Philosophy, Methodology and Implications

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Belew, R. K., McInerney, J., Schraudolph, N. N. (1991) Evolving networks: Using the Genetic Algorithm with connectionist learning. In Proc. Second Artificial Life Conference, pages 511-547, New York, 1991. Addison-Wesley. Abstract
Biondi, J., Michel, O., Clergue, M., (1995) Biological Metaphors for Artificial Cognitive Systems Evolution. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium, Aug. 1995.
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Boden, M., Autonomy and Artificiality Cognitive Science Research Paper 307 School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex.
Bullock, S. (2000). What can we learn from the first evolutionary simulation model? Submitted to Artificial Life VII: The 7th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Bullock, S. (1999). Are artificial mutation biases unnatrual? In D. Floreano, J.-D. Nicoud, F. Mondada (Eds.) Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99), EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 13-17 September (pp. 64-73). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
Clark, A. Autonomous Agents and Real Time Success: Some Foundational Issues PNP Program, Washington University, St. Louis.
Cliff, D., Neuroethology, Computational Cognitive Science Research Paper 338 School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex.
Clutchfield, J. P. (1998) Dynamical Embodiments of Computation in Cognitive Processes SFI Working Paper 98-02-016. Abstract
Collins, R. J., Jefferson, D. R., (1991) An Artificial Neural Network Representation for Artificial Organisms. In Reinhard {Manner} and David E. Goldberg (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Springer Verlag, 1991. Abstract
Collins, R. J., Jefferson, D. R., (1991) Representation for Artificial Organisms. In Jean-Arcady Meyer and Stewart Wilson (Eds.), Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, MIT Press, 1991. Abstract
Dautenhahn, K., (1997) Investigations into internal and external aspects of dynamic agent-environment couplings, to appear in Proc. Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents Conference, March 2-5, Gstaad, Switzerland, 1997.
Dautenhahn, K., (1997) I could be you - the phenomenological dimension of social understanding to appear in: Cybernetics and Systems 28(5), Special Issue on Epistemological Aspects of Embodied AI.
Di Paolo, E. A., Noble, J., Bullock, S. (2000). Simulation models as opaque thought experiments. Artificial Life VII: The 7th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Di Paolo, E. (1996) Some False Starts in the Construction of a Research Methodology for Artificial Life. Noble, J., Parsowith, S. (eds.) The 9th White House Papers: Graduate Research in the Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex. University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences.
Di Paolo (1999) On the Evolutionary and Behavioral Dynamics of Social Coordination: Models and Theoretical Aspects. DPhil Thesis, University of Sussex.
Edmons, B. (1997) The Possible Irreducibility of Artificial Software Life CPM Report No.: 97-14, Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University
Emmeche, C. (1994), "The computational notion of life Theoria - Segunda Epoca 9 (21): 1-30.
Emmeche, C. (1993), Is life as a multiverse phenomenon?, pp.553-568 in: C. G. Langton, ed.: Artificial Life III (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Volume XVII), Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading.
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Emmeche, C., Køppe, S., Stjernfelt, F., (1997), Explaining emergence: Towards an ontology of levels Journal for General Philosophy of Science 28: 83-119.
Emmeche, C., Jesper Hoffmeyer, J. (1991), From language to nature - the semiotic metaphor in biology,Semiotica 84 (1/2): 1-42.
Faith, J., (1997) In Defence of Functional Analysis Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press.
van Gelder, Tim (1998) The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 21, 615-665.
Harnad, S. (1994) Levels of Functional Equivalence in Reverse Bioengineering: The Darwinian Turing Test for Artificial Life. Artificial Life 1(3): 293-301.
Harnad, S. (1993) Artificial Life: Synthetic Versus Virtual. in C. G. Langton, ed.: Artificial Life III. Proceedings, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Volume XVI.
Harnad, S. (1993) Grounding Symbolic Capacity in Robotic Capacity. In: Steels, L. and R. Brooks (eds.) The "artificial life" route to "artificial intelligence." Building Situated Embodied Agents. New Haven: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Harvey, I. (2000) Robotics: Philosophy of Mind using a Screwdriver In Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life, Vol. III, T. Gomi (ed), AAI Books, Ontario, Canada, 2000. pp. 207-230
Harvey, I, (1997) Cognition is not Computation: Evolution is not Optimisation Proceedings of ICANN97. Special Session on Adaptive Autonomous Agents at ICANN97, 7-10 October 1997, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Harvey, I, (1996) Evolving Robot Consciousness: The Easy Problems and the Rest Submitted.
Hiebeler, D. (1993) Implications of Creation . In Idealistic Studies, vol. 23 no. 1, Winter 1993 (special issue on philosophy and computers).
Husbands, P., Harvey, I, Cliff, D., Miller, G., (1997) Artificial Evolution: A New Path for Artificial Intelligence? Brain and Cognition v.34, pp. 130-159, 1997.
Keeley, B., (1995) Against the Global Replacement: On the Application of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Life Experimental Philosophy Laboratory, Dept. of Philosophy, university of California, San Diego.
Kampis, G., (1992) Self-Modifying Networks: A Model for the Constructive Origin of Complexity. In ALife III.
Kampis, G., (1995) The Inside and Outside Views of Life. In Proceedings of the ECAL 95, Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
Kampis, G., (1994) Biological Evolution as a Process Viewed Internally. (In Atmanspacher and Dalenpoort's Springer Synergetics Book).
Klyce, B. (1997) Can Computers Mimic neo-Darwinian Evolution?
Lemmen, R., (1996) Embodiment for Non-Cartesians in 96 European Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference, Barcelona, July 1996, Also COGS CSRP 441
McMullin. B., Murphy, N. (1994) Autopoiesis and Perception, Proceedings of a workshop held at Dublin City University on August 25th & 26th, 1992.

Contents.
Abstracts.
Preface, by McMullin, B.
Varela, F. J., Autopoiesis and a Biology of Intentionality, CREA, CNRS---Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
Murphy, N., The Causal and Symbolic Explanatory Duality as a Framework for Understanding Vision, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Vernon D., Furlong, D., Relativistic Ontologies, Self-Organization, Autopoiesis, and Artificial Life: A Progression in the Science of the Autonomous: Part I The Philosophical Foundations. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Vernon D., Furlong, D., Relativistic Ontologies, Self-Organization, Autopoiesis, and Artificial Life: A Progression in the Science of the Autonomous: Part II A Scientific Development. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Moreno, A., Merelo, J. J. (*), Etxeberria, A., Perception, Adaptation and Learning, Dpt. de Logica y Filosofia de la Ciencia, UPV/EHU, Spain. (*)Dpt. de Electronica y Technologia de Computadores, Fac. de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
McMullin, B., Artificial Darwinism: The Very Idea!, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Furlong, D., Vernon, D., Reality Paradigms, Perception, and Natural Science The Relevance of Autopoiesis, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Riegler, A., Constructivist Artificial Life, and Beyond, Institute for Software Technology, Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
Doherty, C., Reconstructing AI, Educational Research Centre, St. Patrick's College, Dublin.
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Compiled by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo (c) 2000
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