Dreaming

References and further reading

	Aristotle (c. 350) On Dreams, in W.D. Ross (ed.) The Works of Aristotle, London: Oxford University Press, 1931, vol. 3. (The first complete small treatise on dreams.)
	Debru, C. (1990) Neurophilosophie du rêve, Paris: Hermann. (Overview of the main neurophysiological theories.)
	Dement, W. and Kleitmann, N. (1957) ‘Cyclic Variations of EEG during Sleep and their Relations to Eye Movements, Bodily Motility and Dreaming’, Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 3: 673–690. (The title says it all.)
	Dennett, D. (1976) ‘Are Dreams Experiences?’, Philosophical Review 73: 151–171; repr. in D. Dennett, Brainstorms, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Tries to do justice to both Malcolm’s insights and neurophysiological evidence.)
	Descartes, R. ([1641] 1969) Meditations on First Philosophy, trans. E.S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross, in The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, vol. 1. (The famous ‘dream argument’ and its anti-sceptical criticism.)
	Foulkes, D. (1966) The Psychology of Sleep, New York: Scribner’s. (Standard source.)
	Hopkins, J. (1991) ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’, in J. Neu (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Freud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 86–135. (A lucid synopsis of Freud’s theory of dreams in an analytic framework.)
	Jouvet, M. (1991) ‘Le someil paradoxal: Est-il le guardien de l’individuation psychologique?’ (Paradoxical Sleep: Is it the Guardian of Psychological Individuation?), Revue Canadienne de Psychologie 45: 148–168.
	Malcolm, N. (1959) Dreaming, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Important monograph on the concept of dreaming, with some of the most debated arguments, and useful excerpts from the philosophical literature.)
	Putnam, H. (1962) ‘Dreaming and “Depth Grammar”’, in R. Butler (ed.) Analytical Philosophy. First Series, Oxford: Blackwell; repr. in Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975, 304–324. (Anti-verificationist criticism of Malcolm.)