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  Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
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.
  Cognitive Science http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Thagard..
  Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/
A collection of definitions and brief scholarly discussions of key terms in the Philosophy of Mind. Also includes brief biographical sketches of important figures in cognitive science.
  Multiple Realizability http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/
Discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Bickle.
  Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/biblio.html
Thousands of entries, categorized by subject matter. From David Chalmers.
  The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP). http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/spp/spphp.html
The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic) philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.
  The Experimental Philosophy Page http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/ExperimentalPhilosophy.html
Information about experimental data gathered by people working in the philosophy of mind.
  Computing Machinery and Intelligence http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm
The classic 1950 article by Alan Turing on machine intelligence, where he introduces the famous Turing test.
  A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/
Survey articles on key issues in the field, and an annotated bibliography.
  The Simulation Argument http://www.simulation-argument.com/
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.
  The Pre-History of Cognitive Science http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/
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.)
  SWIF Philosophy of Mind http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/mind/home.htm
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.
  Higher-order Theories of Consciousness http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/
Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Peter Carruthers.
  Daniel C. Dennett - publications and preprints. http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/pubpage.htm
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).
  Squashed Descartes http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm
Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary.
  The Extended Mind http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/extended.html
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.
  Behavior and Philosophy http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/index.cfm?page=http%3A//www.behavior.org/journals_BP/BP_welcome.cfm
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 Studies.
  Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/Mind/
By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. History of philosophical and scientific reactions to "the Cartesian impasse". Spanish translation available.
  Simulation, Consciousness, Existence http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html
A view on consciousness, universal existence, nothingness, reality.
  Mental Images: Philosophical Psychology http://www.gis.net/~tbirch
Introductory and advanced material on the imagery debate, cognitive science, and metaphysical issues.
  Behavioral & Prints Archive http://www.bbsonline.org/view-phil-mind.html
Articles on the subject of philosophy of mind.
  David Chalmers Chat Transcript http://www.iscid.org/davidchalmers-chat.php
Transcript from a live online chat with David Chalmers on September 25th 2002.
  Reflections on Language and Mind http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/sheffield.htm
Article by Daniel Dennett (1996).
  Argumentation Map: Do Computers Have to be Conscious to Think? http://www.macrovu.com/CCTHowItWork1.html
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.
  The Philosophy and Future of AI http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philosophy.html
A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys.
  Mind and Mechanism - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1149
Varol Akman reviews this book by Drew V. McDermott.
  Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/CSPE/
Information on Centre personnel, research and activities including conferences, seminars and reading groups, which focus on philosophy of mind and perception.
  Living philosophy from a modern thinker http://www.modern-thinker.co.uk
Includes a study of belief, mind, relativity, sign systems and matter. Philosophy is integrated with psychology and science.
  PCID Philosophy of Mind Issue http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2003/2/3/pcid_contents_2003_2_3.php
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.
  An atheist philosophy beyond the "bright" attitude http://not-only-bright.exactpages.com
The naturalism of the Bright Movement is present in Real Dualism, but even an anthropologic analysis that get over the traditional materialism
  The Doomsday Simulation Argument http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Doomsday Simulation/The Doomsday Simulation Argument by I.A. Aranyosi.pdf
A compact response to both Leslie's doomsday argument and Bostrom's simulation argument, by I.A. Aranyosi
  PhilosophyofMind.info http://www.philosophyofmind.info/
An overview of the philosophy of mind. Explores the various theories of mind, and of how the mental relates to the physical.
  Parsimony and the Mind http://www.tk421.net/essays/simple.html
The principle of parsimony and its application to the mind-body problem
  Hyponoeticism - New Philosophy of Mind http://www.hyponoesis.org/
A New and Challenging Philosophy of Mind.
  Dualism: Papers http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/papers/
Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff.
  Arts and Minds http://artsandminds.typepad.com/artsandminds/
Contains theory and essays by Mayer Spivack. Primarily emphasizes human cognition, animal cognition, associative reasoning (syncretic reasoning), creativity, learning and learning disability.
  Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain http://members.lycos.nl/titusrivas/metasubjectivemind.html
Titus Rivas' essay show that an exhaustive conceptual representation of phenomenal consciousness in the brain is impossible.
  Neuropsychology and Personalist Dualism http://members.lycos.nl/titusrivas/Dualismlives.html
Titus Rivas discusses alleged empirical evidence against the ontological tradition of substantialist dualism, such as data of split-brain research.
  Kant's Error about Rational Psychology: Psychical Appearance and Reality http://members.lycos.nl/titusrivas/Kant.html
Titus Rivas discusses the identity theory of brain and mind in the context of the Kantian general rejection of ontology.
  External Qualities and Neurological Computation in Perception http://members.lycos.nl/titusrivas/externalqualities.html
Titus Rivas discusses the view that the phenomenal qualities of perception might in theory exist not only in the subjective mind but in physical reality as well.
  Connectionism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/
Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James W. Garson.
  Mental Representation http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/
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 Encyclopedia, by David Pitt.
  The Identity Theory of Mind http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/
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.
  Epiphenomenalism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/
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 Unity of Consciousness http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/
History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Andrew Brook.
  Consciousness and Intentionality http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/
Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert.
  Panpsychism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Seager.
  Stanford Encyclopedia - The Computational Theory of Mind http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
The philosophical theory that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.
  Eliminative Materialism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/
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.
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Turing Test http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.

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