ORGANIZATIONS & EVENTS

NOTE: Some conferences leave their program information on-line after the event is over. I have decided that it is sometimes as useful to see what has gone by as what is forthcoming. But please pay careful attention to the dates of events liste d here. Some are long past.

The Society for Philosophy and Psychology

The purpose of the SPP is to promote interaction between philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern. The SPP sponsors a four-day annual meeting, usually held on the first Thursday-Sunday of June.

The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Founded in 1904. Its stated purpose is to promote philosophy and psychology in the Southern section of the United States by facilitating the exchange of ideas among those engaged in these fields of inquiry, by encouraging investigation, by fostering the educational function of philosophy and psychology, and by improving the academic status of the subjects.

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

ASSC promotes rigorous analytic research on consciousness. The official purpose of the organization is to encourage research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. Any solid research on consciousness (and its related issues) falls within our area of interest.

Toward a Science of Consciousness

Scientists with unimpeachable credentials in a wide range of fields, from psychology to molecular biology to mathematical physics, have begun to assert that understanding the nature of consciousness is an important scientific goal, perhaps the most im portant question that science faces at the present time. But how to begin?

Cognitive Science Society Information

This is the Home Page for the Cognitive Science Society.

Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease

The home page of ARNMD, the oldest society of neurologists and psychiatrists in existence, founded in 1920. T he purpose of ARNMD is to keep practicing physicians in neurology and psychiatry, and neuroscientists, informed about state of the art research findings of interest to these ever more related disciplines, findings that are beginning to inform the thinking and practice of neurology and psychiatry.

Naturalism, Evolution, and Intentionality:
An Interdisciplinary Conference in the Philosophy of Mind

This conference will provide a venue for discussing th e following questions concerning human nature. How is it that some of the states of our bodies (certain brain states) are about things in the world? That is, how is it that they are intentional? What determines the content of those states and how do we in dividuate them? Does what we are thinking about affect our behaviour, and, if so, how? What role does evolution by natural selection have in explaining our capacities and attributes? Why are some of our mental states conscious? How do we ascertain what it is that others believe? How did language evolve, why are we so adept at it, and what is its relationship to other of our cognitive abilities?

Evolving the human mind

An international interdisciplinary conference on the evolution of human cognition. The evolution of the mind seems to us to be a topic which is ripe for further inter-disciplinary collaboration, amongst those who, from their different specialist persp ectives, are interested in such issues as: the general structure of the mind (modularity versus cognitive plasticity), nativism versus empiricism, adaptationist predictions about cognitive structure, evolutionary explanations of known cognitive structures . Such collaboration might involve psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, archaeologists, zoologists, and neuroscientists. The current list of invited participants for the project is given at the end of this page. The intention will be to build a g roup of people who engage one another in genuine inter-disciplinary debate on this topic.

Limits of Science: Philosophical Problems in the Neurosciences (5th Pittsburgh Konstanz Colloquium)

The Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science is the joint undertaking of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie at the Universitīt Konstanz. The coll oquium consists of a series of biennial international conferences that alternate between Konstanz and Pittsburgh.

International Soceity for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology

The International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, including the life sciences as well as history, philosophy, and social studies of science. ISHPSSB summer mee tings are known for innovative, transdisciplinary sessions, and for fostering informal, co-operative exchanges and on-going collaborations.

Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)

Dennett's Philosophy

Now that Daniel Dennett has synthesized, in three recent volumes, his career's work on philosophy of mind, intentionality, consciousness, evolution, ontology and ethics into a systematic whole, it is time for philosophers to scrutinize the corpus for its coherence and to motivate revisions to it where these seem necessary.

Naturalism, Evolution and Mind

This site contains preliminary information regarding invited speakers and details of the current call for papers, and in time will provide program and registration information, including on-line registration. As they become available abstracts for the talks will also be accessible.

Supervenience, Causality, Mind and Action

The program will consist of a series of papers falling under the general theme of "Supervenience, Causality, Action and Mind": this encompasses four inter-related focal issues which together characterize much of the work of Davidson, Dretske and Kim.

Brain and Mind

Brain and Mind will provide a forum for interdisciplinary communication throughout the neurosciences. Unlike existing interdisciplinary journals, it will target exclusively researchers investigating brains and nervous systems. The overarching aim is to exclude no one doing high-quality neuroscientific or neurophilosophical research interested in communicating results to a wider audience.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

BBS is an international, interdisciplinary journal of "open peer commentary." BBS publishes important and controversial interdisciplinary "target articles" in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence , linguistics and philosophy.

Journal of Consciousness Studies

How does your mind relate to your brain? Can computers ever be conscious? How is conscious experience generated from neural processes? These questions are being keenly debated in fields as diverse as cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy. The Journal of Consciousness Studies is a new peer-reviewed journal which examines these issues in plain English.

Minds and Machines

Minds and Machines affords an international forum for discussion and debate of important and controversial issues concerning significant developments within its areas of editorial focus. This journal is intended to foster a tradition of critici sm within the AI and philosophical communities on problems and issues of common concern. Its scope explicitly encompasses philosophical aspects of computer science.

Psyche: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness

Psyche is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. Psyche publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, artificial i ntelligence and anthropology.

PSYCHE-D Archive

Philosophical Psychology

Philosophical Psychology is an international journal devoted to developing and strengthening the links between philosophy and the psychological sciences, both as basic sciences and as employed in applied settings, by publishing original, peer referred, contributions to this expanding field of study and research.

Consciousness and Cognition

Official journal of the Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Journal of Mind and Behavior

The Journal of Mind and Behavioris dedicated to the interdisciplinary approach within psychology and related fields - building upon the assumption of a unified science.

TheNeuroscientistOnlineEdition

Not free.

The Electronic Journal of Cognitive and Brain Sciences

New on-line journal.

History of Psychology

A quarterly scholarly journal published by the American Psychological Association for its Division of the History of Psychology.

Connexions

A web-based journal of cognitive science. Unlike traditional journals, however, Connexions is not a showcase for finished work, but a forum for the display and discussion of work-in-progress.

Mind and Body:
RenéDescartes to William James

This web exhibition is a modified version of the catalogue that accompanied the Exhibition of books from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, held in honor of the Centennial Celebration of the American Psychological Association, August 7 to December 15, 1992.

Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science

It is the aim of this page to bring together non-Cartesian approaches to the study of cognition. That means that the main point which holds this page together is the idea that mind and body form a unity, not a union. Guttorm Floistad (1983) speaks of Spinozism to allude to non-Cartesian approaches to the mental. Under that heading, there is room for many different themes.

Artificial Intellegence

This site is meant to be an educational overview of Artificial Intelligence, created for ThinkQuest, a national high school web design competition.

The Lucidity Institute

The Lucidity Institute is dedicated to the advancement of research on the nature and potentials of consciousness and to the application of the results of this research to the enhancement of human health and well-being.

David Chalmers

A philosopher at the University of Arizona who works mainly in the philosophy of mind, and in related areas of cognitive science and metaphysics.

Daniel Dennett.

And Dennett's publications list: preprints from D. C. Dennett.

Valerie Hardcastle.

Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. Valerie's Office

John Bickle

Philosophy and neuroscience at East Carolina University. See the Focused Research Program in Computational Neuro science and Neuroscience at ECU.

Christof Koch

The Koch Lab pages at Caltech.

Pete Mandik

Grad student at Wash U, St. Louis.

Brian Keeley

Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa.

Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography

This is a bibliography of recent work in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of artificial intelligence. It consists of about 1800 entries, and is divided into 5 parts. Most of the entries are annotated with a brief summary. Most areas of mainstream contemporary philosophy of mind are covered, but some very active tangential areas have been largely ignored.

Philosophy of Psychiatry Bibliography

Ethical, social, political, legal, historical and philosophical issues in mental health and psychiatry.

A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind

Consciousness and the Brain: Annotated Bibliography

Ralph D. Ellis, Ph.D., Clark Atlanta University.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

A dictionary intended as a free resource to all those interested in the philosophy of mind.

Zombies Invade Philosophy!

Larry Hauser's page of zombie-related links.

Mind/Brain Resources

Valerie Hardcastle's Virgina Tech list of mind and brain related sites.

The Whole Brain Atlas

This is an information resource for central nervous system imaging which integrates clinical information with magnetic resonance (MR), x- ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine images. We welcome submission of Atlas entries.

Self/Person/Personal Identity

Research Sources on Concepts of Person and Self.

Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

The newly established Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) at Duke University is dedicated to research, education and training in the psychological, computational and biological mechanisms of higher mental function. The field of cognitive neuroscience is broad and includes research into cognitive functions such as attention, language, memory and emotion, as well as high-level perceptual and motor processes such as visual imagery, object processing, and implicit motor learning. To meet the intellectual challenges of this exciting discipline, Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience brings together the expertise of talented faculty and students from across the university and medical school.

Duke Undergraduate Neuroscience Program

Undergraduate Neurosciences Program (UNP), a component of the Neuroscience program, provides a focus for undergraduate activity in the many facets of neuroscience.

Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology at Washington U., St. Louis

The Philosophy / Neuroscience / Psychology Program at WUSTL offers a doctorate in philosophy with a special emphasis in cognitive neuroscience and/or cognitive psychology. There are numerous faculty associated with the program, in the Department o f Philosophy and elsewhere.

Consciousness Studies at U. of Arizona

Permanent home to the Towards a Science of Consciousness biannual conference (AKA, Tucson I, Tucson II,... Tucson XXX: Rambo Meets Consciousness,...) A clearinghouse for information about consciousness rese arch.

Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford

Symbolic Systems attacks age-old questions about the relation between mind and the world.

Brown University Brain Sciences

Research in Brain Science addresses questions about some of the most challenging and complex brain functions. Our research areas include und erstanding what the eye tells the brain and how we recognize objects; how behavior, perception and cognition emerges from the activity of networks of neurons; what are the mental processes through which knowledge is acquired and used; and through which we create, understand, and express language; how we learn and remember; and how genes control such activities. We also explore how neurons communicate with each other, how the brain wires itself, and how molecules and receptors give neurons their unique pro perties. We are also interested in how to build machines that can emulate brain functions to improve our lives.

Center for the Study of Language and Information

CSLI was founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC to further research and de velopment of integrated theories of language, information, and computation.

Sheffield Philosophy

Department at the University of Sheffield. Includes the journals Analysis and Connexions, and Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies.

MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Department at the Massaschusetts Institute of Technology.

Focused Research Program in Computational Neuroscience

Dr. John Bickle directs faculty and students from the departments of Biology, Psychology, Philosophy, and Program in Neur oscience in the Focused Research Program in Computational Neuroscience (FRPCN) at East Carolina University. FRPCN's objective is to hypothesize the neurocomputational mechanisms of phenomena such as attention, learning, memory, and consciousness. Toward t his end, we employ the resources of computational neuroscience and biological modeling, drawing empirical data from the neurosciences, molecular biology, and behavioral psychology. In keeping with our belief that experimental results from computational mo dels can further the research efforts of 'wet lab' investigations, we are committed to incorporating the relevant neurobiological and behavioral detail into our computational models.

Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana U.

CRCC research focuses mainly on emergent computational models of creative analogical thinking and its subcognitive substrate -- namely, fluid concepts. The group also conducts research (mostly non-computational) in a number of other areas of cognitive science.

Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science

A primary goal of the Center is to foster research concerned with the nature of certain symbolic processes that are con stitutive of intelligent performance.

New York University

The Department of Philosophy at NYU is strong in philosophy of mind, among other areas.

Cognitive Science at Georgia Tech

A multidisciplinary group of faculty, research scientists, and students with several points of interdisciplinary connection in research and in teaching. A distinctive, unifying focus of the Program is the study of cognition in the context of real-worl d problems.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies in Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Sciences at Binghamton U.

An innovative, interdisciplinary MA/PhD program in Philosophy. This program is designed to integrate the disciplines of philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science and systems science.

UCSD Cognitive Science Programs

Information about the several cognitive science programs at University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Center for Cognitive Studies

The Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University is a research unit, offering no courses or degrees of its own, but providi ng an administrative home for various research projects in cognitive studies undertaken by the director, Daniel C. Dennett, and his associates.

INDEXES

Philosophy and Neuroscience

A site dedicated to neurophilosophy: research at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience.

Philosophy of Mind

These pages are built to be a working instrument in order to simplify the location of the resources that Internet offers to the res earches on Philosophy of Mind.