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Miscellaneous Philosophy of Mind :: Aspects of Mind :: Imagery

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Abell, Catharine & Currie, Gregory (1999). Internal and external pictures. Philosophical Psychology 12 (4):429-445.   (Cited by 2 | Google | More links | Edit)
Abstract: What do pictures and mental images have in common? The contemporary tendency to reject mental picture theories of imagery suggests that the answer is: not much. We show that pictures and visual imagery have something important in common. They both contribute to mental simulations: pictures as inputs and mental images as outputs. But we reject the idea that mental images involve mental pictures, and we use simulation theory to strengthen the anti-pictorialist's case. Along the way we try to account for caricature and for some basic features of pictorial representations
Alfred Hoernle, R. F. (1907). Image, idea and meaning. Mind 16 (61):70-100.   (Google | Edit)
Anderson, John R. (1978). Arguments concerning representations for mental imagery. Psychological Review.   (Cited by 491 | Google | Edit)
Audi, Robert N. (1978). The ontological status of mental images. Inquiry 21:348-61.   (Cited by 4 | Google | Edit)
Averill, Edward W. (1978). Explaining the privacy of afterimages and pains. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 38 (March):299-314.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Bain, Alexander (1880). Mr. Galton's statistics of mental imagery. Mind 5 (20):564-573.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Baker, M. J. (1954). Perceiving, imagining, and being mistaken. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 14 (June):520-535.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Blachowicz, James A. (1997). Analog representation beyond mental imagery. Journal of Philosophy 94 (2):55-84.   (Cited by 47 | Google | More links | Edit)
Block, Ned (ed.) (1981). Imagery. MIT Press.   (Cited by 120 | Google | Edit)
Block, Ned (1983). Mental pictures and cognitive science. Philosophical Review 93 (October):499-542.   (Cited by 70 | Google | More links | Edit)
Block, Ned (1983). The photographic fallacy in the debate about mental imagery. Noûs 17 (November):651-62.   (Cited by 7 | Google | More links | Edit)
Bower, Kenneth J. (1984). Imagery: From Hume to cognitive science. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14 (June):217-234.   (Cited by 1 | Google | Edit)
Bringsjord, Selmer (1988). Tracing Superman again: A reply to Clark's Superman, the image. Analysis 48 (January):52-54.   (Google | Edit)
Brown, R. & Herrstein, R. (1981). Icons and images. In Ned Block (ed.), Imagery. MIT Press.   (Cited by 5 | Google | Edit)
Cam, Philip (1987). Propositions about images. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 48 (December):335-8.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Campbell, J. (2002). Berkeley's puzzle. In Tamar S. Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Conceivability and Possibility. MIT Press.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Abstract: But say you,surely there is nothing easier than to imagine trees,for instance,in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them. I answer, you may so, there is no difficulty in it:but what is all this,I beseech you,more than framing in your mind certain ideas which you call books and trees, and at the same time omitting to frame the idea of anyone that may perceive them? But do you not yourself perceive or think of them all the while? This therefore is nothing to the purpose: it only shows you have the power of imagining or forming ideas in your mind;but it doth not shew that you can conceive it possible, the objects of your thought may exist without the mind: to make out this, it is necessary that you conceive them existing unconceived or unthought of, which is a manifest repugnancy
Candlish, Stewart (1975). Mental images and pictorial properties. Mind 84 (April):260-2.   (Cited by 2 | Google | More links | Edit)
Candlish, Stewart (1976). The incompatibility of perception: A contemporary orthodoxy. American Philosophical Quarterly 13 (January):63-68.   (Cited by 1 | Google | Edit)
Chambers, D. & Reisberg, Daniel (1985). Can mental images be ambiguous? Journal of Experimental Psychology 11:317-28.   (Cited by 91 | Google | Edit)
Chambers, D. & Reisberg, Daniel (1992). What an image depicts depends on what an image means. Cognitive Psychology 24:145-74.   (Cited by 67 | Google | More links | Edit)
Clark, Andy (1988). Superman and the duck/rabbit: A reply to Gordon and Bringsjord. Analysis 48 (January):54-57.   (Google | Edit)
Cohen, Jonathan (1996). The imagery debate: A critical assessment. Journal of Philosophical Research 21 (January):149-182.   (Cited by 1 | Google | Edit)
Cole, David (online). Images and thinking: Critique of arguments against images as a medium of thought.   (Google | Edit)
Abstract: The Way of Ideas died an ignoble death, committed to the flames by behaviorist empiricists. Ideas, pictures in the head, perished with the Way. By the time those empiricists were supplanted at the helm by functionalists and causal theorists, a revolution had taken place in linguistics and the last thing anyone wanted to do was revive images as the medium of thought. Currently, some but not all cognitive scientists think that there probably are mental images - experiments in cognitive psychology (e.g. Shepard and Metzler 1971) have shown it to be plausible to posit mental images. Even so, the phenomenon of mental imagery has been largely regarded as peripheral in cognition, perhaps even epiphenomenal. Images cannot fix the content of thought (intentions, rules), the Wittgenstein story went. The central processes of thought, so the post-Wittgenstein story goes, require a propositional representation system, a language of thought, universal and modeled on the machine languages of computers. The language of thought is compositional, productive, and, leading advocates argue, has a causal semantics. Images lack all of these essential qualities and so are hopeless as key players in thinking
Cousin, D. R. (1970). On the ownership of images. Analysis 30 (June):206-208.   (Google | Edit)
Danto, Arthur C. (1958). Concerning mental pictures. Journal of Philosophy 55 (January):12-19.   (Cited by 4 | Google | More links | Edit)
Deitsch, Martin (1971). Seeing and picturing. Journal of Philosophy 68 (June):338.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Deitsch, Martin (1972). Visualizing. Mind 81 (January):113-115.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Dennett, Daniel C. (2002). Does your brain use the images in it, and if so, how? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25:189-190.   (Google | Edit)
Abstract: The presence of spatial patterns of activity in the brain is suggestive of image-exploiting processes in vision and mental imagery, but not conclusive. Only behavioral evidence can confirm or disconfirm hypotheses about whether, and how, the brain uses images in its information-processing, and the arguments based on such evidence are still inconclusive
Dennett, Daniel C. (1978). Two approaches to mental images. In Brainstorms. MIT Press.   (Cited by 40 | Google | Edit)
Dennett, Daniel C. (1968). The nature of images and the introspective trap. In Content and Consciousness. Routledge and Kegan Paul.   (Cited by 53 | Google | Edit)
Duran, Jane (1997). Syntax, imagery and naturalization. Philosophia 25 (1-4):373-387.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Eilan, Naomi M. (1993). The imagery debate. Philosophical Books 34 (3):137-142.   (Google | Edit)
Farah, Martha J. (1988). Is visual imagery really visual: Some overlooked evidence from neuropsychology. Psychological Review 95:307-17.   (Cited by 150 | Google | More links | Edit)
Finke, Ronald A. (1989). Principles of Mental Imagery. MIT Press.   (Cited by 166 | Google | More links | Edit)
Fodor, Jerry A. (1975). Imagistic representation. In The Language of Thought. Harvard University Press.   (Cited by 24 | Google | Edit)
Franklin, R. L. (1978). The trouble with images. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (March):113-115.   (Google | Edit)
Furlong, E. J. (1969). Mental images and mr O. Hanfling. Analysis 30 (December):62-64.   (Google | Edit)
Galton, Francis (1880). Statistics of mental imagery. Mind 5 (19):301-318.   (Cited by 24 | Google | More links | Edit)
Garry, Ann (1977). Mental images. Personalist 58 (January):28-38.   (Google | Edit)
Glasgow, J. I. (1993). The imagery debate revisited: A computational perspective. Computational Intelligence 9:310-33.   (Cited by 3 | Google | Edit)
Gordon, David C. (1988). Clark on tracing mental images. Analysis 48 (January):50-51.   (Google | Edit)
Gore, Willard C. (1904). Image or sensation? Journal of Philosophy Psychology and Scientific Methods 1 (16):434-441.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Gore, Willard C. (1905). Image or sensation. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 2 (4):97-101.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Gregory, Joshua C. (1922). Visual images, words and dreams. Mind 31 (123):321-334.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Hampson, P. J. & Morris, P. E. (1978). Unfulfilled expectations: A criticism of Neisser's theory of imagery. Cognition 6 (March):79-85.   (Cited by 3 | Google | Edit)
Hanfling, Oswald (1969). Mental images. Analysis 30 (April):166-173.   (Google | Edit)
Hannay, Alastair (1971). Mental Images: A Defense. Allen & Unwin.   (Cited by 5 | Google | More links | Edit)
Hannay, Alastair (1973). To see a mental image. Mind 82 (April):161-262.   (Cited by 2 | Google | More links | Edit)
Harnad, Stevan (1993). Exorcizing the ghost of mental imagery. Computational Intelligence 9 (4):337-339.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Abstract: The problem seems apparent even in Glasgow's term ``depict'', which is used by way of contrast with ``describe''. Now ``describe'' refers relatively unproblematically to strings of symbols, such as those in this written sentence, that are systematically interpretable as propositions describing objects, events, or states of affairs. But what does ``depict'' mean? In the case of a picture -- whether a photo or a diagram -- it is clear what depict means. A picture is an object (I will argue below that it is an analog object, relative to what it is a picture of) and it DEPICTS yet another object: the object it is a picture OF. But in the case of an array, whether described formally, with numerical coordinates, or stored in a machine, or ``depicted'' diagrammatically by way of a secondary illustration, it is not at all clear whether the entity in question is indeed a picture, or merely yet another set of symbols that is INTERPRETABLE as referring to a picture, which picture in turn depicts an object! It is clear that we are dealing with many layers of interpretation here already, and so far we are still talking only about external objects (such as pictures, symbols and objects simpliciter). We still have not gotten to MENTAL objects, such as mental ``images''
Harrison, Bernard (1963). Meaning and mental images. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 63:237-250.   (Cited by 1 | Google | Edit)
Hayes, Patrick J. & Thomas, Nigel J. T. (online). Debate on mental images.   (Google | Edit)
Abstract: This debate, principally between myself (Nigel Thomas) and Patrick Hayes, the well known computer scientist and Artificial Intelligence researcher, took place through the internet mailing list for the discussion of the scientific study of consciousness, PSYCHE-D (moderated by Patrick Wilken), which is associated with the on-line journal PSYCHE. The discussion touches on the various different senses in which the expression "mental image" may be used, the underlying cognitive mechanisms of imagery, and the relevance of an understanding of imagery to the understanding of conscious thought, and thought in general. As the debate became rather 'unthreaded' on the list, following it through this page may help the reader to better understand what was going on
Haynes, Peter F. R. (1976). Mental imagery. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6 (December):705-720.   (Google | Edit)
Heil, John (1982). What does the mind's eye look at? Journal of Mind and Behavior 3:143-150.   (Google | Edit)
Hering, Jean (1947). Concerning image, idea, and dream (translation). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 8 (December):188-205.   (Google | Edit)
Jones, O. R. (1972). After-images. American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (April):150-158.   (Google | Edit)
Kieldopf, Charles F. (1968). The pictures in the head of a man born blind. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (June):501-513.   (Google | Edit)
Kind, Amy (online). Imagery and imagination.   (Google | Edit)
Abstract: Both imagery and imagination play an important part in our mental lives. This article, which has three main sections, discusses both of these phenomena, and the connection between them. The first part discusses mental images and, in particular, the dispute about their representational nature that has become known as the _imagery debate_ . The second part turns to the faculty of the imagination, discussing the long philosophical tradition linking mental imagery and the imagination—a tradition that came under attack in the early part of the twentieth century with the rise of behaviorism. Finally, the third part of this article examines modal epistemology, where the imagination has been thought to serve an important philosophical function, namely, as a guide to possibility
Kleiman, Lowell (1978). Mental images: Another look. Philosophical Studies 34 (August):169-176.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Kosslyn, Stephen M. (1994). Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate. MIT Press.   (Cited by 1187 | Google | More links | Edit)
Kosslyn, Stephen M. (1980). Image and Mind. Harvard University Press.   (Cited by 860 | Google | Edit)
Kosslyn, Stephen M. & Pomerantz, J. (1977). Imagery, propositions and the form of internal representations. Cognitive Psychology 9:52-76.   (Cited by 84 | Google | Edit)
Kosslyn, Stephen M.; Pinker, Steven; Schwartz, Sophie & Smith, G. (1979). On the demystification of mental imagery. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2:535-81.   (Cited by 47 | Google | Edit)
Kosslyn, Stephen M. (1981). The medium and the message in mental imagery: A theory. In Ned Block (ed.), Imagery. MIT Press.   (Cited by 110 | Google | Edit)
Kosslyn, Stephen M. (2001). The strategic eye: Another look. Minds and Machines 11 (2):287-291.   (Cited by 4 | Google | More links | Edit)
Kuehl, James R. (1970). Perceiving and imaging. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 31 (December):212-224.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Lawrie, Reynold (1970). The existence of mental images. Philosophical Quarterly 20 (July):253-257.   (Cited by 2 | Google | More links | Edit)
Lay, Wilfrid (1904). Organic images. Journal of Philosophy Psychology and Scientific Methods 1 (3):68-71.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Lemos, Ramon M. (1963). Ideas, images, and sensations. Theoria 29:56-69.   (Google | Edit)
Lormand, Eric (2005). Phenomenal impressions. In T.S. Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual Experience. Oup.   (Cited by 4 | Google | Edit)
Lycos, K. (1965). Images and the imaginary. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 43 (December):321-338.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Lyons, William E. (1984). The Tiger and his stripes. Analysis 44 (2):93-95.   (Cited by 1 | Google | Edit)
Maloney, J. Christopher (1984). Mental images and cognitive theory. American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (July):237-47.   (Google | Edit)
Marbach, Eduard (1984). On using intentionality in empirical phenomenology: The problem of 'mental images'. Dialectica 38:209-230.   (Cited by 1 | Google | Edit)
Margolis, Joseph (1966). After-images and pains. Philosophy 41 (October):41-347.   (Google |