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Subject headings: Evolution, Religion & Atheism • Cognition • Artificial Life • Artificial Intelligence

 

EVOLUTION, RELIGION & ATHEISM

Adams, Douglas
• Is There an Artificial God? (article)

Almond, Paul
• Can God Exist Outside of Space-Time? (article)

Boyer, Pascal
• Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Thought (book)

Darwin, Charles
• The Origin of Species (book)

Dawkins, Richard
• A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love (book)
• Climbing Mount Improbable (book)
• Collateral Damage 1: Embryos and Stem Cell Research (article)
• Collateral Damage 2 (article)
• Is Evolution Progressive? (video)
• River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (book)
• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (book)
• The Blind Watchmaker: Why Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (book)
• The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (book)
• The God Delusion (book)
• The God Who Wasn't There (contributor) (video)
• The Selfish Gene (book)
• Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (book)
• Why There Almost Certaily Is No God (article)

Dennett, Daniel C.
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (book)
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (book)
• Freedom Evolves (book)

Ellis, Albert
• The Case Against Religion (article)

Flemming, Brian
• The God Who Wasn't There (video)

Floyd, Chris
• Belief and Betrayal: The New Jahiliyyah (article)

Gould, Stephen Jay
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (book)

Harris, Sam
• The End of Faith (book)
• There is No God (And You Know It) (article)

• Science Must Destroy Religion (article)

Hitchens, Christopher
• God is Not Great (book)

Lovelock, James
• Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (book)
• Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine (book)
• The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth (book)
• The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back – And How We Can Still Save Humanity (book)

McFadden, Johnjoe
• Bravo! We're Decoded But a Mystery Still (article)
• How to Live Longer (article)
• Our Genes Are Doomed (article)

• Quantum Evolution (book)
• Sowing the Seeds of a Better Future (article)
• The Kindness of Strangers (article)

• The Origin of All Life (article)
• The Proteome (article)
• The Unselfish Gene (article)

Miller, Harlan B.
• Science, Ethics, and Moral Status (article)

Schempp, Ellery
• Warning: Gravity is "Only a Theory" (article)

Shanks, Niall & Dawkins, Richard
• God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory (book)

Singham, Mano
• Agnostic or Atheist? (article)
• Burden of Proof 1 (article)

• Burden of Proof 2: What Constitutes Evidence for God? (article)
• Burden of Proof 3: The Role of Negative Evidence (article)
• Can We Ever Be Certain About Scientific Theories? (article)
• Choosing the God We Want (article)
• "Christian" Country? (article)
• Creationism and Moral Decay (article)
• Cults and Religions: Should a Mormon be President? (article)
•
Dover's Dominos: Why Intelligent Design Creationism Will Lose (article)
• Emotional Reactions to Darwin (article)
• End of the Road for Intelligent Design?
(article)
• Evolution and Atheism (article)
• Evolution: The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly (article)
• Free Will (article)
• Global Warming (article)
• IDC Gets On Board the Brain Train (article)
• Intelligent Design Creationism Movement Loses Support in Kansas (article)
• It's the Rael Thing (article)
• Israel and the Palestinians (article)
• Is the U.S. a 'Christian Nation'? (article)
• Looking for Deep Ancestors (article)
• Our Common Ancestors (article)
• Natural Selection and Moral Decay (article)
• Paley's Watch, Mount Rushmore, and Other Stories of Intelligent Design (article)
• Quest For Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs (book)
• Religion's Last Stand: The Brain (article)
• Religion's Last Stand, Part 2: The Role of Descartes (article)
• Should Secularists Fight for 100% Separtation From Church and State? (article)
• Seeing the World Through Darwin's Eyes (article)
• Sexual Selection (article)
• The Bible as History: Enter Modern Archeology (article)
• The Bible as History: How Science Unearths the Past (article)
• The Bible as History: Why the Bible Was Invented (article)
• The Book of Revelations and the Rapture (article)
• The Desire for Belief Preservation (article)
• The Devil in the Details (article)
• The Origin of Life (article)
• The Dubious Appeal of Immortality (article)
• The Role of Emotion in Maintaining Religion (article)
• The Role of Emotion in Maintaining Religion: A Follow Up (article)
• The Warmongers (article)
• Wanted: 'Godwin's Law'-Type Rule for Science (article)
• What is Science? (article)
• What Makes Us Good at Learning Some Things and Not Others? (article)
• When God Talks to People (article)
• When the Going Gets Tough, IDC Gets Weird (article)
• Where Was God During the Tsunami?
(article)
• Why is Evolutionary Theory So Upsetting to Some? (article)
• Why Religious (And Other Ideas) Are So Persistent (article)
• Why Small Problems Create the Most Difficulties for Christians (article)

COGNITION

Chatham, Chris
• King of the Cortex: Anterior PFC (article)
• The Myth of Infantile Amnesia (article)

Blackmore, Susan
• Consciousness, An Introduction (book)
• Conversations on Consciousness (book)
• The Meme Machine (book)

Chalmers, David
• Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem (contributor) (book)
• The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (book)

Cole, Juan
• Of Mushrooms and Peak Experiences (article)

Crick, Francis
• The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (book)

Damasio, Antonio
• Descarts' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (book)
• Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (book)
• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (book)

Dennett, Daniel C.
• Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (book)
• Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (book)
• Consciousness Explained (book)
• Content and Consciousness (book)
• Daniel Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (book)
• Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness (book)
• Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (book)
• The Intentional Stance
(book)

Edelman, Gerald M.
• A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination (book)
• Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind (book)
• Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (book)
• The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness (book)
• Topobiology (book)
• Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness (book)

Fodor, Jerry
• Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (book)
• In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind (book)
• Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind (book)
• RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science (book)
• The Language of Thought (book)
• The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (book)
• The Modularity of Mind
(book)

Freeman, Walter J.
• How Brains Make Up Their Minds (book)

Hankins, Peter
• A Genuine Problem (article)
• All Done With Mirrors (article)
• A Spectrum of Consciousness (article)
• Consciousness and Relativity: A Critique of Richard Pico's Biological Relativity Theory (article)
• Consciousness Yet to Come (article)
• Dimensions of Mind (article)
• Does 'Consciousness' Exist? (article)
• Idealist Consciousness (article)
• Ignorance is the Answer (article)
• I Feel It In My Blood (article)
• Implicature (article)
• Magic Scanners (article)
• Me Do It (article)
• Revisiting Libet (article)
• Seeing Red (article)
• Strange Ideas (article)
• The Mind Gap (article)
• Why Be Conscious (article)

Lehar, Steven
• Machines Like Us Interviews: Steven Lehar (interview)
• The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience (book)
• The Constructive Aspect of Visual Perception: A Gestalt Field Theory Principle of Visual Reification Suggests a Phase Conjugate (article)

Libet, Benjamin
• Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness (book)

Marks, Joel
• Moral Moments (book)

Mogi, Ken

Penrose, Roger
• The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (book)
• Shadows of the Mind: The Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (book)
• The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (book)

Pico, Richard
• Consciousness in Four Dimensions: Biological Relativity and the Origins of Thought (book)

Pinker, Steven
• How the Mind Works (book)
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (book)
• Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (book)
• The Language of Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (book)

Pockett, Susan
• Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? (book)
• The Nature of Consciousness: A Hypothesis (book)

Searle, John
• Consciousness and Language (book)
• Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (book)
• Mind: A Brief Introduction (book)
• Rationality in Action (book)
• Rediscovery of the Mind: Representation and Mind (book)
• The Mystery of Consciousness (book)

Shear, Johnathan
• Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem (book)

ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Grand, Steve
• Anarchy in Action (article)
• Battle With GA Joe (article)
• Bubbles in Cyberspace: A Cellular Approach to Virtual Environments and Intelligent Synthetic Life Forms (article)
• Confessions of a Cyber-God (article)
• Creation: Life and How to Make It (book)
• Creatures: An Excercise in Creation (article)
• Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment (article)
• Curiosity Created the Cat (article)
• Delegate Sensibilities (article)
• Effing the Ineffable: An Engineering Approach to Consciousness (article)
• Growing Up With Lucy: How to Create an Android in Twenty Easy Steps (book)
• Machines Like Us (article)
• Machines Like Us Interviews: Steve Grand (interview)
• Moving AI Out of its Infancy: Changing Our Preconceptions (article)
• Of Mountains and Molehills (article)
• The Year 2001 Bug: What Ever Happened to HAL? (article)
• Three Observations That Changed My Life (article)
• Where Newton Went Wrong (article)

Kaufman, Stuart
• At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (book)

Levy, Steven
• Artificial Life: A Report From the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology (book)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Almond, Paul
• AI As a Boundary System (article)
• Machines Like Us Interviews: Paul Almond (interview)
• Downward Transfer of Probabilities (article)
• How AI Would Work (article)
• Planning as Modeling in AI (article)

Brooks, Rodney
• Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI (book)
• Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
(book)

Cowart, Monica R.
• Embodied Cognition (article)

De Garis, Hugo
• Machines Like Us Interviews: Hugo de Garis (interview)

De Garis, Hugo
• Machines Like Us Interviews: Hugo de Garis (interview)

Hankins, Peter
• Bayesian Consciousness (article)
• Brittle (article)
• Chess (article)
• The Narcissus Syndrome (article)
• Where Do I Begin? (article)

Hofstadter, Douglas
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (book)

Minsky, Marvin L.
• Society of Mind (book)
• The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind (book)

Scientific American
• Understanding Artificial Intelligence (book)

Vinge, Vernor
• The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era (article)

Williams, Sam
• Arguing A.I. The Battle For Twenty-First-Century Science (book)

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