Philosophy of Mind

The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic) philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.

A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.

The main institutional center for Consciousness Studies. Host of the Tucson "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences, and periodically stages on-line courses on aspects of Consciousness Studies.

Commentaries on books and ideas from philosophers of mind including Patricia Churchland, Terrence Sejnowski, Paul Churchland, Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey.

This page makes available online versions of many recent (1987-1997) published and unpublished articles, and reviews, by this influential and unusually readable philosopher (and by some of his associates).

The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..

Many helpfully categorized links and introductory material concerning embodied/situated approaches to cognition, ranging from Artificial Life research to Existentialism. By Ronald Lemmen.

Thousands of entries, categorized by subject matter. From David Chalmers.

Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues.

The classic 1950 article by Alan Turing on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing test.

A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys.

This paper by Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposes an active externalist theory of mind - that when we use tools such as paper or computers to aid in our cognition, they become part of our minds.

Argumentation maps propose to map the detailed structure of major philosophical debates in graphical form. Portions of the map of the "Can Computers Think?" debate are now available online.

Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff.

Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James W. Garson.

A mental representation is a mental object with semantic properties. According to the Representational Theory of Mind, psychological states are to be understood as relations between agents and mental representations. Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by David Pitt.

Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary.

Evaluates the theory that holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by J. J. C. Smart.

Discusses the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by William S. Robinson.

Discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Bickle.

An annotated bibliography of the models of human cognition of Berkeley, Burton, Hobbes, and Locke. (More figures from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries are promised.)

By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. History of philosophical and scientific reactions to "the Cartesian impasse". Spanish translation available.

Survey articles on key issues in the field, and an annotated bibliography.

History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Andrew Brook.

Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Peter Carruthers.

Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.

The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Seager.

Site examining the hypothesis that we are currently living in an "ancestor simulation" run by a future, post-human society. Includes papers and research links.

Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002.

Bibliographies by topic and author, event listings, online texts, new books (with links), and many links to online reference works, relevant institutions, journal home pages, and other sites.

ICQ chat and forum on philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, free will, cognition, and perception.

The philosophical theory that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.

The view that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Ramsey.

Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.

The man's presumptuousness considers always that the reality is only one, that accessible to his senses, his intellection and his instrumental of investigation tools. But the things are really so? In MatterAither the foundations of the real dualism (as philosophy of anthropic dual reality)are exposed. The conception of a dual human reality(approximately: to live and to feel)is born on atheistic base.

Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).

A special issue of the Open Source online journal Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design (PCID) containing eight essays outlining non-reductive theories of the mind.

The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem

Includes a study of belief, mind, relativity, sign systems and matter. Philosophy is integrated with psychology and science.

Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasizes human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.

Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind.

A peer reviewed journal devoted to the philosophical, metaphysical, and methodological foundations of the study of behavior, brain, and mind. Articles from more recent volumes are available for free online. Published by the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.

The naturalism of the Bright Movement is present in Real Dualism, but even an anthropologic analysis that get over the traditional materialism

A compact response to both Leslie's doomsday argument and Bostrom's simulation argument, by I.A. Aranyosi

Information on Centre personnel, research and activities including conferences, seminars and reading groups, which focus on philosophy of mind and perception.

An overview of the philosophy of mind. Explores the various theories of mind, and of how the mental relates to the physical.

Varol Akman reviews this book by Drew V. McDermott.

A collection of definitions and brief scholarly discussions of key terms in the Philosophy of Mind. Also includes brief biographical sketches of important figures in cognitive science.

Titus Rivas discusses the view that the phenomenal qualities of perception might in theory exist not only in the subjective mind but in physical reality as well.

Analytical demonstration by Titus Rivas of the existence and causal impact of a non-physical, mental memory.

Titus Rivas discusses alleged empirical evidence against the ontological tradition of substantialist dualism, such as data of split-brain research.

Titus Rivas' essay show that an exhaustive conceptual representation of phenomenal consciousness in the brain is impossible.

Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind.

Titus Rivas discusses the identity theory of brain and mind in the context of the Kantian general rejection of ontology.

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