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	Theory of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In functionalist theories, functionalists like Georges Rey explore computational theories of mind that are independent of the physical instantiation of any particular mind.
		A Theory of Mind appears to be a usually-inate potential ability in humans (and, some argue, in certain other species), but one requiring social and other experience over many years to bring successfully to adult fruition.
		The theory of mind that normal children develop appears to be that other people have different knowledge from themselves, but process their knowledge in the same way that they would.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theory_of_mind (1084 words)

	The Identity Theory of Mind
		The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain.
		In taking the identity theory (in its various forms) as a species of physicalism, I should say that this is an ontological, not a translational physicalism.
		Armstrong, D.M. 1968a: A Materialist Theory of the Mind, London, Routledge.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/mind-identity (8254 words)

	Identity Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		A family of views on the relationship between mind and body, Type Identity theories hold that at least some types (or kinds, or classes) of mental states are, as a matter of contingent fact, literally identical with some types (or kinds, or classes) of brain states.
		Token Identity theories hold that every concrete particular falling under a mental kind can be identified with some physical (perhaps neurophysiological) happening or other: instances of pain, for example, are taken to be not only instances of a mental state (e.g., pain), but instances of some physical state as well (say, c-fiber excitation).
		So the Identity Theory, taken as a theory of types rather than tokens, must make some claim to the effect that mental states such as pain (and not just individual instances of pain) are contingently identical with--and therefore theoretically reducible to--physical states such as c-fiber excitation.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/i/identity.htm (2841 words)

	Theory of mind
		The theory of mind that normal children develop appears to be that other people have different knowledge from oneself but process their knowledge in the same way that one would.
		Autistic people who develop a workable theory of mind tend to be aware not only that other people have different knowledge from themselves but also that other people have a different way of thinking.
		It is not yet established whether this different theory of mind is inherent in the autistic way of thinking or a result of the usual autistic experience of growing up among people with a very radically and obviously different way of thinking.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/theory_of_mind (950 words)

	Identity Theory
		The identity theory of the mind (ITM) is an extension of the more basic identity thesis (IT) which states that every property is a physical property.
		The ITM was well received in the middle part of the 20th century due to ontological simplicity: there was no longer a need to develop a separate ontology of the mind.
		The ITM allowed for one to say that the property of being in pain and the property of one's C-fibers firing are identitical (not distinct) properties.
	www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/Identity_Theory (227 words)

	theory_of_mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In recent years, the phrase "Theory of mind" has commonly been used (following the paper "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?" by David Premack and G. Woodruff, 1978) to refer to a specific cognitive capacity: the ability to understand that others have beliefs, desires and intentions that are different from one's own.
		In functionalist theories, functionalists like Georges Rey explore [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind computational theories of mind] that are independent of the physical instantiation of any particular mind.
		In 1985 Baron-Cohen, Leslie and Frith published an article called [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~aleslie/Baron-Cohen%20Leslie%20&%20Frith%201985.pdf Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"?] in which it was suggested that the human brain normally has a "theory of mind module" and that this particular component of the brain may not develop normally in some people.
	q-basic.xodox.de /theory_of_mind (754 words)

	Theory of mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is interest in the idea that certain learned behaviors such as humanlanguage behavior, facilitate the development of a theory of mind in both humans and chimps.
		With the advent of brainimaging techniques, particular brain regions that seem to be important for theory of mind have been identified.
		It is not yet established whether this different theory of mind is inherent in the autistic wayof thinking or a result of the usual autistic experience of growing up among people with a very radically and obviously differentway of thinking.
	www.therfcc.org /theory-of-mind-5284.html (739 words)

	Identity theory of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The identity theory of mind, or type physicalism, holds that the mind is identical to the brain.
		Functionalism is the received view of the nature of cognitive science.
		Recently Schopenhauerian pessimism has been resurrected by Mysterians, like Colin McGinn, who argue that it is impossible to know if the mind is identical to the brain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity_theory_of_mind (286 words)

	The Identity Theory of Truth
		The simplest and most general statement of the identity theory of truth is that when a truth-bearer (e.g., a proposition) is true, there is a truth-maker (e.g., a fact) with which it is identical and the truth of the former consists in its identity with the latter.
		This allows his identity theory of truth to be accompanied by a non-identity theory of falsehood, since he can account for falsehood as a falling short of this vast judgment and hence as an abstraction of part of reality from the whole.
		This theory is ‘modest’, to use Dodd's expression, as opposed to ‘robust’ identity theories which begin from the bipolar recognition of independent conceptions of fact (conceived as truth-maker) and proposition (conceived as truth-bearer) employed in correspondence theories, and then attempt in one way or another to eliminate the apparent gap between them.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/truth-identity (2033 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Identity Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The version of physicalism that gained ground in the middle of this century was in the first place committed to the identity thesis, namely, that every property (and thereby every mental property) is identical with some physical property.
		The way in which this constitutes a problem for identity theories is by implying a failure of coextension.
		IT2 is not, of course, an identity theory in the standard sense.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~philos/MindDict/identitytheory.html (1640 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - eliminativism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Like its predecessor, the mind-brain identity theory, eliminativism claims that it is an empirical fact, rather than a conceptual necessity, that mental states are identical with brain states, and that this fact is justified only by scientific evidence.
		Instead the old theory is often eliminated, and replaced with a better theory that rejects or ignores the ontological assumptions of the old theory.
		The obvious objection to causal theories of reference is that surely not all causal relationships between language users and objects are reference relations, and it is not easy to figure out which causal relations are reference relations and which are not.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~philos/MindDict/eliminativism.html (9937 words)

	Order theory - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Order theory is a branch of mathematics that studies various kinds of binary relations that capture the intuitive notion of a mathematical ordering.
		It addresses readers who have basic knowledge of set theory and arithmetics and who know what a binary relation is, but who are not familiar with order theoretic considerations so far.
		Filters and nets are notions closely related to order theory and the closure operator of sets can be used to define topology.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Order_theory (4056 words)

	Is the Mind Physical? : Philosophy of the Mind-Body Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Others say that the mind is related to the brain in a more subtle way: that mental events are not simply the same thing as brain events, but that the mind is 'immanent' in, or 'supervenient' on, neural activity.
		A basic problem for the identity theory is that although neural activity is spread out in space, the stream of consciousness at any moment is a unity.
		So, if the identity theory is true, and each mental event is a neural event happening somewhere in the brain, then every such event occurs in isolation and is only afterwards admitted into the mind.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~ursa/philos/phinow2.htm (3751 words)

	Knowledge & Reality Study Guide \| \| Week Nine: Mind-Brain Identity Theory
		The mind-brain identity theory is the first of the genuinely scientific theories we have met - in the sense that it is the first argument which explicitly depends on the results which practising scientists working on mental phenomena have so far achieved.
		Premise 4: The theory of mind-body dualism claims that the mental event of feeling pain and the physical event of c-fibres firing are two entirely different kinds of events and that their observed correlation is due to the fact that events of one kind causally interact with events of the other kind.
		Here, the identity theorist bases the claim that the mind is the same thing as the brain on the fact that the brain is the best candidate we have found for explaining the causation of behaviour.
	homepages.inspire.net.nz /~bestor/101studyguide/week9.html (4996 words)

	identity theory of mind - Articles about identity theory of mind
		Thomas Baldwin has suggested that Hegel held an identity theory of truth and cites a quotation from Hegel's 'Logic' in support of this contention.
		Bruce Dain, A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), x + 321 pp.,......
		Psychological Theory and Educational Reform--How School Remakes Mind and Society, by David R. Olson, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 343 pp., $24.00.
	www.wordiq.com /article/identity+theory+of+mind.html (359 words)

	MIND-BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY (THEORIES OF MIND) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mind as the Brain: The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
		To suppose the mind -- or consciousness -- to be something nonphysical would be to acknowledge a wholly novel type of thing
		Kim identity: "The event of x's instantiating property P at time t = the event of y's instantiating property P at time t' if and only if x = y, property P = property Q, and t = t'.
	brainmeta.com /mind/mind3.html (2511 words)

	Identity Theory and Persistence: A Tentative Synthesis of Tinto, Erikson, and Houle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Identity Theory and Persistence: A Tentative Synthesis of Tinto, Erikson, and Houle
		It is precisely the type of experiences his patients reported, his exposure to Taoism through his own studies and through his connection with Richard Wilhelm, the translator of the I-Ching, and his discussions with Einstein, which lead Jung, the scientist, to further explore the concept of synchronicity.
		What grew out of the theories of relativity and quantum physics is the dynamical systems theory known as “chaos theory.”Chaos theory has made important contributions to our understanding of complex systems, in that it is now widely recognized that exploration of a non-linear (i.e.
	www.integrativepsychology.org /student/vol1_article1.htm (5596 words)

	Philosophical Dictionary: I proposition-Implication
		Although everything is what it is and not anything else, philosophers try to formulate more precisely the criteria by means of which we may be sure that one and the same thing is cognized under two different descriptions or at two distinct times.
		Leibniz held that numerical identity is equivalent to indiscernibility or sameness of all the features each thing has.
		Although the details are not yet apparent, identity theorists suppose that scientific research into the nature of the central nervous system will eventually establish the contingent identity of every kind of conscious experience with some neurophysiological phenomenon.
	www.philosophypages.com /dy/i.htm (1159 words)

	Jon Cogburn's Philosophy of Mind Notes on Mind-Brain Identity Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		First the theory provides what might be called ontological simplicity, if mental states are the same as brain states there are fewer kinds of things in the world (``So if pains are identified with their neural correlates, there are no pains in addition to C-fiber activations.'' (Kim, (1996, p.
		At the heart, then, of Smart's Identity Theory is the suggestion that mental events are definable as the concomitants or products of certain physical stimulus conditions or anything that is just like those concomitants or products.
		But the theory says nothing about the relationship between mental properties and physical properties, the relation between pains, itches, thoughts, consciousness, and the rest, on the one hand, and types of neural events on the other.
	www.artsci.lsu.edu /phil/phil1/cogburn/currentcourses/4941/4941_1_3.htm (10919 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - nicholson baker
		RB: You bring to mind one of my favorite quotes.
		When Chinese Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai was asked what he thought of the French Revolution he remarked, "It's too soon to tell."
		NB: Well, it's a very different state of mind.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum12.html (7050 words)

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