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.
behaviorism
the identity theory
eliminative materialism
panpsychism [Chris Tracy]
functionalism
epiphenomenalism [Alvaro Britto]
property dualism
emergentism [Fletcher Daniels]
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
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]
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
computationalism
the "dynamic systems" approach to cognition
the "extended mind" [Sarah Stec]
the representational theory of mind [Joaquin Urby]
Last update:
February 18, 2008. |