Pain is a useful sensation. Nociceptive pain provides warning of impending or actual tissue damage and prompts aversive or attentive actions that protect the body from harm. People who do not feel pain, due to mutation of certain ion channels (1), suffer a lifetime of otherwise avoidable injuries. The consequences of losing the ability to feel pain also are highlighted by the symptoms and clini...

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Thanks to Pylyshyn's work in the imagery debate, theorists are now apt to be at least a bit more cautious when they launch into descriptions of depictive representation. Even if the full force of his critique is not everywhere acknowledged, more care and vigilance is exercized when broaching talk of scanning mental images, focusing on such entities, or rotating them. The very places found in me...