The Architecture of Imagination

New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-927572-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

Focuses on an area of intense current interest in philosophy and psychology
All new essays by leaders in the field
Capitalizes on and extends recent advances in the theory of the imagination
The starting point for future work on the subject

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

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of philosophy, in particular philosophy of mind, epistemology, and aesthetics, psychologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nichols, Shaun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Shaun Nichols: Introduction

- The nature of the imagination

- 2: Tim Schroeder and 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 and 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

Über Autor(innen)

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).