John Heil is Paul B. Freeland Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College and Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. He has taught or held research appointments at Brown University, the University of Rochester, Cornell University, the National Humanities Center, Virginia Commonwealth University and Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

• 1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ; 2 BEHAVIORISM AND MIND-BRAIN IDENTITY ; 3 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ; 4 FUNCTIONALISM ; 5 INTERPRETATIONISM ; 6 EXTERNALISM AND MENTAL CONTENT ; 7 SUBJECTIVITY AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE ; 8 CONSCIOUSNESS ; 9 REDUCTION ; 10 IS THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM SOLVABLE? ; 11 CHALLENGES TO CONTEMPORARY MATERIALISM

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