Explaining Imagination
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-890438-0 (ISBN)
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.
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).
1: Explaining Imagination
2: Folk Psychology and Its Ontology
3: Imagistic Imagining Part I: Imagery, Attitude Imgaining, and Recreative Imagining
4: Imagistic Imagining Part II: Hybrid Structure, Multiple Attitudes, and Daydreams
5: Conditional Reasoning Part I: Three Kinds of Conditionals and the Psychology of the Material Conditiona
6: Conditional Reasoning Part II: Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Ramsey Test
7: Pretense Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths
8: Pretense Part II: Psychology
9: Consuming Fictions Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths
10: Consuming Fictions Part II: The Operator Claim
11: Consuming Fictions Part III: Immersion, Emotion, and the Paradox of Fiction
12: Creativity
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.01.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 484 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-890438-X / 019890438X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-890438-0 / 9780198904380 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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