Contemporary Philosophers of Mind
Contemporary Philosophers of Mind Links
- Chalmers, David Zombie Dave himself. Lots of content here, including his articles on consciousness, AI, and other topics, unpublished replies to critics, large annotated bibliographies of both Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness in Science, and several excellent links pages.
- Block, Ned Philosopher of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Consciousness. Online articles and course outlines.
- Lepore, Ernest Philosopher of language, logic, meatphysics and mind, and director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
- Silby, Brent Provides a number of ePapers on consciousness, memetics, evolution, and the philosophy of mind.
- Dennett, Daniel C. One of the most influential (and readable) contemporary philosophers of mind.
- Dreyfus, Hubert Phenomenologist and leading critic of Artificial Intelligence research.
- Tye, Michael Probably the leading advocate of the "representational theory of consciousness," an attempt at a physicalistic account of qualia.
- Bechtel, William Editor of the journal Philosophical Psychology, and Director of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis.
- Rockwell, Teed - Cognitive Questions "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.
- Churchland, Patricia S. Influential "neurophilosopher" and eliminative materialist.
- Eliasmith, Chris Mental representation, Dynamic Systems Theory, Connectionism, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Epistemology, etc. Editor of the online Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind.
- Clark, Andy Prolific champion of connectionist and embodied approaches to understanding the mind.
- Searle, John Influential philosopher of mind, language, consciousness, and AI. Home page, with some of his latest articles.
- Noë, Alva Papers on the Philosophy and Cognitive Science of visual perception by this philosopher, based at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Grush, Rick Works on philosophy of representation, semantics (of natural language), theoretical neuroscience and metaphysics.
- Goldman, Alvin I. Distinguished epistemologist as well as a philosopher of mind and cognitive science.
- Honderich, Ted 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).
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