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| Discipline | Philosophy |
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| Language | English |
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| Publication details | |
| History | 1876–present |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press on behalf of theMind Association (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Mind |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0026-4423 (print) 1460-2113 (web) |
| LCCN | sn98-23315 |
| JSTOR | 00264423 |
| OCLC no. | 40463594 |
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Mind (stylized asMIND) is a quarterlypeer-reviewedacademic journal published byOxford University Press on behalf of theMind Association. Having previously published exclusivelyphilosophy in theanalytic 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."[1] Its institutional home is shared between theUniversity of Oxford andUniversity College London. It is considered an important resource for studying philosophy.[2][3][4]
The journal was established in 1876 by the Scottish philosopherAlexander Bain (University of Aberdeen)[5] with his colleague and former studentGeorge Croom Robertson (University College London) aseditor-in-chief. 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:
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 ofMind than to procure a decision of this question as to the scientific standing of psychology.[6]
Throughout the 20th century, the journal was leading in the publishing ofanalytic philosophy. In 2015, under the auspices of its new editors-in-chiefLucy O'Brien (University College London) andAdrian William Moore (University of Oxford), it started accepting papers from all styles and schools of philosophy.
Many famous essays have been published inMind by such figures asCharles Darwin,J. M. E. McTaggart andNoam Chomsky. Three of the most famous, arguably, areLewis Carroll's "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" (1895),Bertrand Russell's "On Denoting" (1905), andAlan Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950), in which he first proposed theTuring test.
The following persons have beeneditors-in-chief:
