The philosophy of mind is one of the specialties of philosophy that deals with the study of the nature of mental pictures, as well as their processes and causes. In other words, this branch is responsible for matters or aspects related to the different mental processes and their connection with the human body, especially the brain; therefore the matter of the behavior of the mental and physical states of an individual take a fundamental place in this area.
The philosophy of mind investigates epistemological issues related to the knowability of the mind, as well as ontological issues about the nature of mental states. Although this phenomenon seems to coincide with the usual scholastic philosophical psychology, nowadays known as philosophical anthropology, it is more the philosophy of mind originated in an Anglo-Saxon type setting.
This branch emanates in the context of cognitive sciences and that at present can be considered as the area of said sciences that philosophically reflects on the setbacks that they object. At the beginning of the 20th century, the philosophy of the mind manifests itself as a proper designation of studies outlined with the procedures of analytical philosophy and that tries to provide content to "mentalist" subjects without being shipwrecked by the physicalist reductionism of the logical empiricism of the Circle of Vienna; or at least this is what various sources state.
Finally we can say that in a general sense the philosophy of the mind includes that group of philosophical reflections on mental behavior, the relationship between the mind and the brain and a set of similar philosophical issues, such as the one referred to above. the nature of mental knowledge and consequently the nature of reality.
