The following are the required books and articles for the course. It is vitally important to stay on top of the reading. Despite being a full-year course, there is a lot of material, all of which builds on previous topics.

Osherson, D.N. & Smith, E.E., editors (1995) An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Thinking. Second Edition, Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. (available for reading online)

Readings from the first edition of Osherson and Smith (1990). (available in the Laidlaw Library)

Haugeland, J. (1987). Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. (available for reading online)

Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science by John Vervaeke, Tim Lillicrap, and Blake Richards. (available for download here)

Forthcoming paper on intelligence by Irving & Vervaeke. (available for download here)

Recomended:

The Naturalistic Imperative in Cognitive Science by John Vervaeke. (available on-line)