The Invention of Imagination

Aristotle and the Origins of the Representational Theory of Mind

Justin Humphreys (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2024
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-4740-0 (ISBN)

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Aristotle was the first philosopher to divide the imagination—what he called phantasia—from other parts of the psyche, placing it between perception and intellect. A mathematician and philosopher of mathematical sciences, Aristotle was puzzled by the problem of geometrical cognition—which depends on the ability to “produce” and “see” a multitude of immaterial objects—and so he introduced the category of internal appearances produced by a new part of the psyche, the imagination. As Justin Humphreys argues, Aristotle developed his theory of imagination in part to explain certain functions of reason with a psychological rather than metaphysical framework. Investigating the background of this conceptual development, The Invention of Imagination reveals how imagery was introduced into systematic psychology in fifth-century Athens and ultimately made mathematical science possible. It offers new insights about major philosophers in the Greek tradition and significant events in the emergence of ancient mathematics while offering space for a critical reflection on how we understand ourselves as thinking beings.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2023
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8229-4740-4 / 0822947404
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-4740-0 / 9780822947400
Zustand	Neuware