Mind and body
I have created this page to support teaching in our Philosophy Department of subjects such as PHIL 1102 - Mind, Knowledge and God and PHIL 2016/PHIL 3016 - Mental Representation, Consciousness and Self.
- Master index to David Chalmers' web site
- A useful list of resources put together by a graduate of Adelaide University, David Chalmers, who is now Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and Director of the Centre for Consciousness.
You'll find papers on consciousness, mind, modality, and meaning, AI and computation, as well as miscellaneous papers.
- Contemporary philosophy of mind: an annotated bibliography
- Also compiled by David Chalmers, this is a bibliography of recent work in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of artificial intelligence and on consciousness in the sciences. The bibliography is divided into six main parts, each of which is further divided by topic and subtopic. Many of the entries are annotated.
- Yahoo directory: Philosophy of mind
- An excellent and constantly updated series of links with the facility of searching within the philosophy of mind category.
- Centre for the Mind
- A joint venture of The Australian National University and The University of Sydney, this very lively site is 'mentored by the most influential and creative minds of our nation including Phillip Adams, Baz Kuhrmann and Lachlan Murdoch' (foundation sponsor is News Limited). 'Our dream is to explore what it is to be human. We realise the dream by investing in ground breaking research which shatters mindsets...'.
They have already had considerable success with their proposal that '...savant skills -- far from being unique -- are possessed by everyone...' which was a feature of the 9 October 1999 issue of New Scientist.
Keep an eye on this group, I suggest.
- BBC Voices from the Archive: Karl Raimund Popper 1902 - 1994
- Extracts from Sir Karl Popper's Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind (shortened version of the Darwin lecture) 3 May 1978 Radio 3
- his vision of a creative universe and discussion of natural selection. 3 min 2
- Darwin's dismissal of the theory of people as automata. 4 min 14
- his belief in the existence of mind as an important event which illuminates the universe from inside. 2 min 7
- the emergence of consciousness and mind through natural selection. 3 min 59
They are RealAudio sound files.
You haven't got a copy of the RealAudio program? -- no problem, you can download a copy of RealPlayer.
- The Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
- A searchable (using Boolean operators) resource, edited by Chris Eliasmith. The Dictionary has a policy of blind peer review for all submissions.
- Psyche
- Psyche: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged.
- Journal of Consciousness Studies
- The publisher's Web site for the journal which includes the full text of a
representative sample of refereed articles. The Barr Smith Library has a subscription to this title from volume 1 (1994). Paper copies are at call number BSL Main collection 153.05 J8618 and we also have an online subscription.
- Journal of Consciousness Studies: JCS-Online: A digest of the key debates
- JCS-ONLINE is an e-mail list that discusses consciousness studies from a broad multi-disciplinary perspective. The e-mail discussion forum has generated some heated debates and this page is an archive of some of the most interesting threads.
- Gerard O'Brien's page
- No listing of cognitive science resources would be anywhere near complete without a link to my colleague at the University of Adelaide, Gerard O'Brien's page. His principal research interests lie in neurocomputational models of cognition and consciousness, and neurophilosophical theories of mental representation and the self, and there is a useful list of his publications (some with full text) on his page.
This page was created and is maintained by Alan Keig
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