Philosophy of Mind
Categories
- Consciousness Studies (89)
- Language of Thought (14)
- Philosophers (22)
Links
Mental Representation
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/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, by David Pitt.
Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/Mind/
By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. History of philosophical and scientific reactions to "the Cartesian impasse". Spanish translation available.
Multiple Realizability
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/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.
Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science.
http://www.magneticfields.org/sky/aarc/noncartesian.html
Many helpfully categorized links and introductory material concerning embodied/situated approaches to cognition, ranging from Artificial Life research to Existentialism. By Ronald Lemmen.
Panpsychism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Seager.
Parsimony and the Mind
http://www.tk421.net/essays/simple.html
The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem
PCID Philosophy of Mind Issue
http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2003/2/3/pcid_contents_2003_2_3.php
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.
Reflections on Language and Mind
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/sheffield.htm
Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html
A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.
Squashed Descartes
http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm
Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary.



