PH24:
Philosophy of Mind
Classic works on Consciousness
- Rene
Descartes, Meditations on First
Philosophy
- Important
arguments from Descartes' Meditations
- An Outline of
Descartes' Meditations
- Different Views
on the Relationship between Mind and Body
J.J.C. Smart, The
identity theory of mind
Alan Turing, Computing machinery and
intelligence
- More material on the Turing Test:
- Albert, a recent test
candidate
Talk
with Robby the robot
The
Turing 2000 contest
The Alan Turing
Internet scrap book
The
Alan Turing Homepage
John Searle, Minds, brains,
and programs
John Searle, Is the
brain a digital computer?
The Chinese Room
Homepage
- Thomas Nagel, "What is
it Like to be a Bat "
- Frank Jackson, "What
Mary Doesn't Know "
Representative Contemporary Works
Material on Dennett and Consciousness Explained
Timoth Bates, Tutorial on Consciousness Explained
Philosophy on the Net, Short Introduction to Dennett
Phi Phenomenon Demo
Yet another Phi Phenomenon Demo
The MagnaPhi Phenomenon Demo and other demo's
Purdue University, Visual Perception Research Lab
Peter Kaiser, The Joy of Visual Perception (optical Illusion page)
Selmer Bringsjord, A paper on the Phi phenomenon, critical of Dennett's view
Daniel Dennett, The
self as a center of narrative gravity
Daniel Dennett, The origins of
selves
Other Important Contemporary Work
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David Chalmers, Facing up to the
problem of consciousness
David Chalmers, Facing up to the
problem of consciousness
Daniel Dennett, Facing backwards on the
problem of consciousness (and Chalmers' reply)
John Searle, The
problem of consciousness
John Searle, Consciousness
and the philosophers (and Chalmers' reply)
Colin McGinn, The
problem of philosophy
Godels's Theorem and Penrose
A page of quotes on Godel's Theorem and a link to the original article
Gregory Chaitin, "A Century of Controvery over the Foundations Of Mathematics": A nice basic account of the background of the argument in mathematics.
"Minds, Machines and Gödel" by J.R. Lucas: classic paper on application of Godel's theorem to the human mind.
Kenny Felders summary of Hofstadter's account of Godel's Theorem
The Section of Chalmers' resource page devoted to Godel's Theorem
Page on Penrose's Book Shadows of the Mind with papers by Chalmers and others with a detailed response from Penrose
A Roger Penrose page with useful links to some of his works
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Freud
and Psychoanalysis: An Outline
Freud
Archives
The
Psychoanalytic Webring
Resources in Phil. Of Mind and Cognitive Science
-
Douglas
Hofstadter's homepage
- Mind/Brain Resources
- Journal of Consciousness
Studies
- Mind and Body
- Cognitive
Science
- Indiana U Cognitive Science
program
- Cognitive &
Psychological Sciences
- Philosophy of Mind
- Welcome to the Principia Cybernetica
Web
- Introduction to
Artificial Intelligence
- Contemporary
Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
- Cognitive
Science and Metaphor Center at U. of Oregon
- Conceptual Metaphor Home Page at
Berkeley
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