Mind

Mind is a British journal, currently published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association, which deals with philosophy in the analytic tradition. It was founded by Alexander Bain in 1876 with George Croom Robertson as editor at University College London. With the death of Robertson in 1891, George Stout took over the editorship and began a 'New Series'. The current editor is Professor Thomas Baldwin of the University of York.

Although the journal now focuses on analytic philosophy, it began as a journal dedicated to the question of whether psychology could be a legitimate natural science. In the first issue, Robertson wrote:

"Now, if there were a journal that set itself to record all advances in psychology, and gave encouragement to special researches by its readiness to publish them, the uncertainty hanging over the subject could hardly fail to be dispelled. Either psychology would in time pass with general consent into the company of the sciences, or the hollowness of its pretensions would be plainly revealed. Nothing less, in fact, is aimed at in the publication of Mind than to procure a decision of this question as to the scientific standing of psychology."^[1]

Many famous essays have been published in Mind. Two of the most famous, arguably, are Bertrand Russell's "On Denoting" (1905), and Alan Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950), in which he first proposed the Turing test.

Editors

• 1876–1891 — George Croom Robertson
• 1891–1920 — George Frederic Stout
• 1921–1947 — George Edward Moore
• 1947–1972 — Gilbert Ryle
• 1972–1984 — David Hamlyn
• 1984–1990 — Simon Blackburn
• 1990–2000 — Mark Sainsbury
• 2000–2005 — Mike Martin

Notable articles

late 19th century

• "A Biographical Sketch of an Infant" (1877) - Charles Darwin
• "What is an Emotion?" (1884) - William James
• "What the tortoise said to Achilles" (1895) - Lewis Carroll

early 20th century

• "The Refutation of Idealism" (1903) - G.E. Moore
• "On Denoting" (1905) - Bertrand Russell
• "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
• "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950) - Alan Turing
• "On Referring" (1950) - P. F. Strawson
• "Deontic Logic" (1951) - G.H. von Wright
• "The Identity of Indiscernibles" (1952) - Max Black
• "Proper Names" (1958) - John Searle

late 20th century

• "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name" (1977) - John McDowell
• "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) - Noam Chomsky

See also

• List of philosophy journals

Notes

1. ^ Robertson, "Prefatory Words," Mind, 1 (1): 1876, p. 3; quoted at Alexander Klein, The Rise of Empiricism: William James, Thomas Hill Green, and the Struggle over Psychology, page 92 [1]

External links

• Mind online
• University of York Philosophy Dept