H. Fetzer (ed.)
_Aspects of Artificial Intelligence_ (Dordrecht, Holland:  Kluwer
Academic Publishers):  81-131.

Rapaport, William J. (1988), "To Think or Not to Think" (critical study
of Searle's _Minds, Brains and Science_), _Nous_ 22:  585-609.

			William J. Rapaport
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			Co-Director, Graduate Group in Cognitive Science
			Interim Director, Graduate Research Initiative
                       	                    in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences

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