Abstract
Abstract Historically, a common view about the mind in Western culture has been a dualist one. That is, the mind is something fundamentally distinct from matter, made out of different “stuff” and obeying different laws. In recent years, more materialistic views have come into favor, which claim that the mind is nothing but the functioning brain. However, there are a whole range of theories about just what the relationship is between mental states and brain states. Some theorists claim that each particular type of mental state (pain, for instance) can be identified with a particular type of brain state. Others claim that each mental state can be identified with particular set of behavioral dispositions. Still others claim that having mental states is a matter of being subject to a particular set of interpretive strategies.
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