Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning - Hardcover

McGinn, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674015606 ISBN 13: 9780674015609

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2004

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[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" (04/07/2005) [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" (04/01/2005) McGinn's 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 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 Written in a lively style, Colin McGinn's 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" (05/20/2005)

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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.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0674015606
• ISBN 13: 9780674015609
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240