Philosophy Of Mind A Functionalist Primer philosophy / epistemology / philosophy Of Mind / Essence of Mind. A mind is any volitional conscious faculty for perception and cognition. Cognition http://humanknowledge.net/Philosophy/Epistemology/PhilosophyOfMind.html
Université De Lausanne - Homepage Prof. Michael Esfeld Professor of epistemology and philosophy of Science since 1994, continuous teaching in epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, logic, http://www2.unil.ch/philo/Pages/epistemologie/bio_cv_esfeld/Home_esfeld.html
Extractions: Fax: +41 (0)21 692 30 45 born in Berlin (West) Highschool graduation (Abitur) studies of philosophy and history at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1986-1991), Université de Lausanne (1987/88), and Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (PhD) (1992-1994) scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes PhD-degree in philosophy at Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), PhD-Thesis on "Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Th. Hobbes" (supervisors Prof. Dr. Peter Rohs and Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep) since 1994 continuous teaching in epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, logic, and history of modern philosophy at ETH Zürich and the Universities of Münster, Konstanz, Hertfordshire, Cologne and Lausanne Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, research work on the philosophy of quantum theory with Prof. Hans Primas
Immanuel Kant Given a Kantian epistemology and metaphysics, no rational or intelligible system can be epistemology philosophy of Religion History of philosophy http://www.friesian.com/kant.htm
Extractions: Kant's most original contribution to philosophy is his "Copernican Revolution," that, as he puts it, it is the representation that makes the object possible rather than the object that makes the representation possible. This introduced the human mind as an active originator of experience rather than just a passive recipient of perception. Something like this now seems obvious: the mind could be a tabula rasa , a "blank tablet," no more than a bathtub full of silicon chips could be a digital computer. Perceptual input must be processed , i.e. recognized , or it would just be noise "less even than a dream" or "nothing to us," as Kant alternatively puts it. But if the mind actively generates perception, this raises the question whether the result has anything to do with the world, or if so, how much. The answer to the question, unusual, ambiguous, or confusing as it would be, made for endless trouble both in Kant's thought and for a posterity trying to figure him out. To the extent that knowledge depends on the structure of the mind and not on the world, knowledge would have no connection to the world and is not even true representation , just a solipsistic or intersubjective fantasy. Kantianism seems threatened with "psychologism," the doctrine that what we know is our own psychology, not external things. Kant did say, consistent with psychologism, that basically we don't know about "things-in-themselves," objects as they exist apart from perception. But at the same time Kant thought he was vindicating both a
Leiter Reports: New Members Of PGR Advisory Board For 2004-06 Areas Kant, 19thCentury German philosophy, Metaphysics, epistemology. Areas epistemology, philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, philosophy of Action, http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2003/09/new_members_of_.html
Extractions: Red Constantino Main UPDATED TO REFLECT 2 ADDITIONAL NEW BOARD MEMBERS I am pleased to introduce seventeen additional distinguished philosophers who will be joining the Advisory Board of the Philosophical Gourmet Report and lending their expertise to the preparation of the 2004-06 Report. They are: Chris Bobonich (PhD, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and has also taught at the University of Chicago. Area: Ancient Philosophy. Books include Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2002); articles have appeared in numerous journals and edited collections. David O. Brink
