Category
page 1Cognitive science literature
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
philosophical work by Wittgenstein
The Selfish Gene
1976 essay by Richard Dawkins
Gödel, Escher, Bach
1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter
Miller's law
1956 thesis by George Miller on working memory capacity
Syntactic Structures
non-fiction work by Noam Chomsky
The Language Instinct
1994 written work by Steven Pinker
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
1950 article by Alan Turing on artificial intelligence that introduced the Turing test
What Is Life?
1944 non-fiction work by Erwin Schrödinger
bicameralism
hypothesis in psychology
The Principles of Psychology
1890 book by Wm. James
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
1977 essay by Carl Sagan
The Blank Slate
2002 book by Steven Pinker
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
book by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
1995 book by Daniel Dennett looking at some repercussions of Darwinian theory
Verbal Behavior
book by B. F. Skinner
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
essay by Daniel Dennett
Naming and Necessity
philosophy book by Saul Kripke
The Sound Pattern of English
book by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
1975 book by biologist E. O. Wilson
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
non-fiction work by George Lakoff
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
book by Richard Rorty
How the Mind Works
non-fiction work by Steven Pinker
Metaphors We Live By
1980 book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Minds, Machines and Gödel
philosophical article first presented in 1959
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
essay by Gregory Bateson
Languages of Art
1968 work by book by Nelson Goodman
Shadows of the Mind
essay by Roger Penrose
I Am a Strange Loop
non-fiction work by Douglas Hofstadter
The Concept of Mind
1949 book by Gilbert Ryle critiquing Cartesian mind-body dualism; introduced the 'ghost in the machine' critique and the knowing-how / knowing-that distinction later foundational to Peter Naur's theory of programming
The Meme Machine
essay by Susan Blackmore
The Meaning of Meaning
book by Charles Kay Ogden and I. A. Richards
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
biography and festschrift for biologist Richard Dawkins