Description: Mindsight by Colin McGinn The guiding thread of this book is the distinction McGinn draws a distinction between perception and imagination, showing what the differences are, arguing that imagination is a sui generis mental faculty. His overall claim is that imagination pervades our mental life, obeys its own distinctive principles, and merits much more attention. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Notes This book contains the most innovative and important work that Colin McGinn has done in the course of his distinguished career. It has the potential to be an extraordinarily influential book, and to create, almost single-handedly, a new area of systematic study in analytic philosophy of mind: the philosophy of the imagination. Work done in this new area could provide a foundation for work done in many other areas, including the epistemology of perception, the metaphysics of intentionality, the scientific understanding of dreaming, psychosis, and the creativity of our linguistic abilities. -- Ram Neta, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina McGinns book is first rate, manifesting all the qualities of incisive argument, original thought and clear, direct, lively, pithy writing for which he is celebrated. -- Malcolm Budd, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University College London Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Introduction 1. Images and Percepts 2. The Minds 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 Review [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 *Written in a lively style, Colin McGinns 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 *[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 *McGinns book is first rate, manifesting all the qualities of incisive argument, original thought and clear, direct, lively, pithy writing for which he is celebrated. -- Malcolm Budd, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University College LondonThis book contains the most innovative and important work that Colin McGinn has done in the course of his distinguished career. It has the potential to be an extraordinarily influential book, and to create, almost single-handedly, a new area of systematic study in analytic philosophy of mind: the philosophy of the imagination. Work done in this new area could provide a foundation for work done in many other areas, including the epistemology of perception, the metaphysics of intentionality, the scientific understanding of dreaming, psychosis, and the creativity of our linguistic abilities. -- Ram Neta, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina Promotional This book contains the most innovative and important work that Colin McGinn has done in the course of his distinguished career. It has the potential to be an extraordinarily influential book, and to create, almost single-handedly, a new area of systematic study in analytic philosophy of mind: the philosophy of the imagination. Work done in this new area could provide a foundation for work done in many other areas, including the epistemology of perception, the metaphysics of intentionality, the scientific understanding of dreaming, psychosis, and the creativity of our linguistic abilities. -- Ram Neta, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina McGinns book is first rate, manifesting all the qualities of incisive argument, original thought and clear, direct, lively, pithy writing for which he is celebrated. -- Malcolm Budd, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University College London Review Quote Written in a lively style, Colin McGinns 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. Details ISBN0674022475 Author Colin McGinn Short Title MINDSIGHT Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674022475 ISBN-13 9780674022478 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 128.3 Year 2006 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle Image, Dream, Meaning Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Birth 1950 Residence NJ, US Affiliation Rutgers University Illustrations none DOI 10.1604/9780674022478 UK Release Date 2006-09-01 NZ Release Date 2006-09-01 US Release Date 2006-09-01 Pages 224 Publication Date 2006-09-01 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2006-09-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159126019;
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