121. Philosophy Of Mind & Language - Cambridge University Press Home Humanities Social Sciences Philosophy philosophy of mind Language Collection of original essays by leading philosophers on the philosophy http://www.cambridge.org/uk/browse/browse_highlights.asp?subjectid=1013277

122. Fodor And Psychological Explanations Report by John Perry and David Israel on Jerry Fodor's philosophy of mind, especially focussing on his remarks about Mentalese and content. http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/israel/fodor/fodor.html

Next: Introduction Fodor and Psychological Explanations John Perry and David Israel Introduction The Contents and Causal Powers of Tokens of Mentalese The Need for Circumstantial Content The Basic Concepts ... About this document ... John Perry Thu Aug 22 11:35:45 PDT 1996

123. Harvard University Press/Empiricism And The Philosophy Of Mind Empiricism and the philosophy of mind by Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty Study Guide by Robert B. Brandom, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SELEMP.html

Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) graduated from the University of Michigan in 1933. He taught at Iowa, Minnesota, and Yale, and was University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 until his death. His works include Science and Metaphysics (1968) and Science, Perception, and Reality Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University . He is the author of the landmark works Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity ; and The Consequences of Pragmatism Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty Study Guide by Robert B. Brandom The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Humethe doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology."

124. James Luberda Essays by James Luberda on literary theory, composition, medieval studies, and the philosophy of mind. http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~jbl00001

Resources Local Search for These Pages This site provides the current research and course materials of James Luberda of the University of Connecticut. If you have an interest in cognitive science , especially if in conjunction with literature and composition, you may find some useful information collected here. Other topics addressed reflect personal interests and study in literary theory, philosophy, composition theory, and medieval studies. I am presently developing a composition textbook with a distinctly cognitive science bent. The preface and first two chapters are available for review and use here. James Luberda Various cheap books resources: www.labyrinthbooks.com Has an excellent remainders/closeouts sale annex with new titles frequently added. kaboombooks.com (an ever-changing inventory of heavily discounted academic books) Kaboombooks has been down for a while now... I'm leaving the link on in hopes it will return. bookpricer.com

125. Art, Mind, And Cognitive Science: Overview with new work in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and aesthetics, research or teaching in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, or cognitive science, http://www.philosophy.ubc.ca/art-mind/overview.html

overview When the term "aesthetics" was coined in the eighteenth century by Alexander Baumgarten, he envisioned it as a label encompassing the study of sensuous cognition. Because of the connection of the arts to perception (the sensuous element in this formulation), aesthetics made the arts its central domain. However, the perception of artworks is not merely an affair of sensation. Memory, expectation, imagination, emotion and reason (including narrative reasoning) play an ineliminable role as well. Consequently, since its advent, the field of aesthetics has been concerned with the operation of fundamental psychological and cognitive processes, especially in relation to the arts. An appreciation of the intimate relation of the arts to perceptual and cognitive processes has become increasingly apparent over the last few decades. The late Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art Participants in the institute will be drawn primarily from philosophy departments and interdisciplinary programs in the arts. The participants need not have a background of research or teaching in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, or cognitive science, but they should either be conducting research that will benefit in demonstrable ways from the institute or developing new course materials drawing on philosophy of mind and cognitive science. This project has great pedagogical potential, since, among other things, the cognitive turn in aesthetics, given its openness to naturalistic approaches, promises to contribute to a reconciliation between the arts and the sciences in the humanities today. That is, a healthy appreciation of the relevance of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, conjoined with a respect for the undeniable value of the socio-historical side of the equation, suggests a strategy for dissolving the unfortunate boundary that still exists between the "two cultures."

126. Philosophy Of Mind This engaging and thoughtprovoking introduction to philosophy of mind covers all The fresh and incisive perspective of philosophy of mind will be of http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1082

127. 620pixeltable Ted Honderich's (still quite long) summary of a deterministic philosophy of mind, and its consequences for our fundamental attitudes. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted12.htm

FREE WILL, DETERMINISM AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY THE WHOLE THING IN BRIEF by Ted Honderich the Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website This sums up a lot of T.H.'s past words elsewhere in the very large book A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience and Life-Hopes and also the first edition of How Free Are You? It is against the idea that determinism is logically consistent with free will and moral responsibility, and also against the idea, as turns out to be possible to be, that these things are logically inconsistent. It gives a background to the papers Determinism: Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and the Smart Aleck and Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem . Truth to tell, though, it has been a little overtaken by further thoughts most of them in the second edition of How Free Are You? This paper is a sketch of a deterministic philosophy of mind and then of its consequences for the fundamental part of our moral lives which has to do with moral responsibility. (1) In its first part, to be a little more precise, this somewhat unfashionable theory presents our human actions as effects of certain causal sequences. In these there occur the antecedents of the actions decisions and intentions and also the neural events which go with them all of which antecedent events are themselves effects of yet earlier parts of the causal sequence. Some of these yet earlier parts are environmental, and others are bodily events in the life of the individual.

128. The Philosophy And Future Of AI philosophy of mind. The Skeptic s Dictionary entries on. the mind dualism the soul free will. Despite my disagreements with symbolic AI, http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philosophy.html

Mark Humphrys Research AI in general - Philosophy and Future of AI The Philosophy and Future of AI by Mark Humphrys. I'm a strong believer in actually building things rather than just talking. But like everyone else in the field, I've got some informal thoughts on what it's all about. Here's my current set of conclusions. I have written a popular science talk on this. AI is possible .. Philosophy of Mind The Skeptic's Dictionary entries on: the mind dualism the soul free will Despite my disagreements with symbolic AI, I still accept that strong AI (embodied) is the reasonable working hypothesis if you accept materialism. I find the arguments of Penrose, Searle and Bringsjord unconvincing, though Dreyfus is alright with me, and he exempts my type of AI from his criticism. Edelman is alright too - it's just that he doesn't realise he's one of us! philosophy of mind philosophers of mind cognitive science (and here cognitive scientists (and here Celebrities in Cognitive Science AI people People My summary page on Philosophy of AI in my AI course.

129. Syllabus: Philosophy Of Mind Brain in a Vat The philosophy of mind is that area of philosophy connected philosophy of mind has deep connections not only with philosophical research http://aardvark.ucsd.edu/~joncohen/mind/mind_syllabus.html

Philosophy 136: Philosophy of Mind Spring 2004 When: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:20 Where: Cognitive Science Building 005 Back to UCSD philosophy courses Instructor: Jonathan Cohen email: joncohenREMOVETHIS@aardvark.ucsd.edu (omit text in caps, which reduces automated spam) phone: (858) 534 6812 Overview The philosophy of mind is that area of philosophy connected with questions about mind, its nature, its operation, and its connections with the rest of the universe. Classical problems in the area involve the relationship between the mind and the body, paradoxes concerning personal identity, and questions about the existence and nature of free will. Philosophy of mind has deep connections not only with philosophical research in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, ethics, and the like, but also (and increasingly) with work outside philosophy in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology, to name a few important examples. I hope that, by presenting some of the major questions and considering some of the proposed programs in the field, I can introduce you to the issues and whet your philosophical appetites. Course Requirements Those taking the class for credit are expected to hand in three short (5-7) page papers (one for each of the course segments). I shall hand out a list of topics for the papers before each is due. Grades will be determined on the basis of the three papers, and I'll use class participation as a way of deciding borderline cases.

130. Index.htm Offers courses on the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of language,and critical thinking. http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/philosophy/

University of Cape Town Department of Philosophy Welcome to the UCT Philosophy Home Page The Department of Philosophy is established in the Faculty of Humanities. The Department focuses on analytical philosophy, offering courses in the Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics, Applied Ethics and Critical Thinking. The Department of Philosophy is housed on the sixth floor of the Robert Leslie Social Science building on the Upper Campus. Ethics and Africa Conference The department will be co-sponsoring, together with the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Centre for Ethics at Georgia State University, an Ethics and Africa Conference in May 2006. Please click HERE to take you to the homepage of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics; from there scroll down to find the link to the conference. More about the Department: Undergraduate Courses Postgraduate Studies The UCT Philosophy Society ... Staff Seminars Philosophy Links: Link to UCT Philosophy Subject library Philosophy at Large (Liverpool University) The Philosophers' Magazine Online American Philosophical Association Rhodes University American Society for Aesthetics British Journal of Aesthetics The Onion Online Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy Page Oxford University Press Online Back to Top of Page Back to UCT Home Page Please contact us if you have any queries, comments or suggestions.

131. Philosophy Of Mind philosophy of mind. 03 Oct 1994 1202. The academic discpline formerly known as philosophical psychology. Not quite the same thing as cognitive science, http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/philosophy-of-mind.html

Notebooks Philosophy of Mind 03 Oct 1994 12:02 The academic discpline formerly known as philosophical psychology. Not quite the same thing as cognitive science , or neuroscience , or even artificial intelligence ; unless the philosopher of mind decides that it is, and polemicizes accordingly. See also Connectionism Dynamics and Cognition Recommended: David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind [Revision of his doctoral thesis, which is online someplace] Daniel Dennett David Hume William James Principles of Psychology Online Pete Mandik and Andy Clark, "Selective Representing and World-Making,", Minds and Machines PDF . I've commented on this paper in my blog Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories [To be honest, I'm not quite finished with it yet, but unless it takes a drastic turn for the worse in the last few chapters, this is excellent] Jean Piaget Insights and Illusions of Philosophy Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind [While thoroughly wrong-headed in opposing non-behavioristic psychology and mechanistic accounts of the mind, it's at the very least useful to think against

132. Mind2005 Graduate Conference On Philosophy Of Mind Scottish Postgraduate Philosophy Association (SPPA) 2005 Graduate Conference on philosophy of mind. http://www.societies.stir.ac.uk/sppa/events/mind2005/

and of MIND Graduate Conference on Philosophy of Mind, 30 June - 1 July 2005 [Conference home] [Programme] [Registration] [Contacts] [Acknowledgements] Keynote speakers: Professor Hans-Johann Glock (University of Reading) Professor Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University in the City of New York) Professor Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford) Graduate speakers: Conference report Click here for photos of the conference and conference meal The 'Mind2005' Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind took place at Edinburgh University on Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July, 2005. Attendance at the conference was free and open to all. 70 delegates, including speakers and responders, attended the conference. The conference was generously supported by the Mind Association, the Scottish Postgraduate Philosophy Association, the Scots Philosophical Club, the Philosophy department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at Edinburgh University, and the Analysis Trust. The conference included eleven graduate talks and three keynote talks. The graduate talks were followed by brief responses, mainly delivered by staff and students from Edinburgh and students from nearby universities. One exception was Asuncion Alvarez's talk on Peacocke's theory of concepts, which was followed by a response from Professor Peacocke himself. All sessions concluded with a half-hour discussion session. The discussion sessions proved vigorous and searching and stimulated an atmosphere of lively discussion in the breaks.

133. Philosophy Of Mind Bibliography, Part 2: Mental Content Part two of six of an annotated bibliography on the philosophy of mind by David Chalmers. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/biblio/2.html

Part 2: Mental Content Part of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled by David Chalmers , Philosophy, Australian National University. Technical support by David Bourget , University of Toronto. For more information see the main page Search by author's surname: Plain text search: Your browser is not configured for off-campus access. Click here to configure it. Your browser appears to be ready for off-campus access. Click here to change your configuration. One-time procedure to configure your browser for off-campus access to restricted online texts through your institutional library. Your configuration will be remembered in the future. Access any restricted access page on JSTOR from off-campus as you usually do (following a link from your library catalogue). Copy the entire web address of this JSTOR page in this box: Click here to continue Your off-campus access has been configured. Your off-campus access configuration was not succesfully updated. The configuration may have failed because your library does not provide the kind of off-campus access supported by this page. You may not be able to access many of the texts linked to article titles when you are off campus. However, you can still access many articles by clicking the "Google" link of entries with a clickable title. Google will provide you with a direct access to the online copy if you configure your preferences properly on its preference page Close this box Part 2: Mental Content [1338] Propositional Attitudes The Language of Thought The Intentional Stance Eliminativism ... Propositional Attitudes, General

134. Budapest Mind Society The Budapest Mind Society aims to bring together researchers in Hungary with interests in philosophy of mind. The Society organises monthly talks and will http://philosophy.elte.hu/bms/

About Upcoming Past Inaugural About The Budapest Mind Society aims to bring together researchers in Hungary with interests in philosophy of mind. The Society organises monthly talks and will sponsor reading groups to examine the latest monographs in philosophy of mind. Queries: contact András Simonyi at bms@philosophy.elte.hu Upcoming talks Past talks Professor Andrew Brook, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Ottawa The representational base of consciousness ( doc ppt May 3, Tuesday, 2005, 5 PM, Dept. of Philosophy, CEU, Zrínyi utca 14, 4th floor, room 412. ABSTRACT: Everyone agrees, no matter what else they think about con­sciousness, that it has a representational base. However, there have been relatively few worked-out at­tempts to say what this base might be like. The two best developed are perhaps the higher-order thought (HOT) model of David Rosenthal and the transparency ap­proach of Fred Dretske and others. As we will show, both face serious problems. Our alternative to these models starts from the notion of a self-presenting representation, a representation that presents not only what it is about (if it is about anything; not all representations have an object) but also itself to the representing subject. Zsófia Zvolenszky, Philosophy, New York University, ELTE-MTA Philosophy of Language Research Group

135. Dictionary Of Philosophy Of Mind - Physicalism, Non-reductive Entry in Dictionary of philosophy of mind http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/nonreductivephysicalism.html

we've moved to philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict . Please update any links and go there for the latest version. physicalism, non-reductive The claim that functional properties cannot be reduced to physical properties, but that nevertheless all causality is physical. See physicalism multiple realizability functionalism Kim Against Non-reductive Physicalism ... References Kim Against Non-reductive Physicalism Jaegwon Kim sees Donald Davidson's theory of anomalous monism to be a kind of non-reductive physicalism, as well as Fred Dretske's distinction between reasons and causes. Kim claims that one can be either a physicalist, or non-reductive, but not both. In Kim 1993 (p. 351-2), he describes the problem using the following diagram. M causes M* P causes P* In this diagram, a single mental event M is seen as causing another mental event M* . This mental event is physically realized (for example in a brain state) by a physical event P , which causes P* i.e. the physical realization of M* . Kim's argument against the existence of mental causation is that the top layer does no real work. P can cause P* all by itself, with no help from

136. Philosophy Of Mind And Epistemology (from Epistemology) --  Encyclopædia Brita philosophy of mind and epistemology (from epistemology) In the late 1970s a series of developments occurred in a variety of intellectual fields that promise http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-11469

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137. Dictionary Of Philosophy Of Mind - Sellars, Wilfrid Entry from the Dictionary of philosophy of mind. http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/sellars.html

we've moved to philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict . Please update any links and go there for the latest version. Sellars, Wilfrid - Wilfrid Sellars was born in 1912. He held positions at the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, Yale University, and finally, from 1963 until his death in 1989, at the University of Pittsburgh. Sellars is best known as a critic of foundationalist epistemology. He was one of the first functionalists and one of the first to hold that intentional states are theoretical entities postulated for the sake of a certain kind of explanation and prediction of behavior. Myth of the Given Functionalism Myth of Jones Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Pure Process ... References Wilfrid Sellars was born in 1912. His father was the well-known naturalist philosopher Roy Wood Sellars, who taught at the University of Michigan. Wilfrid Sellars received a BA from the University of Michigan in 1933 and an MA from the University of Buffalo in 1934. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and received a BA there in 1936 and an MA in 1940. In 1938 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. During the war years he saw active duty as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1946 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota. He remained on the Minnesota faculty until 1959, when he joined the faculty of Yale. In 1963 he moved to the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until his death in 1989. Sellars is best known as a critic of foundationalist epistemology. He also made wide ranging contributions to metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language and the study of the history of philosophy. This article will deal exclusively with those of his ideas that bear directly on current issues in the philosophy of mind.

138. Dictionary Of Philosophy Of Mind - Quantum Consciousness Entry in Dictionary of philosophy of mind http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/quantum.html

we've moved to philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict . Please update any links and go there for the latest version. quantum consciousness, theories of Theories which explore possible connections between quantum mechanical phenomena and consciousness. See also consciousness Introduction Penrose's Main Argument Motivations for Quantum Theories ... References Introduction Since the publication of Roger Penrose's two books The Emperor's New Mind (1989), and Shadows of the Mind (1994), there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in exploring possible connections between quantum mechanical phenomena and consciousness. But there have been those who have been exploring the connection for many decades. In this essay, I will first briefly run through Penrose's main ideas, especially as they have been developed in collaboration with Stuart Hameroff. I will then discuss some of the reasons that people have had for trying to defend some such connection since long before the Penrose-led resurgence. Penrose's main argument Penrose's main argumentative line can be summed up as follows (this summary is taken from Grush and Churchland (1995)): Part A: Nonalgorithmicity of human conscious thought.

139. Dictionary Of Philosophy Of Mind - Grice, Herbert Paul From the Dictionary in the philosophy of mind, by Christopher Gauker. http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/grice.html

we've moved to philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict . Please update any links and go there for the latest version. Grice, Herbert Paul Grice was born in 1913 and died in 1988. He held positions at Oxford University and, after 1967, at the University of California, Berkeley. Grice is best known for his work in the philosophy of language, in particular, his analysis of speaker's meaning, his conception of conversational implicature, and his project of intention-based semantics. Analysis of Meanings Conversational Implicature Intention-Based Semantics Shift from Language to Mind ... References Herbert Paul Grice was born in 1913 and died in 1988. From the late 1930's until 1967 he held positions at Oxford University. During the war years he served in the Royal Navy. In 1967 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley. He retired in 1979 but continued to teach until 1986. Grice is best known for his analysis of speaker's meaning, his conception of conversational implicature, and his project of intention-based semantics. Largely as a result of these ideas, the focus of the philosophical debate over the nature of meaning shifted during the 1970's and 1980's from linguistic representation to mental representation. Grice's most important ideas may be found in his William James lectures presented at Harvard in 1967. Several lectures from that series were published in the form of journal articles, and for many years the lectures circulated in their entirety in mimeograph. They were finally published (in revised form) in 1989 in Grice's collection of essays

140. TheBigView Contains forums on various subjects including philosophy, religion and the mind. http://www.thebigview.com/discussion/

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