📚 Philosophy of Mind

Consciousness and its place in the physical world: dualism, functionalism, and the hard problem still open.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject philosophy of mind in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Elements of the philosophy of the human mind	Dugald Stewart	1792	48
	De anima	Aristotle	1877	45
	Introduction to metaphysics	Martin Heidegger	1953	34
	What Is Man? and Other Essays	Mark Twain	1917	30
	The analysis of mind	Bertrand Russell	1921	28
	Cosmic consciousness	Richard Maurice Bucke	1923	25
	The science of living	Alfred Adler	1929	25
	Content and Consciousness	Daniel C. Dennett	1969	25
	The concept of mind	Gilbert Ryle	1949	19
	Philosophy of mind	John Heil	1998	18
	History of the philosophy of mind	Robert Blakey	1848	14
	Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage	Walter B. Cannon	1915	12
	Embodied Cognition	Lawrence Shapiro	2010	12
	Thought as a system	David Bohm	1994	10
	Kinds of minds	Daniel C. Dennett	1996	10
	The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition	Lawrence Shapiro	2014	10
	Hegel's Philosophy of mind	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	1894	9
	Principles of psychology	Fred Simmons Keller	1950	9
	Mental reality	Galen Strawson	1994	8
	Mind, language, and society	John R. Searle	1998	8
	This Is Philosophy of Mind	Pete Mandik	2013	8
	Elements of psychology	Cousin, Victor	1834	7
	Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind	Guy Claxton	1997	7
	Mind, Reason and Imagination	Jane Heal	2003	7
	The Blackwell guide to philosophy of mind	Stephen P. Stich	2003	7
	The principles of empirical or inductive logic	Venn, John	1889	6
	Studies in humanism	Schiller, F. C. S.	1907	6
	I commit to the flames	Ivor John Carnegie Brown	1934	6
	Art and imagination	Roger Scruton	1974	6
	Cognitive Relativism and Social Science	Diederick Raven	1989	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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