Explaining Imagination (Hardcover)

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. 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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2020
Authors:	Peter Langland-Hassan (Associate Professor of Philosophy)
Dimensions:	238 x 161 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-881506-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Promotions
LSN:	0-19-881506-9
Barcode:	9780198815068

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