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Daniel C. Dennett - publications and preprints.
This page makes available online versions of many recent (1987-1997) published and unpublished articles, and reviews, by this influential and unusually readable philosopher (and by some of his associates).
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/pubpage.htm
Eliminative Materialism
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.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/material...
An atheist philosophy beyond the "bright" attitude
The naturalism of the Bright Movement is present in Real Dualism, but even an anthropologic analysis that get over the traditional materialism
http://not-only-bright.exactpages.com
Argumentation Map: Do Computers Have to be Conscious to Think?
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.
http://www.macrovu.com/CCTHowItWork1.html
Consciousness and Intentionality
Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciou...
The Pre-History of Cognitive Science
An annotated bibliography of the models of human cognition of Berkeley, Burton, Hobbes, and Locke. (More thinkers from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries are promised.)
http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/
Exit Epiphenomenalism
Argues that epiphenomenalism, identity theory and parallellism are all incoherent. Unless one denies consciousness only dualistic interactionism and idealism remain viable.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/index-23....
Higher-order Theories of Consciousness
Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Peter Carruthers.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciou...
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.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple...
The Philosophy and Future of AI
A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys.
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philos...
Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain
Titus Rivas' essay show that an exhaustive conceptual representation of phenomenal consciousness in the brain is impossible.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/metasubje...
SWIF Philosophy of Mind
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.
http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/mind/home.ht...
McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, The
An international project looking at issues at the intersection of philosophy and the neurosciences. Based in the department of Philosophy.
http://www.sfu.ca/neurophilosophy/
Experimental Work by Philosophers
Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind.
http://www.princeton.edu/~jknobe/Experimen...
External Qualities and perceptual computation
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.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/qualities...
Artur's Philosophy of Mind group
ICQ chat and forum on philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, free will, cognition, and perception.
http://web.icq.com/groups/group_details?gi...
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.arc...
David Chalmers Chat Transcript
Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002.
http://www.iscid.org/davidchalmers-chat.ph...
Reflections on Language and Mind
Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/sheffi...
Behavioral & Prints Archive
Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind.
http://www.bbsonline.org/view-phil-mind.ht...
Squashed Descartes
Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditatione', with study notes and glossary
http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squa...
The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP)
Promotes interaction between philosophers and psychologists and other cognitive scientists on issues of common concern. Offers meeting notes.
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/spp/spphp.ht...
Cognitive Science
The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitiv...
Consciousness Studies
Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Dualism: Papers
Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff.
http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/paper...
Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science.
Many helpfully categorized links and introductory material concerning embodied/situated approaches to cognition, ranging from Artificial Life research to Existentialism. By Ronald Lemmen.
http://www.magneticfields.org/sky/aarc/non...
Panpsychism
The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Seager.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsych...
A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind
Survey articles on key issues in the field, and an annotated bibliography.
http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/fiel...
Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation
Papers from or relating to Robert Gordon's NEH Seminar on the "Simulation" Theory of "Folk Psychology": relevant to understanding interpersonal understanding.
http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/Faculty/Gordon/...
The Efficacy of Mind in general: About mental memory
Analytical demonstration by Titus Rivas of the existence and causal impact of a non-physical, mental memory.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/mentalmem...
Mental Images: Philosophical Psychology
Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues.
http://www.gis.net/~tbirch
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Turing Test
Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-t...
Philosophy of Mind .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.
http://www.philosophyofmind.info/
Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience
Information on Centre personnel, research and activities including conferences, seminars and reading groups, which focus on philosophy of mind and perception.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/CSPE/
Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James
By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. History of philosophical and scientific reactions to "the Cartesian impasse". Spanish translation available.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/M...
The Extended Mind
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.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/...
Connectionism
Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James W. Garson.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connecti...
Matter and Aither
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.
http://it.geocities.com/reason_v_psyche/
The Unity of Consciousness
History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Andrew Brook.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciou...
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.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-r...
The Identity Theory of Mind
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.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-ide...
The Simulation Argument
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.
http://www.simulation-argument.com/
Imagination, Mental Imagery, Consciousness and Cognition
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.
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/nthomas/...
Kant's error and its consequences for the philosophy of mind
Titus Rivas discusses the identity theory of brain and mind in the context of the Kantian general rejection of ontology.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/index-18....
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
The classic 1950 article by Alan Turing on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing test.
http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm
Mind and Mechanism - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Varol Akman reviews this book by Drew V. McDermott.
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1149
Arts & minds
Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasises human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.
http://artsandminds.typepad.com/artsandmin...
Neuropsychology and personalist dualism: a few remarks
Titus Rivas discusses alleged empirical evidence against the ontological tradition of substantialist dualism, such as data of split-brain research.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/Dualismli...
Stanford Encyclopedia - The Computational Theory of Mind
The philosophical theory that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computat...
Books about Philosophy of Mind
Commentaries on books and ideas from philosophers of mind including Patricia Churchland, Terrence Sejnowski, Paul Churchland, Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/...
Behavior and Philosophy
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.
http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/index....
Hyponoeticism - New Philosophy of Mind
A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.
http://www.hyponoesis.org/
The Doomsday Simulation Argument
A compact response to both Leslie's doomsday argument and Bostrom's simulation argument, by I.A. Aranyosi
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Ist...
PCID Philosophy of Mind Issue
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.
http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2003/2/3/pcid_co...
Parsimony and the Mind
The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem
http://www.tk421.net/essays/simple.html
Living philosophy from a modern thinker
Includes a study of belief, mind, relativity, sign systems and matter. Philosophy is integrated with psychology and science.
http://www.modern-thinker.co.uk
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.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epipheno...
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