Many questions that philosophers of mind address overlap with questions scientists investigate. Philosophers want to understand the nature of consciousness; neuroscientists and psychologists do too. Philosophers want to decipher the relationship between language and thought; linguists do as well. Philosophers study rational decision-making, as do economists, and attempt to discern the ultimate constituents of reality, which is also the domain of physics. Yet, despite being one of the branches of the interdisciplinary study of the mind called ‘cognitive science’, philosophy of mind is typically
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