Kaag Thinking Through the Imagination

Aesthetics in Human Cognition
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8232-5495-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: American Philosophy

Traces the concept of the imagination through German idealism of the 18th century, the American philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the findings of contemporary cognitive neuroscience in order to argue for the centrality of aesthetics in human cognition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaag, John

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1 The Cultivation of the Imagination 1

2 Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination 25

3 C. S. Peirce and the Growth of the Imagination 57

4 Abduction: Inference and Instinct 75

5 Imagining Nature 93

6 Ontology and Imagination: Peirce on Necessity and Agency 120

7 The Evolution of the Imagination 139

8 Emergence, Complexity, and Creativity 165

9 Be Imaginative! Suggestion and Imperative 192

Notes 211

Bibliography 235

Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Kaag John:

John Kaag is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His most recent book, Thinking Through the Imagination, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press. He has held academic appointments at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Harvard University.