General Resources
Imagination, Mental Imagery, Consciousness, and Cognition
Inter-disciplinary links and papers.
History and Philosophy of Psychology
A great collection of resources.
Philosophy of Mind Dictionary
A wonderful resource!
Philosophy of Mind Field Guide
Good but incomplete encyclopaedia of philosophical positions.
SWIF Philosophy of Mind
Useful links in English from the Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia.
The Whole Brain Atlas
Maps of human brains; maintained by Keith A Johnson and J Alex Becker at Harvard University.
“-isms” and (In)Defensible Theories of Mind
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/ “INTELLIGENT ROBOT” THEORIES
The Alan Turing Home Page
Dedicated to the mathematician and AI theory pioneer Alan Turing.
Artificial Life Online
The International AI Society website.
CONNECTIONISM
A Brief History of Connectionism
David A Medler’s useful site.
Connectionism
Istavan Berkeley’s essay against connectionism.
DUALISM
Dualism
Dualism considered in relation to parapsychology.
FUNCTIONALISM
Functionalism
Ned Block’s paper, “What is Functionalism?” online. Presents a powerful case against the theory.
The Chinese Room Argument
John Searle’s logical disproof of varieties of functionalism.
International Synaesthesia Association
Interesting resource for information on this overwhelming empirical challenge to functionalism.
Qualia
Qualia also represent a huge problem for functionalist theories of mind (or, indeed, functionalist theories of anything). Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Journals
Connexions
“An online journal of cognitive science.”
Noetica
A cognitive science forum.
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP)
An archive of papers from PNP.
Online Papers and eBooks
GENERAL RESOURCES
Action Theory
Online resources on action theory in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Maintained by Elisabeth Pacherie.
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
Compiled by the excellent David Chalmers.
Online papers on consciousness
David Chalmers’ enormous collection of links. Includes papers on consciousness and related areas in the philosophy of mind, as well as papers on the science of consciousness.
Philososphy of Mind
Papers from the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.
Philosophy of Psychiatry Bibliography
Reviews of books and chapter excerpts, psychiatry and ethics, surveys of the field, etc.
SPECIFIC PAPERS AND BOOKS
Chalmers, David: Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
Discusses the “hard problem” of explaining the subjective feel of conscious states through physicalist science. First published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
Goswami, Amit: The Hard Questions: View from A Science within Consciousness
An interesting answer to Chalmers’ essay on “the hard problem” of consciousness.
Jackson, Frank: Epiphenomenal Qualia/ Excerpts from “What Mary Didn’t Know”
Exploring the subjective feel of conscious states and the problems subjectivity causes in contemporary philosophy of mind.
Nagel, Thomas: What Is It Like To Be a Bat?
First published in The Philosophical Review LXXXIII.
Searle, John R.: Minds, Brains, and Programs
Searle’s influential article, first published in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 3.
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