Philosophy of Mind Timeline
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About the Timeline: The Timeline is always in a process of expansion. It is expanded whenever something comes to my mind which I have not included in the timeline already. Hence many important events are still missing. If your favorite event is missing then send me a line or two at maa2454@rit.edu
| Year | Event |
| 1996 | David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind |
| 1989 | Colin McGinn proposes the idea of Natural Transcendalism |
| 1982 | Frank Jackson formulates his Knowledge Argument |
| 1980 | John Searle's Chinese Room Argument appears in his paper Minds, brains and programs |
| 1975 | Hilary Putnam formulates his Twin Earth Experiment |
| 1974 | Thomas Nagel's What is it Like to be a Bat? |
| 1972 | Kripke's Naming and Necessity |
| 1957 | Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures, a devastating critique of Behaviorism |
| 1954 | Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations |
| 1950s | Hilary Putnam formulates Functionalism |
| 1950 | Alan Turing Proposes the Turing Test |
| 1949 | Gilbert Ryle's Concept of the Mind |
| 1933 | E. G. Boring proposes the identity theory |
| 1929 | C. I. Lewis coined the term Qualia |
| 1927 | Bertrand Russell's The Analysis of Matter |
| 1922 | Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| 1913 |
Watson founded the school of behaviorism with his 1913 Presidential Address to the American Psychological Association, entitled "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views |
| 1890 | William James' Principles of Psychology |
| George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principle of Human Knowledge | |
| Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan | |
| John Locke's An Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
| Descartes' Meditations |
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