Book Reviews: Natural Language Generation, NEW RESULTS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND lINGUISTICS

even inconsistencies(!), among the different authors. Anthologies, in a discipline such as phi losophy of language, are bet ter in that they (usually) contain primary sources. My own preference when teaching philosophy of language is not to use a single-author text (except at mos t to supplement the pr imary sources and to serve as a guide to the problems and the literature, for the student who prefers such a guide). Rather, I have the students read original sources, while I provide background, connecting material, and explications in lectures. To sum up, as a " s ing le" -au thor text, Devit t and Sterelny 's book is probably bet ter than Mart in 's , but the appropr ia te audience for it (advanced undergraduates at the very least, graduate students (or beyond) at best) could do as well with an anthology. It would certainly serve as an excellent, if somewhat idiosyncratic, supplement to an anthology. Mart in ' s book would be bet ter for (primarily undergraduate) students who need the securi ty of a single-author text, but the instructor would need to correct the errors along the way. I t could, in any case, be usefully supplemented by an anthology of pr imary sources.