This page contains publications on mental-states research with no metaphorical angle. Click HERE for publications on relationships between mental states and metaphor.

Please email me (J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk) to request a paper or further information.

Barnden, J.A. & Peterson, D.M. (2001):

    ``Artificial intelligence, mindreading and reasoning in law.''

   Cardozo Law Review, 22} (5-6), pp.1381-1406.

   pdf version
   courtesy of Cardozo Law Review
   (link not currently available (May 2009) - the Review website was being rebuilt)

Barnden, J.A. (2001):

    ``Uncertain reasoning about agents' beliefs and reasoning.'' 

   Artificial Intelligence and Law, 9, pp.115-152.

   pre-print

   Also as
      Technical Report CSRP-98-11, School of Computer Science, 
      The University of Birmingham, U.K.  

Barnden, J.A. (1996):

    ``Unconscious gaps in Jackendoff's 
        `How Language Helps Us Think'? ''

   Pragmatics and Cognition, 4(1), pp.65-80.

Barnden, J.A. (1995):

    ``Simulative reasoning, common-sense psychology 
          and artificial intelligence.''

   In M. Davies & T. Stone (Eds), 
      Mental Simulation: Evaluations and Applications, 
      pp.247-273.  Oxford: Blackwell.

      pre-print

Stein, G.C. & Barnden, J.A. (1995):

    ``Towards more flexible and common-sensical reasoning about beliefs.'' 

   In  Proceedings of the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium  on
       Representing Mental States and Mechanisms. 
   Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. 

       pre-print

Barnden, J.A. (1989):

    ``Towards a paradigm shift in belief representation methodology.''

   J. Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 1(2), pp.133-161.

       pre-print

Barnden, J.A. (1987):

    ``Avoiding some unwarranted entailments 
         between nested attitude reports.''

   Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, No. MCCS-87-113, 
   Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, 
   Las Cruces, NM 88003. 

Barnden, J.A. (1987):

    ``Interpreting propositional attitude reports:
          towards greater freedom and control.''

   In B. du Boulay, D. Hogg & L. Steels (Eds),
      Advances in artificial intelligence - II,
      pp.159-173.  Amsterdam: Elsevier (North-Holland).

Barnden, J.A. (1986):

    ``Imputations and explications:
      representational problems in treatments of propositional attitudes.''

   Cognitive Science, 10(3),  pp.319-364.

Barnden, J.A. (1986):

    ``A viewpoint distinction in 
         the representation of propositional attitudes.''

   In Procs. 5th National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence,
      pp.411-415.  Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. 

Barnden, J.A. (1983):

    ``Intensions as such: an outline.''

    In Procs. 8th Intl. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 
       pp.280-286.  Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. 

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