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Cognitive Science and the Arts

General Resources

Imagination, Mental Imagery, Consciousness, and Cognition
Inter-disciplinary links and papers.

History and Philosophy of Psychology
A great collection of resources.

Philosophy of Mind Dictionary
A wonderful resource!

Philosophy of Mind Field Guide
Good but incomplete encyclopaedia of philosophical positions.

SWIF Philosophy of Mind
Useful links in English from the Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia.

The Whole Brain Atlas
Maps of human brains; maintained by Keith A Johnson and J Alex Becker at Harvard University.


"-isms" and (In)Defensible Theories of Mind

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/ "INTELLIGENT ROBOT" THEORIES

The Alan Turing Home Page
Dedicated to the mathematician and AI theory pioneer Alan Turing.

Artificial Life Online
The International AI Society website.

CONNECTIONISM

A Brief History of Connectionism
David A Medler's useful site.

Connectionism
Istavan Berkeley's essay against connectionism.


DUALISM

Dualism
Dualism considered in relation to parapsychology.

FUNCTIONALISM

Functionalism
Ned Block's paper, "What is Functionalism?" online. Presents a powerful case against the theory.

The Chinese Room Argument
John Searle's logical disproof of varieties of functionalism.

International Synaesthesia Association
Interesting resource for information on this overwhelming empirical challenge to functionalism.

Qualia
Qualia also represent a huge problem for functionalist theories of mind (or, indeed, functionalist theories of anything). Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.