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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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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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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This page makes available online versions of many recent (1987-1997) published and unpublished articles, and reviews, by this influential and unusually readable philosopher (and by some of his associates).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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |
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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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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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Squashed Descartes - http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm
Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary. |
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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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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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Mental Images: Philosophical Psychology - http://www.gis.net/~tbirch
Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues. |
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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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Reflections on Language and Mind - http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/sheffield.htm
Article by Daniel Dennett (1996). |
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The Efficacy of Mind in General - http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/mentalmemory.html
Analytical demonstration by Titus Rivas of the existence and causal impact of a non-physical, mental memory. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |
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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. |