Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible survey of main themes, positions and debates in philosophy of mind. John Heil introduces and discusses the major topics in succinct, user-friendly, self-contained chapters: Cartesian dualism; Descartes's legacy; non-Cartesian dualism; behaviorism; the identity theory; functionalism; the representational theory of mind; qualia; radical interpretation; the intentional stance; eliminativism; property dualism; mind and metaphysics; the mind's place in nature.