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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi

The Search for Ultimate Reality
Functionalism and Artificial Intelligence

Topical Links

Jerry Fodor

Fodor, Jerry A.
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/fodor.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind brief biography
Modularity
(http://penta.ufrgs.br/edu/telelab/3/module.htm)

University of Alberta's Cognitive Science Dictionary Entry summarizing Fodor's modular account of mind.
Jerry A. Fodor
(http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/FACSTAFF/BIOS/fodor.html)

Home Page of Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University)
Granny's Campaign for Safe Science
(http://www.ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/granny.htm)

Article by Daniel Dennett (Tufts University) critiquing Fodor
Review of Fodor's Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong
(http://online.sfsu.edu/~kbach/Fodorreview.htm)

Review by Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
Review of Fodor's Psychosemantics
(http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/fodor.htm)

Review by Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
Alan Turing

Alan M. Turing
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Turing, Alan
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/t9.htm#turi)

Brief biography by Garth Kemerling
Alan Mathison Turing Biography
(http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Turing.html)

Biography by J. J. O'Connor and E. F. F Robertson (University of St. Andrews)
The Alan Turing Home Page
(http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/)

Biography and collection of links Maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: The Enigma
Turing links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Turi)

EpistemeLink link collection
Marvin Minsky

Minsky, Marvin
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/minsky.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind brief biography
Minsky, Marvin
(http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/)

Home Page of Marvin Minsky (MIT)
Consciousness is a Big Suitcase: A Talk with Marvin Minsky
(http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/minsky/index.html)

Interview with Minsky by John Brockman (The Third Culture)
Why People Think Computers Can't
(ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/minsky/ComputersCantThink.txt)

Article by Marvin Minsky (MIT)
A Minsky Bibliography
(http://alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu/people/minsky/abstracts.html)

Annotated list of works by Minsky, many of which are available online
John Searle

Searle, John
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/searle.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind biography
Searle, John
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/s4.htm#sear)

Brief biography by Garth Kemerling
Interview with John Searle
(http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~jsearle/html/searleinterview1199.html)

Interview by Julian MooreDiscusses Searle's views on speech acts, the Chinese Room, etc.
Review of Searle
(http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/searle.htm)

Review of Searle's The Rediscovery of the Mind by Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
Searle on the Brink
(http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v1/psyche-1-05-bringsjord.html)

Review of Searle's The Rediscovery of the MindBy Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).
Daniel Dennett

Dennett, Daniel
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/dennett.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind brief biography
Dennett, Daniel C.
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/d2.htm#denn)

Brief biography by Garth Kemerling
Daniel C. Dennett
(http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dennett.html)

Brief overview and video (The Third Edge)Requires Real Player.
Daniel C. Dennett
(http://www.tufts.edu/~ddennett/)

Home Page of Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity
(http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/selfctr.htm)

Article by Dennett (Tufts University)
The Origin of Selves
(http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/originss.htm)

Article by Dennett (Tufts University)
Where Am I?
(http://departments.oxy.edu/cogsci/courses/2000/cs101/etexts/where-am-i.html)

Excerpt from Dennett's Brainstorms, 1978)
Get Real
(http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/getreal.htm)

Dennett's replies to his critics
Functionalism

Functionalism
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/function.htm)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Functionalism
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/functionalism.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind definition and discussion
Functionalism
(http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/maloney.html)

MITECS entry and suggested additional links
Functionalism
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/f9.htm#func)

Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling
Functionalism
(http://www.siu.edu/~philos/faculty/Manfredi/intro/mind/function.html)

Discussion by Pat Manfredi (Southern Illinois University)
Functionalism: General information
(http://www.hku.hk/philodep/courses/mind/lecture7.htm)

Lecture notes by Joe Lau (University of Hong Kong)
Functionalism and qualia
(http://www.hku.hk/philodep/courses/mind/lecture8.htm)

Lecture notes by Joe Lau (University of Hong Kong)
What is functionalism
(http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000235/00/199712008.html)

Overview article by Ned Block (NYU)Also available from NYU.
The Nature of Mental States
(http://hps.elte.hu/~gk/books/cog/putnam.htm)

Article by Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Advocating a functionalist account of mental states such as pain.
Multiple realizability

Multiple realizability
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/multiplerealizability.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind definition and discussion
Multiple realizability
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Turing machines and the Turing test

Turing machine
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/turingmachine.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind definition and discussion
Turing machine
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Turing test
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/turingtest.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind definition and brief discussion
Turing Test
(http://penta.ufrgs.br/edu/telelab/3/turing_t.htm)

University of Alberta's Cognitive Science Dictionary entry
The Turing Test
(http://www.hku.hk/philodep/courses/mind/lecture10.htm)

Lecture notes by Joe Lau (University of Hong Kong)
The Turing Test is Not a Trick
(http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad92.turing.html)

Article by Stevan Harnad (Dept. of Psychology, Princeton University)
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
(http://penta.ufrgs.br/edu/telelab/3/artifici.htm)

University of Alberta's Cognitive Science Dictionary entry
Artificial Intelligence
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/a7.htm#arti)

Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling
Artificial Intelligence
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/artintel.htm)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Cognitive Science
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Connectionism
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
The Modern History of Computing
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
The Philosophy and Future of AI
(http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philosophy.html)

Discussion and collection of links by Mark Humphrys (Dublin City University)
The Conscious Computer
(http://www.theunityofknowledge.org/the_conscious_computer/title_page.htm)

Online article by Derrick Farnell (theunityofknowledge.org)
Ethics for Machines
(http://dobrev.com/AI/definition.html)

Discussion by J. Storrs Hall, Ph. D.
John Searle's Chinese Room

The Chinese Room Argument
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/chineser.htm)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Chinese Room Argument
(http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/searle.html)

MITECS entry and suggested additional links
The Chinese Room Argument
(http://www.hku.hk/philodep/courses/mind/lecture11.htm)

Lecture notes by Joe Lau (University of Hong Kong)
Searle's Chinese Room argument
(http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/chinese.html)

Discussion by Larry Hauser (Alma College)
Searle's Chinese Box: Debunking the Chinese Room Argument
(http://members.aol.com/lshauser2/chinabox.html)

Review of Searle by Larry Hauser in Minds and Machines, 1997
Minds, Machines, and Searle
(http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad89.searle.html)

Article on Searle's Chinese Room argumentBy Stevan Harnad (Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University).
Semantics
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/semantics.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind definition
Intentionality
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/intentionality.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind definition