''Mind'' (stylized as ''MIND'') is a quarterly

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published by

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on behalf of the Mind Association. Having previously published exclusively

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

in the analytic tradition, it now "aims to take quality to be the sole criterion of publication, with no area of philosophy, no style of philosophy, and no school of philosophy excluded." Its institutional home is shared between the

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and

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. It is considered an important resource for studying philosophy.

History and profile

The journal was established in 1876 by the Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain (

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) with his colleague and former student George Croom Robertson (

) as

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. With the death of Robertson in 1891, George Stout took over the editorship and began a 'New Series'. Early on, the journal was dedicated to the question of whether psychology could be a legitimate natural science. In the first issue, Robertson wrote: Throughout the 20th century, the journal was leading in the publishing of

analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a broad movement within Western philosophy, especially English-speaking world, anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis as a philosophical method; clarity of prose; rigor in arguments; and making use of formal logic, mat ...

. In 2015, under the auspices of its new editors-in-chief Lucy O'Brien (University College London) and Adrian William Moore (University of Oxford), it started accepting papers from all styles and schools of philosophy. Many famous essays have been published in ''Mind'' by such figures as

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...

, J. M. E. McTaggart and

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a ...

. Three of the most famous, arguably, are

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicanism, Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice ...

's " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" (1895),

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic ...

's "

On Denoting "On Denoting" is an essay by Bertrand Russell. It was published in the philosophy journal ''Mind (journal), Mind'' in 1905. In it, Russell introduces and advocates his theory of denoting phrases, according to which definite descriptions and other ...

" (1905), and

Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer ...

's "

Computing Machinery and Intelligence "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is a seminal paper written by Alan Turing on the topic of artificial intelligence. The paper, published in 1950 in ''Mind (journal), Mind'', was the first to introduce his concept of what is now known as th ...

" (1950), in which he first proposed the Turing test.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief: *1876–1891: George Croom Robertson *1891–1920: George Frederic Stout *1921–1947:

George Edward Moore George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasiz ...

*1947–1972: Gilbert Ryle *1972–1984: David Hamlyn *1984–1990: Simon Blackburn *1990–2000: Mark Sainsbury *2000–2005: Michael Martin *2005–2015: Thomas Baldwin *2015–present: Adrian William Moore and Lucy O'Brien

Notable articles

Late 19th century

* "A Biographical Sketch of an Infant" (1877) –

* "What is an Emotion?" (1884) – William James * " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" (1895) –

Early 20th century

* "The Refutation of Idealism" (1903) –

G. E. Moore George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasizing ...

* "

" (1905) –

* " The Unreality of Time" (1908) – J. M. E. McTaggart * " Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?" (1912) – H. A. Prichard

Mid 20th century

* "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" (1937) – Charles Leslie Stevenson * "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" (1945) – Carl G. Hempel * "The Contrary-to-Fact Conditional" (1946) – Roderick M. Chisholm * "

" (1950) –

* "On Referring" (1950) – P. F. Strawson
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* "Deontic Logic" (1951) – G. H. von Wright * "The Identity of Indiscernibles" (1952) – Max Black * "Evil and Omnipotence" (1955) – J. L. Mackie * "Proper Names" (1958) –

John Searle John Rogers Searle (; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959 and was Willis S. and Mario ...

Late 20th century

* "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name" (1977) –

John McDowell John Henry McDowell (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, anci ...

* "Fodor's Guide to Mental Representation" (1985) – Jerry Fodor * "The Humean Theory of Motivation" (1987) – Michael Smith * "Can We Solve the Mind–Body Problem?" (1989) – Colin McGinn * "Conscious Experience" (1993) – Fred Dretske * "Language and Nature" (1995) –

References

External links

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Access to 1876–1922 volumes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mind (Journal) Philosophy of mind journals English-language journals Publications established in 1876 Quarterly journals Oxford University Press academic journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies 1876 establishments in Scotland