PHIL 255, Philosophy of Mind section 1

Useful Links

Week 1

The best on-line source on philosophical topics is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

Bibliography of Philosophy of Mind

Cognitive science resources

Pete Mandik

Companion blog for This is Philosophy of Mind

Week 2

David Chalmers

Thagard's critique of thought experiments.

Thagard on explanatory identities.

Week 3

David Chalmers video

Thagard on creative consciousness

Multiple realizability

Week 4

Thagard vs. panpsychism

Thagard's critique of Tononi

Week 5

Week 6

Google driverless car

IBM's Watson

Spaun

Robosemantics

Week 7

Bechtel on mental mechanisms

Eliminative materialism

Video: Pat Churchland on eliminative materialism

Week 8

Emotions as semantic pointers

Week 9

Higher order thought

Thagard and Stewart on mechanisms of consciousness

Information integration theory

Quantum computation theory

Week 10

Determinism

Week 11

The self as a system of mechanisms

Week 12

Eliasmith on neurosemantics

Robosemantics

PHIL 255, home page

Paul Thagard

Computational Epistemology Laboratory.

This page updated Mar. 31, 2014.