In
the tradition of Rene Descartes, Jean-Paul Sartre in The Imaginary added his insights into the philosophy of mind
through his analysis of the imaging consciousness. In particular, his
discussions on the differences among perception, conception and imagining
identify the nuances among these modes of consciousness. Though he didn’t have
as much empirical data from neurobiology as we have nowadays in the age of AI,
his ideas provide some fundamentals of the philosophy of mind that help us
understand about how we form images in our minds. Recommended for those
interested in the philosophy of mind as well as existentialism.
