Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind

The study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers and has been a booming area of research in recent decades with remarkable advances in psychology and neuroscience. Oxford University Press now presents the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever<br>published to the philosophy of mind. <br>An outstanding international team of contributors offer 45 specially written critical surveys of a wide range of topics relating to the mind. The first two sections cover the place of the mind in the natural world: its ontological status how it fits into the causal fabric of the universe and the<br>nature of consciousness. The third section focuses on the much-debated subjects of content and intentionality. The fourth section examines a variety of mental capacities including memory imagination and emotion. The fifth section looks at epistemic issues in particular regarding knowledge of<br>one's own and other minds. The volume concludes with a section on self personhood and agency. <p/><em>The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind </em>will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and scholars of philosophy and also for researchers in neighbouring disciplines seeking a high-level survey of the state of the art in this flourishing field.<br>