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Article Excerpt
McGinn, C. (2004). Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 209 + viii pp. Hardcover. ISBN 0-674-01560-6. $27.95.
Taking a cue from some remarks of Wittgenstein, Colin McGinn offers a thorough and refreshing study of the imagination as the capacity of the mind to recombine elements in its experience, as opposed to one sense of the more traditional theory of the image as faint copy of sensory experience. Whereas the activity of the imagination "clearly depends," McGinn observes, "on the operation of suitable brain mechanisms" (p. 24), it is nevertheless not informative of the world, having dependence only on the will. Imagery occurs independently of the perspective of the mind's body and the qualitative density and presence, even, of sensory objects. The identity of the objects of the imagination depends entirely on the mind's having determined its intentional reality. Although imaginative content is frequently derived from the memory of sensory experience, as McGinn suggests the image remembered is subject to "de-saturation" (p. 35) and to the will: it is different from the iconic trace, say, on the retina,...
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