Amy Kind - The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF IMAGINATION

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind, cognition, ethics, and aesthetics, as well as epistemology, science, and mathematics.

This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organized into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including:

Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre

What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming

Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; and the problems of fictional emotions

Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imaginative resistance, imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition

Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of moral imagination and empathy

Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modeling, and mathematics.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and ethics. It will also be a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and art.

Amy Kind is Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, USA. She is editor of Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, volume 6 of The History of the Philosophy of Mind (Routledge, forthcoming), and with Peter Kung she is editor of the forthcoming collection Knowledge Through Imagination.

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