Philosophy of AI and Cognitive Science

Department of Informatics, University of Sussex

Publications

Recent Publications, Conference Papers and Posters by Members of PAICS:

2007 and forthcoming:

2006:

  • Beaton, M.J.S. (2006). “A Recipe for Success? – Response to de Quincey.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(4), pp.13-36.
  • Beaton, M.J.S. (forthcoming). “Review of Tamar Szab� Gendler and John Hawthorne (eds.), ‘Perceptual Experience’.” Journal of Consciousness Studies.
  • Beaton, M.J.S., Watanabe, K., Nijhawan, R. (In Preparation) “Interchangeability of Spatial and Temporal Transitions in the Flash-Lag Effect”
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected late 2006 or early 2007.) “An Assessment and Evaluation of Computational Cognitive Modelling.” In Part 4 of R Sun (ed.), Cambridge Handbook on Computational Cognitive Modelling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in preparation.
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected 2006.) “Of Islands and Interactions,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, Special Issue on a paper by John Ziman.
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected late 2006.) “D’Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life”. In M. W. Wheeler, P.N. Husbands, & O. Holland (eds.), The Mechanization of Mind in History, London: MIT Press, in preparation.
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected late 2006 or early 2007.) “The Aesthetics of Interactive Art.” In R. L. Chrisley, C. Makris, & R. W. Clowes (eds.), Art, Body, Embodiment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Press, in preparation.
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected early 2006.) “Creativity and Conceptual Art.” In P. Goldie & E. Schellekens (eds.), Philosophy and Conceptual Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected late 2005 or early 2006.) “Commentary on Imagination, Cognition, and Creative Thinking.” In I. Roth (ed.) Imaginative Minds. London: Oxford University Press/British Academy, in press.
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected late 2005 or 2006.) “Ethical Implications of AI and Biotechnology.” In O. Gorman (ed.), Technology, Bioscience, and Religion, in press.
  • Boden, M.A. (Expected late 2006.) “Information, Computation, and Cognitive Science”. In P. Adriaans & J. van Benthem (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Information. Vol. 10 of the 14-volume Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (General Eds. D. Gabbay, P. Thagard, & J. Woods). London: Elsevier, in preparation.
  • Boden, M.A. (expected June 2006). Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. (Two volumes.) Oxford: The Clarendon Press, in press
  • Carpenter, P. and Davia, C.J., (2006) ‘A Catalytic Theory of Embodied Mind’, Proceedings of The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Chrisley, R. (2006, in preparation) “Artificial intelligence”. In Prinz, J. (ed), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Chrisley, R. (2006, in preparation) “Artificial intelligence and the study of consciousness”. In Bayne, T., Cleeremans, A. and Wilken, P. (eds) Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Chrisley, R. (2006, in preparation) “The art (and science) of embodied phenomenology”. In Makris, C., Chrisley, R., Clowes, R. and Boden, M. (eds), Art, Body, Embodiment. Cambridge Scholars Press.
  • Chrisley, R. and Makris, C. (2006, in preparation) “Art, Body, Embodiment”. In Makris, C., Chrisley, R., Clowes, R. and Boden, M. (eds) Art, Body, Embodiment. Cambridge Scholars Press.
  • Chrisley, R. (2006, in preparation) “Simulation and computability: Why Penrose fails to prove the impossibility of artificial intelligence (and why we should care)”. Proceedings of the 2005 European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Vasteras, Sweden.
  • Chrisley, R. (2006, in preparation) “An enactive model of affective experience”. In Menary, R. and Rowlands, M. (eds.), Consciousness and Emotion, (special volume – Radical Enactivism: Emotion, Intentionality and Phenomenology).
  • Chrisley, R. (2006, in press) “Consciousness as Depiction: Review of The World in my Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines by Igor Aleksander”. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(1). ISSN 1364-6613.
  • Davia, C. (2006) ‘How Long is a Piece of Time – Phenomenal Time and Quantum Coherence – Toward a Solution’. Talk given at
    Tucson 2006.
  • Froese, T. (2006), “Design of a Consensual Domain: The Artificial Evolution of Communicative Behaviour”. Talk for the Symposium
    on Language, Communication & Cognition, University of Sussex, 25-26th May.
  • Froese, T. (2006), “Constructivist Epistemology: An Analysis of the Constitutive Role of Viability Constraints”. Poster for Mind 2006: A graduate conference in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, 15-16th June.
  • Makris, C., Chrisley, R., Clowes, R. and Boden, M. (eds) (2006, in preparation), Art, Body, Embodiment. Cambridge Scholars Press.
  • Marsh, L. (2006), Dewey: the first ghost-buster? Review of W. Teed Rockwell, Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory, (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2005)”. Trends in Cognitive Science, June 2006.
  • Marsh, L. (2006). A History of Political Experience. Review essay of Michael Oakeshott, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 4
  • Parthemore, J. (2006). “Knowledge as Personal: The Presentation of Self in the Representation of Knowledge” (conference poster), ASSC 10, 23-26 June 2006, Oxford, UK. (Poster (.pdf), Paper (.pdf))
  • Parthemore, J. (2006) “Rescuing Resemblance: Responding to Common Objections to Resemblance-Based Theories of Reference” (conference paper), Mind 2006, 15-16 June 2006, Falmer, Brighton, UK. Paper (.pdf)

2005

  • Beaton, M. (2005) “Conscious Experience as the Exercise of Grounded Concepts”, 5th Meeting of the Mainzer Nachwuchsgruppe “Philosophie Des Geistes”, on Metacognition, October 20-22, 2005.Abstract (.pdf)
  • Beaton, M. (2005) “Conscious Experience as Sensorimotor Conceptual Grounding” ASSC 9, 24-27 June 2005, Caltech, Pasadena, CA. Abstract (.pdf)
  • Beaton, M., Katsumi Watanabe, Romi Nijhawan (2005), “Filling-in the Perceived Void in the Flash-Lag Effect”. ASSC 9 Satellite Meeting on Problems of Space and Time in Perception and Action, 28 June 2005, Caltech, Pasadena, CA. Poster (.pdf)
  • Boden, M. A. (2005) “Interview on Creativity” (on Course CD) and “What is Creativity?” (reprint in Course Reader, pp. 242-255), both for Open University course on Imagination and Creativity (ed. M. Beaney), OU Press.
  • Boden, M. A. (2005) “Creativity.” In B. Gaut & D. M. Lopes (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Aesthetics. London: Routledge. Pp. 477-488. ISBN 0415327989 & 0415327970.
  • Chrisley, R., Clowes, R. W., & Torrance, S. (2005). “Next-generation approaches to machine consciousness”. In R. Chrisley, R. W. Clowes & S. Torrance (eds.), Proceedings of the AISB05 Symposium on Next Generation approaches to Machine Consciousness: Imagination, Development, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment. Available as Cognitive Science Research Paper 574. (.pdf)
  • Clowes, R.W., & Morse, A.F., (2005) “Scaffolding Cognition with Words”. Proceedings of the Epigenetic Conference 2005.
  • Davia C.J. (2005), “Life, catalysis and excitable media: A dynamic systems approach to metabolismand cognition”. In Tuszynski J (ed.), The Emerging Physics of Consciousness. Heidelberg,Germany: Springer-Verlag.
  • De Jaegher, H. & S. Torrance. (2005) “The experience of autism: An enactive approach.”, Consciousness and Experiential Psychology section of the BPS conference on ‘Constructing Consciousness, Mind and Being’, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, UK.
  • De Jaegher, H. & E. Di Paolo. (2005) “Inter-action matters: Sketches of a radical enactive approach to social understanding.”, ‘Perception, Intersubjectivity and Development’, Middlesex University/UCL Medical School, London.
  • Marsh, L. (2005) Man Without Qualities. Review essay of Daniel Dennett, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness. Journal of Mind and Behavior, Summer 2005, Volume 26, Number 3 pp. 207-214
  • Marsh, L. (2005). Review essay of Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence. Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 6, Issue 3. pp. 405-409
  • Marsh, L. (2005). Review of Rob Wilson, Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Cognition. Philosophical Psychology
  • McGann, M. & Torrance, S. (2005) Doing it and meaning it (and the relationship between the two). In R. Ellis & N. Newton (eds.)
    Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice and selective perception. New York: John Benjamins.
  • Morse, A.F., (2005) Scale Invariant Associationism, Liquid State Machines, And Ontogenetic Learning In Robotics. AAAI Technical Report, Proceedings of DevRob05 the Developmental Robotics Symposium. (.pdf)
  • Morse, A. F. and Chrisley, R. (2005) “The SEER Project: Robotic Experiements in Subsymbolic Psychology”. Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, issue 120, Spring 2005, pp 3 and 8. ISSN 0268-4179 Full Issue (.pdf)
  • Morse, A.F., (2005) Psychological ALife: Bridging The Gap Between Mind And Brain; Enactive Distributed Associationism & Transient Localism. In Cangelosi, Bugmann, & Borisyuk, (Eds.) Modeling Language, Cognition, & Action: Proceedings of the Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. World Scientific Press p403-407
  • Sloman, A. and Chrisley, R. (2005) “More Things than are Dreamt of in your Biology: Information Processing in Biologically-inspired Robots”. Cognitive Systems Research, 6:2, pp 145-174. ISSN 1389-0417Corrected proofs (.pdf).

2004

  • Beaton, M. (2004) “What RoboDennett Still Doesn’t Know”, (Conference paper), Toward a Science of Consciousness, 7-11 April 2004, Tucson, AZ. Abstract (.doc)
  • Beaton, M. (2004) “A Proposal for a Modification to the Higher Order Thought Theory of Consciousness”, (Conference paper), ASSC 8, 26-28 June 2004, Antwerp, Belgium Abstract (.html)
  • Beaton, M. & Rijhawan, R. (2004) “A New Psychophysical Model of the Flash-Lag Effect” (Conference paper), SPP/ESPP, 3-6 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain Abstract (.doc)
  • Beaton, M. (2004), “The Self as Thinly Veiled Confabulation”, (Conference paper), CEP, 17-19 September 2004, St. Anne’s
    College, Oxford
  • Beaton, M., Romi Nijhawan, Beena Khurana (2004) “Grayer than Gray: Achromatic Contrast of Perceptually Lagging Flashed Object is Preserved”. ECVP, 22-26 August 2004, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract (.pdf)
  • Boden, M.A. “Optimism.” Reprinted in D. Benatar (ed.), Life, Death, and Meaning. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Pp. 369-382. ISBN 0742533670 & 0742533689. (Reprinted from Philosophy, 41 (1966), 291-303.)
  • Boden, M.A. “Escaping from the Chinese Room.” Reprinted in J. Heil (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 253-266. ISBN 0199253838. (Reprinted from M.A. Boden, Artificial Intelligence in Psychology: Interdisciplinary Essays. MIT Press, 1989, ch. 6.)
  • Boden, M.A. “Computer Models of Creativity.”, In Vietnamese translation of N. Foreman & J. Sutton (eds.), .ul Current UK Psychology. Hanoi: Hanoi University Press, 2004. Reprinted from The Psychologist, 13:2 (2000), 72-76.
  • Boden, M.A. (2004), The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, 2nd edn., expanded. London: Routledge, 2004. Pp.
    xiv + 343. (Simultaneous hardback/paperback editions. ISBN 0415314534 & 0415314526.)
  • Chrisley, R. (2004), “Artificial intelligence”. In Gregory, R. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the Mind, (second edition), pp. 61-63. Oxford University Press. Abstract (.txt)
  • Marsh, L. (2004). Review of Efraim Podoksik’s In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott. Political Studies Review.
  • Torrance, S. (2004) “Conscious Robots: Could we, should we create them?”. Journal of Health, Social and Environmental Issues, (.htm)

2003

  • Boden, M.A., (2003) “Are Autodidacts Creative?” In J. Solomon (ed.), The Passion to Learn: An Inquiry Into Autodidactism. London: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 24-31. ISBN 0415304180.
  • Boden, M.A. (2003), “Alien Life: How Would We Know?”, International Journal of Astrobiology, 2, 121-129. ISSN 1473504.
  • Chrisley, R. (2003) “Embodied artificial intelligence”. Artificial Intelligence, 149, pp 131-150. Uncorrected proofs (.pdf)
  • Sloman, A. and Chrisley, R. (2003) “Virtual machines and consciousness”. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10:4-5, pp 133-172. Reprinted in Holland, O., ed. (2003), Machine Consciousness. Exeter:Imprint Academic.Uncorrected proofs (.pdf)
  • Clowes, R.W. (2003). “Simulating the Regulation of Activity by Symbolic Systems”. Evolvability & Interaction Symposium, Queen Mary University of London, University of Hertfordshire Computer Science, Technical Report No. 393.
  • Clowes, R. W. (2003). “Action Oriented Adaptive Language Games”. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Boston, Lund University Cognitive Studies.
  • De Jaegher, H. (2003) “One Body is Not Enough”, (Conference talk), Embodiment and Intersubjectivity Conference in Leuven, Belgium, on 17 September 2003 Abstract (.html)
  • Morse, A.F., (2003) Autonomous Generation of Burton’s IAC Cognitive Models. In Schmalhofer, Young, & Katz (Eds.) Proceedings of EuroCogSci03, The European Cognitive Science Conference. LEA Press. (.pdf)

2002

  • Boden, M.A., (2002), “Is Artificial Life Possible?”, Published on the website of the Royal Institution, April 2002.
  • Boden, M.A. (2002) “Artificial Intelligence and the Far Future.” In G. F. R. Ellis (ed.), The Far-Future Universe: Eschatology From a Cosmic Perspective. London: Templeton Press, 2002. Pp. 207-224. ISBN 1890151904.
  • Chrisley, R. and Ziemke, T. (2002) “Embodiment”. In the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. ISBN 0-333-79261-0 Uncorrected proofs (.pdf)
  • Chrisley, R. and Sloman, A. (2002) “How Velmans’ conscious experiences affected our brains”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9:11 pp 58-63. Uncorrected proofs (.pdf). Invited commentary on Max Velmans’ paper “How could conscious experiences affect brains?”, Same issue. ISBN 0907845398 ISSN 1355-8250 Publisher’s web page.
  • Clowes, R.W. (2002). “Review of ‘A Mind so Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness’.”, AISB Quarterly, (110): 8 – 10.
  • Clowes, R. W. (2002)., “Modelling Extended Cognition with Adaptive Language Games”., Cognitive Science Research Papers. D. Pearce. Brighton Sussex, University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences. The 14th White House Papers: 7 – 8.
  • Torrance, S. (2002) “‘The diffident physicalist speaks out” (Reply to target paper by Max Velmans). Journal of Consciousness Studies. (.pdf)
  • Torrance, S. (2002) “The skill of seeing ��� beyond the sensorimotor account?”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Number 12, 1 December 2002, pp. 495-496(2). (.htm)
  • Wheeler, Ziman, & Boden (2002) (eds.) The Evolution of Cultural Entities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 213. ISBN 0197262627.

2001

  • Boden, M.A. (2001) “Purpose, Personality, Creativity: A Computational Adventure”. In G. C. Bunn, A. D. Lovie, & G. D. Richards (eds.), Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections. London: BPS Books/Science Museum, 2001. Pp. 353-362. ISBN 1854333321
  • Boden, M.A. (2001) “Life and Cognition.” In J. Branquinho (ed.), The Foundations of Cognitive Science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. 11-22. ISBN 0198238908 & 0198238894.
  • Boden, M.A. (2001) “William McDougall,” The Psychologist, 14:2 (2001), 68. ISSN 09528229.
  • Boden, M.A. (2001), “The Philosophy of Cognitive Science.” In A. O’Hear (ed.), Philosophy at the New Millennium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 209-226. ISBN 0521005086.
  • Boden, M.A. (2001) “Creativity and Knowledge.”, In A. Craft, B. Jeffrey, & M. Leibling (eds.), Creativity in Education. London: Continuum, 2001. Pp. 95-102. ISBN 0826448631 & 082644864X.
  • Boden, M.A. (2001) “Creativity and Computers.” In C. Caseley (ed.), Learning 2010. London: Learning and Skills Development Agency, 2001. Pp.51-64. ISBN 1853386073.
  • Chrisley, R. (2001) “A View From Anywhere: Prospects for an Objective Understanding of Consciousness”. In Pylkkanen, P. and Vaden, T. (eds.), Dimensions of Conscious Experience, (Advances in Consciousness Research 37). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, pp 3-13. ISBN 1588111253 (.pdf)

2000

  • Chrisley, R., ed. (2000, Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts. Four-volume reference work. London: Routledge. 2160 pages.
  • Torrance, S. (2000) “Towards an Ethics for Epersons”, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and (Quasi-) Human Rights, Birmingham, AISB2000, Birmingham. (.htm)
  • Torrance, S. (2000) “Producing Mind”, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. (.htm)

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