The Architecture of the imagination :new essays on pretence, possibility, and fiction
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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.
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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.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Oxford
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Oxford ; New York
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Clarendon Press
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Oxford University Press
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2006
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
viii, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN: 0199275734
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edited by Shaun Nichols
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موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
عنصر شناسه ای
، Imagination )Philosophy(
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
BH
301
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I53
A73
2006
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