The Imagery Debate by Michael Tye
Michael Tye untangles the complex web of empirical and conceptual issues of the newly revived imagery debate in psychology between those that liken mental images to pictures and those that liken them to linguistic descriptions. He also takes into account longstanding philosophical issues, to arrive at a comprehensive, up-to-date view and an original theory that provides answers to questions raised in both psychology and philosophy. Drawing on the insights of Stephen Kosslyn and the work on vision of David Mart, Tye develops a new theory of mental imagery that includes an account of imagistic representation and also tackles questions about the phenomenal qualities of mental images, image indeterminacy, the neurophysiolgical basis of imagery, and the causal relevance of image content to behavior. Tye introduces the history of philosophical views on the nature of mental imagery from Aristotle to Kant. He examines the reasons for the decline of picture theories of imagery and the use of alternative theories, the reemergence of the picture theory (with special reference to the work of Stephen Kosslyn), and the contrasting view that mental images are inner linguistic descriptions rather than pictorial representations. He then proposes his own theory of images interpreted as symbol-filled arrays in part like pictures and in part like linguistic descriptions, addresses the issue of vagueness in some features of mental images, and argues that images need not have qualia to account for their phenomenological character. Tye concludes by discussing the questions of how images are physically realized in the brain and how the contents of images can be causally related to behavior.-
The Rediscovery of the Mind
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Action in Perception
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The Paradox of Self-Consciousness
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Mental Reality
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The Realistic Spirit
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Mind in a Physical World
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Representation and Reality
- Consciousness and Persons
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Wittgenstein and the Moral Life
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Consciousness, Color, and Content
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Ten Problems of Consciousness
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Austere Realism
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Naturalistic Realism and the Antirealist Challenge
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Past, Space and Self
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In Critical Condition
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Causation and Counterfactuals
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The Subject's Matter
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Furnishing the Mind
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The Consciousness Paradox
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Consciousness Revisited
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A Theory of Content and Other Essays
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The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
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A Study of Concepts
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Brainchildren
Tye, Michael: - Michael Tye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Ten Problems of Consciousness (1995), Consciousness, Color, and Content (2000), and Consciousness and Persons (2003), all published by the MIT Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262700733 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262700735 |
| Title | The Imagery Debate |
| Author | Michael Tye |
| Series | Representation And Mind Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 188 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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