Mind as machine : a history of cognitive science / Margaret A. Boden.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2006.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Setting the scene -- Man as machine : origins of the idea -- Anticipatory engines -- Maybe minds are machines too -- Movements beneath the mantle -- Cognitive science comes together -- The rise of computational psychology -- The mystery of the missing discipline --Transforming linguistics -- When Gofai was Newfai -- Of bombs and bombshells -- Connectionism, its birth and Renaissance -- Swimming alongside the kraken -- From neurophysiology to computational neuroscience -- A life in embryo -- Philosophies of mind as machine -- What next?