Eprints by Stevan Harnad on Cognitive Science

Stevan Harnad
Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group,
Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton,
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom,

The following papers are retrievable in hypertext form. Simply click on the title of the article.

Harnad, Stevan (1984) Verifying machines' minds. (Review of J. T. Culbertson, Consciousness: Natural and artificial, NY: Libra 1982.) Contemporary Psychology 29: 389 - 391.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Kata/verifying.minds.html

Harnad, Stevan (1984) Mind in society: Where the action is? (Review of R. F. Secord, ed., Explaining human behavior, Beverly Hills: Sage, 1982.) Contemporary Psychology 29: 951 - 953.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Kata/mind.review.html

Harnad, Stevan (2002) Darwin, Skinner, Turing and the Mind. Inaugural Address. Hungarian Academy of Science. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/darwin.htm

Harnad, Stevan (2003) Can a Machine Be Conscious? How? Journal of Consciousness Studies 10(4-5): 69-75. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/machine.htm

Harnad, Stevan (2003) Categorical Perception. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group. Macmillan. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/catperc.html

Harnad, Stevan (2003) Symbol-Grounding Problem. Encylopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group. Macmillan. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/symgro.htm

Harnad, S. (2003)  Back to the Oral Tradition Through Skywriting at the Speed of Thought. Interdisciplines.
http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/papers/6
Harnad, S. (2004) Retour à la tradition orale: écrire dans le ciel à la vitesse de la pensée. Dans: Salaün, Jean-Michel & Vendendorpe, Christian (réd.). Le défis de la publication sur le web: hyperlectures, cybertextes et méta-éditions. Presses de l'enssib.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cartierneuf.rtf

Harnad, Stevan (2003) There is No Concrete. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/concrete.html

Harnad, Stevan (2003) Cognition is Categorization. UQaM Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorization.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/catconf.html

Harnad, S. (2005) To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization, in Lefebvre, C. and Cohen, H., Eds. Handbook of Categorization. Elsevier.  http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11725/

Harnad, S. (2005) Language and the game of life. Behavioral and Brain Sciences http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10503/

Harnad, S. (2005) What Is Consciousness? New York Review 52 (11) (letter)
http://cogprints.org/4390/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18097

Harnad, S. (2005) From Hypertext to Hyperloquy. Haworth Press.

Harnad, S. (2005) Science is systematised, institutionalised common sense. Spiked (Einstein Year): "If you could teach the world just one thing...." http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11726/

Harnad, S. (2005) Distributed Processes, Distributed Cognizers and Collaborative Cognition. Pragmatics and Cognition 13(3): 501-514. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10997/

St-Louis, B, Giguere, G, Frak, V & Harnad, S. (2005) The Timing of a Conscious Decision. From Ear to Mouth. Proc. 27th Annual Meeting, Cognitive Science Society.
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/fr/stlouis/publications_stlouis/p2548.pdf

Harnad, S. (2006) Cohabitation: Computation at 70, Cognition at 20, in Dedrick, D., Eds. Essays in Honour of Zenon Pylyshyn http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12092/ 

Harnad, S. (2006) Searle's Chinese Room Argument.  In: Borchert, Donald (ed) Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Macmillan). Macmillan Reference. Volume 2: 239-242 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10424/01/chineseroom.html

Harnad, S. and Dror, I. (2006) Distributed Cognition: Cognizing, Autonomy and the Turing Test. Pragmatics & Cognition 14. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12368/
Harnad, S. (2007) Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary. In: Vilarroya, Ã’scar & Forn, Francesc (2007), Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition.  Éditions Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York 
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10702/01/we-they.htm

Harnad, S. (2007) Evan. In: Vilarroya, Ã’scar & Forn, Francesc (2007), Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition.  Éditions Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10703/01/huma-evan.html

Harnad, Stevan (2007) Creativity: Method or Magic? In: H. Cohen and B. Stemmer (eds.) Consciousness and Cognition: Fragments of Mind and Brain Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, 127-137
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad.creativity.html
http://cogprints.org/1627/

Harnad, S. (2007) Maturana's Autopoietic Hermeneutics Versus Turing’s Causal Methodology for Explaining Cognition (Reply to A. Kravchenko (2007) Whence the autonomy? A comment on Harnad and Dror (2006). Pragmatics and Cognition. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13810/

Harnad, S. and Scherzer, P. (2007) First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling. In Proceedings of Proceedings of AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on AI and Consciousness (in press), Washington DC. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14430/

Harnad, S. (2007) From Knowing How To Knowing That: Acquiring Categories By Word of Mouth. Presented at Kaziemierz Naturalized Epistemology Workshop (KNEW), Kaziemierz, Poland, 2 September 2007. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14517/

Poynder, R. & Harnad S. (2007) From Glottogenesis to the Category Commons. The Basement Interviews.http://ia361300.us.archive.org/13/items/The_Basement_Interviews/Stevan_Harnad_Interview.pdf

Harnad, S. and Scherzer, P. (2008) First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling.  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 44(2): 83-89
 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14430/

Harnad S. (2008) In Quest of the Big Bark. University Affairs  February 2008. 

Harnad, S. (2008) The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery and Intelligence. In: Epstein, Robert & Peters, Grace (Eds.) Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer. Springer  http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7741/

Harnad, S. (2008) Why and How the Problem of the Evolution of Universal Grammar (UG) is Hard.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31: 524-525 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15618/

Blondin Masse, Alexandre et Chicoisne, Guillaume et Gargouri, Yassine et Harnad, Stevan et Picard, Olivier et Marcotte, Odile (2008). How Is Meaning Grounded in Dictionary Definitions?, In TextGraphs-3 Workshop - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 

Harnad, S. (2008) What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes. In: Biennial Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness, 7-9 August 2008, University of Prince Edward Island.

Harnad, S. (2008) First Person Singular: A review of Brian Rotman's "Becoming Beside Ourselves: Alphabet, ghosts, distributed human beings".  Tech Report.

St-Louis, B., Corbeil, M., Achim, A. and Harnad, S. (2008) Acquiring the Mental Lexicon Through Sensorimotor Category Learning. In: Sixth Annual Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Alberta, Banff Alberta, 7-10 October 2008.  http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16620/

Chicoisne, G., Blondin-Massé, A., Picard, O. and Harnad, S. (2008) Grounding Abstract Word Definitions In Prior Concrete Experience. In: Sixth Annual Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Alberta, Banff Alberta, 7-10 October 2008.  http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16618/

Harnad, S; Blondin-Massé; A, St-Louis, B; Chicoisne, G; Gargouri, Y; & Picard, O.  (2008) Symbol Grounding, Turing Testing and Robot Talking.  RoadMap Workshop on Action and Language Integration, Rome on 22-24 September 2008.  http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/SoCCE/ITALK/events.html


Dror, I. and Harnad, S. (2009) Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology. In Dror, I. and Harnad, S. (Eds) (2009): Cognition Distributed: How Cognitive Technology Extends Our Minds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Harnad, S. (2009) On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution. Technical Report. Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Harnad, S. (2009) Concepts: The Very Idea. Canadian Philosophical Association Symposium on Machery on Doing without Concepts. 2009.

Harnad, S. (2009) From Sensorimotor Categories to Grounded Symbols. Technical Report, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton 

Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2009) Offloading Cognition onto the Web IEEE Intelligent Systems 24 (6). 

Corbeil, M, St-Louis, B. & Harnad, S. (2009) La P3 dans l'apprentissage explicite des catégories (conference poster)

Harnad, S. (2009) Cohabitation: Computation at 70, Cognition at 20, in Dedrick, D., Eds. Cognition, Computation, and Pylyshyn. MIT Press

Picard, O., Blondin-Masse, A., Harnad, S., Marcotte, O., Chicoisne, G. and Gargouri, Y. (2009) Hierarchies in Dictionary De�nition Space. In: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: Workshop on Analyzing Networks and Learning With Graphs, 11-12 December 2009, Vancouver BC (Canada).


Harnad, S. (2010) Symbol Grounding Problem: Turing-Scale Solution Needed. IEEE AMD Newsletter 7(1) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21345/

Harnad, S. (2010) Eliminating the "concept" concept. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33 (2/3). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21346/  

Harnad, S. (2010) Deceiving Ourselves About Self-Deception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences . (In Press) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21430/

Picard, O; Blondin-Massé, A; & Harnad, S. (2010) Learning Word Meaning From Dictionary Definitions: Sensorimotor Induction Precedes Verbal Instruction. Summer Institute on the Origins of Language. Cognitive Sciences Institute. Université du Québec à Montréal, June 2010. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/picard-langconf.pdf

St-Louis, B; & Harnad, S. (2010) Learning Categories By Sensorimotor Induction and Verbal Instruction. Summer Institute on the Origins of Language. Cognitive Sciences Institute. Universite du Quebec a  Montreal, June 2010. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/stlouis-langconf.pdf

Blondin-Masse, A & Harnad, S. (2010) Symbol Grounding and Language Origins (supp). Cognitive Sciences Institute. Université du Quebec a  Montreal, June 2010. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/blondin-langconf.pdf

Blondin-Massé, A., Harnad,S., Picard, O. & St-Louis, B. (2010) Symbol Grounding and the Origin of Language: From Show to Tell. In: Origins of Language. Cognitive Sciences Institute. Universite du Quebec a  Montreal, June 2010. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21438/

Harnad, S. (2010) From Sensorimotor Categories and Pantomime to Grounded Symbols and Propositions. In: Handbook of Language Evolution, Oxford University Press. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21439/

Harnad, S. (2011) Minds, Brains and Turing. Consciousness Online 3. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22242/

Harnad, S. (2011) Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining. In: On the Human. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22243/

Harnad, S. (2011) Zen and the Art of Explaining the Mind. International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) (forthcming). [Review of Shanahan M. (2010) Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds. Oxford University Press.] http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21843/

Harnad, S. (2011) Reducing uncertainty about information. (Review of  Floridi, Luciano (2011): The Philosophy of Information (Oxford University Press) Times Literary Supplement.

Harnad, S. (2011) Lunch Uncertain. (Review of  Floridi, Luciano (2011): The Philosophy of Information (Oxford University Press) Times Literary Supplement 5664: 22-23. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/272962/

Harnad, S. (2011) Sky-Writing, Or, When Man First Met Troll. The Atlantic, Spring Issue 2011 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/sky-writing-or-when-man-first-met-troll/239420/

Carr, L. & Harnad, S. (2011) Offloading Cognition onto the Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems 26 (1) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21030/


Harnad, Stevan (2012) The Causal Topography of Cognition. [in special issue: A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition] Journal of Cognitive Science 13(2): 181-196 http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273232/

Harnad, Stevan (2012) Alan Turing and the “Hard” and “Easy” Problem of Cognition: Doing and Feeling. [in special issue: Turing Year 2012] Turing100, Summer Issue http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340293/

Rosenthal, David and Harnad, Stevan (2012) Turing Centenary Institute on "The Evolution and Function of Consciousness". In, UQaM Turing Centenary Institute on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness, Montreal, Canada http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342084/


Harnad, Stevan (2013) The Postgutenberg Open Access Journal (revised). In, Cope, B and Phillips, A (eds.) The Future of the Academic Journal (2nd edition). 2nd edition of book  Chandos. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/353991/

Blondin-Massé, A., Harnad, S., Picard, O. & St-Louis, B. (2013) Symbol Grounding and the Origin of Language: From Show to Tell. In: Lefebvre C, Comrie B & Cohen H (Eds.) Current Perspective on the Origins of Language, Benjamin (in press) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21438/

Picard, Olivier; Lord, Mélanie; Blondin-Massé, Alexandre;  Marcotte, Odile; Harnad, Stevan (2013) Hidden Structure and Function in the Lexicon, NLPCS 2013 : 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science

Lopes, Marcos; Blondin-Massé, Alexandre; Lord, Mélanie; Marcotte, Odile; Picard, Olivier; Harnad, Stevan (2013) Dictionaries’ Core Defining Words Are More Frequent and Have More Meanings (submitted)

Blondin-Massé, Alexandre; Lapointe, Melodie; Lavoie, Martin; Galinier, Philippe; Lord, Mélanie; Harnad, Stevan (2013) Eciently Enumerating Minimum Feedback Vertex Sets in Directed Graphs with Union-CatTrees. ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA14) (in prep)

Harnad, S (2013) Interview with Prof. Stevan Harnad. Kuenstliche Intelligenz 27 (2) http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/351995/

Harnad, Stevan (2013) Québec humaniste 8(1): 10-13 http://j.mp/15JnWHw

Commentaries on the above papers:
James Fetzer, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota at Duluth ,
Minds and Machines: Behaviorism, Dualism and Beyond
In: Stanford Humanities Review 4(2) 1995 .