1st Edition

Mental Images A Defence

By Hannay, Alastair Copyright 1971
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. This is Volume VII of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of Different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. Written in 1971, the central topic of this book is imaging, more specifically visual imaging and includes the embracing topic of the general question of the nature of mind-or, now that we have taken the linguistic turn, of the content and reference of mental-concept terms.

    Chapter I Introduction; Chapter II Ryle and the Absent Host; Chapter III Shorter's Excuses; Chapter IV Sartre's Illusion of Transcendence; Chapter V To be a Mental Image; Chapter VI Wittgenstein on the Nature of Things; Chapter VII Giving ‘imagination’ a Use; Chapter VIII Speculative Contexts;

    Biography

    Alastair Hannay University of Oslo