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Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e
Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

The Mind-Body Problem

Philosophers

Rene Descartes

René Descartes
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=551791&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
René Descartes
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/descarte.htm)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
René Descartes Life and Works
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-works/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
René Descartes
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Descartes)

Wikipedia article
History of Philosophy: Descartes
(http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Weber-History/Descartes.htm))

Discussion of Descartes' life and thought by Alfred Weber (University of Strasburg)
René Descartes : Life and Works
(http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/desc.htm)

Discussion of life and thought by Garth Kemerling
René Descartes and the Meditations on First Philosophy
(http://www.friesian.com/hist-2.htm#descartes)

Detailed discussion of Descartes' Meditations by Kelley Ross (Friesian School Proceedings)
Descartes Links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Desc)

EpistemeLink link collection For more information on Descartes' epistemology see the links for Chapter 2.1.
David Hume

David Hume
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=552346&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
David Hume, Life and Writings
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/humelife.htm)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
David Hume, Metaphysical and Epistemological Theories
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/humeepis.htm)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
David Hume
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
David Hume
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume)

Wikipedia article
David Hume: Life and Works
(http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/hume.htm)

Discussion of life and thought by Garth Kemerling
History of Philosophy: David Hume
(http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Weber-History/hume.htm)

Discussion of Hume's life and thought by Alfred Weber (University of Strasburg)
Hume links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Hume)

EpistemeLink link collection
Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=553443&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
Ryle
(http://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=1&query=%22gilbert+ryle%22&rsource=GOO&target=htt... )

Short biography of Ryle
Gilbert Ryle's Philosophical Behaviorism
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A673526)

BBC article on Ryle
Daniel Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=551780&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
Dennett, Daniel
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/dennett.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind brief biography
Daniel C. Dennett
(http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dennett.html)

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

Home Page of Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
Conversation with Daniel Dennett
(http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dennett.htm)

Interview with Harvey Blume from Atlantic Monthly Online
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
Dennett, Daniel C.
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/d2.htm#denn)

Brief biography by Garth Kemerling
Alan Turing

Alan Turing
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=553759&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
Alan M. Turing
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Alan Turing
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing)

Wikipedia 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
John Searle

John Searle
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=553496&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
Searle, John
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/searle.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind biography
Conversations with History
(http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Searle/searle-con0.html)

Interview with video of John Searle by Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Interview with John Searle
(http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~jsearle/html/articles/searleinterview1199.html)

Interview by Julian Moore
Searle Central
(http://hiwaay.net/~wfgodot/cogsci/SearleCentral.html)

Writings by and about Searle.
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 Mind by Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Searle's "Minds, Brains, and Programs"
(http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/MindsBrainsPrograms.html)

Article in which Searle introduces his famous Chinese Room argument against strong AI
Searle's "Is the Brain a Digital Computer?"
(http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.comp.html)

Article offering Searle's overview of his account of the mind
Searle, John
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/s4.htm#sear)

Brief biography by Garth Kemerling
Patricia and Paul Churchland

Paul Churchland
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=551591&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
Churchland, Patricia
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/churchlandps.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind brief biography
Patricia S. Churchland, Personal Page
(http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/EPL/Pat.html)

Home Page of Patricia Churchland (UCSD); includes links to recent articles, some of which are available online
Can Neurobiology Teach us Anything about Consciousness?
(http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/church.neuro.html)

Article by Patricia Churchland
Churchland, Paul
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/churchlandpm.html)

Dictionary of Philosophy of MInd brief biography
Paul Churchland
(http://www.venturetech.com/philo/phils/churchland.html)

Brief overview of position from The Window: Philosophy on the Internet
Paul Churchland
(http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philosophy.html)

Home Page of Paul Churchland (UCSD)
The Neurophysiology of Paul and Patricia Churchland
(http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/Churchlands.htm)

Lecture notes by John Sutton (Macquarie University); also includes link to Sutton's review of the Churchlands' On the Contrary
David Chalmers

David Chalmers, Ph.D.
(http://www.kurzweilai.net/bios/frame.html?main=/bios/bio0190.html?)

Brief biography of Chalmers from KurzweilAI.net
David Chalmers' Consciousness Directory
(http://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=1&query=david+chalmers&rsource=INK&target=http%3A... )

David Chalmers home page
Interview with David Chalmers
(http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/CONTENT/CHAL_01.HTM)

by Stephen Jones
Interview with David Chalmers
(http://www.users.bigpond.com/nedthefish/chalmers1.htm)

by Trevor Thompson
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
(http://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=6&query=david+chalmers&rsource=INK&target=http%3A... )

Article on consciousness by Chalmers
David Chalmers: The Hard Problem
(http://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=8&query=david+chalmers&rsource=INK&target=http%3A... )

Article on the hard problem of consiousness