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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974604303321

Autore

McGinn Colin <1950->

Titolo

Mindsight : image, dream, meaning / / Colin McGinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c2004

ISBN

9780674265974

0674265971

9780674040816

0674040813

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 209 p.)

Disciplina

128.3

Soggetti

Imagination (Philosophy)

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.