Historically Important References
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below are some of the books and articles that are of historical
importantce in the development of cognitive science. The list
is not complete but is intended simply to give a sense of the
various intellectual developments and paths that contributed
to the development of cognitive science |
Logic/Philosophy/Mathematics
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Aristotle. Prior analytics.
350 B.C.
Leibniz, G. W. 1677.
Boole, G. The Mathematical
Analysis of Logic. London: George Bell and Cambridge; Macmillan,
1847. Related Article
Boole, G. An Investigation
of the Laws of Thought. London: Walton and Moberly, 1854.
Frege, G. Begriffsschrift..Halle:
Nebert, 1879.
Frege, G. Uber Sinn und Bedeutung.
Zeitschrift fur Philosophie und philosophische Kritik,
1892, 100, 25-50.
Whitehead, A. N., & Russell,
B. A. W. Principia mathematica. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 3 Vols. 1910-1913.
Wittgenstein, L. Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus. London: Kegan Paul, 1922.
Wittgenstein, L. Philosophical
Investigations. 1945-49.
Shannon, C.E. A symbolic analysis
of relay and switching circuits. Transactions of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1938, 57, 713-723.
Lewis, C. I. & Langford,
C. H. Symbolic logic. New York: Dover, 1932.
Kripke, S. A. A completeness
theorem in modal logic. Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1959,
24, 1-14.
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Computation/Mathematics
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Post, E. L. On a simple class
of deductive systems. Bulletin of the American Mathematical
Society, 1921, 27, 396-397.
Godel, K. Uber formal unentscheidbare
Satze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme, I, Monatsch.
fur Mathematik und Physik, 1931, 38, 173-198. (Trans: On
formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and
Related Systems.)
Turing, A. M. On computable numbers,
with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Proceedings
of the London Mathematical Society, 1936, ser. 2, vol. 42,
pp. 230-265; vol 43, pp. 544-546. Excerpt.
Kleene, S. C. General recursive
functions of natural numbers. Mathematische Annalen, 1936,
112, 727-742.
Kleene, S. C. l-definability
and recursiveness. Duke Mathematical Journal, 1936, 2,
340-353.
Church, A. An unsolvable problem
of elementary number theory. American Journal of Mathematics,
1936, 58, 345-363.
Post, E. L. Finite combinatory
processes-formulation, I. The Journal of Symbolic Logic,
1936, 1, 103-105.
Post, E. Formal reductions of
the general combinatorical problem. American Journal of Mathematics,
1943, 65, 197-268.
Markov A. A Theory of Algorithms.
Moscow: National Academy of Sciences, 1954.
Gold, E. M. Language identification
in the limit. Information and Control, 1967, 10, 447-474.
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Linguistics
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Chomsky, N. Three models for
the description of language. IRE Transactions on Information
Theory, 1956, IT-2(3), 113-124. Also reprinted in R.D. Luce,
R. R. Bush, & E. Galanter (Eds.), Readings in Mathematical
Psychology, Volume II. New York: Wiley 1965. Pp. 105-124.
Chomsky, N. Syntactic Structures.
The Hague: Mouton, 1957.
Chomsky, N. On certain formal
properties of grammars. Information & Control, 1959,
2, 137-167. Also reprinted in R.D. Luce, R. R. Bush, & E.
Galanter (Eds.), Readings in Mathematical Psychology, Volume
II. New York: Wiley1965. Pp. 125-155.
Chomsky, N. Aspects of the
Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965.
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Psychology
and Biology
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Helmholtz, H. von (1821-1894)
1842.
Wundt, Wilhelm (1832-1920)
Bartlett, F. Thinking.
New York: Basic Books, 1958.
Bruner, J. S., Goodnow, J. J.,
& Austin, G. A. A Study of Thinking. New York: Wiley,
1956.
Miller, G. A., Galanter, E. &
Pribram, K. H. Plans and the Structure of Behavior. New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960.
McCulloch, W.S., & Pitts,
W. A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 1943, 5, 115-133.
Lashley, K.S. The problem of
serial order in behavior. In L.A. Jeffress (Ed.), Cerebral
Mechanisms in Behavior. New York: Wiley, 1951. Pp. 112-136.
Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., &
Simon, H.A. Elements of a theory of human problem-solving. Psychological
Review, 1958, 65, 151-166
Hubel, D.H. & Wiesel, T.N.
Receptive Fields, Binocular Interaction, and Functional Architecture
in the Cat's Visual Cortex. Journal of Physiology, 1962,
160, 106-154.
Newell, A. & Simon, H.A.
GPS, a program that simulates human thought. Lernende Automaten.
Munich: R. Oldenbourg KG, 1961. Also reprinted in E. A. Feigenbaum
& J. Feldman (Eds.) Computers and Thought. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1963, Pp. 279-293.
Feigenbaum, E. A. The simulation
of verbal learning behavior. Proceedings of the Western Joint
Computer Conference, 1961, 19, 121-132. Also reprinted in
E. A. Feigenbaum & J. Feldman (Eds.) Computers and Thought.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963, Pp. 297-309.
Minsky, M. & Papert, S. Perceptrons:
An Introduction to Computational Geometry. Cambridge, MA:
MIT, 1969.
Newell, A. & Simon, H. Human
Problem Solving. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972.
Newell, A. Production Systems:
Models of Control Structures. In W.G. Chase (Ed.), Visual
Information Processing. NY: Academic Press, 1973. Pp. 463-525.
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Artificial Intelligence/Computer
Science
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Newell, A. & Simon, H.A.
The logic theory machine. IRE Transactions on Information
Theory, 1956, IT-2(3), 61-79
Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., &
Simon, H.A. Empirical explorations of the logic theory machine.
Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference,
1957, pp. 218-239. Also reprinted in E. A. Feigenbaum & J.
Feldman (Eds.) Computers and Thought. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1963, Pp. 109-133.
McCarthy, J. Programs with common
sense. Mechanisation of Thought Processes, Proc. the Symp.
Nat. Phys. Lab., 1958, vol I, pp. 77-84, London: Her Majesty's
Stationary Office.
Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., &
Simon, H.A. Report on a general problem-solving program. In Proceedings
of the International Conference on Information Processing, Paris:
UNESCO House, 1959, Pp. 256-264.
Samuel, A.L. Some studies in
machine learning using the game of checkers. IBM Journal of
Research and Development, 1959, 3, 210-229.
Feigenbaum, E. A. & Feldman,
J. (Eds.) Computers and Thought. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1963.
Minsky, M. Steps toward artificial
intelligence. In E. A. Feigembaum & J. Feldman (Eds.), Computers
and Thought. New York: McGraw Hill, 1963. Pp. 406-456.
Simon, H. The Sciences of the
Artificial. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1969.
Newell, A. & Simon, H. Computer
science as empirical inquiry: Symbols and search. Communications
of the ACM, 1975, 19, 113-126.
Minsky, M. A Framework for Representing
Knowledge. In P. H. Winston (Ed.), The Psychology of Computer
Vision. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Pp. 211-277.
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