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This is a list of philosophers of mind. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Peter Carruthers (philosopher) Héctor-Neri Castañeda; Michel de Certeau; Monima Chadha; David Chalmers; C. T. K. Chari; Kah Kyung Cho; Patricia Churchland; Paul Churchland; Emil Cioran; Étienne Bonnot de Condillac; Anne Conway (philosopher) Manuel Curado
The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness and the nature of particular mental states.
Philosophers such as Chalmers have argued that theories of consciousness should be capable of providing insight into the brain and mind to avoid the problem of mental causation. [ 9 ] [ 114 ] If they fail to do that, the theory will succumb to epiphenomenalism , [ 114 ] a view commonly criticised as implausible or even self-contradictory.
Some philosophers entirely reject any notion of localization of function and thus believe fMRI studies to be profoundly misguided. [15] These philosophers maintain that brain processing acts holistically, that large sections of the brain are involved in processing most cognitive tasks (see holism in neurology and the modularity section below).
Hideto Tomabechi (brain science, psychophysics, bioinformatics, intelligent informatics, speech recognition, cognitive neuro-engineering) Francisco Varela (neuroscience, philosophy) Frans de Waal (ethology, primatology, psychology) Étienne Wenger (situated cognition, education) James V. Wertsch (cognitive psychology, cultural anthropology)
Chalmers accepted a part-time professorship at the philosophy department of New York University in 2009, becoming a full-time professor in 2014. [18] In 2013, Chalmers was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. [5] He is an editor on topics in the philosophy of mind for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [19]
The computational theory of mind holds that the mind is a computational system that is realized (i.e. physically implemented) by neural activity in the brain. The theory can be elaborated in many ways and varies largely based on how the term computation is understood.