Minds and Machines

Minds and Machines is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science.^[1]

Minds and Machines

Discipline	Artificial intelligence, philosophy, cognitive science
Language	English
Edited by	Mariarosaria Taddeo
Publication details
History	1991–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	7.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Minds Mach.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	MMACEO
ISSN	0924-6495 (print) 1572-8641 (web)
LCCN	91650998
OCLC no.	37915831
Links
Journal homepage Online access

The journal was established in 1991 with James Henry Fetzer as founding editor-in-chief.^[2] It was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers but was taken over by Springer in 2021 (Springer Science+Business Media). The journal affiliates with the Society for Machines and Mentality, a special interest group within the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. The current editor-in-chief is Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford).^[2]

Editors

Previous editors-in-chief of the journal have been James H. Fetzer (1991–2000), James H. Moor (2001–2010), and Gregory Wheeler (2011–2016).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by the following services:^[1]

• Academic OneFile
• Academic Search
• EI/Compendex
• Inspec
• Neuroscience Citation Index
• ProQuest
• PsycINFO
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Scopus
• The Philosopher's Index
• MLA Bibliography of Linguistic Literature

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.514.^[3]

Article categories

The journal publishes articles in the categories Research articles, Reviews, Critical and discussion exchanges (debates), Letters to the Editor, and Book reviews.^[1]

Frequently cited articles

According to the Web of Science, the following five articles have been cited most frequently:

• Edelman, S. (1995). "Representation, similarity, and the chorus of prototypes". Minds and Machines. 5: 45–68. doi:10.1007/BF00974189. S2CID 879875.
• Copeland, B. J. (2002). "Hypercomputation". Minds and Machines. 12 (4): 461–502. doi:10.1023/A:1021105915386. S2CID 218585685.
• Glymour, C. (1998). "Learning causes: Psychological explanations of causal explanation". Minds and Machines. 8: 39–60. doi:10.1023/A:1008234330618. S2CID 24720518.
• Floridi, L.; Sanders, J. W. (2004). "On the Morality of Artificial Agents". Minds and Machines. 14 (3): 349–379. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.16.722. doi:10.1023/B:MIND.0000035461.63578.9d. S2CID 5985008.
• Hadley, R. F.; Hayward, M. B. (1997). "Strong Semantic Systematicity from Hebbian Connectionist Learning". Minds and Machines. 7: 1–37. doi:10.1023/A:1008252408222. S2CID 8808083.