Switch to: Citations

Add references

You must login to add references.
  1. (1 other version)Minds, brains, and programs.John Searle - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3):417-57.
    What psychological and philosophical significance should we attach to recent efforts at computer simulations of human cognitive capacities? In answering this question, I find it useful to distinguish what I will call "strong" AI from "weak" or "cautious" AI. According to weak AI, the principal value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion. (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1737 citations  
  • Emergent Evolution.C. Lloyd Morgan - 1923 - London,: Williams & Norgate.
    EMERGENT EVOLUTION- THE GIFFORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   107 citations  
  • (1 other version)Space, Time and Deity.Samuel Alexander - 1920 - London,: Macmillan.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   125 citations  
  • (1 other version)Neutral monism.Leopold Stubenberg - 2005 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   56 citations  
  • The Analysis of Matter.Bertrand Russell - 1927 - London: Kegan Paul.
    "The Analysis of Matter" is one of the earliest and best philosophical studies of the new physics of relativity and quantum mechanics.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   284 citations  
  • (1 other version)Realistic monism - why physicalism entails panpsychism.Galen Strawson - 2006 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 13 (10-11):3-31.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   196 citations  
  • Consciousness, information, and panpsychism.William Seager - 1995 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (3):272-88.
    The generation problem is to explain how material configurations or processes can produce conscious experience. David Chalmers urges that this is what makes the problem of consciousness really difficult. He proposes to side-step the generation problem by proposing that consciousness is an absolutely fundamental feature of the world. I am inclined to agree that the generation problem is real and believe that taking consciousness to be fundamental is promising. But I take issue with Chalmers about what it is to be (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   95 citations  
  • Panpsychism.Thomas Nagel - 1979 - In Mortal questions. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 181–95.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   67 citations  
  • (1 other version)The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (2nd edition).David J. Chalmers - 1996 - Oxford University Press.
    The book is an extended study of the problem of consciousness. After setting up the problem, I argue that reductive explanation of consciousness is impossible , and that if one takes consciousness seriously, one has to go beyond a strict materialist framework. In the second half of the book, I move toward a positive theory of consciousness with fundamental laws linking the physical and the experiential in a systematic way. Finally, I use the ideas and arguments developed earlier to defend (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2046 citations  
  • (1 other version)Minds, Brains, and Programs.John Searle - 2003 - In John Heil (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   666 citations  
  • Two Conceptions of the Physical.Daniel Stoljar - 2001 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (2):253-281.
    The debate over physicalism in philosophy of mind can be seen as concerning an inconsistent tetrad of theses: (1) if physicalism is true, a priori physicalism is true; (2) a priori physicalism is false; (3) if physicalism is false, epiphenomenalism is true; (4) epiphenomenalism is false. This paper argues that one may resolve the debate by distinguishing two conceptions of the physical: on the theory‐based conception, it is plausible that (2) is true and (3) is false; on the object‐based conception, (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   157 citations  
  • (1 other version)Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism.Galen Strawson - 2006 - In Anthony Freeman (ed.), Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? Exeter: Imprint Academic. pp. 3-31.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   177 citations  
  • Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness.Daniel Stoljar - 2006 - New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.
    Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world. The correct response to the problem, Stoljar argues, is not to posit a realm of experience distinct from the physical, nor to deny the reality of phenomenal experience, nor even to rethink our understanding of consciousness and the language we use to talk about it. Instead, we should view (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   104 citations  
  • (2 other versions)Weak emergence: Causation and emergence.Ma Bedau - 1997 - Philosophical Perspectives 11:375-399.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   133 citations  
  • (2 other versions)Troubles with functionalism.Block Ned - 1978 - In W. Savage (ed.), Perception and Cognition. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 9--261.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   73 citations  
  • Structural Realism.James Ladyman - 2014 - In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA: The Metaphysics Research Lab.
    Structural realism is considered by many realists and antirealists alike as the most defensible form of scientific realism. There are now many forms of structural realism and an extensive literature about them. There are interesting connections with debates in metaphysics, philosophy of physics and philosophy of mathematics. This entry is intended to be a comprehensive survey of the field.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   139 citations  
  • Extrinsic properties.David Lewis - 1983 - Philosophical Studies 44 (2):197-200.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   204 citations  
  • Extended simples.Kris McDaniel - 2007 - Philosophical Studies 133 (1):131 - 141.
    I argue that extended simples are possible. The argument given here parallels an argument given elsewhere for the claim that the shape properties of material objects are extrinsic, not intrinsic as is commonly supposed. In the final section of the paper, I show that if the shape properties of material objects are extrinsic, the most popular argument against extended simples fails.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   133 citations  
  • Maximality and microphysical supervenience.Theodore Sider - 2003 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (1):139-149.
    A property, F, is maximal i?, roughly, large parts of an F are not themselves Fs. Maximal properties are typically extrinsic, for their instantiation by x depends on what larger things x is part of. This makes trouble for a recent argument against microphysical superve- nience by Trenton Merricks. The argument assumes that conscious- ness is an intrinsic property, whereas consciousness is in fact maximal and extrinsic.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   47 citations  
  • The Search for Ontological Emergence.Michael Silberstein & John McGeever - 1999 - Philosophical Quarterly 49 (195):201-214.
    We survey and clarify some recent appearances of the term ‘emergence’. We distinguish epistemological emergence, which is merely a limitation of descriptive apparatus, from ontological emergence, which should involve causal features of a whole system not reducible to the properties of its parts, thus implying the failure of part/whole reductionism and of mereological supervenience for that system. Are there actually any plausible cases of the latter among the numerous and various mentions of ‘emergence’ in the recent literature? Quantum mechanics seems (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   89 citations  
  • (1 other version)The Analysis of Mind.Bertrand Russell - 1921/1922 - Mind 31 (121):85-97.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   201 citations  
  • Maximality and Intrinsic Properties.Theodore Sider - 2001 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2):357 - 364.
    A property, F, is maximal iff, roughly, large parts of an F are not themselves Fs.' Maximality makes trouble for a recent analysis of intrinsicality by Rae Langton and David Lewis.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   87 citations  
  • (1 other version)The rise and fall of british emergentism.Brian P. McLaughlin - 1992 - In Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr & Jaegwon Kim (eds.), Emergence or Reduction?: Prospects for Nonreductive Physicalism. De Gruyter.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   222 citations  
  • Against the doctrine of microphysical supervenience.Trenton Merricks - 1998 - Mind 107 (425):59-71.
    The doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience (MS) states that: Necessarily, if atoms A1 through An compose an object that exemplified intrinsic qualitative properties Q1 through Qn, then atoms like A1 through An (in all their respective intrinsic qualitative properties), related to one another by all the same restricted atom-to-atom relations as A1 through An, compose an object that exemplifies Q1 through Qn. I show that MS entails a contradiction and so must be rejected. And my argument against MS provides the resources (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   33 citations  
  • (2 other versions)Troubles with Functionalism.Ned Block - 1993 - In Alvin I. Goldman (ed.), Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 231.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   367 citations  
  • The nature of the physical world.Arthur Stanley Eddington - 1928 - London,: Dent.
    1929. The course of Gifford Lectures that Eddington delivered in the University of Edinburgh in January to March 1927.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   192 citations  
  • A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World.Gregg Rosenberg - 2004 - New York, US: Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information about a bat's physical structure and information processing leaves us guessing about the central questions concerning the character of its experience. A Place for Consciousness begins with reflections (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   81 citations  
  • (1 other version)The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism.Brian P. Mclaughlin - 1992 - In Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr & Jaegwon Kim (eds.), Emergence or Reduction?: Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism. New York: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 49-93.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   196 citations  
  • The Mind and its Place in Nature.Charlie Dunbar Broad - 1925 - London, England: Routledge.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   182 citations  
  • (1 other version)The mathematical structure of the world: The world as graph.Randall R. Dipert - 1997 - Journal of Philosophy 94 (7):329-358.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   47 citations  
  • (3 other versions)The Analysis of Mind.Bertrand Russell - 1921 - Duke University Press.
    This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim's Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   195 citations  
  • (1 other version)The Mathematical Structure of the World.Randall R. Dipert - 1997 - Journal of Philosophy 94 (7):329-358.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   40 citations  
  • The architecture of matter: Galileo to Kant.Thomas Anand Holden - 2004 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Thomas Holden presents a fascinating study of theories of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These theories were plagued by a complex of interrelated problems concerning matter's divisibility, composition, and internal architecture. Is any material body infinitely divisible? Must we posit atoms or elemental minima from which bodies are ultimately composed? Are the parts of material bodies themselves material concreta? Or are they merely potentialities or possible existents? Questions such as these -- and the press of subtler questions hidden (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   40 citations  
  • From the closed world to the infinite universe.A. Koyré - 1957 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 148:101-102.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   117 citations