Why Philosophers Should Be Designers (commentary on Dennett for Bbs)
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This is a short commentary on some aspects of D.C.Dennett’s book The Intentional Stance. The paper criticises the "intentional stance" as not providing real insight into the nature of intelligence because it ignores the question HOW behaviour is produced. The paper argues that only by taking the "design stance" can we understand the difference between intelligent and unintelligent ways of doing the same thing. Commentary submitted to The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journal on: D. C. Dennett The Intentional Stance Cognitive Science Research Papers CSRP 97 School of Cognitive Sciences University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9QN, England Since 1991 Aaron Sloman has been at the School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/ ̃axs/
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