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Knowledge Through Imagination (Hardcover)
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Knowledge Through Imagination (Hardcover)
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Imagination is celebrated as our vehicle for escape from the
mundane here and now. It transports us to distant lands of magic
and make-believe. It provides us with diversions during boring
meetings or long bus rides. It enables creation of new things that
the world has never seen. Yet the focus on imagination as a means
of escape from the real world minimizes the fact that imagination
seems also to furnish us with knowledge about it. Imagination seems
an essential component in our endeavor to learn about the world in
which we live-whether we're planning for the future, aiming to
understand other people, or figuring out whether two puzzle pieces
fit together. But how can the same mental power that allows us to
escape the world as it currently is also inform us about the world
as it currently is? The ten original essays in Knowledge Through
Imagination, along with a substantial introduction by the editors,
grapple with this neglected question; in doing so, they present a
diverse array of positions ranging from cautious optimism to
deep-seated pessimism. Many of the essays proceed by considering
specific domains of inquiry where imagination is often
employed-from the navigation of our immediate environment, to the
prediction of our own and other peoples' behavior, to the
investigation of ethical truth. Other essays assess the prospects
for knowledge through imagination from a more general perspective,
looking at issues of cognitive architecture and basic rationality.
Blending perspectives from philosophy of mind, cognitive science,
epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics, Knowledge Through Imagination
sheds new light on the epistemic role of imagination.
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