128 Pages
    by Routledge

    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. This essay has its origin primarily in some of the remarks on imagination made by Professor Ryle in The Concept of Mind. Reflection on arguments used in that book led the author to make the distinctions which have been indicated by the phrases 'in imagination', with imagination', and the term 'supposal'. This book is mainly a philosophical study of the leading concepts.

    Chapter I Introduction; Chapter II Uses of the Term ‘Imagination’; Chapter III Supposal; Chapter IV In Imagination; Chapter V Dreams—What they are; Chapter VI Dreams—What They Prove; Chapter VII Images; Chapter VIII With Imagination; Chapter IX Art and Imagination; Chapter X Hume's Treatment of Imagination; Chapter XI Imagination in Kant; summary Summary;

    Biography

    E.J. Furlong Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Dublin