Abstract

This book represents an historical-theoretical overview of one of the central issues of the contemporary philosophy of mind: the so-called mind-body problem. The treatment is guided by two aims: to critically review "the principal theories that concern the mental and its science"; and "to elaborate a particular interpretation of the mental and of the MBP". The first aim is guided by the second. In his review the author does not seek to present a parade of theories and theorists so much as the logic which has, from his perspective, given a certain direction to the debate. The author's position also functions as a criterion of selectivity: for example, neodualistic conceptions are intentionally neglected.