Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Turing Test
Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 116991
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.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 116963
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.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 116969
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.)
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 116972
Site examining the hypothesis that we are right now living in an "ancestor simulation" run by a future, post-human society. Includes papers and research links.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 116984
The leading U.S. organization for discussion between (analytic) philosophers and (mainly cognitively oriented) psychologists.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 116949
