Oct 22, 2023
Mental Imagery: Philosophy,
Psychology, Neuroscience
Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience is about
mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life.
It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual
episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling
features of perception (like the way it is influenced in a top-down
manner and the way different sense-modalities interact). But mental
imagery also plays a very important role in emotions, action
execution, and even in our desires. In sum, there are very few
mental phenomena that mental imagery doesn't show up in--in some
way or other. The hope is that if we understand what mental imagery
is, how it works and how it is related to other mental phenomena,
we can make real progress on a number of important questions about
the mind.
This book is written for an interdisciplinary audience. As it aims to combine philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to understand mental imagery, the author has not presupposed any prior knowledge in any of these disciplines, so any reader can follow the arguments.