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Knowledge through imagination / edited by Amy Kind & Peter Kung.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagination.
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustration
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Imagination allows us to escape from the mundane and the real world, yet it also seems to furnish us with knowledge about that world-when we plan for the future, for instance. Ten original essays illuminate the epistemic role of imagination, blending perspectives from philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics.
- Contents:
- Pt. One Taxonomical and Architectural Approaches
- 1.On the Epistemic Value of Imagining, Supposing, and Conceiving / Magdalena Balcerak Jackson
- 2.On Choosing What to Imagine / Peter Langland-Hassan
- 3.The Imaginative Agent / Neil Van Leeuwen
- pt. Two Optimistic Approaches
- 4.Knowing by Imagining / Timothy Williamson
- 5.Modals and Modal Epistemology / Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
- 6.Imagining Under Constraints / Amy Kind
- 7.Perceiving People as People: An Overlooked Role for the Imagination / Jennifer Church
- pt. Three Skeptical Approaches
- 8.Knowing Me, Knowing You: Failure to Forecast and the Empathic Imagination / Heidi L. Maibom
- 9.Imagination Through Knowledge / Shannon Spaulding
- 10.Thought Experiments in Ethics / Peter Kung.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 11, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9780191785375
- 0191785377
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