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Introductions to Philosophy of the Mind

Bechtel William: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988)
Heil John: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (Routledge, 1998)
Priest Stephen: THEORIES OF MIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)
Robinson Daniel: THE MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1998)
McGinn Colin: MINDS AND BODIES (Oxford Univ Press, 1997)


Theories of the Mind (Mind-body Debate)

 Armstrong David Malet: THE NATURE OF MIND (Cornell Univ Press, 1981)
 Bateson Gregory: MIND AND NATURE (Dutton, 1979)
 Block Ned: READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY (Harvard Univ Press, 1980)
 Chalmers David: THE CONSCIOUS MIND (Oxford University Press, 1996)
 Churchland Paul: MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1984)
 Davidson Donald: INQUIRIES INTO TRUTH AND INTERPRETATION (Clarendon Press, 1984)
 Dawkins Richard: THE SELFISH GENE (Oxford Univ Press, 1976)
 Dawkins Richard: THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE (OUP, 1982)
 Dennett Daniel: CONTENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS (Routledge, 1969)
 Dretske Fred: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FLOW OF INFORMATION (MIT Press, 1981)
 Dretske Fred: EXPLAINING BEHAVIOR (MIT Press, 1988)
 Eccles John: EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN (Routledge, 1991)
 Eccles John: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer, 1994)
 Feigl Herbert: THE MENTAL AND THE PHYSICAL (Univ of Minnesota Press, 1967)
 Fodor Jerry: LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT (Crowell, 1975)
 Fodor Jerry: REPRESENTATIONS (MIT Press, 1981)
 Fodor Jerry: MODULARITY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1983)
 Fodor Jerry: THE ELM AND THE EXPERT (MIT Press, 1994)
 Gardner Howard: MIND'S NEW SCIENCE (Basic, 1985)
 Gregory Richard: OXFORD COMPANION TO THE MIND (Oxford, 1987)
 Jackendoff Ray: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE COMPUTATIONAL MIND (MIT Press, 1987)
 Kim Jaegwon: SUPERVENIENCE AND MIND (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
 Lewis David K.: PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS (Oxford Press, 1983)
 Lewis David K.: ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS (Basil Blackwell, 1986)
 Lycan William: CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1987)
 Lycan William: MIND AND COGNITION (MIT Press, 1990)
 Ornstein Robert: MULTIMIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)
 Popper Karl & Eccles John: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer-Verlag, 1977)
 Popper Karl: KNOWLEDGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM (Routledge, 1994)
 Putnam Hilary: MIND, LANGUAGE AND REALITY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1975)
 Rosenthal David: NATURE OF MIND (Oxford University Press, 1991)
 Rucker Rudy: INFINITY AND THE MIND (Birkhauser, 1982)
 Russell Bertrand: AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH (Penguin, 1962)
 Ryle Gilbert: THE CONCEPT OF MIND (Hutchinson, 1949)
 Searle John: THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)
 Stich Stephen: FROM FOLK PSYCHOLOGY TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE (MIT Press, 1983)
 Wittgenstein Ludwig: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS (Macmillan, 1953)


Ecological Realism

 Barwise John & Perry John: SITUATIONS AND ATTITUDES (MIT Press, 1983)
 Bogdan Radu: GROUNDS FOR COGNITION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994)
 Brooks Rodney & Luc Steels: THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE ROUTE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995)
 Dennett Daniel: THE INTENTIONAL STANCE (MIT Press, 1987)
 Dretske Fred: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FLOW OF INFORMATION (MIT Press, 1981)
 Dretske Fred: EXPLAINING BEHAVIOR (MIT Press, 1988)
 Gallistel C.R.: THE ORGANIZATION OF ACTION (Erlbaum, 1980)
 Gibson James Jerome: THE SENSES CONSIDERED AS PERCEPTUAL SYSTEMS (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)
 Gibson James Jerome: THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PERCEPTION (Houghton Mifflin, 1979)
 Kitchener Robert: PIAGET'S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE (Yale University Press, 1986)
 Lewontin Richard: HUMAN DIVERSITY (W.H.Freeman, 1981)
 Maturana Humberto: AUTOPOIESIS AND COGNITION (Reidel, 1980)
 Maturana Humberto & Varela Francisco: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Shambhala, 1992)
 Millikan Ruth: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES (MIT Press, 1987)
 Millikan Ruth: WHAT IS BEHAVIOR? (MIT Press, 1991)
 Neisser Ulric: COGNITION AND REALITY (Freeman, 1975)
 Neisser Ulric: THE REMEMBERING  SELF (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
 Neisser Ulric: THE PERCEIVED SELF (Cambridge Univ Press, 1994)
 Piaget Jean: EQUILIBRATION OF COGNITIVE STRUCTURES (University of Chicago Press, 1985)
 Varela Francisco, Thompson Evan & Rosch Eleanor: THE EMBODIED MIND (MIT Press, 1991)
 Varela Francisco: PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL AUTONOMY (North Holland, 1979)
 Winograd Terry & Flores Fernando: UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS AND COGNITION (Ablex, 1986)


Cognitive Models of Memory

 Baddeley Alan: YOUR MEMORY (MacMillan, 1982)
 Baddeley Alan: WORKING MEMORY (Clarendon Press, 1986)
 Baddeley Alan: HUMAN MEMORY (Simon & Schuster, 1990)
 Bartlett Frederic Charles: REMEMBERING (Cambridge Univ Press, 1967)
 Broadbent Donald: PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION (Pergamon, 1958)
 Broadbent Donald: DECISION AND STRESS (Academic Press, 1971)
 Collins Alan: THEORIES OF MEMORY (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993)
 Crowder Robert: PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING  AND MEMORY (Erlbaum, 1976)
 Damasio Antonio: DESCARTES' ERROR (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)
 Greene Robert: HUMAN MEMORY (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992)
 Roediger Henry: VARIETIES OF MEMORY AND CONSCIOUSNESS (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989)
 Schacter Daniel & Tulving Endel: MEMORY SYSTEMS (MIT Press, 1994)
 Tulving Endel: ORGANIZATION OF MEMORY (Academic Press, 1972)
 Tulving Endel:  ELEMENTS OF EPISODIC MEMORY (Oxford Univ Press, 1983)


Categorization

 Barsalou Lawrence: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992)
 Bruner Jerome: A STUDY OF THINKING (Wiley, 1956)
 Estes William: CLASSIFICATION AND COGNITION (Oxford University Press, 1994)
 Fauconnier Gilles: MENTAL SPACES (MIT Press, 1994)
 Keil Frank: CONCEPTS, KINDS AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT  (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
 Lakoff George: WOMEN, FIRE AND DANGEROUS THINGS (Univ of Chicago Press, 1987)
 Lenneberg Eric: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE (Wiley, 1967)
 Rosch Eleanor: COGNITION AND CATEGORIZATION (Erlbaum, 1978)
 Wittgenstein Ludwig: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS (Macmillan, 1953)


Dreaming

 Hobson J. Allan: THE DREAMING BRAIN (Basic, 1989)
 Hobson  Allan: THE CHEMISTRY OF CONSCIOUS STATES (Little & Brown, 1994) 
 Jouvet Michel: LE SOMMEIL ET LE REVE (Jacob, 1992)
 Winson Jonathan: BRAIN AND PSYCHE (Anchor Press, 1985)

A chronology of important papers on Dreams


Cybernetics/ Information Theory

 Arbib Michael: METAPHORICAL BRAIN (Wiley, 1972)
 Arbib Michael: METAPHORICAL BRAIN 2 (Wiley, 1989)
 Arbib Michael: BRAINS MACHINES AND MATHEMATICS (Springer Verlag, 1987)
 Ashby William: AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBERNETICS (Chapman & Hall, 1956)
 Brillouin Leon: SCIENCE AND INFORMATION THEORY (Academic Press, 1962)
 Shannon Claude & Weaver Warren: THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION (Univ of Illinois Press, 1949)
 Turing Alan: PURE MATHEMATICS (Elsevier Science, 1992)
 Turing Alan: MECHANICAL INTELLIGENCE (Elsevier Science, 1992)
 Von Neumann John: THE COMPUTER AND THE BRAIN (Yale Univ Press, 1958)
 Von Neumann John: THEORY OF SELF-REPRODUCING AUTOMATA (Princeton Univ Press, 1947)
 Wiener Norbert: CYBERNETICS (John Wiley, 1948)


Artificial Intelligence/ Turing Test

 Barr Avron & Feigenbaum Ed: HANDBOOK OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (William Kaufmann, 1982)
 Boden Margaret: PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Oxford, 1990)
 Brooks Rodney & Luc Steels: THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE ROUTE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995)
 Carbonell Jaime: MACHINE LEARNING (MIT Press, 1989)
 Charniak Eugene: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987)
 Dreyfus Hubert: WHAT COMPUTERS CAN'T DO (Harper & Row, 1979)
 Dreyfus Hubert & Dreyfus Stuart: MIND OVER MACHINE (Free Press, 1985)
 Feigenbaum Edward: COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT (MIT Press, 1995)
 Fetzer James: ASPECTS Of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Kluwer, 1988)
 Fetzer James: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Kluwer, 1990)
 Frost Richard: INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS (MacMillan, 1986)
 Genesereth Michael & Nilsson Nils: LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Morgan Kaufman, 1987)
 Graubard Stephen: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEBATE (MIT Press, 1988)
 Hofstadter Douglas: GODEL ESCHER BACH (Vintage, 1980)
 Li Ming & Vitanyi Paul: AN INTRODUCTION TO KOLMOGOROV COMPLEXITY (Springer-Verlag, 1993)
 Luger George: COMPUTATION AND INTELLIGENCE (MIT Press, 1995)
 Maes Patti: DESIGNING AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (MIT Press, 1990)
 Michalski Ryszard, Carbonell Jaime & Mitchell Tom: MACHINE LEARNING I (Morgan Kaufman, 1983)
 Michalski Ryszard, Carbonell Jaime & Mitchell Tom: MACHINE LEARNING II (Morgan Kaufman, 1986)
 Newell Allen & Simon Herb: HUMAN PROBLEM SOLVING (Prentice-Hall, 1972)
 Nilsson Nils: THE MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING MACHINES (Morgan Kaufmann, 1990)
 Nilsson Nils: PRINCIPLES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Tioga, 1980)
 Pearl Judea: HEURISTICS (Addison Wesley, 1984)
 Rucker Rudy: INFINITY AND THE MIND (Birkhauser, 1982) 
 Russell Stuart Jonathan: THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE IN ANALOGY AND INDUCTION (Pitnam, 1989)
 Russell Stuart Jonathan & Norvig Peter: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Prentice Hall, 1995)
 Searle John: THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)
 Shapiro Stuart Charles: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (John Wiley, 1992)
 Simon Herbert Alexander: MODELS OF THOUGHT (Yale University Press, 1979)
 Simon Herbert Alexander: THE SCIENCES OF THE ARTIFICIAL (MIT Press, 1969)


Artificial Life

 Cohen Fred: IT'S ALIVE (Wiley, 1994)
 Holland John Henry: ADAPTATION IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS (MIT Press, 1992)
 Koza John: GENETIC PROGRAMMING (MIT Press, 1992)
 Langton Christopher: ARTIFICIAL LIFE (MIT Press, 1995)
 Levy Steven: ARTIFICIAL LIFE (Pantheon, 1992)


Cognitive Science

 Green David: COGNITIVE SCIENCE (Blackwell, 1996)
 Luger George: COGNITIVE SCIENCE (Academic Press, 1993)
 Posner Michael: FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (MIT Press, 1989)


Models of Cognition

 Anderson John Robert: THE ARCHITECTURE OF COGNITION (Harvard Univ Press, 1983)
 Anderson John Robert: THE ADAPTIVE CHARACTER OF THOUGHT (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990)
 Anderson John Robert: RULES OF THE MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993)
 Arbib Michael: CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
 Craik Kenneth: THE NATURE OF EXPLANATION (Cambridge Univ Press, 1943)
 Franklin Stan: ARTIFICIAL MINDS (MIT Press, 1995)
 Hampson Peter & Morris Peter: UNDERSTANDING COGNITION (Blackwell, 1995)
 Johnson-Laird Philip: MENTAL MODELS (Harvard Univ Press, 1983)
 Johnson-Laird Philip: THE COMPUTER AND THE MIND (Harvard Univ Press, 1988)
 Johnson-Laird Philip & Byrne Ruth: DEDUCTION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991)
 Laird John, Rosenbloom Paul & Newell Allen: UNIVERSAL SUBGOALING AND CHUNKING (Kluwer Academics, 1986)
 Leyton Michael: SYMMETRY, CAUSALITY, MIND (MIT Press, 1992)
 Minsky Marvin: SEMANTIC INFORMATION PROCESSING (MIT Press, 1968)
 Minsky Marvin: THE SOCIETY OF MIND (Simon & Schuster, 1985)
 Newell Allen: UNIFIED THEORIES OF COGNITION (Harvard Univ Press, 1990)
 Pylyshyn Zenon: COMPUTATION AND COGNITION (MIT Press, 1984)
 Schank Roger: SCRIPTS, PLANS, GOALS, AND UNDERSTANDING (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1977)
 Schank Roger: DYNAMIC MEMORY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1982)
 Sowa John: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES (Addison-Wesley, 1984)
 Stillings Neil: COGNITIVE SCIENCE (MIT Press, 1995)


Vision

 Ballard Dana: COMPUTER VISION (Prentice Hall, 1982)
 Marr David: VISION (MIT Press, 1982)
 Ullman Shimon: THE INTERPRETATION OF VISUAL MOTION (MIT Press, 1979)


Mental Imagery

 Block Ned: IMAGERY (MIT Press, 1981)
 Finke Ronald: PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL IMAGERY (MIT Press, 1989)
 Finke Ronald: CREATIVE COGNITION (MIT Press, 1992)
 Kosslyn Stephen: IMAGE AND MIND (Harvard University Press, 1980)
 Kosslyn Stephen: GHOSTS IN THE MIND'S MACHINE (W. Norton, 1983)
 Kosslyn Stephen & Koenig Olivier: WET MIND (Free Press, 1992)
 Kosslyn Stephen: IMAGE AND BRAIN (MIT Press, 1994)
 Paivio Allan: IMAGERY AND VERBAL PROCESSES (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971)
 Tye Michael: THE IMAGERY DEBATE (MIT Press, 1991)


Physiology of the Brain

 
 Brown Jason: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988) 
 Changeux JeanPierre: NEURONAL MAN (Pantheon, 1985)
 Changeux JeanPierre: ORIGINS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN (Oxford University Press, 1995)
 Churchland Paul: ENGINE OF REASON (MIT Press, 1995)
 Crick Francis: ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS (MacMillan, 1993)
 Damasio Antonio: DESCARTES' ERROR (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)
 Edelman Gerald: NEURAL DARWINISM (Basic, 1987)
 Gazzaniga Michael: NATURE'S MIND (Basic, 1992)
 Goertzel Ben: THE EVOLVING MIND (Gordon & Breach, 1993) 
 Hebb Donald: ESSAY ON MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1980)
 Hebb Donald: THE ORGANIZATION OF BEHAVIOR (John Wiley, 1949)
 Lashley Karl Spencer: BRAIN MECHANISMS AND INTELLIGENCE (Dover, 1963)
 Lavine Robert: NEUROPHYSIOLOGY (Collamore, 1983)
 MacLean Paul: THE TRIUNE BRAIN IN EVOLUTION (Plenum Press, 1990)
 Purves Dale: NEURAL ACTIVITY AND THE GROWTH OF THE BRAIN (Cambridge Univ Press, 1994)
 Thelen Esther & Smith Linda: A DYNAMIC SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITION AND ACTION (MIT Press, 1994)
 Valiant Leslie: CIRCUITS OF THE MIND (Oxford University Press, 1994)
 Zeki Semir: A VISION OF THE BRAIN (Blackwell, 1993)


Connectionism/ Neural Networks

 Anderson James & Rosenfeld Edward: NEURO-COMPUTING (MIT Press, 1988)
 Anderson James: NEURO-COMPUTING 2 (MIT Press, 1990)
 Anderson James: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS (MIT Press, 1995)
 Arbib Michael: THE HANDBOOK OF BRAIN THEORY AND NEURAL NETWORKS (MIT Press, 1995)
 Bechtel William & Adele Abrahamsen: CONNECTIONISM AND THE MIND (MIT Press, 1991)
 Churchland Patricia: NEUROPHILOSOPHY (MIT Press, 1986)
 Clark Andy: MICROCOGNITION (MIT Press, 1989)
 Davis Steven: CONNECTIONISM (Oxford University Press, 1992)
 Grossberg Stephen: NEURAL NETWORKS AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE (MIT Press, 1988)
 Hassoun Mohamad: FUNDAMENTALS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (MIT Press, 1995)
 Haykin Simon: NEURAL NETWORKS (Macmillan, 1994)
 Hecht-Nielsen Robert: NEUROCOMPUTING (Addison-Wesley, 1989)
 Hertz John, Krogh Anders & Palmer Richard: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF NEURAL COMPUTATION (Addison-Wesley, 1990)
 Kohonen Teuvo: SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS (Springer Verlag, 1995)
 Levine Daniel: INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL AND COGNITIVE MODELING (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991)
 McClelland James & Rumelhart David: PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING vol. 2 (MIT Press, 1986)
 Minsky Marvin: PERCEPTRONS; AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY (MIT Press, 1969)
 Rumelhart David & McClelland James: PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING VOL. 1 (MIT Press, 1986)


Common Sense/ Qualitative Reasoning/ Knowledge Representation

 Bobrow Daniel: QUALITATIVE REASONING ABOUT PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (MIT Press, 1985)
 Bobrow Daniel: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PERSPECTIVE (MIT Press, 1994)
 Brachman Ronald: READINGS IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (Morgan Kaufman, 1985)
 Davis Ernest: REPRESENTATION OF COMMON-SENSE KNOWLEDGE (Morgan Kaufman, 1990)
 Forbus Kenneth & DeKleer Johan: BUILDING PROBLEM SOLVERS (MIT Press, 1993)
 Hobbs Jerry & Moore Robert: FORMAL THEORIES OF THE COMMONSENSE WORLD (Ablex Publishing, 1985)
 Kuipers Benjamin: QUALITATIVE REASONING (MIT Press, 1994)
 Lenat Douglas: BUILDING LARGE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS (Addison-Wesley, 1990)
 Sowa John: PRINCIPLES OF SEMANTIC NETWORKS (Morgan Kaufman, 1991)
 Weld Daniel & DeKleer Johan: QUALITATIVE REASONING ABOUT PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (Morgan Kaufman, 1990)


Nonclassical Logics

 Gupta Anil & Belnap Nuel: THE REVISION THEORY OF TRUTH (MIT Press, 1993)
 Heyting Arend: INTUITIONISM (North Holland, 1956)
 Lukaszewicz Witold: NON-MONOTONIC REASONING (Ellis Harwood, 1990)
 Marek Wiktor & Truszczynski Miroslav: NON-MONOTONIC LOGIC (Springer Verlag, 1991)
 Martin-Lof Per: INTUITIONISTIC TYPE THEORY (Bibliopolis, 1984)
 Turner Raymond: LOGICS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Ellis Horwood, 1985)
 Van Benthem Johan: A MANUAL OF INTENSIONAL LOGIC (Univ Of Chicago Press, 1988)


Probabilistic, Plausible and Fuzzy Reasoning

 Dubois Didier & Prade Henri: POSSIBILITY THEORY (Plenum Press, 1988)
 Dubois Didier, Prade Henri & Yager Ronald: READINGS IN FUZZY SETS (Morgan Kaufmann, 1993)
 Kandell Abraham: FUZZY MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES (Addison Wesley, 1986)
 Kosko Bart: NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY SYSTEMS (Prentice Hall, 1992)
 Kosko Bart: FUZZY THINKING (Hyperion, 1993)
 Polya George: MATHEMATICS AND PLAUSIBLE REASONING (Princeton Univ Press, 1954)
 Savage Leonard: THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS (John Wiley, 1954)
 Shafer Glenn: A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF EVIDENCE (Princeton Univ Press, 1976)
 Tversky Amos, Kahnemann Daniel & Slovic Paul: JUDGMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge University Press, 1982)
 Zimmermann Hans: FUZZY SET THEORY (Kluwer Academics, 1985)


Language/ Semantics

 Bach Emmon: CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS (Reidel, 1988)
Bar-Hillel Yehoshuas: LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (Addison Wesley, 1964)
 Bresnan Joan: MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS (MIT Press, 1982)
 Chierchia Gennaro: MEANING AND GRAMMAR (MIT, 1990)
 Chierchia Gennaro: DYNAMICS OF MEANING (Univ of Chicago Press, 1995)
 Chomsky Noam: SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES (Mouton, 1957)
 Chomsky Noam: ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX (MIT Press, 1965)
 Chomsky Noam: REFLECTIONS ON LANGUAGE (Pantheon, 1975)
 Chomsky Noam: THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF LINGUISTIC THEORY (University of Chicago Press, 1975)
 Chomsky Noam: RULES AND REPRESENTATIONS (Columbia Univ Press, 1980)
 Chomsky Noam: THEORY OF GOVERNMENT AND BINDING (MIT Press, 1982)
 Chomsky Noam: KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE (Greenwood, 1986)
 Dowty David: WORD MEANING AND MONTAGUE GRAMMAR (Reidel, 1979)
 Dowty David: INTRODUCTION TO MONTAGUE SEMANTICS (Reidel, 1981)
 Fauconnier Gilles: MENTAL SPACES (MIT Press, 1994)
 Fauconnier Gilles & Eve Sweetser: SPACES, WORLDS, AND GRAMMAR (Univ of Chicago Press, 1996)
 Gazdar Gerald: GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR (MIT Press, 1985)
 Goddard Cliff & Wierzbicka Anna: SEMANTIC AND LEXICAL UNIVERSALS (Benjamins, 1994)
 Jackendoff Ray: SEMANTICS AND COGNITION (MIT Press, 1983)
 Jackendoff Ray: SEMANTIC STRUCTURES (MIT Press, 1990)
 Jackendoff Ray: LANGUAGES OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)
 Katz Jerrold: AN INTEGRATED THEORY OF LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIONS (MIT Press, 1964)
 Katz Jerrold: SEMANTIC THEORY (Harper & Row, 1972)
 Katz Jerrold: THE METAPHYSICS OF MEANING (MIT Press, 1990)
 Langacker Ronald: FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE GRAMMAR (Stanford Univ Press, 1986)
 Lenneberg Eric: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE (Wiley, 1967)
 LePore Ernest: NEW DIRECTIONS IN SEMANTICS (Academic Press, 1987)
 Lieberman Phipip: THE BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE (Harvard Univ Press, 1984)
 Lycan William: LOGICAL FORM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE (MIT Press, 1984)
 Montague Richard: FORMAL PHILOSOPHY (Yale University Press, 1974)
 Pinker Steven: THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT (William Morrow, 1994)
 Schank Roger: CONCEPTUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING (North Holland, 1975) 
 Searle John: EXPRESSION AND MEANING (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)
 Van Benthem Johan: LANGUAGE IN ACTION (MIT Press, 1995)
 Whorf Benjamin Lee: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND REALITY (MIT Press, 1956)
 Wierzbicka Anna: SEMANTICS, CULTURE, AND COGNITION (Oxford University Press, 1992)
 Wierzbicka Anna: THE SEMANTICS OF GRAMMAR (Benjamins, 1988)

Natural Language Processing

 Allen James: NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (Benjamin Cummings, 1995)
 Lehnert Wendy: STRATEGIES FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE LANGUAGE (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1982)


Semiotics

 Hoffmeyer Jesper: SIGNS OF MEANING IN THE UNIVERSE (Indiana Univ. Press, 1996)
 Morris Charles: FOUNDATIONS OF THE THEORY OF SIGNS (University Of Chicago Press, 1938)
 Peirce Charles: COLLECTED PAPERS (Harvard Univ Press, 1931)
 Sebeok Thomas Albert: CONTRIBUTION TO A DOCTRINE OF SIGNS (Indian Univ, 1976) 
 Thom Rene': SEMIOPHYSICS (Addison-Wesley, 1990)


Metaphor

 Arbib Michael: CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
 Black Max: MODELS AND METAPHORS (Cornell Univ Press, 1962)
 Hintikka Jaakko: ASPECTS OF METAPHOR (Kluwer Academics, 1994)
 Kittay Eva: METAPHOR (Clarendon Press, 1987)
 Lakoff George: METAPHORS WE LIVE BY (Chicago Univ Press, 1980)
 Lakoff George: MORE THAN COOL REASON (University of Chicago Press, 1989)
 MacCormac Earl: A COGNITIVE THEORY OF METAPHOR (MIT Press, 1985)
 Martin James: A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF METAPHOR INTERPRETATION (Academic Press, 1990)
 Ortony Andrew: METAPHOR AND THOUGHT (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)
 Way Ellen Cornell: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND METAPHOR (Kluwer Academic, 1991)


Pragmatics

 Austin John Langshaw: HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS (Oxford Univ Press, 1962)
 Davis Steven: PRAGMATICS (Ocford University Press, 1991)
 Gazdar Gerald: PRAGMATICS (Academic Press, 1979)
 Green Georgia: PRAGMATICS (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989)
 Grice H. Paul: STUDIES IN THE WAY OF WORDS (Harvard Univ Press, 1989)
 Levinson Stephen: PRAGMATICS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1983)
 Sadock Jerrold: TOWARD A LINGUISTIC THEORY OF SPEECH ACTS (Academic Press, 1974)
 Searle John: SPEECH ACTS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1969)
 Sperber Dan & Wilson Deirdre: RELEVANCE, COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION (Blackwell, 1995)


Theories of Meaning

 Barwise John & Perry John: SITUATIONS AND ATTITUDES (MIT Press, 1983)
 Barwise Jon: THE SITUATION IN LOGIC (Cambridge Univ Press, 1988)
 Bunge Mario: TREATISE ON BASIC PHILOSOPHY (Reidel, 1974-83)
 Castaneda Hector-Neri: THINKING, LANGUAGE, EXPERIENCE (University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
 Churchland Paul: SCIENTIFIC REALISM AND THE PLASTICITY OF MIND (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)
 Davidson Donald: INQUIRIES INTO TRUTH AND INTERPRETATION (Clarendon Press, 1984)
 Dummett Michael: ELEMENTS OF INTUITIONISM (Oxford University Press, 1977)
 Dummett Michael: TRUTH AND OTHER ENIGMAS (Harvard Univ Press, 1978)
 Dummett Michael: SEAS OF LANGUAGE (Clarendon, 1993)
 Engelmore Robert: BLACKBOARD SYSTEMS (Academic Press, 1988)
 Fodor Jerry: A THEORY OF CONTENT (MIT Press, 1990)
 Hintikka Jaakko: THE GAME OF LANGUAGE (Reidel, 1983)
 Johnson-Laird Philip: MENTAL MODELS (Harvard Univ Press, 1983)
 Kirkham Richard: THEORIES OF TRUTH (MIT Press, 1992)
 Kripke Saul: NAMING AND NECESSITY (Harvard University Press, 1980)
 Lycan William: LOGICAL FORM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE (MIT Press, 1984)
 Putnam Hilary: MIND, LANGUAGE AND REALITY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1975)
 Putnam Hilary: REASON, TRUTH AND HISTORY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1981)
 Putnam Hilary: REPRESENTATION AND REALITY (MIT Press, 1988)
 Quine Willard: WORD AND OBJECT (MIT Press, 1960)
 Quine Willard: FROM A LOGICAL POINT OF VIEW (Harper & Row, 1961)
 Quine Willard: THE WEB OF BELIEF (Random House, 1978)
 Quine Willard: ONTOLOGICAL RELATIVITY (Columbia Univ Press, 1969)
 Tarski Alfred: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, METAMATHEMATICS (Clarendon, 1956)


Emotion

 Aggleton John: THE AMYGDALA (Wiley-Liss, 1992)
 Buck Ross: THE COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION (Guilford Press, 1984)
 Damasio Antonio: DESCARTES' ERROR (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)
 DeSousa Ronald: THE RATIONALITY OF EMOTION (MIT Press, 1987)
 Jauregui Jose: THE EMOTIONAL COMPUTER (Blackwell, 1995)
 Klopf Harry: THE HEDONISTIC NEURON (Hemisphere, 1982)
 Lazarus Richard: EMOTION AND ADAPTATION (Oxford Univ Press, 1991)
 Lazarus Richard & Lazarus Bernice: PASSION AND REASON (Oxford Univ Press, 1994)
 Mandler George: MIND AND BODY (Norton, 1984)
 Oatley Keith & Jenkins Jennifer: UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS (Blackwell, 1996)
 Ortony Andrew, Clore Gerald & Collins Allan: THE COGNITIVE STRUCTURE OF EMOTIONS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1988)


Consciousness

 Arbib Michael: METAPHORICAL BRAIN 2 (Wiley, 1989)
 Baars Bernard: A COGNITIVE THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1993)
 Cairns-Smith A. G.: EVOLVING THE MIND (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
 Chalmers David: THE CONSCIOUS MIND (Oxford University Press, 1996)
 Damasio Antonio: DESCARTES' ERROR (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)
 Dennett Daniel: CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED (Little & Brown, 1991)
 Donald Merlin: ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND (Harvard Univ Press, 1991)
 Dretske Fred: NATURALIZING THE MIND (MIT Press, 1995)
 Eccles John: EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN (Routledge, 1991)
 Edelman Gerald: THE REMEMBERED PRESENT (Basic, 1989)
 Edelman Gerald: BRIGHT AIR BRILLIANT FIRE (Basic, 1992)
 Flanagan Owen: THE SCIENCE OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1991)
 Flanagan Owen: CONSCIOUSNESS RECONSIDERED (MIT Press, 1992)
 Gazzaniga Michael: SOCIAL BRAIN (Basic, 1985) 
 Harth Erich: CREATIVE LOOP (Addison-Wesley, 1993)
 Humphrey Nicholas: CONSCIOUSNESS REGAINED (Oxford Univ Press, 1983)
 Humphrey Nicholas: A HISTORY OF THE MIND (Simon & Schuster, 1993)
 Jaynes Julian: THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
 Lazarus Richard: EMOTION AND ADAPTATION (Oxford Univ Press, 1991)
 Lockwood Michael: MIND, BRAIN AND THE QUANTUM (Basil Blackwell, 1989)
 Lycan William: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE (MIT Press, 1996)
 McGinn Colin: THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford Univ Press, 1991) 
 Mead George Herbert: MIND, SELF AND SOCIETY (Univ of Chicago Press, 1934)
 Nagel Thomas: MORTAL QUESTIONS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)
 Nagel Thomas: THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE (Oxford Univ Press, 1986)
 Neisser Ulric: CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
 Ornstein Robert: EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Prentice Hall, 1991)
 Parfit Derek: REASONS AND PERSONS (Oxford Univ Press, 1985)
 Penrose Roger: THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1989)
 Penrose Roger: SHADOWS OF THE MIND (Oxford University Press, 1994)
 Popper Karl: KNOWLEDGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM (Routledge, 1994)
 Pribram Karl: LANGUAGES OF THE BRAIN (Prentice Hall, 1971)
 Pribram Karl: BRAIN AND PERCEPTION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990)
 Scott Alwyn: STAIRWAY TO THE MIND (Copernicus, 1995)
 Searle John: THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)
 Stapp Henry: MIND, MATTER AND QUANTUM MECHANICS (Springer-Verlag, 1993)
 Tye Michael: THE METAPHYSICS OF MIND (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
 Tye Michael: TEN PROBLEMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1995)
 Unger Peter: IDENTITY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND VALUE (Oxford Univ Press, 1991)


Life/ Evolution/ Growth/ Genetics

 
 Behe Michael: DARWIN'S BLACK BOX (Free Press, 1996)
 Bateson Gregory: MIND AND NATURE (Dutton, 1979)
 Brandon Robert: GENES ORGANISMS POPULATION (MIT Press, 1984)
 Brandon Robert: ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT (Princeton Univ Press, 1990)
 Brooks Daniel & Wiley E.O.: EVOLUTION AS ENTROPY (Univ of Chicago Press, 1986)
 Cairns-Smith A. G.: GENETIC TAKEOVER (Cambridge University Press, 1982)
 Calvin Melvin: CHEMICAL EVOLUTION (Clarendon, 1969)
 Calvin William: THE ASCENT OF MIND (Bantam, 1991)
 Carvalo Marc: NATURE, COGNITION AND SYSTEM (Kluwer Academic, 1988)
 Crick Francis: LIFE ITSELF (Simon & Schuster, 1981)
 Cronin Helena: THE AND AND THE PEACOCK (Cambridge University Press,1992)
 Dawkins Richard: THE SELFISH GENE (Oxford Univ Press, 1976)
 Dawkins Richard: THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE (OUP, 1982)
 Dawkins Richard: THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (Norton, 1987)
 Dawkins Richard: RIVER OUT OF EDEN (Basic, 1995)
 Dennett Daniel: DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
 DeDuve Christian: VITAL DUST (Basic, 1995)
 Depew David & Weber Bruce: DARWINISM EVOLVING (MIT Press, 1994)
 Dyson Freeman: INFINITE IN ALL DIRECTIONS (Harper & Row, 1988)
 Edelman Gerald: TOPOBIOLOGY (Basic, 1988)
 Eigen Manfred: STEPS TOWARDS LIFE (Oxford University Press, 1992)
 Fisher Ronald Aylmer: THE GENETICAL THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION (Dover, 1929)
 Goodwin Brian: HOW THE LEOPARD CHANGED ITS SPOTS (Charles Scribner, 1994)
 Gould Stephen Jay: ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY (harvard University Press, 1977)
 Gould Stephen Jay: EVER SINCE DARWIN (Deutsch, 1978)
 Gould Stephen Jay: WONDERFUL LIFE (Norton, 1989)
 Gould Stephen Jay: FULL HOUSE (Random House, 1996)
 Hamilton Ternell: PROCESS AND PATTERN IN EVOLUTION (MacMillan, 1967)
 Kuppers Bernd-Olaf: INFORMATION AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE (MIT Press, 1990)
 Layzer David: COSMOGENESIS (Oxford University Press, 1990)
 Lewontin Richard: THE GENETIC BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE (Columbia University Press, 1974)
 Lieberman Philip: UNIQUELY HUMAN (Harvard Univ Press, 1992)
 Mason Stephen: CHEMICAL EVOLUTION (Clarendon Press, 1991)
 Mayr Ernst: POPULATION, SPECIES AND EVOLUTION (Harvard Univ Press, 1970)
 Maynard Smith John: EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS (Oxford University Press, 1989)
 Maynard Smith John: THEORY OF EVOLUTION (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
 Mayr Ernst: THE GROWTH OF BIOLOGICAL THOUGHT (Harvard Univ Press, 1982)
 Mayr Ernst: TOWARDS A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY (Harvard Univ Press, 1988)
 Monod Jacques: CHANCE AND NECESSITY (Knopf, 1971)
 Morowitz Harold: ENERGY FLOW IN BIOLOGY (Academic Press, 1968)
 Morowitz Harold: FOUNDATIONS OF BIOENERGETICS (Academic Press, 1978)
 Morowitz Harold: ENTROPY AND THE MAGIC FLUTE (Oxford University Press, 1993)
 Oyama Susan: ONTOGENY OF INFORMATION (Cambridge University Press, 1985)
 Prigogine Ilya: FROM BEING TO BECOMING (W.H.Freeman, 1980)
 Schrodinger  Erwin: WHAT IS LIFE (Cambridge Univ Press, 1944)
 Tipler Frank: THE PHYSICS OF IMMORTALITY (Doubleday, 1995)
 Ulanowicz Robert: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT (Springer-Verlag, 1986)
 Weber Bruce, Depew David & Smith James: ENTROPY, INFORMATION AND EVOLUTION (MIT Press, 1988)
 Wicken Jeffrey: EVOLUTION, INFORMATION AND THERMODYNAMICS (Oxford Univ Press, 1987)
 Williams George: ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION (Princeton University Press, 1966)
 Wilson Edward Osborne: SOCIOBIOLOGY (Belknap, 1975)
 Wilson Edward Osborne: THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE (Harvard University Press, 1992)
 Wilson Edward & Lumsden Charles: GENES, MIND AND CULTURE (Harvard Univ Press, 1981)


Self-Organization/ Complexity/ Chaos/ Emergence

 Bunge Mario: TREATISE ON BASIC PHILOSOPHY (Reidel, 1974-83)
 Cohen Jack & Steward Ian: THE COLLAPSE OF CHAOS (Viking, 1994)
 Coveney Peter: FRONTIERS OF COMPLEXITY (Fawcett, 1995)
 Dalenoort G.J.: THE PARADIGM OF SELF-ORGANIZATION (Gordon & Breach, 1989)
 Dalenoort G.J.: THE PARADIGM OF SELF-ORGANIZATION II (Gordon & Breach, 1994)
 Davies Paul: GOD AND THE NEW PHYSICS (Penguin, 1982)
 Eigen Manfred & Schuster Peter: THE HYPERCYCLE (Springer Verlag, 1979)
 Forrest Stephanie: EMERGENT COMPUTATION (MIT Press, 1991)
 Fuller Richard Buckminster: SYNERGETICS: EXPLORATIONS IN THE GEOMETRY OF THINKING (Macmillan, 1975)
 Fuller Buckminster: COSMOGRAPHY ( Macmillan, 1992) 
 Gell-Mann Murray: THE QUARK AND THE JAGUAR (W.H.Freeman, 1994)
 Gleick James: CHAOS (Viking, 1987)
 Goldberg David: GENETIC ALGORITHMS (Addison Wesley, 1989)
 Haken Hermann: SYNERGETICS (Springer-Verlag, 1977)
 Holland John: HIDDEN ORDER (Addison Wesley, 1995)
 Kauffman Stuart: THE ORIGINS OF ORDER (Oxford University Press, 1993)
 Kauffman Stuart: AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE (Oxford Univ Press, 1995)
 Koestler Arthur: THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE (Henry Regnery, 1967)
 Langton Christopher: ARTIFICIAL LIFE (Addison-Wesley, 1989)
 Laszlo Ervin: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY (Gordon & Breach, 1972)
 Lewin Roger: COMPLEXITY (Macmillan, 1992)
 Mandelbrot Benoit: THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF NATURE (W.H.Freeman, 1982)
 Nicolis Gregoire & Prigogine Ilya: SELF-ORGANIZATION IN NON-EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS (Wiley, 1977)
 Nicolis Gregoire & Prigogine Ilya: EXPLORING COMPLEXITY (W.H.Freeman, 1989)
 Nicolis Gregoire: INTRODUCTION TO NONLINEAR SCIENCE (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
 Pattee Howard Hunt: HIERARCHY THEORY (Braziller, 1973)
 Prigogine Ilya: INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS OF IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES (Interscience Publishers, 1961)
 Prigogine Ilya: NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS (Interscience Publishers, 1962)
 Prigogine Ilya & Stengers Isabelle: ORDER OUT OF CHAOS (Bantham, 1984)
 Salthe Stanley: EVOLVING HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS (Columbia University Press, 1985)
 Salthe Stanley: DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION (MIT Press, 1993)
 Thelen Esther & Smith Linda: A DYNAMIC SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITION AND ACTION (MIT Press, 1994)
 Thom Rene': STRUCTURAL STABILITY AND MORPHOGENESIS (Benjamin, 1975)
 Thom Rene': MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF MORPHOGENESIS (Horwood, 1983)
 Toffoli Tommaso & Margolus Norman: CELLULAR AUTOMATA MACHINES (MIT Press, 1987)
 Turing Alan Mathison: MORPHOGENESIS (North-Holland, 1992)
 Varela Francisco: PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL AUTONOMY (North Holland, 1979)
 Von Bertalanffy Ludwig: GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY (Braziller, 1968)
 Von Neumann John: THEORY OF SELF-REPRODUCING AUTOMATA (Princeton Univ Press, 1947)
 Waldrop Mitchell: COMPLEXITY (Simon & Schuster, 1992)


Quantum/Relativistic Theories

 Ashtekar Abbay: CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS OF QUANTUM GRAVITY (Birkhauser, 1991)
 Davies Paul: ABOUT TIME (Touchstone, 1995)
 Flood Raymond & Lockwood Michael: NATURE OF TIME (Basil Blackwell, 1986)
 Kaku Michio: HYPERSPACE (Oxford University Press, 1994)
 Prigogine Ilya: FROM BEING TO BECOMING (W. H. Freeman, 1980) 
 Scott Alwyn: STAIRWAY TO THE MIND (Copernicus, 1995)
 Weinberg Steven: DREAMS OF A FINAL THEORY (Pantheon, 1993)

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