Concept

Mental image

Overview

representation in an individual's mind of the physical world outside of that individual

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Mental image

• The Philosophy of Freedom
• Kieran Egan (philosopher)
• Ferdinand Fellmann

Related ideas

• Gilbert Ryle
• Ned Block
• George Berkeley
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Philosophy
• Idealism
• Republic (Plato)
• Idea
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• On the Soul
• Materialism
• Neuroplasticity
• Prefrontal cortex
• Bon
• Meditation
• Neuron
• Neuroscience
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging
• Psychology
• Plato
• Knowledge
• Prayer
• Perception
• Socrates

Opposing perspectives

• Imagination

Place in the tradition

Part of Embodied cognition.

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