Mindsight: Image, Dream, MeaningHarvard University Press, 22 nov 2004 - 209 pagine How to imagine the imagination is a topic that draws philosophers the way flowers draw honeybees. From Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Sartre, philosophers have talked and written about this most elusive of topics--that is, until contemporary analytic philosophy of mind developed. Perhaps it is the vast range of the topic that has scared off our contemporaries, ranging as it does from mental images to daydreams. |
Sommario
Introduction | 1 |
Images and Percepts | 7 |
The Minds Eye | 42 |
Imaginative Seeing | 48 |
The Space of Imagery | 56 |
The Picture Theory of Images | 61 |
What Are Dreams? | 74 |
Dream Belief | 96 |
The Imagination of the Child | 121 |
Cognitive Imagination | 128 |
Negation | 140 |
Meaning | 144 |
The Imagination Spectrum | 159 |
Notes | 165 |
Bibliography | 199 |
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