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

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


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This volume brings together specially written essays by leading researchers on the propositional imagination. This is the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that Holmes has a bad habit or that there are zombies. It plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. The Architecture of the Imagination capitalizes on recent attempts to give a cognitive account of this capacity, extending the theoretical picture and exploring the philosophical implications.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
Nichols's collection makes an important contribution to a growing field. It will be of particular interest to those interested in the nature of our engagement with fiction, modal epistemology, thought experiments, and the emotions. But it will also be of considerable interest to anyone interested in aesthetics or the study of the mind.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199275724
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction
  • Width: 161 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199275726
  • Publisher Date: 07 Sep 2006
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 290
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 586 gr


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