Bryan Chambliss

The mind-body problem.

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science July 1, 2018 Bryan Chambliss

The mind-body problem asks how mental events relate to physical states and processes. Proposed solutions differ on whether they endorse physicalism—the view that mental states are nothing over and above physical states—and on how they understand mental-physical interaction. Physicalist solutions have dominated the last century, with the variety of physicalism (reductive or nonreductive) depending on both philosophical arguments and developments in cognitive and neural science. This article examines the prospects for a solution to the mind-body problem in light of developments in the cognitive sciences, especially the scientific study of consciousness.