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• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Peter Carruthers.
  
• - 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 Encyclope
  
• - 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.
  
• - An electronic journal and discussion forum for foundational issues in psychology, psychopathology, the mind-brain relation and 'consciousness'. (Not especially focused on the ideas of Jaspers.)
  
• - Commentaries on books and ideas from philosophers of mind including Patricia Churchland, Terrence Sejnowski, Paul Churchland, Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey.
  
• - The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic) philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.
  
• - The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem
  
• - The science, philosophy, and history of imagination and mental imagery, and their relevance to the understanding of consciousness and cognition. Online articles, and many links.
  
• - Discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Bickle.
  
• - Bibliographies by topic and author, event listings, online texts, new books (with links), and many links to online reference works, relevant institutions, journal home pages, and other sites.
  
• - By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. History of philosophical and scientific reactions to "the Cartesian impasse". Spanish translation available.
  
• - The classic 1950 article by Alan Turing on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing test.
  
• - Folk psychology, "mindreading," eliminative materialism, functionalism, simulation theory, theory-theory, and autism. By Alexander Maeder.
  
• - Many helpfully categorized links and introductory material concerning embodied/situated approaches to cognition, ranging from Artificial Life research to Existentialism. By Ronald Lemmen.
  
• - An international project looking at issues at the intersection of philosophy and the neurosciences.
  
• - Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).
  
• - Papers from or relating to Robert Gordon's NEH Seminar on the "Simulation" Theory of "Folk Psychology": relevant to understanding interpersonal understanding, empathy, the nature and origins of mental concepts, and the causes of autism
  
• - A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.
  
• - Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary.
  
• - Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff.
  
• - Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.
  
• - The naturalism of the Bright Movement is present in Real Dualism, but even an anthropologic analysis that get over the traditional materialism
  
• - The philosophical theory that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.
  
• - 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.)
  
• - 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.
  
• - Argumentation maps propose to map the detailed structure of major philosophical debates in graphical form. Portions of the map of the "Can Computers Think?" debate are now available online.
  
• - Survey articles on key issues in the field, and an annotated bibliography.
  
• - Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues.
  
• - ICQ chat and forum on philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, free will, cognition, and perception.
  
• - Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind.
  
• - Argues that epiphenomenalism, identity theory and parallellism are all incoherent. Unless one denies consciousness only dualistic interactionism and idealism remain viable.
  
• - Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasises human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.
  
• - Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002.
  
• - Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James W. Garson.
  
• - The man's presumptuousness considers always that the reality is only one, that accessible to his senses, his intellection and his instrumental of investigation tools. But the things are really so? In MatterAither the foundations of the real dualism (as ph
  
• - A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys.
  
• - This page makes available online versions of many recent (1987-1997) published and unpublished articles, and reviews, by this influential and unusually readable philosopher (and by some of his associates).
  
• - History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Andrew Brook.
  
• - Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.
  
• - The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Seager.
  
• - 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.
  
• - The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..
  
• - Includes a study of belief, mind, relativity, sign systems and matter. Philosophy is integrated with psychology and science.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A peer reviewed journal devoted to the philosophical, metaphysical, and methodological foundations of the study of behavior, brain, and mind. Articles from more recent volumes are available for free online. Published by the Cambridge Center for Behavioral
  
• - A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.
  
• - Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind.
  
  

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