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  1. Department of Psychology, and Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14260, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Erwin M. Segal

  2. Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 60208, Evanston, IL, USA

    Meredith Williams

  3. Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 55812, Duluth, MN, USA

    David J. Cole

  4. Department of Computer and Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 07102, Newark, NJ, USA

    James Geller

  5. Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, 88003, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

    Yorick Wilks

  6. Bell Communications Research, 07962, Morristown, NJ, USA

    Shoshana Loeb

  7. Department of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

    Kim Sterelny

  8. Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 08903, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Jerry Fodor

  9. Philosophy Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 10036, New York, NY, USA

    Jerry Fodor

  10. Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 40 B, 00170, Helsinki, Finland

    Sara Heinämaa

  11. Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, N6A 3K7, London, Ont., Canada

    Ausonio Marras

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Segal, E.M., Williams, M., Cole, D.J. et al. Book reviews. Mind Mach 3, 335–375 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00976286

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