Steward, Helen - The Ontology of Mind: Events, Processes, and States

Few philosophers now believe in the existence of a substantial soul. The mind has lost its status as a special kind of persisting object in the ontological frameworks presupposed by contemporary philosophical debates. But it has not lost its place as a central concept in those debates; on the contrary, it is a concept which organizes the very discipline. A whole field is known as 'Philosophy of Mind'.