Beyond the Mind-Body Problem

Abstract Wilfrid Sellars once famously described philosophy as aiming to understand how things, in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term (Sellars, 1962, p. 37). In the spirit of that suggestion, we can think of philosophy of mind as the attempt to say how minds hang together- how things fit to form minds, and how minds fit with other things. It can hardly be disputed that there are these kinds of fit; in that respect, at least, the world is a coherent place. The philosophical challenge is to understand and elucidate the nature of the fit, such as it is.