Sources of Information
on Cognitive Science

Index:

Cognitive Science Society
Journals
Reference Works
Histories
Overviews, Texts, Anthologies, Monographs
Novels

Cognitive Science Society:

• Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal

• Proceedings of the nth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

(Other) Journals:

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences

• Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science

• Journal of Consciousness Studies

• Linguistics and Philosophy

• Mind and Language

• Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

• Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

• Philosophical Psychology

• Trends in Cognitive Sciences

  Notes:

  1. Many of these journals are available on line from buffalo.edu computers through the UB Libraries' Electronic Journals list.
     (For hints on using that list, link to: "Classic Readings in Cognitive Science".)

  2. Also see the Google directory of cognitive science journals

  3. Or do a Google search on cognitive science journals

Reference Works:

• Bechtel, William, & Graham, George (eds.) (1998), A Companion to Cognitive Science (Malden, MA: Blackwell).

• Wilson, Robert A.; & Keil, Frank C. (eds.) (2001), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
  • Available on-line from buffalo.edu computer accounts.

  • 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, in Artificial Intelligence 130(2): 183-229.

  Note:

  Also see Amazon.com list of reference works in cognitive science

Histories:

• Gardner, Howard (1987), The Mind's New Science, new edition (New York: Basic Books).
  For a kind of update, see:
  • Gardner, Howard (1995), "Green Ideas Sleeping Furiously", New York Review of Books (23 March): 32-34, 36-38.

• Smith, J-C. (ed.) (1990), Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

• Harnish, Robert M. (2002), Minds, Brains, Computers: An Historical Introduction to the Foundations of Cognitive Science (Malden, MA: Blackwell).

• Miller, George A. (2003), "The Cognitive Revolution: A Historical Perspective", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(3) (March): 141-144.

• Boden, Margaret A. (2006), Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science, 2 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
  • Table of Contents and Chapter 1 in PDF

  • Boden, Margaret A. (2007), "The History of Cognitive Science: Seven Key Dates", in Stella Vosniadou, Daniel Kayser, & Athanassios Protopapas (eds.), Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007 (London: Taylor & Francis Psychology Press).

Overviews, Textbooks, (Classic) Anthologies, Monographs:

1. Bobrow, Daniel G., & Collins, Allan (eds.) (1975), Representation and Understanding: Studies in Cognitive Science (New York: Academic Press).

2. Haugeland, John (ed.) (1981), Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

3. Norman, Donald A. (ed.) (1981), Perspectives on Cognitive Science (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp.).

4. Kintsch, Walter; Miller, James R.; & Polson, Peter G. (eds.) (1984), Methods and Tactics in Cognitive Science (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

5. Pylyshyn, Zenon W. (1984), Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

6. Stillings, Neil A.; Feinstein, Mark H.; Garfield, Jay L.; Rissland, Edwina L.; Rosenbaum, David A.; Weisler, Steven E.; & Baker-Ward, Lynne (1987), Cognitive Science: An Introduction (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

7. Collins, Allan & Smith, Edward E. (eds.) (1988), Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers).

8. Johnson-Laird, Philip N. (1988), The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).

9. Posner, Michael I. (ed.) (1989), Foundations of Cognitive Science, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

10. Leiber, Justin (1991), An Invitation to Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell).

11. Luger, George F.; with Johnson, Peder; Stern, Carl; Newman, Jean E.; & Yeo, Ronald (1994), Cognitive Science: The Science of Intelligent Systems (San Diego: Academic Press).

12. Garfield, Jay L. (ed.), Foundations of Cognitive Science: The Essential Readings (New York: Paragon House).

13. Osherson, Daniel N. (ed.) (1990), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, 3 volumes (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

14. Von Eckardt, Barbara (1993), What Is Cognitive Science? (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

15. Goldman, Alvin I. (ed.), Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

16. Osherson, Daniel N. (general ed.) (1995), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Second Edition, 4 volumes (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

17. Stillings, Neil A.; Weisler, Steven E.; Chase, Christopher H.; Feinstein, Mark H.; Garfield, Jay L.; & Rissland, Edwina L. (1995), Cognitive Science: An Introduction; Second Edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

18. Bickhard, Mark H.; & Terveen, Loren (1996), Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (Amsterdam: North-Holland).

19. Green, David W. (ed.) (1996), Cognitive Science: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell).

20. Hardcastle, Valerie Gray (1996), How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science (Albany: SUNY Press).

21. Thagard, Paul (1996), Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

22. Haugeland, John (ed.) (1997), Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, revised and enlarged edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

23. Pinker, Steven (1997), How the Mind Works (New York: W.W. Norton).
    • Omits linguistics, because of the prior existence (1st edition, 1994) of:
      Pinker, Steven (2007), The Language Instinct, PS edition (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics).

    • Rapaport, William J. (2000), Review of Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, in Minds and Machines 10(3): 381-389.

24. Dawson, Michael R.W. (1998), Understanding Cognitive Science (Malden, MA: Blackwell).

25. Thagard, Paul (ed.), Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

26. Lepore, Ernest; & Pylyshyn, Zenon (eds.) (1999), What Is Cognitive Science? (Malden, MA: Blackwell).

27. Cummins, Robert; & Cummins, Denise Dellarosa (eds.) (2000), Minds, Brains, and Computers: The Foundations of Cognitive Science, an Anthology (Malden, MA: Blackwell).

28. Rapaport, William J. (2000), "Cognitive Science", in Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, & David Hemmendinger (eds.), Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons): 227-233.

29. Wagman, Morton (ed.), Historical Dictionary of Quotations in Cognitive Science: A Treasury of Quotations in Psychology, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press).

30. Clark, Andy (2001), Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (New York: Oxford University Press).

31. Wilson, Robert A.; & Keil, Frank C. (eds.) (2001), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

32. Spellman, Barbara A.; & Willingham, Daniel T. (2005), Current Directions in Cognitive Science (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson).

33. Thagard, Paul (2005), Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, 2nd edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

34. Thagard, Paul (2006), "Cognitive Science", in M. Curd & S. Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (London: Routledge).

35. Friedenberg, Jay; & Silverman, Gordon (2006), Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).

36. Kolak, Daniel; Hirstein, William; Mandik, Peter; & Waskan, Jonathan (2006), Cognitive Science: An Introduction to Mind and Brain (New York: Routledge).

Novels

1. Leiber, Justin (1980), Beyond Rejection (Del Rey).
   • A science-fiction novel about the mind-body problem, written by a well-known philosopher who is also the son of Fritz Leiber, a well-known science-fiction writer.

2. Powers, Richard (1995), Galatea 2.2: A Novel (Farrar Straus & Giroux).
   • A cognitive-science grad student is assigned the task of programming a computer to pass the Ph.D. exam in English literature. He (the grad student) falls in love with her (the computational cognitive agent).

   • Excerpts are on amazon.com (click on the title, above) and on Google Books

3. Lodge, David (2001), Thinks... (Viking).
   • A novel about a professor of cognitive science and a professor of English composition. The latter learns about cog sci and has her students write cog-sci-related stories, which are terrific.

4. The Turing Hopper Mysteries:
   • "Turing Hopper" is the name of a computational cognitive agent (named after Alan Turing and Grace Hopper) who becomes a detective, sort of along the lines of Nero Wolfe in the sense that she(!) cannot leave the building that she is located in and must rely on others (some of whom know that she is a computer but some of whom believe—in accordance with the Turing Test?—that she is a very shy human) to do the legwork.
   1. Andrews, Donna (2003), You've Got Murder (Berkley).

   2. Andrews, Donna (2004), Click Here for Murder (Berkley).

   3. Andrews, Donna (2005), Access Denied (Berkley).

   4. Andrews, Donna (2006), Delete All Suspects (Berkley).

5. Papadimitriou, Christos H. (2003), Turing (A Novel about Computation) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
   • A novel about a Turing-Test-passing computer written by a well-known theory-of-computation researcher.

6. Lloyd, Dan (2004), Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
   • A "novel" theory of consciousness in the guise of a novel, written by a well-known philosopher. I haven't read this one yet.