对心灵及其与身体关系问题的思考有悠久的历史,但作为独立哲学分支的心灵哲学却是伴随现代分析哲学、语言哲学和有关自然科学前沿科学的发展而产生的新生事物。尽管它还很年轻,但已在西方哲学中享有不容忽视的显学地位。著名心灵哲学家塞尔指出:“50年前语言哲学被认为是第一哲学,现在这一位置已由心灵哲学所取代。” There is a long history of thinking about the relationship between the mind and the body. However, the philosophy of mind, which is a branch of independent philosophy, is a new-born thing accompanying the development of modern analytical philosophy, linguistic philosophy and advanced science in the natural sciences. Although still young, it has enjoyed a significant academic status in Western philosophy. Well-known spiritual philosopher Searle pointed out: “Language philosophy was considered as the first philosophy 50 years ago and this position has now been replaced by philosophy of mind.” "