Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1. Appearance and Reality.- 2. Representational Ideas.- 3. Platonic Ideas.- 4. Aristotelean Forms.- 5. Like Knows Like.- 6. Ideas as Effects and Things as Causes.- 7. Resemblance.- 8. Ontological Models.- 2. Descartes.- 1. Image and Concept.- 2. Imagination and Understanding.- 3. Sensations and Images.- 4. Non-Resembling Ideas.- 5. The Priority of Ontology.- 6. What is an Idea?.- 7. What in an Idea Makes it be of its object?.- 8. Summary Conclusion.- 3. Malebranche and Arnauld.- 1. Faculties, Capacities, and Dispositions.- 2. Act, Content, and Object.- 3. Ideas as Independent Objects.- 4. Ideas as Acts of Mind.- 5. Ideas as Transparent, as Searchlights, and as Grapples.- 4. Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.- 1. Primary and Secondary Ideas.- 2. Non-Representational Ideas.- 3. Particular Ideas.- 5. The Picture Theory.- 1. Wittgenstein.- 2. Carnap.- 3. Goodman.- 6. Neurophilosophy.- 1. Patricia Churchland.- 2. Ruth Millikan.- 3. Robert Cummins.- 4. Mark Rollins.- 7. Having Ideas.- 8. Conclusion.- Notes.- Name Index.

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