Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning

by Colin McGinn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674015606
• ISBN13: 9780674015609
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"