Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography ========================================================== Compiled by David J. Chalmers, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis MO 63130. E-mail: dave@twinearth.wustl.edu. (c) 1994 David J. Chalmers. Last update: May 20, 1994. Introduction ------------ Enclosed is a bibliography I have compiled of recent work in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of AI. It consists of 1620 entries, divided into 5 parts: 1. Consciousness and Qualia [415 entries] 2. Mental Content [378 entries] 3. Psychophysical Relations and Psychological Explanation [288 entries] 4. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence [319 entries] 5. Miscellaneous Topics [220 entries] Most of the entries are annotated with a brief summary. The rest I either haven't read or haven't got around to annotating yet. Parts 1-4 have good coverage of the areas involved, but part 5 still needs a lot of work. Most areas of mainstream contemporary philosophy of mind are covered, but some very active tangential areas, such as belief semantics and action theory, have been mostly ignored. The bibliography consists mostly of papers and books from the last 30 years, with density of coverage increasing with proximity to the present. It was compiled mostly by following references recursively, with the occasional random journal search. Comments and corrections are more than welcome. I'd be very grateful if people could send me (a) pointers to any work I've missed, (b) related bibliographic material; and (c) copies of any unpublished work that you might have on these topics. Thanks. Dave Chalmers. (dave@twinearth.wustl.edu) ============================================================================= Summary ------- Part 1: Consciousness and Qualia [411] 1.1 Subjectivity (Nagel) [34] 1.2 The Knowledge Argument (Jackson) [22] 1.3 Functionalism and Qualia [41] 1.3a Introspection and Absent Qualia (Shoemaker) [9] 1.3b Absent Qualia, General (Block, etc) [14] 1.3c Miscellaneous [18] 1.4 The Inverted Spectrum [22] 1.5 Qualia, General [38] 1.6 Functional Approaches to Consciousness [65] 1.6a Neurobiological Approaches [15] 1.6b Cognitive Approaches [15] 1.6c Dennett on Consciousness [20] 1.6d Functional Approaches, Misc [9] 1.6e The Function of Consciousness [6] 1.7 Consciousness [76] 1.7a General [22] 1.7b Conceptual Analysis [9] 1.7c Consciousness and Higher-Order Thought (Rosenthal, etc) [12] 1.7d Consciousness and Physicalism [15] 1.7e Eliminativist Perspectives [10] 1.7f Consciousness and Intentionality [9] 1.8 Mind-Body Problem [28] 1.9 The Identity Theory (Smart, etc) [55] 1.10 Essentialism and the Identity Theory (Kripke) [30] 1.11 Machine Consciousness (Searle, etc) -- see 4.3, 4.4 Part 2: Mental Content [375] 2.1 The Status of Propositional Psychology [132] 2.1a The Language of Thought (Fodor) [27] 2.1b Instrumentalism (Dennett) [24] 2.1c Syntactic Functionalism (Stich) [6] 2.1d Eliminativism (Churchlands) [38] 2.1e Propositional Attitudes, General [17] 2.1f The Nature of Folk Psychology [20] 2.2 Narrow/Wide Content [114] 2.2a Is Meaning in the Head? (Putnam, Burge) [21] 2.2b Individualism and Externalism in Psychology (Burge, Fodor) [38] 2.2c The Status of Narrow Content [32] 2.2d Content and Self-Knowledge [8] 2.2e Miscellaneous [15] 2.3 Causal Theories of Content [64] 2.3a Information-Based Accounts (Dretske, etc) [21] 2.3b Asymmetric Dependence (Fodor) [11] 2.3c Causal Accounts, General [9] 2.3d Teleological Approaches (Millikan, etc) [23] 2.4 Conceptual Role Semantics [13] 2.5 Representation (General) [18] 2.6 The Explanatory Role of Content [10] 2.7 Mental Content, Misc [24] Part 3: Psychophysical Relations and Psychological Explanation [284] 3.1 Supervenience [55] 3.1a Psychophysical Supervenience (Kim, etc) [7] 3.1b Supervenience and Physicalism [13] 3.1c Technical Issues in Supervenience [11] 3.1d Supervenience, General [24] 3.2 Anomalous Monism (Davidson) [39] 3.3 Reduction [22] 3.4 Token Identity [6] 3.5 Mental Causation [22] 3.6 Psychophysical Relations, Misc [12] 3.7 Functionalism [59] 3.7a Causal Role Functionalism (Armstrong/Lewis) [15] 3.7b Machine Functionalism (Putnam) [16] 3.7c Miscellaneous [28] 3.8 Computationalism [23] 3.9 Psychology and Neuroscience [18] 3.10 Psychological Explanation, Misc [14] 3.11 Philosophy of Mind, General [14] Part 4: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence [318] 4.1 The Turing Test [18] 4.2 Godelian Arguments (Lucas) [41] 4.3 The Chinese Room (Searle) [49] 4.4 Machine Consciousness, Misc [24] 4.5 Philosophy of Connectionism [98] 4.5a Connectionism and Compositionality (Fodor/Pylyshyn) [20] 4.5b Representation in Connectionism [11] 4.5c Connectionism and Eliminativism [7] 4.5d The Connectionist/Classical Debate [15] 4.5e Subsymbolic Computation (Smolensky) [6] 4.5f Philosophy of Connectionism, Misc [29] 4.5g Foundational Empirical Issues [10] 4.6 Symbols and Symbol Systems [5] 4.7 Methodological Foundations of AI [22] 4.8 Computation and Semantics [12] 4.9 The Frame Problem [11] 4.10 Analog and Digital Processing [5] 4.11 Levels of Analysis (Marr, etc) [9] 4.12 Philosophy of AI, Misc [25] 4.13 Computationalism in Psychological Explanation -- see 2.9. Part 5: Miscellaneous Topics [220] 5.1 Nativism (Chomsky, etc) [27] 5.2 Modularity/Perceptual Plasticity (Fodor, Churchland) [15] 5.3 Mental Images (Pylyshyn, Kosslyn) [25] 5.4 Rationality [16] 5.5 Animal Cognition [7] 5.6 Color, General [27] 5.7 Phenomenal Qualities and the Sorites Paradox [7] 5.8 Sensation and Perception, Misc [9] 5.9 Pain and Pleasure [15] 5.10 Emotions, etc [6] 5.11 Dreaming [7] 5.12 Free Will (tiny selection) [15] 5.13 Interactionist Dualism [11] 5.14 Split Brains [12] 5.15 Personal Identity (tiny selection) [11] 5.16 Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Misc [10]