Sean Silver is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Sean Silver's The Mind is a Collection is a two-part intellectual project featuring a virtual museum along with his book, The Mind is a Collection, which serves as both scholarly study and an exhibit catalogue.

Preface: Welcome to the Museum
Introduction
Case 1. Metaphor
1. John Locke's Commonplace Book
2. John Milton's Bed
3. Mark Akenside's Museum
Case 2. Design
4. Robert Hooke's Camera Obscura
5. Raphael's Judgment of Paris
6. A Gritty Pebble
7. An Oval Portrait of John Woodward
8. A Stone from the Grotto of Egeria
9. Venus at Her Toilet
Case 3. Digression
10. The Iliad in a Nutshell
11. A Full Stop
12. A Conical Roman Tumulus
13. The Reception of Claudius
14. Addison's Walk
Case 4. Inwardness
15. William Hay's Stone
16. Two Calculi Cut and Mounted in a Small Showcase
17. An Ampulla of the Blood of Thomas Becket
18. A Blue-Bound Copy of The Mysterious Mother
Case 5. Conception
19. A Blank Sheet of Paper (1)
20. A Folio Sheet with Two Sketches of a Single Conception
21. A Triumph of Galatea
22. Joshua Reynolds, William Hunter
Case 6. Dispossession
23. A Shilling
24. A Book of Accounts
25. A Blank Sheet of Paper (2)
26. A Ring Containing a Lock of Hair
27. The Lost Property Office
28. The Skeleton of Jonathan Wild
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments