In the 20th century theorists of mind were almost exclusively concerned with various versions of the materialist thesis, but prior to current debates accounts o

Descartes's concept of the mind, as distinct from the body with which it forms a union, set the agenda for much of Western philosophy's subsequent reflection on

The mind-body problem in philosophy is typically understood as a discourse concerning the relation of mental states to physical states, and the experience of se

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Col

The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, me