Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 5-6  

Open Peer Commentary

Imagination and reason

Joseph Agassia1

a1 Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel. agass@post.tau.ac.il http://www.tau.ac.il/~agass/

Abstract

Byrne's book is intended to explain why people imagine the things they do when they create alternatives to reality. Two fruitful areas of further research are: (1) How can her approach explain dreams and daydreams? (2) What is the developmental time course of the child's understanding of reality and imagination?

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