Skillful Disposition and Responsiveness in Mental Imagery

• Main Author: An, Christopher Joseph G
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Wittgenstein; mental imagery; conceptual capacities; visual affordances; acquired dispositions.; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/68; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=philo-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper aims to explore and expand on Wittgenstein’s remarks on the nature of mental imagery. Despite some rather cryptic passages and obvious objections, his notion of mental imagery as possessing a constitutive (and not merely added) element of expressive thought and conceptuality offers critic...