An International Journal:
Founding Editor
and Editor, Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence,
Philosophy, and Cognitive Science. First Issue Published 1991/Four
Issues Per Volume/Year.
Editorial Focus:
Machines and Mentality, Knowledge and Its Representation, Epistemic
Aspects of Computer Programming, Connectionist Conceptions, Artificial
Intelligence and Epistemology, Computer Methodology, Computational
Approaches to Philosophical Issues, Philosophy of Computer Science,
Simulation and Modeling, Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence
Aims and Scope:
Minds and Machines affords an international forum for discussion and
debate of important and controversial issues concerning significant
developments within its areas of editorial focus. Well-reasoned contributions
from diverse theoretical perspectives are welcome and every effort
will be made to ensure their prompt publication. Among the features
that are intended to make this journal distinctive are these:
- Strong stands
on controversial issues are especially encouraged
- Important
articles exceeding normal joural length may appear
- Special issues
devoted to specific topics will be a regular feature
- Review essays
discussing current problem situations will appear
- Critical responses
to previously published pieces are also invited
This journal
is intended to foster a tradition of criticism within the AI and philosophical
communities on problems and issues of common concern. Its scope explicitly
encompasses philosophical aspects of computer science. All submissions
are reviewed. Special issues have appeared on defeasible reasoning,
music and cognition, natural language processing and computation and
are scheduled on evolutionary psychology and on concepts and explanation.
An
International Society:
Founder, The
Society for Machines and Mentality, First Annual Meeting Held December
1991. Current Membership: 100+.
The Society for
Machines and Mentality is an international professional organization.
The objective of the Society is to promote, foster, and encourage
literary and educational projects that have as their purpose to advance
philosophical understanding of issues at the intersection of artificial
intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science, including such issues
as whether machines are able to think, whether machines could have
minds, and related matters. Annual meetings are normally held in conjunction
with annual meetings of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical
Association in December. Inivited speakers at recent meetings have
included William Bechtel, Donald Perlis, and Beth Preston.
An
International Library:
Founding Editor
and Editor, Studies in Cognitive Systems, a professional library devoted
to knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds.
First Volume Published 1988.
This series includes
monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation
and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems
of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.
It scope spans the full range of interests from classical problems
in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues
in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental powers
of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and
computer science. While primary emphasis is placed upon theoretical,
conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains,
empirical, experimental, and methodological studies will also appear
from time to time. As of January of 2000, more than twenty volumes
have appeared in this series.
Computer
Science
Co-Edited
Book:
PROGRAM VERIFICATION.
Fundamental Issues in Computer Science (co-edited with Timothy Colburn
and Terry L. Rankin). Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1993. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 14) xiii + 457 pp.
Articles
and Reviews:
"Program
Verification: The Very Idea", Communications of the ACM (September
1988), pp. 1048-1063.
Reprinted in
T. Colburn, J. Fetzer, and T. Rankin, eds., Program Verification
(Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993),
pp. 321-358.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 183-220.
"ACM Forum:
Response from the Author", Communications of the ACM (March 1989),
pp. 288-289.
"Technical
Correspondence: The Author's Response", Communications of the
ACM (March 1989), pp. 377-381.
"Technical
Correspondence: The Author's Response", Communications of the
ACM (April 1989), pp. 510-512.
"ACM Forum:
Patents and Programs", Communications of the ACM (June 1989),
pp. 675-676.
"ACM Forum:
Another Point of View", Communications of the ACM (August 1989),
pp. 920-921.
"Mathematical
Proofs of Computer System Correctness: A Response", Notices of
the AMS (December 1989), pp. 1353-1354.
"The Final
Word on Program Verification", Notices of the AMS (May/June 1990),
pp. 562-563.
"Philosophical
Aspects of Program Verification", Minds and Machines (May 1991),
pp. 197-216.
Reprinted in
T. Colburn, J. Fetzer, and T. Rankin, eds., Program Verification
(Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993),
pp. 403-427.
Reprinted under
the title, "Program Verification", in A. Kent and J. Williams,
eds., Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 28 (New
York, NY: Marcel Dekker, 1993), pp. 237-254.
Reprinted under
the title, "Program Verification", in A. Kent and J.Williams,
eds., Encyclopedia of Microprocessors, Vol. 14 (New York, NY: Marcel
Dekker, 1994), pp. 47-64.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 221-245.
"Computer
Reliability and Public Policy: Limits of Knowledge of Computer-Based
Systems", Social Philosophy and Policy 13 (Summer 1996), pp.
229-266.
Reprinted in
E. Paul, F. Miller, and J. Paul, eds., Scientific Innovation, Philosophy,
and Public Policy (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996),
pp. 229-266.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 271-308.
"Computer
Systems: The Uncertainty of Their Reliability", Bridges 5
(1998), pp. 197-215.
"Philosophy
and Computer Science: Reflections on the Program Verification Debate",
in T. Bynum and J. H. Moor, eds., The Digital Phoenix: How Computers
are Changing Philosophy (Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1998), pp. 253-273.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 247-267.
"The Alan
Turing Home Page", APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computing
97 (1998), pp. 54-55.
"The Role
of Models in Computer Science", The Monist 82 (1999), pp. 20-36.
Artificial
Intelligence
Authored
Book:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Its Scope and Limits. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1990. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 4) xviii + 338 pp.
Edited
Book:
ASPECTS OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster/Tokyo: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1988. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 1) xiii + 385 pp.
Co-Edited
Book:
PHILOSOPHY, LANGUAGE,
AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Resources for Processing Natural Language
(co-edited with Jack Kulas and Terry L. Rankin). Dordrecht/Boston/London:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol.
2) xii + 421 pp.
Articles
and Reviews:
"The Frame
Problem: Artificial Intelligence Meets David Hume", Expert Systems
(1990), pp. 219-232.
Reprinted in
K. Ford and P. Hayes, eds., Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World:
The Frame Problem (Greenwich, CN: JAI Press, 1991), pp. 55-69.
"Artificial
Intelligence Meets David Hume: A Response to Patrick Hayes",
Expert Systems (1990), pp. 239-247.
Reprinted in
K. Ford and P. Hayes, eds., Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World:
The Frame Problem (Greenwich, CN: JAI Press, 1991), pp. 77-85.
"The Workshop
on Defeasible Reasoning: Comments", SIGART Bulletin (January
1991), pp. 5-7, pp. 16-17, p. 21, p. 28, pp. 31-33, pp. 36-37.
"Review:
Scharples et al., Computers and Thought", Philosophical Psychology
4 (1991), pp. 383-385.
"What Reviewers
Should and Should Not Do: On Harold Thimbleby on AI: Its Scope and
Limits", SIGART Bulletin (January 1992), pp. 6-7.
"The TTT
is Not the Final Word", THINK (June 1993), pp. 34-36.
"Evidential
Probabilities are Not Enough", Computational Intelligence (Feruary
1994), pp. 49-52.
"Escaping
the Propositional Prison", The Monist (July 1997), pp. 378-381.
"Intelligence
vs. Mentality: Important but Independent Concepts", in A. Meystel,
ed., Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Intelligent
Systems and Semiotics (Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards
and Technology, 1997), pp. 493-498.
"The Philosophy
of AI and Its Critique", in Luciano Floridi, ed., The Blackwell
Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishers, 2004), pp. 119-134.
"The Frame Problem", The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition (New York, NY: MacMillan Reference Books, 2006).
Electronic
Publications:
"Van Brakel's
Position Appears to be Incoherent", PSYCOLOQUY 4 (14), frame-problem.4
(February 1993).
"Philosophy
Unframed: A Response to van Brakel, Grush, and Morris", PSYCOLOQUY
4 (33), frame-problem.10 (April 1993).
Cognitive
Science
Authored
Books:
PHILOSOPHY AND
COGNITIVE SCIENCE. New York, NY: Paragon House Publishers, 1991. (Paragon
Issues in Philosophy) xvii + 170 pp. 2nd edition (revised and expanded),
1996. xx + 191 pp.
Published
in Portuguese translation under the title, FILOSOFIA E CIENCIA COGNITIVA.
Bauru, SP, Brazil: EDUSC, 2000. 194 pp.
COMPUTERS AND
COGNITION: Why Minds are Not Machines. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2000. xix + 323 pp.
Co-Authored
Book:
GLOSSARY OF COGNITIVE
SCIENCE (co-authored with Charles E. M. Dunlop). New York, NY: Paragon
House Publishers, 1993. (Paragon Glossaries for Research, Reading,
and Writing) xii +146 pp.
Edited
Book:
EPISTEMOLOGY
AND COGNITION. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1991. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 6) xiii + 301 pp.
Co-Edited
Book:
PHILOSOPHY, MIND,
AND COGNITIVE INQUIRY. Resources for Understanding Mental Processes
(co-edited with David Cole and Terry L. Rankin). Dordrecht/Boston/London:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol.
3) xi -+ 449 pp.
Guest
Edited Journal Issues:
Rationality and
Objectivity: Philosophical and Psychological Conceptions, Part I,
Synthese, Vol. 57, No. 2 (November 1983), pp. 127-266.
Rationality and
Objectivity: Philosophical and Psychological Conceptions, Part II,
Synthese, Vol. 57, No. 3 (December 1983), pp. 267-442.
Epistemology
and Cognition, Part I, Synthese, Vol. 82, No. 2 (February 1990), pp.
175-306.
Epistemology
and Cognition, Part II, Synthese, Vol. 82, No. 3 (March 1990), pp.
307-439.
Epistemology
and Cognition, Part III, Synthese, Vol. 83, No. 1 (April 1990), pp.
1-177.
Articles
and Reviews:
"Signs and
Minds: An Introduction to the Theory of Semiotic Systems", in
J. Fetzer, ed., Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (Dordrecht, The
Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988), pp. 133-161.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 43-71.
"Language
and Mentality: Computational, Representational, and Dispositional
Conceptions", Behaviorism (Spring 1989), pp. 21-39.
Reprinted in
D. Cole, J. Fetzer, and T. Rankin, eds., Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive
Inquiry (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1990), pp. 377-402.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 73-98.
"Primitive
Concepts: Habits, Conventions, and Laws", in J. Fetzer, D. Shatz,
and G. Schlesinger, eds., Definitions and Definability: Philosophical
Perspectives (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1991), pp. 51-68.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 25-42.
"Connectionism
and Cognition: Why Fodor and Pylyshyn are Wrong", in A. Clark
and R. Lutz, eds., Connectionism in Context (Heidelberg, FRG: Springer-Verlag,
1992), pp. 37-56.
Reprinted (in
Finnish) in E. Marjomaa and T. Vaden, eds., Ihmisen Tiedonkasittely,
Symbolien Manipulointi ja Konnektionismi (Tampereen Yliopiston Jaljennepalvelu,
1991), pp. 1-31.
"Goldman
has Not Defeated Folk Functionalism", Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(March 1993), pp. 42-43.
"The Argument
for Mental Models is Unsound", Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(June 1993), pp. 347-348.
"Mental
Algorithms: Are Minds Computational Systems?", Pragmatics and
Cognition 2 (1994), pp. 1-29.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 101-129.
"Creative
Thinking Presupposes the Capacity for Thought", Behavioral and
Brain Sciences (September 1994), pp. 539-540.
"What Makes
Connectionism Different? Discussion Review: W. Ramsey, S. Stich, and
D. Rumelhart, eds., Philosophy and Connectionist Theory", Pragmatics
and Cognition 2 (1994), pp. 327-348.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 131-152.
"Minds and
Machines: Behaviorism, Dualism, and Beyond", Stanford Humanities
Review 4 (1995), pp. 251-265.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 3-21.
"Thinking
and Computing: Computers as Special Kinds of Signs", Minds and
Machines 7 (August 1997), pp. 345-364.
"People
are Not Computers: (Most) Thought Processes are Not Computational
Procedures", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence 10 (1998), pp. 371-391.
Reprinted in
J. Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 153-180.
"Deduction
and Mental Models: A Discussion Review of P. N. Johnson-Laird and
R. M. J. Byrne, Deduction", Minds and Machines (February 1999),
pp. 105-110.
"Mental
Models: Reasoning without Rules", Minds and Machines (February
1999), pp. 119-125. Errata, Minds and Machines (August 1999), p. 457.
"Computing
is at Best a Special Kind of Thinking", in B. Elevitch, ed.,
Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Psychology, Proceedings of the
20th World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. 6 (2000), pp. 103-113.
"Consciousness
and Cognition: Semiotic Conceptions of Bodies and Minds", in
Q. Smith and A. Jokic, eds., Aspects of Consciousness (Oxford, UK:
The Clarendon Press, 2003), pp. 295-322.
Evolution
and Cognition
Authored
Books:
THE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE: Are Humans the Only Animals with Minds?
(Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2005), pp. xx + 272.
RENDER UNTO DARWIN: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's
Crusade Against Science (Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2007), pp. xx + 220.
Edited
Books:
CONSCIOUSNESS
EVOLVING. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishers, 2002
(Advances in Consciouness Research) xix + 251 pp.
Articles
and Reviews:
"Mentality
and Creativity", Journal of Social and Biological Structures
(January 1988), pp. 82-85.
Reprinted in
C. Findlay and C. Lumsden, eds., The Creative Mind (New York, NY:
Academic Press, 1988), pp. 82-85.
"Evolution,
Rationality, and Testability", Synthese (March 1990), pp. 423-439.
"Review:
Merlin Donald's Origins of the Modern Mind", Philosophical Psychology
6 (1993), pp. 339-341.
"Evolution
Needs a Modern Theory of the Mind", Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(December 1993), pp. 759-760.
"Review:
Donald Griffin's Animal Mind", Human Ethology Newsletter (September
1994), pp. 15-17.
"Review:
Sheets-Johnstone's The Roots of Thinking", Philosophical Psychology
7 (1994), pp. 397-399.
"Logical
Reasoning and Domain Specificity: A Critique of the Social Exchange
Theory of Reasoning" (with Paul Davies and Tom Foster), Biology
and Philosophy (January 1995), pp. 1-37.
"Return
to Animal Mind: A Reply to Aiken's Comments on My Review", Human
Ethology Bulletin (December 1995), pp. 5-6.
"Are there
Animal Minds? Discussion Review: M. S. Dawkins, Through Our Eyes Only:
The Search for Animal Consciousness", The Journal of Social and
Evolutionary Systems 19 (Spring 1996), pp. 187-192.
Reprinted in
European Sociobiological Society Newsletter No. 44 (May 1997), pp.
17-24.
"Biological
Adaptations and Evolutionary Epistemology: Discussion Review: Henry
Plotkin, Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge", Adapted
Behavior 4 (1995), pp. 201-210.
"Review:
Daniel Dennett, Kinds of Minds", Philosophical Psychology
10 (1997), pp. 113-115.
"Discussion
Review: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind", European
Sociobiological Newsletter (September 1998), pp. 18-23.
Reprinted in
The Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 21 (1998), pp. 229-233.
"Group Selection
and the Evolution of Culture", in V. Falger, P. Meyer, and J.
van der Dennen, eds., Research in Biopolitics: Sociobiology and Politics
(Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1998), pp. 3-15.
"Introduction",
in J. Fetzer, ed., Consciousness Evolving (Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins,
2002), pp. xiii-xix.
"Evolving Consciousness: The Very Idea!", Evolution and Cognition 8/2
(2002), pp. 230-240.
