Pete Mandik’s Philosophy of Mind MetaResource
Links to definitions and discussions of key terms in the philosophy of mind culled by Pete Mandik from the following sources (Last updated, May 28, 2008):
- Eliasmith’s Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind (DPM)
- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
- A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind (FG)
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
- Brain Hammer (BH)
The Terms
Action
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Agency
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Anomalous monism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Artificial intelligence
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Behaviorism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Belief
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Chinese nation
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Chinese room
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Cognitive architecture
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Cognitive science
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Color, theories of
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Compositionality
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Computation
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Concepts
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Conceptual role semantics
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Connectionism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Consciousness
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Consciousness, access
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Consciousness, creature
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Consciousness, phenomenal
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Consciousness, state
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Content
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Content, theories of
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Desire
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Dualism, property
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Dualism, substance
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Dynamic systems theory
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Eliminative materialism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Emergence
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Emotion
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Empiricism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Epiphenomenalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Epistemology
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Event
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Experience
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Explanation
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Explanatory exclusion
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Extension
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Externalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
First-person
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Folk psychology
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Functionalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence)
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Higher-order thought theory of consciousness
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Holism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Idealism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Identity theory
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Imagery
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Imagination
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Individualism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Inexistence
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Information
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Innateness
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Intension (with an ‘s’)
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Intentional action
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Intentional stance, the
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Intentionality
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Intention-in-action
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Interactionism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Internalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Introspection
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Intuition
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Inverted spectrum
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Know-how
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Knowledge
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Knowledge argument
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Language of thought
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Leibniz’s law
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Mark of the mental
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Memory
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Mental representation
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Mind-body problem
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Modal argument
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Modularity
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Monism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Multiple realizability
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Natural kind
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Naturalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Neural network
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Neurophilosophy
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Non-conceptual content
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Normative
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Objectivity
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Occasionalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Ontology
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Opacity, referential
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Other minds, problem of
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Pain
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Perception
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Phenomenalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Phenomenology
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Physicalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Physicalism, Non-reductive
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Possible world
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Practical reasoning
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Pre-established harmony
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Productivity
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Property
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Proposition
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Propositional attitude
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Qualia
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Radical interpretation
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Ramsey sentence
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Ramsification
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Rationality
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Rationalism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Realism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Realization
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Reasoning
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Reasons
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Reduction
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Reference
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Representation
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Representation, mental
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Resemblance theory of content
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Role theory of content
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Self, the
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Semantics
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Sensation
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Sense
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Simulation theory (theory of mind)
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
State
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Subjectivity
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Substance
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Supervenience
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Swamp Man
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Symbol grounding
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Symbolicism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Syntax
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Systematicity
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Teleology
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Teleosemantics
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Theory of mind
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
“Theory”-theory (theory of mind)
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Thought
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Token
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Token identity thesis
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Transparency (of experience)
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Transparency, referential
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Trope
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Truth
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Turing machine
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Turing test
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Twin Earth
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Two-dimensional semantics
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Type
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Unconscious, the
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Use theory of meaning
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Verificationism
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Weakness of will
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
What it is like
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
Will, the
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
XYZ
[DPM] [SEP] [FG] [IEP] [BH]
I am Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at William Paterson University in New Jersey. This blog largely concerns my interests in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Neuroscience, but also contains evidence of my messing around with art, photography, fiction, and robotics. Find out way more about me and my work