Table of Contents

1: Setting the scene
2: Man as machine: origins of the idea
3: Anticipatory engines
4: Maybe minds are machines too
5: Movements beneath the mantle
6: Cognitive science comes together
7: The rise of computational psychology
8: The mystery of the missing discipline
9: Transforming linguistics
10: When GOFAI was NEWFAI
11: Of bombs and bombshells
12: Connectionism, its birth and renaissance
13: Swimming alongside the kraken
14: From neurophysiology to computational neuroscience
15: A-life in embryo
16: Philosophies of mind as machine
17: What next?

Reviews

Anyone will profit from the clarity in context that Boden provides. Her impressive learning is evident at every turn, everything is deeply understood and thought about, and almost everything important seems to have been read and incorporated, down to very recent and still forthcoming literature - this is not a history of things past but an overall account of the discipline as it stands now. Vincent C. Muller, Minds and Machines the writing is clear and engaging throughout, so much so that it often sounds less like scientific prose than literature. Roy Behrens, Leonardo OnLine a triumphant literary event among histories of cognitive science Igor Aleksander, Journal of Consciousness Studies a monumental new history of cognitive science ... scholarly, readable, and even entertaining ... an invaluable resource ... At present it has no rival, and it is hard to imagine any other work that could so completely document the intellectual ferment of the past fifty years Michael C. Corballis. Times Literary Supplement