Chronological Table

Preface

General Introduction: “The Concept of Artificial Intelligence” — Ron Chrisley

1 Historical Context

Introduction: “The Development of the Concept of Artificial Intelligence: Historical Overviews and Milestones” — Ron Chrisley

1.1 Overview

Allen Newell (1983) — Intellectual Issues in the History of Artificial Intelligence

Howard Gardner (1985) — Artificial Intelligence: The Expert Tool

Clark Glymour, K. M. Ford, and P. J. Hayes (1995) — The Prehistory of Android Epistemology

Bruce Mazlish (1995) — The Man-Machine and Artificial Intelligence

1.2 Focus

J. Cohen (1965) — Theory of Robots in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

René Descartes (1637) — Discourse on Method, Part 5

Thomas Hobbes (1651) — Leviathan, Chapter 5, “Reason and Science”

G. Leibniz (1677) — Preface to the General Science

G. Leibniz (1714) — The Monadology

D. M. Fryer and J. C. Marshall (1979) — The Motives of Jacques de Vaucanson

J. O. de La Mettrie (1747) — Man a Machine

A. Lovelace (1842) — Translation Notes A and G (Excerpts) for Menabrea, L. F., “Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage”

Bruce Mazlish (1993) — Babbage, Huxley and Butler

G. Simons (1988) — Towards Electronic Computers

R. Cordeschi (1991) — The Discovery of the Artificial: Some Protocybernetic Developments 1930–1940

T. Ross (1935) — Machines That Think: A Further Statement

T. Ross (1937) — The Synthesis of Intelligence: Its Implications

P. N. Edwards (1996) — The Machine in the Middle: Cybernetic Psychology and World War II

A. Rosenblueth, N. Wiener, and J. Bigelow (1943) — Behavior, Purpose and Teleology

W. S. McCulloch and W. H. Pitts (1943) — A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity

J. von Neumann (1951) — The General and Logical Theory of Automata

S. J. Heims (1991) — Describing “Embodiments of Mind”: McCulloch and His Cohorts

P. McCorduck (1979) — Robotics and General Intelligence

D. Crevier (1993) — The Tree of Knowledge