Branches concerned with consciousness, mental content, cognition and the nature of mind, including questions raised by artificial and psychological models of cognition. Belongs here: philosophy of mind as the general branch, philosophy of artificial intelligence for its questions about machine cognition and consciousness, and philosophy of psychology for its examination of psychological explanation and mental kinds. Does not belong here: philosophy of science, grouped separately as the home for philosophy of the other empirical sciences even though psychology and artificial intelligence are themselves sciences.
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Dualism finds its entry into Western philosophy thanks to Rene Descartes in the 17th century.
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