The architecture of the imagination : new essays on pretence, possibility, and fiction / edited by Shaun Nichols.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nichols, Shaun, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 279 pages)

Other Title:

New essays on pretence, possibility, and fiction

New essays on pretense, possibility, and fiction

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.

Summary:

'The Architecture of the Imagination' will be an essential resource for the growing number of philosophers and psychologists studying the nature of the imagination and on its role in philosophy, aesthetics, and everyday life.

Contents:

Introduction / Shaun Nichols

pt. I. The nature of the imagination. Imagination and emotion / Timothy Schroeder, Carl Matheson ; Imagination and simulation in audience responses to fiction / Alvin Goldman ; Imagination and misimagination / Adam Morton ; The intuitive cosmology of fictional worlds / Deena Skolnick, Paul Bloom

pt. II. Pretence. Why pretend? / Peter Carruthers ; Why irony is pretence / Gregory Currie

pt. III. Imaginative resistance. On the (so-called) puzzle of imaginative resistance / Kendall Walton ; Imaginative resistance revisited / Tamar Szabo Gendler ; Puzzling over the imagination : philosophical problems, architectural solutions / Jonathan M. Weinberg, Aaron Meskin

pt. IV. Imagination and possibility. Modality, modal epistemology, and the metaphysics of consciousness / Christopher S. Hill ; Imaginative blocks and impossibility : an essay in modal psychology / Shaun Nichols ; Meta-conceivability and thought experiments / Roy Sorensen.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version