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Philosophers Philosophy of Mind Philosophy

Philosophers

Links to philosophers who are noted for their contributions to the philosophy of mind, as well as home pages of individual professional philosophers of mind, giving access to their writings and/or other information about them.

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- "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.
- Philosopher of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Consciousness. Online articles and course outlines.
- Philosopher of language, logic, meatphysics and mind, and director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
- Author of The Embodied Mind, and Colour Vision. Homepage with current articles.
- Provides a number of ePapers on consciousness, memetics, evolution, and the philosophy of mind.
- 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.
- Folk psychology; nativism and modularity; intentional content; evolutionary psychology; cognitive architecture; consciousness; natural language in human cognition.
- Papers on the Philosophy and Cognitive Science of visual perception by this philosopher, based at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Phenomenologist and leading critic of Artificial Intelligence research.
- Interests include perception, consciousness, ontology and vagueness.
- Philosophical psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, the nonexistence of the self, early Greek thought, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and human sexuality.
- Professor of philosophy, psychology, neurobiology and related fields at Duke University. Biography, pictures and books for sale.
- Distinguished epistemologist as well as a philosopher of mind and cognitive science.
- Works on philosophy of representation, semantics (of natural language), theoretical neuroscience and metaphysics.
- 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.
- 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
- Interests include: our poor knowledge of our own conscious experience, dispositional theories of belief, developmental psychology, and evil.
- 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).
- One of the most influential (and readable) contemporary philosophers of mind.
- Prolific champion of connectionist and embodied approaches to understanding the mind.
- Influential "neurophilosopher" and eliminative materialist.
- Mental representation, Dynamic Systems Theory, Connectionism, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Epistemology, etc. Editor of the online Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind.
- Editor of the journal Philosophical Psychology, and Professor of Philosophy at UCSD.

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