ABSTRACT
IN the 1950’s, U. T . Place and J . J . C. Smart proposed to identify mental states and events with neurophysiological sts tes and events. A main advantage claimed for this identification was its avoidance of certain troublesome objections to earlier, behaviorist versions of materialism, objections designed to enforce our recalcitrant feeling that at least some mental states are genuinely inner states of persons and have distinctive, introspectible phenom enal characters. But complaints of this type have stayed with us, and are still raised against contemporary materialist views of all sorts. My purpose in this paper is to formulate and defend the ma-
terialist theory that I think has the best chance of turning aside these criticisms for good and all.
