Date: 1949
"Self-consciousness, if the word is to be used at all, must not be described on the hallowed para-optical model, as a torch that illuminates itself by beams of its own light reflected from a mirror in its own insides."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1979
"The picture which holds traditional philosophy captive is that of the mind as a great mirror, containing various representations--some accurate, some not--and capable of being studied by pure, non-empirical methods."
preview | full record— Rorty, Richard (1931-2007)
Date: 1984
"Small and far away on the mind's screen, a semblance of Deane struck a semblance of an office wall in an explosion of brains and blood,"
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)