It is generally accepted that there is something special about reasoning by using mental
images. The question of how it is special, however, has never been satisfactorily spelled out …

When I am looking at my coffee machine that makes funny noises, this is an instance of
multisensory perception–I perceive this event by means of both vision and audition. But very …

The Philosophy of Philosophy The Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy The Philosophy
of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science …

In his 1836 essay “Maelzel's Chess Player” Edgar Allan Poe attempted to expose the hoax
of a machine which, according to its owner, Johann Mälzel, could play chess against a …

An argument that challenges the dominant" theory theory" and simulation theory approaches
to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done …

Can theories of mental imagery, conscious mental contents, developed within cognitive
science throw light on the obscure (but culturally very significant) concept of imagination …

Recent accounts of pretense have been underdescribed in a number of ways. In this paper,
we present a much more explicit cognitive account of pretense. We begin by describing a …

Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience of action have considerably enlarged our
understanding of human motor cognition. In particular, the activity of the mirror system, first …

During the past two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have
occupied center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. A group of …

Historically, mental imagery has been defined as an experiential state—as something
necessarily conscious. But most behavioural or neuroimaging experiments on mental …