John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. He works primarily on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and is author of From an Ontological Point of View (Oxford, 2003), Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2012), The Nature of True Minds (Cambridge, 1992), and Perception and Cognition (California, 1983).

Heil's analytically rigorous yet nondogmatic treatment of the subject deserves careful study.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Substance ; 3. Substance Stressed ; 4. Properties ; 5. Universals ; 6. Causing ; 7. Relations ; 8. Truthmaking ; 9. Reduction, Kinds, and Essences ; 10. Mind and Mentality ; 11. Conscious Experience ; 12. Conscious Thought ; 13. The Ontological Turn ; References ; Index

John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. He works primarily on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and is author of From an Ontological Point of View (Oxford, 2003), Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2012), The Nature of True Minds (Cambridge, 1992), and Perception and Cognition (California, 1983).

Heil's analytically rigorous yet nondogmatic treatment of the subject deserves careful study.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Substance ; 3. Substance Stressed ; 4. Properties ; 5. Universals ; 6. Causing ; 7. Relations ; 8. Truthmaking ; 9. Reduction, Kinds, and Essences ; 10. Mind and Mentality ; 11. Conscious Experience ; 12. Conscious Thought ; 13. The Ontological Turn ; References ; Index

John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. He works primarily on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and is author of From an Ontological Point of View (Oxford, 2003), Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2012), The Nature of True Minds (Cambridge, 1992), and Perception and Cognition (California, 1983).

Heil's analytically rigorous yet nondogmatic treatment of the subject deserves careful study.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Substance ; 3. Substance Stressed ; 4. Properties ; 5. Universals ; 6. Causing ; 7. Relations ; 8. Truthmaking ; 9. Reduction, Kinds, and Essences ; 10. Mind and Mentality ; 11. Conscious Experience ; 12. Conscious Thought ; 13. The Ontological Turn ; References ; Index