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Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
From philosophy of language to philosophy of mind
For most of the twentieth century the philosophy of language was “first philosophy.” Other branches of philosophy were seen as derived from the philosophy of language and dependent on results in the philosophy of language for their solution. The center of attention has now…
Ontology
Ontology between realism and nominalism
Ontology, in analytic philosophy, concerns the determining of whether some categories of being are fundamental and asks in what sense the items in those categories can be said to "be". It is the inquiry into being in so much as it is being, or into beings insofar as they…
The Experimental Philosophy Page
Experimental philosophy (x-phi)
Welcome to the experimental philosophy page. Experimental philosophy, called x-phi for short, is a new philosophical movement that supplements the traditional tools of analytic philosophy with the scientific methods of cognitive science. So experimental philosophers actually go…