Explaining Imagination

NOTE EDITORE

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts we already understand. Explaining Imagination is a guidebook for doing just that, where the parts are other ordinary mental states like beliefs, desires, judgments, and decisions. In different combinations and contexts, these states constitute cases of imagining. This reductive approach to imagination is at direct odds with the current orthodoxy, according to which imagination is a sui generis mental state or process—one with its own inscrutable principles of operation. Explaining Imagination upends that view, showing how, on closer inspection, the imaginings at work in hypothetical reasoning, pretense, the enjoyment of fiction, and creativity are reducible to other familiar mental states—judgments, beliefs, desires, and decisions among them. Crisscrossing contemporary philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and aesthetics, Explaining Imagination argues that a clearer understanding of imagination is already well within reach.

SOMMARIO

1 - Explaining Imagination2 - Folk Psychology and Its Ontology3 - Imagistic Imagining Part I: Imagery, Attitude Imgaining, and Recreative Imagining4 - Imagistic Imagining Part II: Hybrid Structure, Multiple Attitudes, and Daydreams5 - Conditional Reasoning Part I: Three Kinds of Conditionals and the Psychology of the Material Conditiona6 - Conditional Reasoning Part II: Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Ramsey Test7 - Pretense Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths8 - Pretense Part II: Psychology9 - Consuming Fictions Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths10 - Consuming Fictions Part II: The Operator Claim11 - Consuming Fictions Part III: Immersion, Emotion, and the Paradox of Fiction12 - Creativity

AUTORE

Peter Langland-Hassan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a BA in philosophy from Columbia University. His published work spans the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and empirical psychology. He was a co-editor and contributor to Inner Speech: New Voices (OUP, 2018).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198904380
• Dimensioni: 235 x 15.0 x 150 mm Ø 484 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 336