Preface<br >Thepaperscolieeted here -- all， b itten beiw~n/982<br >and 1988 -- explore various aspects of the relevance of ar tiheial<br >intelligence to psychology.<br > B，，cause they focus on differing sp~ifics under this general<br >unifying theme， they originally appea~d in a wide range of<br >sources and were addressed to distinct audiences Some are<br >drawn from professionalioumals: of philosophy， of psychology，<br >and of biology Of the two written for a non-academic audience，<br >one appea~d in the non specialist journal of the New York<br >Academy of Sciences， the other in a I~ture-series organ~ed by<br >the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) A few we~<br >compo~d for deliberately interdisciplinary publications: vol+<br >umes on education， on scientific th~ry， and on adaptation in ill-<br >defined systems And one is an extract/rum a longer chapter in<br >my recent monograph， Computer Models o~ Mind: Computational<br >Approaches in Theoretical Psychology [goden， 1988J The only<br >paper written before 1982 (Chapter 5) dates from 1970， and was<br >included also in my previous collection， Minds and Mechanisms<br >{Boden， 1981al.<br > The h，troductlon (Chapter 1) is newly written for this volume，<br >and provides a general philosophical context for the essays that<br >follow It includes a brlef sketch and discussion of eonn~tion-<br >，sin， a r~ent development mentioned in ~veral chapters (espe<br >tinily Chapter 4) which is sometimes said -- wrongly to show<br >that artificial intelligence is psychologically irrelevant<br > I have made only minor textual revisions to the papers them-<br >selves. Contextual references to the original sources have been<br >removed: two brief insertions have been added to Chapter 5. and<br >~me long paragraphs divided; Chapter 7 is a conflation of two<br >