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References on Artificial Intelligence


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Books on Artificial Intelligence


Author Title Publisher Year Description
Aleksander, Igor and Burnett, Piers  Thinking Machines  Oxford  1987  A glossy coffee-table style introduction to AI. 
Bechtel, William and Abrahamsen, Adele  Connectionism and the Mind  Blackwell  1991   
Bench-Capon, T. J. M.  Knowledge Representation: An approach to artificial intelligence  Academic Press  1990   
Boden, Margaret  Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man  Basic Books  1977  Deservedly considered a classic, comprehensible to the general reader wanting to learn about AI and its implications, but plenty to interest the expert also. 
Boden, Margaret A.  Artificial Intelligence in Psychology  MIT  1989   
Boden, Margaret A. (ed.)  The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence  Oxford  1990  A substantial collection of excellent papers on the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, with a useful introduction. 
Clark, Andy  Microcognition  MIT  1989   
Copeland, Jack  Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction  Blackwell  1993  An excellent and engaging discussion of the philosophical issues surrounding AI. 
Genesereth, Michael R. and Nilsson, Nils J.  Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence  Morgan Kaufmann  1987   
Hofstadter, Douglas  Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid  Penguin  1980  A famous book, hard to categorise, which muses on the links between music, art, logic and artificial intelligence. 
Koza, John R.  Genetic Programming: On the programming of computers by natural selection  MIT  1992  A review by Bruce Edmonds (JASSS 2.1, 1999) includes an introductory essay on Genetic Algorithms. 
Preston, John and Bishop, Mark (eds)  Views Into the Chinese Room  Oxford  2002  A collection of papers on John Searle's Chinese Room thought-experiment and its philosophical implications. 
Russell, Stuart and Norvig, Peter  Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach  Prentice Hall  2003  The second edition of a standard (and very substantial) university-level textbook on AI. 
Spivey, Michael  An Introduction to Logic Programming through Prolog  Prentice Hall  1996  Available online at Mike Spivey's Oriel College, Oxford website
Weizenbaum, Joseph  Computer power and human reason  Penguin  1984   



Books on Philosophy of Mind


Author Title Publisher Year Description
Brown, Geoffrey  Minds, Brains and Machines  Bristol Classical Press  1989   
Dennett, Daniel C.  Brainstorms  Harvester  1978  A fascinating and entertaining collection of papers in the Philosophy of Mind, including the wonderfully amusing and thought-provoking "Where Am I?". 
Dennett, Daniel C.  Consciousness Explained  Penguin  1993   
Dennett, Daniel C.  The Intentional Stance  MIT  1987  Presents Dennett's influential theory of intentionality through a range of thought-provoking papers (also includes "Beyond Belief"). 
Hofstadter, Douglas R. and Dennett, Daniel C.  The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul  Penguin  1982   
Penrose, Roger  Shadows of the Mind  Oxford  1994   
Penrose, Roger  The Emperor's New Mind  Oxford  1989   



Books on Cognitive Science


Author Title Publisher Year Description
Boden, Margaret A.  Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science  Oxford  2006  A magnificent achievement, documenting the development of a field to which Boden herself contributed significantly over a long period. 
Clapin, Hugh (ed.)  Philosophy of Mental Representation  Oxford  2002   
Lycan, William G. (ed.)  Mind and Cognition: A Reader  Blackwell  1990   
Manktelow, K. I. and Over, D. E.  Inference and Understanding: A Philosophical and Psychological Perspective  Routledge  1990   
Mohyeldin Said, K. A., Newton-Smith, W. H., Viale, R., and Wilkes, K. V. (eds)  Modelling the Mind  Oxford  1990   
Winograd, Terry  Language as a Cognitive Process  Addison-Wesley  1983   

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