Abstract

There is much that is stimulating in Dennett's book for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. There is much too with which I find myself in agreement. I especially like Dennett's discussion of mental imagery, in which he shows himself now to be much closer to the quasi-pictorial array conception of images defended by Kosslyn and his followers than in his earlier work. I also think that Dennett's remarks on the representation of time in experience are extremely insightful. But there are parts of the book which seem to me misguided. In this note, I shall focus on two related strands of argument which are central to Dennett's overall position and which are, I believe, unsound.

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