The Ontology of Mind: Events, Processes, and States in Bloomington, MN

Helen Steward puts forward a radical critique of the foundations of contemporary philosophy of mind, arguing that it relies too heavily on insecure assumptions about the sorts of things there are in the mind—events, processes, and states. She offers a fresh investigation of these three categories, clarifying the distinctions between them, and argues that the category of
state
has been very widely and seriously misunderstood.