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Mindsight : image, dream, meaning / Colin McGinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGinn, Colin, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How to imagine the imagination is a topic that draws philosophers the way flowers draw honeybees. The guiding thread of this text is the distinction Colin McGinn draws between perception and imagination.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 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
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674265974
- 0674265971
- 9780674040816
- 0674040813
- OCLC:
- 923109108
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