Guide to the Philosophy of Mind

Guide to the Philosophy of Mind

Compiled by David Chalmers

Since 1997 I have been philosophy of mind editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By now we have accumulated enough entries in the philosophy of mind that it's the equivalent of a pretty definitive reference work in the field. I have a certain pride in this, as I've put a lot of work into the editing of each entry, and many of the entries are superb guides to their topics. I thought it would make sense to gather all these in one place, as a useful reference for those who are especially interested in the philosophy of mind.

The first list below includes the entries classified under "philosophy of mind" in the encyclopedia. All of these were edited by me or by Daniel Stoljar, who came on board as co-editor in 2003. The second list includes some relevant entries from other areas, especially philosophy of cognitive science (edited by Barbra von Eckardt), but also metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of action. Note that the unlinked entries are still in progress. Most of these have already been through a draft and should appear before too long.

SEP Philosophy of Mind entries

• anomalous monism (Steven Yalowitz)

   

• belief (Eric Schwitzgebel)

   

• Chinese room argument (David Cole)

   

• concepts (Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence)
• consciousness (Robert Van Gulick)
  • animal (Colin Allen)
  • higher-order theories (Peter Carruthers)
  • and intentionality (Charles Siewert)
  • representational theories (William Lycan)
  • unity of (Andrew Brook)

• dualism (Howard Robinson)

   

• emotion (Ronald de Sousa)
• eliminative materialism (William Ramsey)
• epiphenomenalism (William Robinson)

   

• functionalism (Janet Levin)

   

• identity theory of mind (J. J. C. Smart)
• intentionality (Pierre Jacob)

   

• language of thought hypothesis (Murat Aydede)

   

• memory (John Sutton)
• mental causation (David Robb and John Heil)
• mental content
  • causal theories of (Fred Adams)
  • externalism about (Joe Lau)
  • narrow (Curtis Brown)
  • nonconceptual (José Bermúdez)
  • teleological theories of (Karen Neander)
• mental imagery (Nigel Thomas)
• multiple realizability (John Bickle)

   

• neutral monism (Leopold Stubenberg)

   

• other minds (Alec Hyslop)

   

• pain (Murat Aydede)
• panpsychism (William Seager)
• perception
  • the contents of (Susanna Siegel)
  • the disjunctive theory of (Scott Sturgeon)
  • the problem of (Tim Crane)
• physicalism (Daniel Stoljar)
• pleasure (Leonard D. Katz)

   

• qualia (Michael Tye)
  • inverted (Alex Byrne)
  • knowledge argument (Martine Nida-Rümelin)

• self-consciousness (Uriah Kriegel)
  • phenomenological approaches to (Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi)
• self-knowledge (Brie Gertler)
• supervenience (Karen Bennett & Brian McLaughlin)

   

• zombies (Robert Kirk)

Other relevant SEP entries

• action (George Wilson)
• behaviorism (George Graham)
• Church-Turing Thesis (B. Jack Copeland)
• cognitive science (Paul Thagard)
• color (Barry Maund)
• computational theory of mind (Steven Horst)
• connectionism (James Garson)
• emergence (Timothy O'Connor and Hong Yu Wong)
• folk psychology: as a theory (Ian Ravenscroft)
• folk psychology: as mental simulation (Robert M. Gordon)
• frame problem (Murray Shanahan)
• free will (Timothy O'Connor)
• idealism (Timothy Sprigge)
• linguistic innatism (Fiona Cowie)
• materialism (Jeff Poland)
• mental illness (Christian Perring)
• mental representation (David Pitt)
• neuroscience, philosophy of (John Bickle and Peter Mandik)
• perception: epistemological problems of (Laurence BonJour)
• personal identity (Eric T. Olson)
• phenomenology (David Woodruff Smith)
• practical reason (Jay Wallace)
• propositional attitude reports (Thomas McKay)
• quantum approaches to consciousness (Harald Atmanspacher)
• reference (Marga Reimer)
• sense-data (Michael Huemer)
• sounds (Roberto Casati and Jerome Dokic)
• speech acts (Mitchell Green)
• Turing test (Graham Oppy and David Dowe)