Real Materialism draws together papers written over twenty years by Galen Strawson in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Strawson focuses on five main areas of enquiry: 1] the nature of the physical, consciousness, the "mind-body problem," and the prospects for panpsychism; 2] the self, the subject of experience, self-consciousness, and the 'narrative' self; 3] free will and moral responsibility; 4] the nature of thought and intentionality and their connection with consciousness; 5] the problem of causation with particular reference to the philosophy of David Hume.