Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning

Name: Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning
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Autor: Colin McGinn

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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.

The guiding thread of this book is the distinction Colin McGinn draws between perception and imagination. Clearly, seeing an object is similar in certain respects to forming a mental image of it, but it is also different. McGinn shows what the differences are, arguing that imagination is a sui generis mental faculty. He goes on to discuss the nature of dreaming and madness, contending that these are primarily imaginative phenomena. In the second half of the book McGinn focuses on what he calls cognitive (as opposed to sensory) imagination, and investigates the role of imagination in logical reasoning, belief formation, the understanding of negation and possibility, and the comprehension of meaning. His overall claim is that imagination pervades our mental life, obeys its own distinctive principles, and merits much more attention.

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Introduction 1. Images and Percepts 2. The Mind's Eye 3. Imaginative Seeing 4. The Space of Imagery 5. The Picture Theory of Images 6. What Are Dreams? 7. Dream Belief 8. Delusion 9. The Imagination of the Child 10. Cognitive Imagination 11. Negation 12. Meaning 13. The Imagination Spectrum Notes Bibliography Index

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Colin McGinn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of many books, including Consciousness and Its Objects and The Character of Mind.

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Autor: Colin McGinn
2006, 209 Seiten, Maße: 14,1 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR
ISBN-10: 0674022475
ISBN-13: 9780674022478

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Englisch

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[An] innovative little book...McGinn leads us to speculation far more stimulating, far more imaginative, than most of what passes for evolutionary psychology...It is rare and wonderful to end a book with a new idea. -- Ian Hacking New York Review of Books 20050407 Written in a lively style, Colin McGinn's Mindsight is a philosophical investigation of the faculty of imagination that will appeal to a wide audience...Mindsight will be essential reading for philosophers with an interest in the imagination...It will also amply reward any reader with an interest in the mechanisms of the mind. -- Phil Joyce Science 20050520 [A] splendid book about the imagination...This interesting and gracefully written book serves as a counterexample to the claim that analytic philosophy is dry, technical, and boring. Readers will find it enjoyable and should learn a lot from it. -- D. Haugen Choice 20050401

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