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Cognitive science

Here are entered works on the interdisciplinary study of the mind and computers as information processing systems.

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• Philosophy of mind

• Cognitive science -- Periodicals
• Cognitive science -- Philosophy
• Cognitive science -- Research
• Artificial intelligence
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Cognitive psychology
• Philosophy and cognitive science

• Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Michael Robert William Dawson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), by Angela D. Friederici, contrib. by Noam Chomsky (PDF files at MIT Press)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• From Complexity to Creativity: Computational Models of Evolutionary, Autopoietic and Cognitive Dynamics (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)
• Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought and Reality From the Perspective of Complex Systems Science (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)
• The Structure of Intelligence: A New Mathematical Model of Mind (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

• Open Mind (2017-) (full serial archives)

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1993-) (full serial archives)

• Journal of Machine Learning Research (2000-) (full serial archives)

• Bayesian Analysis (2006-) (full serial archives)

• Research in Learning Technology: The Journal of the Association for Learning Technology (including volumes originally published as the Association for Learning Technology Journal) (full serial archives)

• Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (2007-) (full serial archives)
• Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Journal of Numerical Cognition (2015-) (full serial archives)
• Advances in Cognitive Psychology (full serial archives)

• Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Frederick Luis Aldama and Patrick Colm Hogan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Can We Trust AI? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Rama Chellappa, contrib. by Eric Niiler (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Brain and Cognition: Some New Technologies (1989), ed. by Daniel Druckman and John I. Lacey (page images at NAP)

• Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews (c1996), by John McCarthy (PDF at Stanford)

• Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java (third edition, c2008), by Mark Watson (PDF at markwatson.com)
• Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization (second edition, 2003), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Sukanto Bhattacharya, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence (third edition, reprinted with corrections; Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993), by Patrick Henry Winston (PDF at MIT)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines (c1992), by Ray Kurzweil (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence and Games (2018), by Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius (PDF with commentary at gameaibook.org)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog (1988), by Neil C. Rowe (HTML at nps.edu)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF wih commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Accelerando (2005), by Charles Stross (multiple formats with commentary at antipope.org)
• Old Soldiers (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 183 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 185 MB
• Bolo! (included on a CD image), by David Weber, contrib. by Keith Laumer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB
• The Fourth "R", by George O. Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Halo, by Tom Maddox (HTML at dthomasmaddox.com)

• This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), by Pamela McCorduck (HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind, by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Francisco Yus (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (prepublication version, 2012), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at MLA Commons)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)

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