?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Experience+and+Theory+as+Determinants+of+Attitudes+toward+Mental+Representation%3A+The+Case+of+Knight+Dunlap+and+the+Vanishing+Images+of+J.B.%C2%A0Watson&rft.creator=Thomas%2C+Nigel+J.+T.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Galton+and+subsequent+investigators+find+wide+divergences+in+people's+subjective+reports+of+mental+imagery.+Such+individual+differences+might+be+taken+to+explain+the+peculiarly+irreconcilable+disputes+over+the+nature+and+cognitive+significance+of+imagery+which+have+periodically+broken+out+among+psychologists+and+philosophers.+However%2C+to+so+explain+these+disputes+is+itself+to+take+a+substantive+and+questionable+position+on+the+cognitive+role+of+imagery.+This+article+distinguishes+three+separable+issues+over+which+people+can+be+%22for%22+or+%22against%22+mental+images.+Conflation+of+these+issues+can+lead+to+theoretical+differences+being+mistaken+for+experiential+differences%2C+even+by+theorists+themselves.+This+is+applied+to+the+case+of+John+B.+Watson%2C+who+inaugurated+a+half-century+of+neglect+of+image+psychology.+Watson+originally+claimed+to+have+vivid+imagery%3B+by+1913+he+was+denying+the+existence+of+images.+This+strange+reversal%2C+which+made+his+behaviorism+possible%2C+is+explicable+as+a+%22creative+misconstrual%22+of+Dunlap's+%22motor%22+theory+of+imagination.&rft.publisher=University+of+Illinois&rft.date=1989&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3750%2F1%2Fdun-wat-cp.htm&rft.identifier=++Thomas%2C+Nigel+J.+T.++(1989)+Experience+and+Theory+as+Determinants+of+Attitudes+toward+Mental+Representation%3A+The+Case+of+Knight+Dunlap+and+the+Vanishing+Images+of+J.B.+Watson.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3750%2F