CSE 575, Fall 2001, Introduction to Cognitive Science

CSE 575, Fall 2001

GENERAL ISSUES IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Pinker, Steven (1997), How the Mind Works (New York: W.W. Norton).
- Rapaport, William J. (2000), Review of Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), Minds and Machines: 10: 381-389.
List of UB Cog Sci research groups
Sources of information on cognitive science
Carr, Catherine; Dorr, Bonnie Jean; Husbands, Phil; Lakoff, George; Okamoto, Yoshi; Peterson, Donald M.; Keil, Frank C.; & Wilson, Robert A. (2001), Multiple book review, with editors' replies, of MITECS, Artificial Intelligence 130(2): 183-229.
Gardner, Howard (1985/1987), The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution, with a New Epilogue by the Author: Cognitive Science After 1984 (New York: Basic Books).
Gardner, Howard (1995), "Green Ideas Sleeping Furiously", New York Review of Books (23 March): 32-34, 36-38.
- A review of:
  - Pinker, Steven (1994), The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (New York: William Morrow).
  - Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (1992), Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
  - Bruner, Jerome (1990), Acts of Meaning (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
Newell, Allen, & Simon, Herbert A. (1976), "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search", Communications of the ACM 19 (March): 113-126; reprinted in John Haugeland (ed.), Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 35-66, and in John Haugeland (ed.), Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, revised and enlarged edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 81-110.
Fodor, Jerry A. (1975), The Language of Thought (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell).
Dennett, Daniel C. (1971), "Intentional Systems", Journal of Philosophy 68: 87-106; reprinted in Daniel C. Dennett, Brainstorms (Montgomery, VT: Bradford Books): 3-22.
Prof. William C. Schmidt's webpage on the mind.