PSYCHOLOGY

1. Some references on Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind, the Theory-Theory, and the Simulation Theory (in addition to MITECS articles on those topics):

   • Gloria Origgi, "Theories of Theory of Mind"

   • Gordon, Robert M., & Cruz, Joe, "Simulation Theory", in Lynn Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Nature Publishing Group, forthcoming).

   • Gordon, Robert M. (2001), "Folk Psychology as Mental Simulation", in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

   • Ravenscroft, Ian (1997), "Folk Psychology as a Theory", in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2. On categorization:

   • Miller, George A. (1956), "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information", Psychological Review 63: 81-97.

   • Rosch, Eleanor (1978), "Principles of Categorization", in Eleanor Rosch & Barbara B. Lloyd (eds.), Cognition and Categorization (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 27-48.

   • Lakoff, George (1987), Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

   • Zubin, David A. (1977), "The Semantic Basis of Case Alteration in German", in R. Fasold & R. Shuy (eds.), Studies in Language Variation (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press).

3. On a Dispute within Cognitive Science over the Nature of Human Reasoning:

   • A Logical Illusion

   • Johnson-Laird, P.N.; Girotto, Vittorio; & Legrenzi, Paolo (1998), "Mental Models: A Gentle Guide for Outsiders"

   • Selmer Bringsjord, Ron Noel, Elizabeth Bringsjord (1998), "In Defense of Logical Minds"
     • A nice overview on the psychology of reasoning.

   • Johnson-Laird, Philip N. (1983), Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).

   • Rips, Lance J. (1994), The Psychology of Proof: Deductive Reasoning in Human Thinking (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

   • Johnson-Laird, Philip N. (1997), "Rules and Illusions: A Critical Study of Rips's The Psychology of Proof", Minds and Machines 7(3): 387-407.

   • Rips, Lance J. (1997), "Goals for a Theory of Deduction: Reply to Johnson-Laird", Minds and Machines 7(3): 409-424.

   • Johnson-Laird, Philip N. (1997), "An End to the Controversy? A Reply to Rips", Minds and Machines 7(3): 425-432.

   • Fetzer, James H. (1999), "Deduction and Mental Models", Minds and Machines 9(1): 105-110.

   • Johnson-Laird, Philip N., & Byrne, Ruth M.J. (1999), "Models Rule, OK? A Reply to Fetzer", Minds and Machines 9(1): 111-118.

   • Fetzer, James H. (1999), "Mental Models: Reasoning without Rules", Minds and Machines 9(1): 119-126.

4. Related to the previous item, a paper on the proper role of psychological studies of human reasoning in the creation of formal models of reasoning:

   • Pelletier, Francis Jeffry & Elio, Renée (1997), "What Should Default Reasoning Be, by Default?", Computational Intelligence 13(2): 165-187.