Intelligent Agents and the Biological Roots of Cognition

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Intelligent Agents and the Biological Roots of Cognition

Papers:

• C.A. Hooker (2008) ‘Interaction and Bio-Cognitive Order’, in M. Bickhard (ed.), Synthese, special edition on interactivism. To appear.
• Christensen, W.D. and C.A. Hooker (2004) 'Representation and the Meaning of Life', in H. Clapin, P. Staines and P. Slezak (Eds.), Representation in Mind: New Approaches to Mental Representation, Oxford: Elsevier, 41-70.
• Christensen, W.D. and C.A. Hooker (2002) 'Self-directed agents', in MacIntosh, J. (Ed.) Contemporary Naturalist Theories of Evolution and Intentionality, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Special Supplementary Volume XXVII, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 19-52.
• Christensen, W.D. and C.A. Hooker (2000): "An Interactivist-Constructivist Approach to Intelligence: Self-directed Anticipative Learning", Philosophical Psychology, 13, 5-45.
• Christensen, W.D., and Hooker, C.A. (1998), 'From cell to scientist: Toward an organisational theory of life and mind', in J. Bigelow (ed.) Our Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Canberra: Academy of Humanities.
• Christensen, W.D. and C.A. Hooker (1998) ‘Towards a New Science of the Mind: Wide Content and the Metaphysics of Organisational Properties in Non-linear Dynamical Models’, Symposium on Mind, Special Issue, Philosophy and Language, 13 #1, 97-108.
• Christensen, W.D. and C.A. Hooker (1997): "Selection Theory, Organization and the Development of Knowledge, Evolution and Cognition, 3, 44-8.
• Hooker, C.A. (1996), "Critical Notice of L. Smith and E. Thelen (eds) A Dynamics Systems Approach to Development: Applications", Philosophical Psychology, 10, 121-30.
• Hooker, C.A., (1994), ‘Regulatory Constructivism:  On the Relation Between Evolutionary Epistemology and Piaget's Genetic Epistemology’, Biology and Philosophy, 9, 197-244.