... meaning thereby just that they feel,see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of the matter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of minded things just insofar as they ... con-cerning the ‘content’ of intentional states of mind, such as the question of whether content can be assigned to mentalstates independently of the wider physical environments of the subjects ... study of philosophical questions concerning the mind and its properties – questions such as whether the mindis distinct from the body or some part of it, such as the brain,and whether the mind...