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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Cognitive Science - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard.. |
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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. |
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Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/
A 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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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. |
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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.) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Experimental Philosophy Page - http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/ExperimentalPhilosophy.html
Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind. |
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Consciousness and Intentionality - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/
Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Squashed Descartes - http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm
Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Behavioral & Prints Archive - http://www.bbsonline.org/view-phil-mind.html
Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind. |
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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. |
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Arts and Minds - http://artsandminds.typepad.com/artsandminds/
Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasizes human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability. |
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David Chalmers Chat Transcript - http://www.iscid.org/davidchalmers-chat.php
Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002. |
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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. |
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PhilosophyofMind.info - http://www.philosophyofmind.info/
An overview of the philosophy of mind. Explores the various theories of mind, and of how the mental relates to the physical. |
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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. |
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The Doomsday Simulation Argument - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Doomsday Simulation/The Doomsday Simulation Argument by I.A. Aranyosi.pdf
A compact response to both Leslie's doomsday argument and Bostrom's simulation argument, by I.A. Aranyosi |
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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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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 |
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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. |
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Kant's Error about Rational Psychology: Psychical Appearance and Reality - http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/Kant.html
Titus Rivas discusses the identity theory of brain and mind in the context of the Kantian general rejection of ontology. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |