Knowledge: philosophy of mind
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Links
- The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP).
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/spp/spphp.html - The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic) philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.
- Hyponoeticism - New Philosophy of Mind
http://www.hyponoesis.org/ - A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.
- Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/ - 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.
- Books about Philosophy of Mind
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/8870/books/philo.html - Commentaries on books and ideas from philosophers of mind including Patricia Churchland, Terrence Sejnowski, Paul Churchland, Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey.
- Daniel C. Dennett - publications and preprints.
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/pubpage.htm - This page makes available online versions of many recent (1987-1997) published and unpublished articles, and reviews, by this influential and unusually readable philosopher (and by some of his associates).
- Cognitive Science
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/ - The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..
- Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science.
http://www.magneticfields.org/sky/aarc/noncartesian.html - Many helpfully categorized links and introductory material concerning embodied/situated approaches to cognition, ranging from Artificial Life research to Existentialism. By Ronald Lemmen.
- Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/biblio.html - Thousands of entries, categorized by subject matter. From David Chalmers.
- Mental Images: Philosophical Psychology
http://www.gis.net/~tbirch - Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues.
- Computing Machinery and Intelligence
http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm - The classic 1950 article by Alan Turing on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing test.
- The Philosophy and Future of AI
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philosophy.html - A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys.
- The Extended Mind
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/extended.html - 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 Map: Do Computers Have to be Conscious to Think?
http://www.macrovu.com/CCTHowItWork1.html - 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.
- Dualism: Papers
http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/papers/ - Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff.
- Connectionism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/ - Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James W. Garson.
- Mental Representation
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/ - 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.
- Squashed Descartes
http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm - Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary.
- The Identity Theory of Mind
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/ - 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.
- Epiphenomenalism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/ - 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.
- Multiple Realizability
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/ - Discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Bickle.
- The Pre-History of Cognitive Science
http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/ - 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.)
- Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/Mind/ - By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. History of philosophical and scientific reactions to "the Cartesian impasse". Spanish translation available.
- A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind
http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/ - Survey articles on key issues in the field, and an annotated bibliography.
- The Unity of Consciousness
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/ - History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Andrew Brook.
- Higher-order Theories of Consciousness
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/ - Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Peter Carruthers.
- Consciousness and Intentionality
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/ - Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.
- Panpsychism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/ - The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Seager.
- The Simulation Argument
http://www.simulation-argument.com/ - 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.
- David Chalmers Chat Transcript
http://www.iscid.org/davidchalmers-chat.php - Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002.
- SWIF Philosophy of Mind
http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/mind/home.htm - 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.
- Artur's Philosophy of Mind group
http://web.icq.com/groups/group_details?gid=11992318 - ICQ chat and forum on philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, free will, cognition, and perception.
- Stanford Encyclopedia - The Computational Theory of Mind
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ - The philosophical theory that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.
- Eliminative Materialism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/ - 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.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Turing Test
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/ - Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.
- Matter and Aither
http://it.geocities.com/reason_v_psyche/ - 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.
- Reflections on Language and Mind
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/sheffield.htm - Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).
- PCID Philosophy of Mind Issue
http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2003/2/3/pcid_contents_2003_2_3.php - 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.
- Parsimony and the Mind
http://www.tk421.net/essays/simple.html - The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem
- Living philosophy from a modern thinker
http://www.modern-thinker.co.uk - Includes a study of belief, mind, relativity, sign systems and matter. Philosophy is integrated with psychology and science.
- Arts & minds
http://artsandminds.typepad.com/artsandminds/ - Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasises human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.
- Behavioral & Prints Archive
http://www.bbsonline.org/view-phil-mind.html - Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind.
- Behavior and Philosophy
http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/index.cfm?page=http%3A//www.behavior.org/journals_BP/BP_welc... - 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.
- Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html - A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.
- An atheist philosophy beyond the "bright" attitude
http://not-only-bright.exactpages.com - The naturalism of the Bright Movement is present in Real Dualism, but even an anthropologic analysis that get over the traditional materialism
- Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation
http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/Faculty/Gordon/MindSeminar99/papers.html - Papers from or relating to Robert Gordon's NEH Seminar on the "Simulation" Theory of "Folk Psychology": relevant to understanding interpersonal understanding.
- The Doomsday Simulation Argument
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Doomsday%20Simulation/The%20Doomsday%20Si... - A compact response to both Leslie's doomsday argument and Bostrom's simulation argument, by I.A. Aranyosi
- Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/CSPE/ - Information on Centre personnel, research and activities including conferences, seminars and reading groups, which focus on philosophy of mind and perception.
- PhilosophyofMind.Info
http://www.philosophyofmind.info/ - An overview of the philosophy of mind. This site explores the various theories of mind, and of how the mental relates to the physical.
- Mind and Mechanism - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1149 - Varol Akman reviews this book by Drew V. McDermott.
- Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/ - A comprehensive 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.
- External Qualities and Neurological Computation in Perception
http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/qualities.html - 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.
- The Efficacy of Mind in General
http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/mentalmemory.html - Analytical demonstration by Titus Rivas of the existence and causal impact of a non-physical, mental memory.
- Neuropsychology and Personalist Dualism
http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/Dualismlives.htm - Titus Rivas discusses alleged empirical evidence against the ontological tradition of substantialist dualism, such as data of split-brain research.
- Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain
http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/metasubjectivemind.html - Titus Rivas' essay show that an exhaustive conceptual representation of phenomenal consciousness in the brain is impossible.
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