New resource for philosophy of mind and cognition 25 Oct 2007 David Chalmers and David Bourget of the Australian National University have a great new resource up of online papers on mind: We (David Chalmers and David Bourget) are pleased to announce the launch of MindPapers, a new website with a bibliography covering around 18,000 published papers and online papers in the philosophy of mind and the science of consciousness. This site grew out of a combination of David Chalmers’ old bibliography in philosophy of mind and his page of online papers on consciousness, but it is much larger and has many new capacities, programmed by David Bourget. The site address is: http://consc.net/mindpapers/ The top-level structure is as follows. There is an all-new section on the philosophy of perception (with 50 subtopics and subsubtopics), and many new subtopics and subsubtopics throughout. Part 1: Philosophy of Consciousness [2773 entries] Part 2: Intentionality [2365 entries] Part 3: Perception [1816 entries] Part 4: Metaphysics of Mind [2153 entries] Part 5: Miscellaneous Philosophy of Mind [2338 entries] Part 6: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence [1187 entries] Part 7: Philosophy of Cognitive Science [1526 entries] Part 8: Science of Consciousness [3920 entries] Capacities include (i) links and citation information throughout, (ii) flexible navigation, display, and search options, (iii) the ability to submit and edit entries, (iv) the capacity for automated off-campus proxy access to commercial sites, and (v) a wealth of statistical information. There is also a separate front end for “Online Papers on Consciousness”. Where MindPapers now combines both offline published papers and online papers from free and commercial sites, Online Papers on Consciousness is devoted to free online papers (currently around 4700). It is based on the same database as MindPapers, but is organized in a way to emphasize issues concerning consciousness andcognitive science rather than the philosophy of mind. The address is http://consc.net/online/ We encourage everyone to try these sites and to submit relevant material that we are missing (try searching on your own name). There are tools on the site for submitting entries and corrections, as well as for notifying us about bugs and suggestions. –David Chalmers and David Bourget chalmers@anu.edu.au; david.bourget@anu.edu.au Australian National University. Logic and philosophy
Epistemology The principle of charity, qualia, and philosophy 6 Sep 20116 Sep 2011 I’ve hurt my back, so I aim to rant a little. When I teach critical reasoning just about the first thing I teach is the principle of charity. It has many formulations: This policy calls on us to fit our own propositions (or our own sentences) to the other person’s… Read More
Humor Jon Stewart is the New Socrates 23 Oct 2007 According to a book mentioned by Greg Dahlman at blog.bioethics.net. He notes that this makes Stephen Colbert Plato. I think it makes Hilary Clinton Aristotle, and Richard Dawkins Epicurus, although the sequence is a bit messed up. Read More
History Hume’s Dialogues: A coloured edition 18 Mar 201212 Feb 2019 Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is one of the very best philosophical works ever written, as I was reminded this morning while seeking a passage. But it is not easily available in a decent format online. Sure, you can download a facsimile of the second edition (1779) from Archive.Org, and I… Read More
I’ve started my first reading (it’s already obvious I’ll need more than one) of Chalmers’ The Conscious Mind and I came across that site while doing a little extra-curricular research on his ideas. Needless to say, it’s a little daunting. But, hey! In a decade or two, I should have a good beginners idea of the subject. If I can live to be 120 or so, I might get a solid grasp of it.