The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199275734 ISBN 13: 9780199275731

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 2006

Riassunto

This volume presents new essays on the propositional imagination by leading researchers. The propositional imagination―-the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that everyone is colour-blind or that Hamlet is a procrastinator―-plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. Yet only recently has there been a systematic attempt to give a cognitive account of the propositional imagination. These thirteen essays, specially written for the volume, capitalize on this recent work, extending the theoretical picture of the imagination and exploring the philosophical implications of cognitive accounts of the imagination. The book also investigates broader philosophical issues surrounding the propositional imagination.

The first section addresses the nature of the imagination, its role in emotion production, and its sophistication manifestation in childhood. The essays in the second section focus on the nature of pretence and how pretence is implicated in adult communication. The third section addresses the problem of 'imaginative resistance', the striking fact that when we encounter morally repugnant assertions in fiction, we seem to resist imagining them and accepting them as fictionally true. In the final section, contributors explore the relation between imagining, conceiving, and judgements of possibility and impossibility.

The Architecture of the Imagination will be an essential resource for the growing number of philosophers and psychologists studying the nature of the imagination and on its role in philosophy, aesthetics, and everyday life.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Sentimental Rules (OUP, 2004), and co-author, with Stephen Stich, of Mindreading (OUP, 2003).

Contenuti:

• 1: Shaun Nichols: Introduction
• The nature of the imagination
• 2: Tim Schroeder & Carl Matheson: . Imagination and Emotion
• 3: Alvin Goldman: Imagination and Simulation in Audience Responses to Fiction
• 4: Adam Morton: . Imagination and Misimagination
• 5: Deena Skolnick & Paul Bloom: The Intuitive Cosmology of Fictional Worlds
• Pretence
• 6: Peter Carruthers: Why Pretend?
• 7: Gregory Currie: Why Irony is Pretence
• Imaginative resistance
• 8: Kendall Walton: . On the (So-Called) Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance
• 9: Tamar Szabó Gendler: Imaginative Resistance Revisited
• 10: Jonathan Weinberg and Aaron Meskin: Puzzling Over the Imagination: Philosophical Problems, Architectural Solutions
• Imagination and possibility
• 11: Christopher Hill: Modality, Modal Epistemology, and the Metaphysics of Consciousness
• 12: Shaun Nichols: Imaginative Blocks and Impossibility: An Essay in Modal Psychology
• 13: Roy Sorensen: Meta-conceivability and Thought Experiments

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199275734
• ISBN 13: 9780199275731
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 290
• Redattore: Nichols Shaun