Lilly-Marlene Russow

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

Book reviewed in this article: The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and LeRoy Hood. Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology. By John Harris.

II. Audi on mental images

In an article entitled “The Ontological Status of Mental Images’, Robert Audi rejects the view presented in Hannays Mental Images: A Defence, and proposes ‘the property account of imaging’ as an alternative. Some of the strengths and weaknesses of Audis proposal are discussed, and a more detailed and specific version of the property account offered; it is suggested that imaging χ should be described as entertaining the thought that if one were looking at (or smelling, touching, hearing, etc.) x, things would appear ϕ.