23.9

Introduction & basic terminology

tba

• Takáč, M.: Construction of Meanings in Living and Artificial Agents. dissertation thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, 2007, pages 22-31.

30.9

• Nehaniv, C.: The making of meaning in societies: Semiotic and information theoretic background to the evolution of communication. In: Edmonds, B., Dautenhahn, K.(Eds.), Proceedings of the AISB 2000 Symposium: Starting from Society – the Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems. AISB, pp.73 –84.

tba

• Ziemke & Sharkey (2001). A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals: Applying Jakob von Uexküll's theory of meaning to adaptive robots and artificial life. Semiotica, 134(1-4), 701-746.

7.10

• Kováč, L: Fundamental principles of cognitive biology. Evolution and Cognition 6, 51-69, 2000.

tba

• Gärdenfors, P.: Cued and detached representations in animal cognition", Behavioural Processes 36, 1996, pp. 263-273.
• Gärdenfors, P.: "Language and the evolution of cognition", in Penser l'esprit: Des sciences de la cognition à une philosophie cognitive, ed. by V. Rialle and D. Fisette, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1996, pp. 151-172.
• Gärdenfors, P.: Cooperation and the Evolution of Symbolic Communication. In D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel, editors, Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach, (2004), pages 237-256. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

14.10

• Šefránek, J.: Knowledge Representation for Animal Reasoning. In: Honkela, T., Pöllä, M., Paukkeri, M., Simula, O. (eds.): Proceedings of AKRR '08, the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Espoo, Finland, 2008, pp. 65-72.

tba

• Takáč, M.: mindmap for Šefránek, J.: Cognition without mental processes
• Takáč, M.: Cognitive Semantics for Dynamic Environments. In: Hitzler, P., Schärfe, H., P. Øhrstrøm (eds.): Contribution to ICCS 2006 - 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures. Aalborg University Press, Aalborg, Denmark, 2006, pp. 202-215.

21.10

• Lakoff, George (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Foreward and chap. 1 and 4-6.
• Love metaphors

tba

• Šefránek, J.: slide notes for Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things

28.10

• Gärdenfors, P.: Concept representations and nonmonotonic inferences. pp. 25-39 in Logic for a Change: Essays dedicated to Sten Lindström on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, Uppsala Prints and Preprints in Philosophy 1995:9, Uppsala. Revised version in Mathware & Soft Computing 3, pp. 17-31.

tba

• Gärdenfors, P.: "Symbolic, conceptual and subconceptual representations", pp. 255-270 in Human and Machine Perception: Information Fusion, ed. by V. Cantoni, V. di Gesù, A. Setti and D. Tegolo, Plenum Press, New York, 1997.
• Gärdenfors, P.: 1996i "Conceptual spaces as a basis for cognitive semantics", in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, ed. by A. Clark et al., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996, pp. 159-180.
• Gärdenfors, P.:"Meanings as conceptual structures", in Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind, ed. by M. Carrier and P. Machamer, Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh, 1997, pp. 61-86.

4.11

• Barsalou, L.: Perceptual Symbol Systems, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 1999, pp. 577-609.

tba

• Barsalou, L.W., Yeh, W., Luka, B.J., Olseth, K.L., Mix, K.S., & Wu, L. (1993). Concepts and meaning. In K. Beals, G. Cooke, D. Kathman, K.E. McCullough, S. Kita, & D. Testen (Eds.), Chicago Linguistics Society 29: Papers from the parasession on conceptual representations (pp. 23-61). University of Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
• Neural Basis of Language 2004, ICSI U Berkeley (local copy)

tba

• Bergen, B. & Chang, N.: Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding. In J.-O. Östman and M. Fried (eds.), Construction Grammar(s): Cognitive and Cross-Language Dimensions. Johns Benjamins, 2005. (Reprinted in V. Evans, B. Bergen and J. Zinken (eds.), The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. Equinox. 2007.

tba

11.11

• Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. Physica D 42: 335-346.
• Harnad, S. (1993) Grounding Symbols in the Analog World with Neural Nets. Think 2(1) 12 - 78
• Ziemke, T.: Rethinking Grounding In: Riegler, Peschl & von Stein (eds.) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences (pp. 177-190). Plenum Press: New York.

tba

• Turing, A. M., 1950. Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind 59, 433–460.
• Searle, J. R., 1980. Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 3, 417–457.
• Newell, A., Simon, H. A., 1976. Computer science as empirical inquiry: Symbols and search. Commun. ACM 19 (3), 113–126.
• Fodor J. A. and Pylyshyn Z. W.: Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis. In: Connections and symbols. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3–71. 1988.
• Ziemke: Construction

18.11

(one of):

• Wiedermann, J: HUGO: A Cognitive Architecture with an Incorporated World Model,
  Technical report CSAV No. 966, April 2006
• Deb Roy. (2008, in press). A Mechanistic Model of Three Facets of Meaning. Chapter to appear in Symbols, Embodiment, and Meaning, de Vega, Glenberg, and Graesser, eds. pdf
• Brooks, R: Intelligence without representation. Artificial Intelligence, Vol.47, 1991, pp.139-159.
• survey of chatbots

tba

• Vernon D., Metta G., Sandini G.: A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents. Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 11, No. 2. (2007), pp. 151-180.
• Takáč, M.: Construction of Meanings in Living and Artificial Agents. dissertation thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, submitted in August 2007, Chapter 4.

25.11

• L.Smith and M. Gasser [2005]. The Development of Embodied Cognition: Six Lessons from Babies Artificial Life. Vol. 11, Issues 1-2, pp. 13 - 30

tba

• Takáč, M.: Construction of Meanings in Biological and Artificial Agents. In: Trajkovski, G., Collins, S. G. (eds.): Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, in press.

2.12