| Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - 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.
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| The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP). - The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic) philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.
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| Hyponoeticism - New Philosophy of Mind - A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.
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| Center for Consciousness Studies - Interdisciplinary program promoting open, scientifically rigorous discussions of all phenomena related to the mind. Includes course, conference and workshop listings - from the Univ. of Arizona.
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| 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.
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| Dennett, Daniel - Philosophy of mind (Tufts Univ., USA)
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| Cognitive Science - The study of mind and intelligence. By Paul Thagard of the University of Waterloo.
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| Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science - Essays and many useful links on embodied and 'situated' approaches to cognition: ranging from Artificial Life to Phenomenology, and much else.
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| Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography - Recent works in consciousness, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of artificial intelligence and psychology.
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| Mental Images: Philosophical Psychology - Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues.
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| Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Turing's original 1950 article on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing Test, and started this profound multi-decade debate.
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| The Philosophy and Future of AI - A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys.
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| The McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences - An international project looking at issues at the intersection of philosophy and the neurosciences.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Dualism: Papers - Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff.
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| Connectionism - Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. By James W. Garson of the University of Houston.
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| Mental Representation - According to the Representational Theory of Mind, psychological states are to be understood as relations between agents and mental representations. By David Pitt, CUNY.
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| Squashed Descartes - Condensed edition of Hobbes' response to Descartes' 'Meditatione,' with study notes and glossary.
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| 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. By J. J. C. Smart of Monash.
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| 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.
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| Multiple Realizability - John Bickle discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds.
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| The Pre-History of Cognitive Science - 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Bibliography on the current debate on commonsense psychology - Folk psychology, "mindreading," eliminative materialism, functionalism, simulation theory, theory-theory, and autism. By Alexander Maeder.
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| Exit Epiphenomenalism - Argues that epiphenomenalism, identity theory and parallellism are all incoherent. Unless one denies consciousness only dualistic interactionism and idealism remain viable.
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| A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind - Survey articles on key issues in the field, and an annotated bibliography.
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| The Unity of Consciousness - History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; by Andrew Brook.
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| Higher-order Theories of Consciousness - Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; by Peter Carruthers.
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| Consciousness and Intentionality - Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.
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| Panpsychism - The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; by William Seager.
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| 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.
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| David Chalmers Chat Transcript - Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002.
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| 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.
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| Experimental Work by Philosophers - Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind.
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| Artur's Philosophy of Mind group - ICQ chat and forum on philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, free will, cognition, and perception.
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| The Computational Theory of Mind - The philosophical theopry that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.
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| Eliminative Materialism - The view that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist; by William Ramsey.
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| The Turing Test - Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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| 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.
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| Reflections on Language and Mind - Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).
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| 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.
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| Parsimony and the Mind - The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem
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| Living philosophy from a modern thinker - Includes a study of belief, mind, relativity, sign systems and matter. Philosophy is integrated with psychology and science.
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| Arts & minds - Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasises human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.
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| Behavioral & Prints Archive - Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Simulation, Consciousness, Existence - A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.
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