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  1. (1 other version)The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms.Margaret A. Boden - 1992 - Routledge.
    An essential work for anyone interested in the creativity of the human mind, "The Creative Mind" has been updated to include recent developments in artificial ...
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    Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science.Margaret Ann Boden - 2006 - Oxford University Press.
    Cognitive science is the project of understanding the mind by modelling its workings. Its development is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. Mind as Machine is a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.
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  3. Computer Models On Mind: Computational Approaches In Theoretical Psychology.Margaret A. Boden - 1988 - Cambridge University Press.
    What is the mind? How does it work? How does it influence behavior? Some psychologists hope to answer such questions in terms of concepts drawn from computer science and artificial intelligence. They test their theories by modeling mental processes in computers. This book shows how computer models are used to study many psychological phenomena--including vision, language, reasoning, and learning. It also shows that computer modeling involves differing theoretical approaches. Computational psychologists disagree about some basic questions. For instance, should the mind (...)
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  4. The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.Margaret A. Boden (ed.) - 1990 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    This interdisciplinary collection of classical and contemporary readings provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the many hotly-debated philosophical issues at the heart of artificial intelligence.
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  5. Ai: Its Nature and Future.Margaret A. Boden - 2016 - Oxford University Press UK.
    The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the processes of memory, learning, and language from a fresh angle.As a concept, Artificial Intelligence has fuelled and sharpened the philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, intelligence, and the uniqueness of human beings. (...)
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  6. (1 other version)Escaping from the chinese room.Margaret A. Boden - 1988 - In Computer Models On Mind: Computational Approaches In Theoretical Psychology. Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Minds And Mechanisms: Philosophical Psychology And Computational Models.Margaret A. Boden - 1981 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  8. Creativity and artificial intelligence.Margaret A. Boden - 1998 - Artificial Intelligence 103 (1-2):347-356.
  9. The philosophy of artificial life.Margaret A. Boden (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This new volume in the acclaimed Oxford Readings in Philosophy sereis offers a selection of the most important philosophical work being done in the new and fast-growing interdisciplinary area of artificial life. Artificial life research seeks to synthesize the characteristics of life by artificial means, particularly employing computer technology. The essays here explore such fascinating themes as the nature of life, the relation between life and mind, and the limits of technology.
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  10. (2 other versions)Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man.Margaret A. Boden - 1978 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (4):394-395.
     
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    Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise.Margaret A. Boden - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
    Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity each eliciting a different form of surprise.
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  12. Piaget.Margaret A. Boden - 1981 - Philosophy 56 (218):589-591.
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    Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man.Margaret A. Boden - 1977 - New York: Branch Line.
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  14. Optimism.Margaret A. Boden - 1966 - Philosophy 41 (158):291 - 303.
    The optimist may be secretly envied, but he is publicly despised. His pronouncements are regarded as expressions of simple-minded blindness or as cynical propaganda. Optimism is not regarded as intellectually respectable. It was not always so: there have been times when optimism was not merely considered worthy of rational argument, but was widely accepted by thinking men. Now, however, we react with a growing embarrassment to passages such as these: The time will therefore come when the sun will shine only (...)
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    Précis of The creative mind: Myths and mechanisms.Margaret A. Boden - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (3):519-531.
    What is creativity? One new idea may be creative, whereas another is merely new: What's the difference? And how is creativity possible? These questions about human creativity can be answered, at least in outline, using computational concepts. There are two broad types of creativity, improbabilist and impossibilist. Improbabilist creativity involves novel combinations of familiar ideas. A deeper type involves METCS: the mapping, exploration, and transformation of conceptual spaces. It is impossibilist, in that ideas may be generated which – with respect (...)
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  16. Intentionality and physical systems.Margaret A. Boden - 1970 - Philosophy of Science 37 (2):200-214.
    Intentionality is characteristic of many psychological phenomena. It is commonly held by philosophers that intentionality cannot be ascribed to purely physical systems. This view does not merely deny that psychological language can be reduced to physiological language. It also claims that the appropriateness of some psychological explanation excludes the possibility of any underlying physiological or causal account adequate to explain intentional behavior. This is a thesis which I do not accept. I shall argue that physical systems of a specific sort (...)
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    The structure of intentions.Margaret A. Boden - 1973 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 3 (1):23–46.
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    The Evolution of Cultural Entities.Michael Wheeler, John M. Ziman & Margaret A. Boden (eds.) - 2002 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws and theories seem to evolve through variation, selection and replication. These essays consider whether this comparison is just a metaphor.
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  19. Life and mind.Margaret A. Boden - 2009 - Minds and Machines 19 (4):453-463.
    It’s sometimes said, and even more often assumed, that life is necessary for mind. If so, and if A-Life promises to throw light on the nature of life as such, then A-Life is in principle highly relevant to the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. However, very few philosophers have attempted to argue for the relation between life and mind. It’s usually taken for granted. Even those (mostly in the Continental tradition, including some with a following in A-Life) who have (...)
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    The Case for a Cognitive Biology.Margaret A. Boden & Susan Khin Zaw - 1980 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 54 (1):25 - 71.
  21. Philosophical Problems In Psychology.Margaret A. Boden - 1979 - London: Methuen.
  22. Creativity and conceptual art.Margaret A. Boden - 2007 - In Peter Goldie & Elisabeth Schellekens (eds.), Philosophy and conceptual art. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Artificial Intelligence In Psychology: Interdisciplinary Essays.Margaret A. Boden - 1989 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
    This collection of Margaret Boden's essays written between 1982 and 1988 focuses on the relevance of artificial intelligence to psychology.
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    Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions.Margaret A. Boden, Richard B. Brandt, Peter Caldwell, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Hare, David Hume, W. D. Joske, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Kaufman, James Lenman, John Leslie, Steven Luper-Foy, Michaelis Michael, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, George Pitcher, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, David Schmidtz, Arthur Schopenhauer, David B. Suits, Richard Taylor & Bernard Williams - 2004 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better if we were immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Life, Death, and Meaning brings together key readings, primarily by English-speaking philosophers, on such 'big questions.'.
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  25. (1 other version)Creativity.Margaret A. Boden - 1995 - In Paul Davies & Jill Gready (eds.), God, cosmos, nature, and creativity. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
     
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    Modelling creativity: reply to reviewers.Margaret A. Boden - 1995 - Artificial Intelligence 79 (1):161-182.
  27. The computational metaphor in psychology.Margaret A. Boden - 1979 - In Philosophical Problems In Psychology. London: Methuen.
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    Wonder and understanding.Margaret A. Boden - 1985 - Zygon 20 (4):391-400.
    Wonder is a root of the religious experience, and the desire to understand drives science. If wonder and understanding are fundamentally opposed, religion and science will be also. But only if wonder is limited to the contemplation of magic or mysteries is religion in principle opposed to science. The aim of science is to explain how something is possible. Understanding how something is possible need not destroy our wonder at it. Recent scientific theories of the human mind—albeit based in computer (...)
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  29. Creativity in a nutshell.Margaret A. Boden - 2007 - Think 5 (15):83-96.
    Clarifying what creativity is the first step towards answering the question: could a computer be creative?
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  30. Evolutionary Epistemology.Margaret A. Boden - 1990 - Synthese 85:185-197.
     
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    What Is Computational Psychology?Margaret A. Boden & D. H. Mellor - 1984 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 58 (1):17-54.
  32. Could a robot be creative--and would we know?Margaret A. Boden - 1995 - In Android Epistemology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  33. Android Epistemology.Margaret A. Boden - 1995 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
     
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  34. Artificial intelligence and Piagetian theory.Margaret A. Boden - 1978 - Synthese 38 (July):389-414.
  35. Artificial Intelligence and Biological Reductionism.Margaret A. Boden - 1982 - University of Sussex.
  36. Computing and creativity.Margaret A. Boden - 1998 - In Terrell Ward Bynum & James Moor (eds.), The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are Changing Philosophy. Cambridge: Blackwell.
     
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    Creativity: A framework for research.Margaret A. Boden - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (3):558-570.
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    Commentary on towards a design-based analysis of emotional episodes.Margaret A. Boden - 1996 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3 (2):135-136.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Commentary on “Towards a Design-Based Analysis of Emotional Episodes”Margaret A. Boden (bio)The theoretical work of Wright, Sloman, and Beaudoin is a significant contribution to our understanding of the nature and function of emotions, and potentially also to therapeutic method. Their message that emotions, as controlling and scheduling mechanisms, are essential to any complex intelligent system (that is: one with multiple and potentially conflicting motives, and situated in a changing (...)
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    Human Values in a Mechanistic Universe.Margaret A. Boden - 1977 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 11:135-171.
    The truth can be dangerous. It is because they realise this that the Roman Catholic Church forbid cremation. Cremation is, of course, theologically permissible, and in times of epidemic the Church allows it. But in normal times it is forbidden — Why? The reason is that the Church fears the influence of the image associated with it. It is difficult enough for the faithful to accept the notion of bodily resurrection after having seen a burial. But the image of the (...)
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  40. Interdisciplinary epistemology.Margaret A. Boden - 1990 - Synthese 85 (2):185 - 197.
    In commemorating Piaget we should not remember his psychology alone. He hoped for a biologically grounded epistemology, which would require interdisciplinary effort. This paper mentions some recent research in biology, embryology, and philosophy that is consonant with Piaget's epistemological aims. The authors do not cite Piaget as a prime intellectual influence, there being no distinctive Piagetian methodology outside psychology. But they each mention him as someone whose work is relevant to theirs and whose interdisciplinary aims will be achieved only if (...)
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    In reply to Hart and Hampshire.Margaret A. Boden - 1959 - Mind 68 (270):256-260.
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  42. Miracles and scientific explanation.Margaret A. Boden - 1969 - Ratio (Misc.) 11:137 - 144.
    A "MIRACLE" IS AN OBSERVABLE EVENT INEXPLICABLE BY SCIENCE BUT EXPLICABLE IN TERMS OF SOME SUPERNATURAL AGENT. UNLESS ALL TALK OF SUPERNATURAL AGENCY IS MEANINGLESS, THIS CONCEPT SUCCESSFULLY DENOTES A (PERHAPS EMPTY) CLASS. DESPITE THE FALSIFIABILITY OF SCIENCE, IT MIGHT SOMETIMES BE REASONABLE TO DENY THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY FUTURE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF A GIVEN EVENT. BUT THAT EVENT COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS A "MIRACLE" ONLY IF IT ACCORDED WITH CERTAIN MORAL AND THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE PARTICULAR SUPERNATURAL BEING SUPPOSED (...)
     
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  43. Methodological Links Between Ai and Other Disciplines.Margaret A. Boden - 1982 - University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences.
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    Machine perception.Margaret A. Boden - 1969 - Philosophical Quarterly 19 (January):33-45.
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    (1 other version)Multiple personality and computational models.Margaret A. Boden - 1994 - Philosophy 37:103-114.
    Some readers may have seen the re-runs, on BBC-TV recently, of the ‘Face to Face’ interviews done by John Freeman in the 1960s. One of these was with the singer Adam Faith, then a startlingly beautiful young man with the grace to be amazed at being chosen to be sandwiched between Martin Luther King and J. K. Galbraith. The re-runs were accompanied, where possible, with a further interview with the same person. What I found almost as startling as his lost (...)
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    No Easy Answers: Wisdom and Cognitive Science.Margaret A. Boden - 2009 - In Leemon McHenry (ed.), Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell. Frankfurt, Germany: Ontos Verlag. pp. 129-146.
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    Odd man out: Reply to reviewers.Margaret A. Boden - 2008 - Artificial Intelligence 172 (18):1944-1964.
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    Remarks on Receiving the Covey Award.Margaret A. Boden - 2013 - Philosophy and Technology 26 (3):333-339.
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    Representational redescription: A question of sequence.Margaret A. Boden - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4):708-708.
  50. The Impact of AI on Philosophy.Margaret A. Boden - 1991 - School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex.
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