Abstract

We started the study of mind from the primitive views and discussed views of Orphic system, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Zeno, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle etc. then studies the conception of Thomas Aquinas and Francis Bacon. In modern times, when Descartes set out dualism of mind-body, it became a major area of interest for philosophers. Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Bradley and Dewey developed this according to their respective fields. But all attempts were mainly modification, rejection and criticism of Descartes dualism. From the Twentieth Century onwards analytical view dominated philosophy of mind. Russell, Wittgenstein and Gilbert Ryle attempted to describe the concept of mind on Humeanian line. In the present time we study the conception of mind according to cognitive science’s attempts to answer the nature of mind.