Contents
Topics
in Philosophy of Mind
Awareness or
A-Consciousness | Behaviorism | Dualism
| Functionalism | Identity Theory
| Intentionality | Language and Mind
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Metaphysics & Philosophy of Mind | Mind in
Evolution & Evolution of Mind | Mind, Meaning and Modality
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Phenomenology |
Philosophy of Artificial
Intelligence | Philosophy
of Psychology | Phenomenological Consciousness (Qualia)
| Representationalism &
Higher Order Thought | Sense of Self | What is
Consciousness For? | Miscellaneous Subjects
People
David Armstrong |
Ned Block | David Chalmers |
The Churchlands | Andy Clark |
Donald Davidsom | Richard Dawkins
| Daniel C. Dennett |
Rene Descartes | Hubert Dreyfus |
Douglas Hofstadter | Frank Jackson
| Sean Kelly | Thomas Nagel |
Hilary Putnam | Gilbert Ryle |
John Searle | Sydney Shoemaker
| J. C. Smart
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Topics in
Philosophy of Mind
(In Alphabetical Order)
Awareness or
A-Consciousness
Behaviorism
Dualism
Functionalism
Identity Theory
Intentionality
Language and Mind
Metaphysics
& Philosophy of Mind
Mind in
Evolution & Evolution of Mind
Mind,
Meaning and
Modality
Phenomenology
Philosophy of Artificial
Intelligence
Philosophy
of Psychology
Qualia or Phenomenological
Consciousness
You must have noticed by now that this is one of my favorite
subjects. This section also includes the Zombies
Representationalism & Higher Order Thought
Sense of Self & Situatedness
What is Consciousness for?
Miscellaneous Subjects
People in
Philosophy of Mind
(In Alphabetical Order)
David Armstrong
Ned Block
SDavid Chalmers
I
used to have a website on David Chalmers
but soon I realized that it was overkill. David Chalmers is a philosopher at the
University of Arizona and the Associate Director of the
Center for Consciousness Studies.
He has mainly worked in fields of Philosophy of Mind and in the field of
Cognitive Sciences. He has also done work in the related fields of Artificial
Intelligence and Computation, Although not the first person to recogonize the
problem, his book did help in bringing to limelight the "hard problem" of
consciousness. The "hard problem" lie at the heart of the study of consciousness
and represent one of the last "intractable" problems of Science. David Chalmers
is an Aussie but has now settled in the United States. David Chalmers favors a
non-reductionist approach to the study of consciousness.
David Chalmers Papers
David Chalmers' official website can
be found at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers
The site has a huge collection of papers on consciousness and related matters of
interest.
A
word or two about "The Conscious Mind." His main argument is that the
reductionist explanation of consciousness is impossible. The reading is
accessible to both philosophers and non-philosophers. The book developed out of
his famous paper "Facing
Up to the Problem of Consciousness." While analyzing different theories of
consciousness he has also presented his own candidate for such a theory of
consciousness that could explain this intractable problem. He proposes that
there could be fundamental laws relating to consciousness just as there are
fundamental laws in Physics. He also explores the possibility of Artificial
Intelligence. Unlike other writes Chalmers does not "solve" the problem of
consciousness by redefining it as another problem. A remarkable point about
Charmers' book is that he convincingly presents his arguments that a "pure"
materialist view about consciousness will not suffice and "dual-aspects" of
information will have to be taken into view.
The Churchlands
Andy Clark
Donald
Davidson
Richard Dawkins
Daniel C. Dennett
Dennett is one of those writes whom
you really enjoy even if you do not agree with him. His writings are insightful
except when it comes to the question of consciousness, where Dennett
thinks that there is no question in the first place.
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"Appraising
Grace: What evolutionary good is God?" review of Walter Burkert, Creation
of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religion for The Sciences
Jan/Feb, 1997
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Can
machines think?
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"Cog
as a Thought Experiment," For Monte Verita special issue, forthcoming
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Consciousness in
human and robot minds
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Did HAL committ murder?
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"Evolution,
Error and Intentionality," in Y. Wilks and D. Partridge, eds, Sourcebook
on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, New Mexico University Press
1988
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Facing Backwards on
the Problem of Consciousness
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Making tools for
thinking
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Reflections on language and mind
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The fantasy
of first-person science
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The practical
requirements for making a conscious robot
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The role of
language in intelligence
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The
unimagined preposterousness of zombies
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The
zombic hunch: Extinction of an intuition?
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Time
and the observer: The where and when of consciousness in the brain
Daniel Dennett, Marcel Kinsbourne
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Verbal language as
a communicative system
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Where am I?
As far as the hard problem is concerned, Dennett
will always remain a nay-sayer. May be Dennett is a Zombie. Just kidding.
Rene Descartes
The man who gave us the
Mind-Body problem or to some people the mind-body controversy.
Descartes' dualism, in line with many religious views, has largely lost
its appeal in the scientific community. What is really interesting is
that Dualism is the prevalent theory of mind in the public mind.
Hubert Dreyfus
Douglas Hofstadter
Frank Jackson
Sean Kelly
Thomas Nagel
Hilary Putnam
Gilbert Ryle
John Searle
Many of you might remember John
Searle as the "Chinese Room Guy." Well trust me he has done other things as well
which are as interesting as the Chinese Room Argument, if not more.
Sydney Shoemaker
J. J. C. Smart
Philosophy of Mind
Bibliography
I add a book only after I have read
it or have started to read the the book. Hence the list is not as long as I
would want it to be. Not yet, but I am getting there. Articles from magazines and
journals are in the individual sections. The list of articles is so long that I
decided that I will update the list as time goes by.
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Block, Ned Joel
(ed), Flanagan, Owen (ed), Guzeldere, Guven (ed) The Nature of
Consciousness: Philosophical Debates MIT Press, 1997.
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Chalmers, David The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Chalmers, David (ed) Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Dennett, Daniel C. Brainstorms, MIT Press 1978.
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Dennett, Daniel C. Consciousness Explained, Little Brown and Co., 1992.
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Dennett, Daniel C. Kinds of Minds, 1997
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Descartes, Rene Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 1901.
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Flagnen, Owen Consciousness Reconsidered, MIT Press, 1993.
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Kelly, Sean D. The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind, Garland Publishing, 2000.
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Russell, Bertrand
The Analysis of Mind, 1931.
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Stubenberg, Leopold Consciousness and Qualia (Advances in Consciousness Research, Vol. 5) John Benjamins Publishing Co. 1998.
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Searle, John R. The Mystery of Consciousness, New York Review of Books 1997.
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Shear, Jonathan (ed) Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, MIT Press, 1997.
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