Review -mindsight Image, Dream, Meaning

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  • Colin McGinn
  • Martin Allen
چکیده

As the title of his book suggests, McGinn presents an account of the human imagination and its role in such phenomena as mental imagery, dreams and the meaning of language. As he sees it, imagination is a central part of what distinguishes human beings from other animals--we are, as it were 'Homo imaginans' [5]. At the same time, however, contemporary analytical philosophy of mind has devoted little attention to the imagination, something McGinn seeks to rectify. Even if Mindsight fails to convince every reader as to its conclusions, it raises any number of interesting points for consideration, and certainly points out many areas where our understanding of a central human ability falls short.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007