Single Idea 4623

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality]

Full Idea

Some philosophers have thought that intentional states are exhausted by propositional attitudes, but what about mental imagery? You may have propositional attitudes to food, but I would wager that most of your thoughts about it are imagistic.

Gist of Idea

Propositional attitudes are not the only intentional states; there is also mental imagery

Source

John Heil (Philosophy of Mind [1998], Ch.6)

Book Reference

Heil,John: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Routledge 1998], p.212


A Reaction

Seems right. If I encounter an object by which I am bewildered, I may form no propositions at all about it, but I can still contemplate the object.