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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Squashed Descartes - http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm
Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary. |
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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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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. |
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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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Behavioral & Prints Archive - http://www.bbsonline.org/view-phil-mind.html
Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Parsimony and the Mind - http://www.tk421.net/essays/simple.html
The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem |
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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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Reflections on Language and Mind - http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/sheffield.htm
Article by Daniel Dennett (1996). |
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Dualism: Papers - http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/papers/
Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff. |
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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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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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Mind and Mechanism - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews - http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1149
Varol Akman reviews this book by Drew V. McDermott. |
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Matter and Aither - http://it.geocities.com/reason_v_psyche/
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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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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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. |