Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind: Philosophers

Home page of this philosopher of mind (and of politics), giving access to his latest thought on the nature of consciousness as existence, and on the free-will versus determinism issue (amongst other things).

"The Only Cognitive Science Website Without a Picture of a Brain on it!" - Papers critical of "Cartesian Materialism" by Rockwell, with commentaries by Andy Clark, Ruth Millikan, Tim Van Gelder, U.T. Place and others.

Works on philosophy of representation, semantics (of natural language), theoretical neuroscience and metaphysics.

One of the most influential (and readable) contemporary philosophers of mind.

Phenomenologist and leading critic of Artificial Intelligence research.

Philosopher of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Consciousness. Online articles and course outlines.

Influential "neurophilosopher" and eliminative materialist.

Interests include perception, consciousness, ontology and vagueness.

Philosopher of language, logic, meatphysics and mind, and director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.

Provides a number of ePapers on consciousness, memetics, evolution, and the philosophy of mind.

Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. Author of "Consciousness in Action" and other works on active, situated cognition, as well as works on political and normative philosophy.

A critic of naturalism about the mind in general, and the computational theory of the mind in particular. Although computational approaches to cognition may be scientifically valid, they do not explain intentionality or solve the mind-body problem.

Author of The Embodied Mind, and Colour Vision. Homepage with current articles.

Interests include: our poor knowledge of our own conscious experience, dispositional theories of belief, developmental psychology, and evil.

Mental representation, Dynamic Systems Theory, Connectionism, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Epistemology, etc. Editor of the online Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind.

Probably the leading advocate of the "representational theory of consciousness," an attempt at a physicalistic account of qualia. Has also done influential work on mental imagery, perception, the nature of mental states, etc