Dreaming

ISBN-13: 9781138231412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 134 str.

Norman Malcolm

Opis

Originally published in 1959, with some corrections in 1962, the author examines the common view at the time that dreams are mental activities or mental occurrences taking place during sleep.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction  2. Asserting That One is Asleep  3. Judging That One is Asleep  4. A Comparison of ‘I Am Asleep’ and ‘I Am in Pain’  5. Two Objections  6. The Criteria of Sleep  7. Phenomena Resembling Sleep  8. Sound Asleep  9. Judgments in Sleep  10. Application to Other Mental Phenomena  11. Dreaming as an Exception  12. The Concept of Dreaming  13. Temporal Location and Duration of Dreams  14. A Queer Phenomenon  15. Continuity between Dreams and Waking Life  16. Dreams and Scepticism  17. The Principle of Coherence  18. Do I Know I am Awake?  Appendix: Dreams and Psychiatry.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Norman Malcolm