Mind (magazine)

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Mind
A Quarterly Review of Philosophy

description Trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise philosophy
language English
publishing company Oxford University Press ( UK )
First edition 1876
Frequency of publication quarterly
editor Thomas Baldwin
Web link mind.oxfordjournals.org
ISSN 0026-4423

Mind is a major British philosophical journal published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the Mind Association and largely devoted to debates of the analytic tradition.

Mind was founded in 1876 with George Croom Robertson by Alexander Bain , who published the magazine at University College London . After Robertson's death in 1891, George Frederick Stout took over the editing and began the New Series . The current editor is Thomas Baldwin from the University of York .

The first issues were mainly devoted to the discussion of whether psychology could legitimately be considered a natural science . Concerning the purpose of the magazine, Robertson wrote in the first issue:

“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. "

- Prefatory Words , in: Mind 1 (1), 1876, p. 3

The first editions of Mind already published important articles in the emerging analytical tradition, including Bertrand Russell's famous 1905 treatise On Denoting ; later z. B. Alan Turing's Proposal for the Turing Test in the 1950 edition.

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