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Hi, What are the best ways to get informed about the current research areas/topics in philosophy (especially in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science)? Thank you.
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December 25, 2008

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William Rapaport
January 1, 2009 (changed January 1, 2009) Permalink

If by "current", you really mean "very latest", then one way is to keepup to date with the major journals in those topics. For a (partial)list, take a look at one of the webpages for my Intro to CognitiveScience course, "Sources of Information on Cognitive Science". Depending on what kind ofaccess you have to a university library and its electronic journalofferings, you can also often subscribe to online table-of-contentsalerts for many journals.

If by "current", you meant something more like "classic problemsthat are currently being discussed", then an anthology of recent orclassic readings is another way to go. Again, for a list, see the webpage cited above.

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Cheryl Chen
January 6, 2009 (changed January 6, 2009) Permalink

Here are two other sources:

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/): for helpful introductions and bibliographies on topics in all (or at least very many) areas of philosophy

Dave Chalmers's "Mind Papers" (http://consc.net/mindpapers/): a compilation of papers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science

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