Professor Rollins is the author of Mental Imagery: On the Limits of Cognitive Science and co-editor of Begetting Images: Studies in the Art and Science of Symbol Production. He is editor of Danto and His Critics, and is currently at work on a book on perception and pictorial art. His focus in these works is on the nature of mental representation and the foundations of cognitive science. He has published articles on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and aesthetics, which are his primary teaching interests. His current research is on perception.