Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind:
A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of terms, definitions, and
scholarly works on the topic of Philosophy of Mind that provides
useful background material for the study of artificial intelligence
theory.
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/
The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP).:
The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic)
philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/spp/spphp.html
Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.:
The main institutional center for Consciousness Studies. Host of the
Tucsonآ "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences, and
periodically stages on-line courses on aspects of Consciousness
Studies.
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
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/System/8870/books/philo.html
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published and unpublished articles, and reviews, by this influential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
Parsimony and the Mind:
The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body
problem
http://www.tk421.net/essays/simple.shtml
Cognitive Science:
The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the
Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
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/noncartesian.html
Mental Images: Philosophical Psychology:
Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive
science, and metaphysical issues.
http://www.gis.net/~tbirch
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
The Philosophy and Future of AI:
A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial
Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys.
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philosophy.html
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/home.htm
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/extended.html
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
Dualism: Papers:
Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff.
http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/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/connectionism/
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-representation/
Squashed Descartes:
Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and
glossary.
http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm
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-identity/
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/epiphenomenalism/
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-realizability/
The Pre-History of Cognitive Science:
An annotated bibliograpy of the models of human cognition of
Berkeley, Burton, Hobbes, and Locke. (More figures from the
seventeenth through nineteenth centuries are promised.)
http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/
Karl Jaspers Forum:
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.)
http://www.douglashospital.qc.ca/fdg/kjf/
Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: How Minds Understand Minds:
Papers from or relating to Robert Gordon's NEH Seminar on the
"Simulation" Theory of "Folk Psychology": relevant to understanding
interpersonal understanding, empathy, the nature and origins of
mental concepts, and the causes of autism. Articles by Gordon, Stich,
and others.
http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/Mind_Seminar/New%20Pages/papers.html
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/Mind/
Cognitive Systems:
A more precise account of the cognitive neuroscientific notion of
cognitive systems is developed in this paper.
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jlyons/carving.htm
Bibliography on the current debate on commonsense psychology:
Folk psychology, "mindreading," eliminative materialism,
functionalism, simulation theory, theory-theory, and autism. By
Alexander Maeder.
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/iwt/gk/kollegis/bibl_csp.html
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.html
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/field/
The Unity of Consciousness:
History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; from
the Stanford Encyclopedia by Andrew Brook.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/
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/consciousness-higher/
Consciousness and Intentionality:
Discossion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and
intentionality; by Charles Siewert.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/
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/panpsychism/
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/
David Chalmers Chat Transcript:
Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September
25th 2002.
http://www.iscid.org/davidchalmers-chat.php
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.htm
Experimental Work by Philosophers:
Information about experimental data gathered by people working in
the philosophy of mind.
http://www.princeton.edu/~jknobe/ExperimentalPhilosophy.html
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?gid=11992318
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/materialism-eliminative/
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-test/
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
