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• A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind

  http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/
  Survey articles on key issues in the field, and an annotated bibliography.

• An atheist philosophy beyond the "bright" attitude

  http://not-only-bright.exactpages.com/
  The naturalism of the Bright Movement is present in Real Dualism, but even an anthropologic analysis that get over the traditional materialism

• Arts and Minds

  http://artsandminds.typepad.com/artsandminds/
  Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasizes human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.

• Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.

  http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
  The main institutional center for Consciousness Studies. Host of the Tucson "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences, and periodically stages on-line courses on aspects of Consciousness Studies.

• Cognitive Science

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
  The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..

• Computing Machinery and Intelligence

  http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.php
  The classic 1950 article by Alan Turing on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing test.

• Connectionism

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/
  Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James W. Garson.

• Consciousness and Intentionality

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/
  Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.

• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography

  http://consc.net/mindpapers
  Thousands of entries, categorized by subject matter. From David Chalmers.

• Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

  https://sites.google.com/site/minddict/
  A collection of definitions and brief scholarly discussions of key terms in the Philosophy of Mind. Also includes brief biographical sketches of important figures in cognitive science.

• Eliminative Materialism

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/
  The view that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Ramsey.

• Epiphenomenalism

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/
  Discusses the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by William S. Robinson.

• Higher-order Theories of Consciousness

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/
  Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Peter Carruthers.

• Hyponoeticism - New Philosophy of Mind

  http://www.hyponoesis.org/
  A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.

• 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.

• Mind and Mechanism - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

  http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23206/?id=1149
  Varol Akman reviews this book by Drew V. McDermott.

• 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.

• 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

• 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://sqapo.com/descartes.htm
  Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary.

• Stanford Encyclopedia - The Computational Theory of Mind

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
  The philosophical theory that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Turing Test

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
  Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.

• The Doomsday Simulation Argument

  http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Doomsday%20Simulation/The%20Doomsday%20Simulation%20Argument%20by%20I.A.%20Aranyosi.pdf
  A compact response to both Leslie's doomsday argument and Bostrom's simulation argument, by I.A. Aranyosi

• The Extended Mind

  http://consc.net/papers/extended.html
  This paper by Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposes an active externalist theory of mind - that when we use tools such as paper or computers to aid in our cognition, they become part of our minds.

• The Identity Theory of Mind

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/
  Evaluates the theory that holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by J. J. C. Smart.

• The Pre-History of Cognitive Science

  http://www.carlstahmer.com/cogsci/
  An annotated bibliography of the models of human cognition of Berkeley, Burton, Hobbes, and Locke. (More figures from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries are promised.)

• The Simulation Argument

  http://www.simulation-argument.com/
  Site examining the hypothesis that we are currently living in an "ancestor simulation" run by a future, post-human society. Includes papers and research links.

• The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP).

  http://www.socphilpsych.org/
  The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic) philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.

• The Unity of Consciousness

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/
  History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Andrew Brook.

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