Record Nr.

UNINA9910828038903321

Autore

Hannay Alastair

Titolo

Mental images : a defence / / Alastair Hannay

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1971, 2013

ISBN

1-317-85165-X

1-138-88426-X

1-315-83003-5

1-317-85166-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Muirhead Library of Philosophy : Philosophy of Mind and Psychology ; ; VIII

Disciplina

128.2

153.32

Soggetti

Imagery (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1971 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; Table of Contents; I Introduction; II Ryle and the Absent Host; 1 The linguistic illusion of immanence; 2 Rectifying the logic of mental-conduct concepts; 3 Understanding Ryle's programme for 'mental image'; 4 Ryle's arguments; 5 Mental conduct and the argument from whole to part; 6 Ryle and the analogy of depicting; III Shorter's Excuses; 1 The negative claim; 2 The nature of the fact that images are not seen

3 A use for 'mental image' but not for 'see a mental image'4 The requirement of a complete parallel; 5 A use for 'seeing in the mind's eye'?; 6 Consistency and error in Shorter's account; 7 The positive claim and the force of the analogy of depicting; IV Sartre's Illusion of Transcendence; 1 Imaging and doing; 2 Difficulties of interpretation; 3 The imaging relation; 4 Objects and appearances; 5 Why is an image not an object?; 6 Hume and the illusion of immanence; 7 Sartre on imaging and the mind active; V To Be a Mental Image; 1 The unexplored parallel; 2 Seeing the second object

3 Passing Dennett's acid test4 Conclusion; VI Wittgenstein on the Nature of Things; 1 Introduction; 2 Understanding mental phenomena;

3 Images and outward criteria; 4 The denial of inner objects and processes; 5 Salvaging the mental image; 6 Wittgenstein's concern with images; VII Giving 'Imagination' a Use; 1 Introduction; 2 Fixing some concepts of imagination; 3 A non-Wittgensteinian concept; VIII Speculative Contexts; 1 Introduction; 2 Differences about imagination; 3 Personal activity and mental process; 4 Post-perceptual and pre-perceptual imaginings; 5 The point of dualism; References

Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.