Web Directory

» 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/

» An atheist philosophy beyond the "bright" attitude
   The naturalism of the Bright Movement is present in Real Dualism, but even an anthropologic analysis that get over the traditional materialism
   http://not-only-bright.exactpages.com

» 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

» Arts and Minds
   Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasizes human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.
   http://artsandminds.typepad.com/artsandminds/

» Behavioral & Prints Archive
   Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind.
   http://www.bbsonline.org/view-phil-mind.html

» Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.
   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.
   http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/

» Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience
   Information on Centre personnel, research and activities including conferences, seminars and reading groups, which focus on philosophy of mind and perception.
   http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/CSPE/

» Cognitive Science
   The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..
   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/

» 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

» 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/

» Consciousness and Intentionality
   Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.
   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/

» 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

» David Chalmers Chat Transcript
   Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002.
   http://www.iscid.org/davidchalmers-chat.php

» 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/

» 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/

» 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/

» Hyponoeticism - New Philosophy of Mind
   A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.
   http://www.hyponoesis.org/

» Living philosophy from a modern thinker
   Includes a study of belief, mind, relativity, sign systems and matter. Philosophy is integrated with psychology and science.
   http://www.modern-thinker.co.uk

» Mental Images: Philosophical Psychology
   Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues.
   http://www.gis.net/~tbirch

» 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
   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/

» 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/

» Mind and Mechanism - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
   Varol Akman reviews this book by Drew V. McDermott.
   http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1149

» 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/

» 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.
   http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2003/2/3/pcid_contents_2003_2_3.php

» 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/

» Parsimony and the Mind
   The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem
   http://www.tk421.net/essays/simple.html

» PhilosophyofMind.info
   An overview of the philosophy of mind. Explores the various theories of mind, and of how the mental relates to the physical.
   http://www.philosophyofmind.info/

» Reflections on Language and Mind
   Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).
   http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/sheffield.htm

» 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

» Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
   A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.
   http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html

» Squashed Descartes
   Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary.
   http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm

» Stanford Encyclopedia - The Computational Theory of Mind
   The philosophical theory that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.
   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/

» 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/

» The Doomsday Simulation Argument
   A compact response to both Leslie's doomsday argument and Bostrom's simulation argument, by I.A. Aranyosi
   http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Doomsday Simulation/The Doomsday Simulation Argument by I.A. Aranyosi.pdf

» The Experimental Philosophy Page
   Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind.
   http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/ExperimentalPhilosophy.html

» 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

» 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/

» 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

» 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.)
   http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/

» 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/

» 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

» 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/