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  1. Annals of the History of Computing, P.O. Box 537, 96734, Kailua, HI, U.S.A.

    Eric A. Weiss (Associate Editor-in-Chief, Computing Reviews, and Biographies Editor)

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Houston, 77004, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

    Justin Leiber

  3. Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences and Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14260, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Judith Felson Duchan

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Connecticut, 06268, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.

    Mallory Selfridge

  5. Program in Philosophy, Computers, and Systems Science, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Binghamton, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA

    Eric Dietrich

  6. College of Arts and Sciences, Santa Clara University, 95053, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A.

    Peter A. Facione

  7. Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.

    Timothy Joseph Day

  8. Scuola Superiore S. Anna, ARTS Lab, 57127, Pisa, Italy

    Johan M. Lammens

  9. Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

    Andrew Feenberg

  10. Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 12180, Troy, NY, U.S.A.

    Deborah G. Johnson

  11. Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19408, 76019-0408, Arlington, TX, U.S.A.

    Daniel S. Levine

  12. Department of Philosophy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 08903, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.

    Ted A. Warfield

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Weiss, E.A., Leiber, J., Duchan, J.F. et al. Book reviews. Mind Mach 5, 109–155 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00974192

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