Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy which deals with
the mind and its properties, including conciousness, mental
processes and events. Philosophy of mind often overlaps with
psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience in general.
Whereas psychology and the natural sciences are concerned with
the specifics of mental states and brain functions, philosophy
of mind is responsible for the larger questions of the nature of
mind itself, its relationship to the physical world and where it
belongs in a proper ontology. In recent times, the problem of
philosophy of mind has become heavily focused on data from the
natural sciences with respect to the brain. It is now an area
researched mainly by analytic philosophers and, partly because
of its strong realtionship with the sciences, may be considered
an area of analytic philosophy. Concerns about the nature of
mind with respect to ontology, such as the mind-body problem may
also be considered part of metaphysics. At the core of
philosophy of mind is the min