Mind & Morals

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An introduction to our special section by this issue’s editor, Charles Echelbarger.

Almost from the earliest days of philosophy, philosophers have concerned themselves with questions directly or indirectly related to the concept of ‘mind’. Until very recent times, they didn’t think of gathering those concerns under a single heading such as metaphysics or epistemology or ethics. But in about the middle of the twentieth century, they began to use the term ‘philosophy of mind’ to cover a loose collection of topics and issues that didn’t fall neatly into any one of the traditional subdivisions of philosophy. Very few of these topics are new. Examples include: emotion, the will, sensation, thought, imagination, pleasure, happiness, pride, the self, action, voluntariness and a large number of others.

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