''Minds and Machines'' is a

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covering

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, and cognitive science. The journal was established in 1991 with James Henry Fetzer as founding

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. It was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers but was taken over by Springer in 2021 (

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). Affiliated 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 (

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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: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 0.514.

Article categories

The journal publishes articles in the categories Research articles,

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, Critical and discussion exchanges (debates),

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, and

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Frequently cited articles

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

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/11023 Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Quarterly journals Computer science journals Philosophy journals Publications established in 1991 English-language journals Philosophy of mind literature 1991 establishments in the United States