- Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/
A comprehensive and up-to-date 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.
- 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This page makes available online versions of many recent (1987-1997) published and unpublished articles, and reviews, by this influential and unusually readable philosopher (and by some of his associates).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.
- 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.
- 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.)
- Karl Jaspers Forum - http://www.douglashospital.qc.ca/fdg/kjf/
An electronic journal and discussion forum for foundational issues in psychology, psychopathology, the mind-brain relation and 'consciousness'. (Not especially focused on the ideas of Jaspers.)
- 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.
- Exit Epiphenomenalism - http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/index-23.html
Argues that epiphenomenalism, identity theory and parallellism are all incoherent. Unless one denies consciousness only dualistic interactionism and idealism remain viable.
- 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.
- Experimental Work by Philosophers - http://www.princeton.edu/~jknobe/ExperimentalPhilosophy.html
Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Behavior and Philosophy - http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/index.cfm?page=http%3A//www.behavior.org/journals_BP/BP_welcome.cfm
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.
- Imagination, Mental Imagery, Consciousness and Cognition - http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/nthomas/index.htm
The science, philosophy, and history of imagination and mental imagery, and their relevance to the understanding of consciousness and cognition. Online articles, and many links.
- 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.
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