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Philosopher of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Consciousness. Online articles and course outlines.
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Professor Ned Block He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science and is currently writing a book on consciousness. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior...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).
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/
"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.
http://www.california.com/~mcmf/
Works on philosophy of representation, semantics (of natural language), theoretical neuroscience and metaphysics.
http://courses.ucsd.edu/rgrush/
Influential "neurophilosopher" and eliminative materialist.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/philo/EPL/Pat.html
Interests include perception, consciousness, ontology and vagueness.
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/beh24/
Philosopher of language, logic, meatphysics and mind, and director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/lepore.html
Provides a number of ePapers on consciousness, memetics, evolution, and the philosophy of mind.
http://www.geocities.com/brent_silby/
Distinguished epistemologist as well as a philosopher of mind and cognitive science.
http://w3.arizona.edu/~phil/faculty/agoldman.htm
Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. Author of "Consciousness in Action" and other works on active, situated cognition, as well as works on political and normative philosophy.
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/S.L.Hurley/
A critic of naturalism about the mind in general, and the computational theory of the mind in particular. Although computational approaches to cognition may be scientifically valid, they do not explain intentionality or solve the mind-body problem.
http://shorst.web.wesleyan.edu/
Author of The Embodied Mind, and Colour Vision. Homepage with current articles.
http://www.yorku.ca/evant
Interests include: our poor knowledge of our own conscious experience, dispositional theories of belief, developmental psychology, and evil.
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/
Mental representation, Dynamic Systems Theory, Connectionism, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Epistemology, etc. Editor of the online Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind.
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Chris Eliasmith's Home Page We recently put out a book and a simulation package. Here are some courses at Waterloo related to this research. Curriculum Vitae Standard academic style CV. With linked publications. Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind The online dictionary that I edit....Probably the leading advocate of the "representational theory of consciousness," an attempt at a physicalistic account of qualia. Has also done influential work on mental imagery, perception, the nature of mental states, etc
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/tye/
Professor of philosophy, psychology, neurobiology and related fields at Duke University. Biography, pictures and books for sale.
http://www.owenflanagan.com/
Folk psychology; nativism and modularity; intentional content; evolutionary psychology; cognitive architecture; consciousness; natural language in human cognition.
http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/faculty/pcarruthers/
Editor of the journal Philosophical Psychology, and Professor of Philosophy at UCSD.
http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/billhome.html
Papers on the Philosophy and Cognitive Science of visual perception by this philosopher, based at the University of California, Berkeley.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe/
Prolific champion of connectionist and embodied approaches to understanding the mind.
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/people/homepages/clark.html
Philosophical psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, the nonexistence of the self, early Greek thought, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and human sexuality.
http://www.james-giles.com