Guides the reader through the latest research on the mindBrilliant essays from an eminent team of international contributorsBroad and deep coverage of the subjectStrong connections to scientific work on the 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 published to the philosophy of mind.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 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 one's own and other minds. The volume concludes with a section on self, personhood, and agency.The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind 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. Readership: Students and scholars of philosophyContents I. The Place of Mind in Nature 1. Dualism , E. J. Lowe, (Durham University) 2. Idealism , Howard Robinson, (Central European University) 3. Mental Causation , Jaegwon Kim, (Brown University) 4. The Causal Closure of the Physical and Naturalism , David Papineau, (King's College London) 5. Epiphenomenalism , Sven Walter, (University of Osnabrueck) 6. Functionalism , Robert Van Gulick, (Syracuse University) 7. Nonreductive Materialism , Lynne Rudder Baker, (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) 8. Anomalous Monism , Julie Yoo, (Lafayette College) 9. What Is the Physical? , Barbara Montero, (City University of New York) 10. What Is Property Physicalism? , Ansgar Beckermann, (University of Bielefeld) 11. Panpsychism , William Seager, (University of Toronto) II. The Place of Consciousness in Nature 12. The Explanatory Gap , Joseph Levine, (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) 13. Higher-order Theories of Consciousness , David Rosenthal, (City University of New York) 14. Sensory Qualities, Sensible Qualities, Sensational Qualities , Alex Byrne, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 15. Representationalist Theories of Consciousness , Michael Tye, (The University of Texas at Austin) 16. Subjectivity , John Perry, (Stanford University) 17. The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism , David Chalmers, (Australian National University) 18. Phenomenal Concepts , Kati Balog, (Yale University) III. Intentionality and Theories of Mental Content 19. Intentionalism , Tim Crane, (University of College London) 20. Intentional Systems Theory , Daniel Dennett, (Tufts University) 21. Information-theoretic Semantics , Fred Dretske, (Professor Emertius, Stanford University) 22. Biosemantics , Ruth Millikan, (University of Connecticut) 23. The Normativity of the Intentional , Ralph Wedgwood, (Merton College, Oxford) 24. Advertisement for a Measurement-theoretic Account of Propositional Attitudes , Robert Matthews, (Rutgers University) 25. Concepts and Possession Conditions , Christopher Peacocke, (Columbia University) 26. Wide Content , Frances Egan, (Rutgers University) 27. Narrow Content , Gabriel Segal, (King's College London) 28. The Distinction between Conceptual and Nonconceptual Content , José Luis Bermúdez, (Washington University in St Louis) 29. The Content of Perceptual Experience , Michelle Montague, (St John's College, Oxford) 30. Phenomenology, Intentionality, and the Unity of the Mind , George Graham, (Wake Forest University), Terence Horgan, (University of Arizona), and John Tienson, (University of Memphis) IV. Mental Capacities 31. Thinking , Louise Antony, (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) 32. Memory , Krista Lawlor, (Stanford University) 33. Imagination , Colin McGinn, (University of Miami) 34. Language and Thought , John Heil, (Washington University in St Louis) 35. Consciousness and Reference , John Campbell, (University of California, Berkeley) 36. Emotions: Motivating Feelings , Jesse Prinz, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) V. Epistemic Issues 37. Folk Psychology , Adam Morton, (University of Alberta) 38. Other Minds , Anita Avramides, (St Hilda's College, Oxford) 39. Introspection , Cynthia Macdonald 40. Self-deception , Kent Bach, (San Francisco State University) 41. Semantic Externalism and Self-knowledge , Jessica Brown, (The University of St Andrews) VI. Self, Personhood, and Agency 42. Unity of Consciousness , Paul Raymont and Andrew Brook, (Carleton University) 43. Personal Identity and Metaphysics , Tamar Szabó Gendler, (Yale University) 44. Selves , Galen Strawson 45. Intention and Intentional Action , Alfred Mele, (Florida State University)