The textbook that will be referred to throughout the course is:
- Green, D. W. and others (1996) An introduction to Cognitive
Science. Blackwell Publishers.
You should buy a copy of this if possible.
A more recent textbook which may also be of help is
- Ernest Lepore and Zenon Pylyshyn (1999) What is Cognitive
Science?
More recent still is
- Robert M. Harnish (2002) Minds, Brains, Computers.
There are many sources of information about Cognitive Science on
the web. Try typing +cognitive +science using one of the search
engines (e.g. www.google.com) and see what it brings up.
Another useful resource
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/cogsci.html
Other useful books include:
- Boden, M. A. (1990) The Creative Mind. Abacus paperback.
- Boden,
M.A. (1986) Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man. Harvester
Press and Basic Books, 1977. Second edition 1986.
- Bolter,
D. (1984) Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age.
Duckworth.
- Dennett
D.C. (1978). Brainstorms:Philosophical Essays on Mind and
Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Dreyfus,
H.L. (1979) What Computers Can't Do (Revised edition). Harper
and Row.
- Gardner,
H. (1985) The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive
Revolution. Basic Books (reprinted 1987). [He has written several books
on Cognitive Science. Look for others by him.]
- Garnham,
A. (1991) The Mind in Action: A Personal View of Cognitive
Science. Routledge.
- Haugeland,
J. (1981) Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology and AI. MIT
Press.
- Hofstadter
D.W. (1979) Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Harvester Press and Penguin books.
- Hofstadter
D.W. and Dennett D.C. (Eds.) (1981) The Mind's I: Fantasies
and Reflections on Self and Soul. Harvester Press.
- Johnson-Laird,
P.N. (1993) The Computer and the Mind 2nd Edition.
Fontana.
- Norman,
D. (1980) Twelve Issues for Cognitive Science. Cognitive
Science 4, 1-33.
- Osherson,
D.N. and E. E. Smith (Eds.) (1990) An invitation to Cognitive
Science. MIT Press.
- Posner,
M.I. (Ed.) (1989) Foundations of Cognitive Science. MIT Press.
- Pylyshyn,
Z.W. (1984) Computation and Cognition: Towards a Foundation
for Cognitive Science. MIT Press.
- Searle
J.R. (1980) Minds, Brains and Programs [with peer commentaries].
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, 417-457.
- Searle
J.R. (1984) Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures.
BBC Publications.
- Stillings,
N.A., Feinstein, M.H., Garfiled, J.L., Rissland, E. L.
Rosenbaum, D.A., Weisler, S.E. and Baker-Ward, L. (1987) Cognitive
Science: An Introduction. MIT Press.
- Wilson, R. and Keil, F. (Eds.) (1999) The MIT Encyclopedia
of the Cognitive Sciences. MIT Press.