MindPapers

I'm pleased to announce the launch of MindPapers, an online bibliography of around 18,000 published papers and online papers in the philosophy of mind.  The site grew out of a combination of my old bibliography and my old page of online papers, but it is much bigger than both, and it has many new capabilities.

The expansion and new capabilities are thanks to David Bourget -- ANU graduate student, pure representationalist pioneer, and programmer extraordinaire.  David added many new tools (which are outlined here, along with a history of the site) for importing papers from various sources, and also added many new tools for using the website.  Some of the tools available to users of the website include (i) links and citation information throughout, (ii) highly flexible navigation, display, and search options, (iii) the ability to submit and edit entries, (iv) automated off-campus proxy access to commercial sites, and (v) a lot of cool statistical information.

The bibliography has also roughly doubled in size.  There is an all-new section on the philosophy of perception, and the other sections are restructured and expanded throughout.  The philosophy of mind parts include new subsections on such topics as what it is like, conceptual analysis and a priori entailment, Searle's biological naturalism, neutral monism, idealism and phenomenalism, phenomenal intentionality, conscious thought, temporal consciousness, consciousness of agency, bodily experience, attention and consciousness, unconscious states, thinking, interpretivism, intentional objects, collective intentionality, formulating physicalism, realization, various subtopics of personal identity, mental acts, various subtopics of self-knowledge, robotics, folk concepts and folk intuitions, language and thought, various subtopics of the philosophy of neuroscience, as well as around 50 subtopics of the philosophy of perception.  In the science of consciousness section, there are new subsections on binocular rivalry, visual pathways, neglect and extinction, schizophrenia, anosognosia, vegetative states and coma, the minimally conscious state, synesthesia, hypnosis, meditation, drugs and consciousness, other altered states, verbal reports and heterophenomenology, Eastern and contemplative approaches, and a few others.

Although MindPapers subsumes the old page of online papers, we have retained a distinct front-end for Online Papers on Consciousness, both for continuity with the old version, and because this site has a somewhat different emphasis: free online papers only, and structured in a way that is somewhat more oriented to issues about consciousness and cognitive science, and somewhat less to academic philosophy.  Everything available under online papers can also be found under MindPapers, however, by setting the viewing options appropriately.

I encourage everyone to try things out.  There will certainly be errors, bugs, and missing items: if you find these, please notify us using the tools on the site.  People with published and/or online papers in relevant areas might start by searching on their own names to see if there's anything we've missed.  Any suggestions for further development are welcome.

Update: The site went down for a while overnight, probably due to all the traffic from around the web, but it's up and running again now.

Comments

[paul raymont]

Thanks Davids (both)! This is a great resource. Re. future development: it'd be neat to have a separate section listing on-line dissertations. This would help one to keep track of the lengthy contributions by new people in the field.

[Sam D]

Fantastic, especially the subtopic: The Status of Intentionality.

[Tanasije Gjorgoski]

Thanks a lot!

Two suggestions for further development:

1. RSS feed for latest additions... It might be one RSS item per addition, so that we get links to last e.g. 20 papers in that RSS feed; Or alternatively if the additions go in bulks, one RSS item could contain links to the newly added papers.
2. Author index.

[David B]

look at this, a japanese wikipedia entry about MindPapers:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindPapers

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[João Antonio de Moraes]

Hi Dave,

It is everything that I was seeking.

Thanks!

[Hong33zh]

Thank you!I'm a chinese student,and I've learned a lot from your Minddpapers before. But now we have a problem.
Now in China, we can't entry your MindPapers from July.
We don't konw what's the problem.
Can you give me some advice about this.

[DanielZacharyJones]

an RSS feed for particular categories would be an especially sexy addition! desktop alerts of new papers in your research area, Brilliant!