21.398 cognitive science like alchemy

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   [1] From: abrook <abrook_at_ccs.carleton.ca> (47)
         Subject: cognitive science like alchemy?

   [2] From: "Ayhan Aytes" <aaytes_at_ucsd.edu> (12)
         Subject: Re: 21.396 cognitive science like alchemy?

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         Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:09:14 +0000
         From: abrook <abrook_at_ccs.carleton.ca>
         Subject: cognitive science like alchemy?

Williard, this sounds like the Churchlands to me, probably Patti, she
is better with the pithy phrase. From where? A problem. It could be
any one of twenty places.

Andrew

Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:55:49 +0000
> From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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>Dear colleagues,
>
>I have rattling around in my head fragments of a quotation, which I
>think is from Richard Rorty but cannot find in his works, to the
>effect that one day neurobiology will do to cognitive science what
>chemistry did to alchemy. The parallel is rather commonly made, for
>example by John Searle, and comparing an intellectual practice you
>don't like to alchemy is hardly rare. But the words I remember reading
>were a particularly economical and effective way of asserting a
>person's belief that cognitive science is a folk-science.
>
>This note is *not* intended to provoke ferocious debate about the
>solidity of cognitive science or lack of same, though that might be
>quite enjoyable. I merely want to get the quotation right and
>correctly attributed.
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Yours,
>WM

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         Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:11:05 +0000
         From: "Ayhan Aytes" <aaytes_at_ucsd.edu>
         Subject: Re: 21.396 cognitive science like alchemy?
Dear Willard McCarty,
Would that be Hubert Dreyfus?  He indeed have an article with the
title "Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence" published in 1964.
Ayhan Aytes
PhD Program inCommunication
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