Perceptual imagination and perceptual memory / Fiona Macpherson and Fabian Dorsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macpherson, Fiona, editor.

Dorsch, Fabian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception.

Memory.

Imagination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This volume presents ten new essays on the nature of perceptual imagination and perceptual memory. The central questions are: How do perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience? And what role does each play in perception and in the acquisition of knowledge?

Contents:

Part I The Nature of Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory

2. Aristotle on distinguishing Phantasia and memory

3. Sensory memories and recollective images

4. Imagining the past

5. Memory, imagination, and narrative

6. Imaginative content

Part II The Epistemic Role of Imagination and Memory

7. Infusing perception with imagination

8. Superimposed mental imagery

9. Visually attending to fictional things

10. Justification by imagination

11. How imagination gives rise to knowledge.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 21, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-254856-5

0-19-178735-3