Philosophy of Mind

Literature Review Topics

 

Choose one (or clear an alternative with me). First come, first served! No more than one person per topic. As people select topics, I will list their names by the topic in red boldface.

Mind-body theories

behaviorism

the identity theory

eliminative materialism

panpsychism [Chris Tracy]

functionalism

epiphenomenalism [Alvaro Britto]

property dualism

emergentism [Fletcher Daniels]

arguments concerning dualism and physicalism

the modal argument against physicalism

the "knowledge argument" against physicalism

the explanatory gap (between the physical and the mental)

are zombies possible? (absent qualia argument against functionalism)

inverted qualia argument against functionalism

Block's "homunculi-head" argument against functionalism

mental content

higher-order thought analysis of consciousness [Louis Andrade]

internalism vs. externalism about mental content [Christina Waite]

teleological accounts of mental content

conceptual role semantics

causal accounts of mental content [Christopher Granados]

artificial intelligence

the Turing Test for machine intelligence

the Chinese Room argument against strong AI [Rebecca Ingram]

Dreyfus's arguments against strong AI [Clay Chastain]

connectionist vs. classical AI

philosophy of cognitive science -- miscellaneous

computationalism

the "dynamic systems" approach to cognition

the "extended mind" [Sarah Stec]

the representational theory of mind [Joaquin Urby]



Last update: February 18, 2008. 
Curtis Brown  |  Philosophy of Mind   |  Philosophy Department  |   Trinity University
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