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Recreative Minds

Author : Gregory Currie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198238096
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Recreative Minds written by Gregory Currie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreative Minds develops a philosophical theory of imagination that draws upon recent theories and results in psychology. Ideas about how we read the minds of others have put the concept of imagination firmly back on the agenda for philosophy and psychology. Currie and Ravenscroft present atheory of what they call imaginative projection; they show how it fits into a philosophically motivated picture of the mind and of mental states, and how it illuminates and is illuminated by recent developments in cognitive psychology. They argue that we need to recognize a category ofdesire-in-imagination, and that supposition and fantasy should be classed as forms of imagination. They accommodate some of the peculiarities of perceptual forms of imagining such as visual and motor imagery, and suggest that they are important for mind-reading. They argue for a novel view about therelations between imagination and pretence, and suggest that imagining can be, but need not be, the cause of pretending. They show how the theory accommodates but goes beyond the idea of mental simulation, and argue that the contrast between simulation and theory is neither exclusive nor exhaustive.They argue that we can understand certain developmental and psychiatric disorders as arising from faulty imagination. Throughout, they link their discussion to the uses of imagination in our encounters with art, and they conclude with a chapter on responses to tragedy. The final chapter also offersa theory of the emotions that suggests that these states have much in common with perceptual states.Currie and Ravenscroft offer a lucid exploration of a fascinating subject, for readers in philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics.

Explaining Imagination

Author : Peter Langland-Hassan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198815069
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Imagination written by Peter Langland-Hassan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts we already understand. Explaining Imagination is a guidebook for doing just that, where the parts are other ordinary mental states like beliefs, desires, judgments, and decisions. In different combinations and contexts, these states constitute cases of imagining. This reductive approach to imagination is at direct odds with the current orthodoxy, according to which imagination is a sui generis mental state or process--one with its own inscrutable principles of operation. Explaining Imagination upends that view, showing how, on closer inspection, the imaginings at work in hypothetical reasoning, pretense, the enjoyment of fiction, and creativity are reducible to other familiar mental states--judgments, beliefs, desires, and decisions among them. Crisscrossing contemporary philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and aesthetics, Explaining Imagination argues that a clearer understanding of imagination is already well within reach.

Ovid's Lovers

Author : Victoria Rimell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521862191
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Lovers written by Victoria Rimell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling investigation of the question of the male/female relationship, which is central to Ovid's works.

The Creative Use of Imagination

Author : Neville Goddard
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creative Use of Imagination written by Neville Goddard and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creative Use of Imagination by Neville Goddard is a profound exploration of the transformative power of imagination and its role in shaping our realities. In this timeless work, Goddard delves into the depths of the mind, revealing how the creative use of imagination can be a powerful tool for personal growth and manifestation.

Discourse on the Method of Rightly...

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781595404497
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Discourse on the Method of Rightly... written by René Descartes and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from this Method; in the fourth, the reasonings by which he establishes the existence of God and of the Human Soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order of the Physical questions which he has invest-igated, and, in particular, the explication of the motion of the heart and of some other difficulties pertaining to Medicine, as also the difference between the soul of man and that of the brutes; and, in the last, what the Author believes to be required in order to greater advancement in the investigation of Nature than has yet been made, with the reasons that have induced him to write.

Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought

Author : Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030294226
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought written by Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination.

Knowledge Through Imagination

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019871680X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Through Imagination written by Amy Kind and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology

Author : Tamar Gendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199589763
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology written by Tamar Gendler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical discussions. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology. Each of the chapters focuses, in one way or another, on how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. This theme is explored in a wide range of cases, including scientific thought experiments, early childhood pretense, thought experiments concerning personal identity, fictional emotions, self-deception, Gettier cases, and the general relation of conceivability to possibility. Each of the chapters explores, in one way or another, the implications of this for how thought experiments and appeals to intuition can serve as mechanisms for supporting or refuting scientific or philosophical claims. And each of the chapters self-consciously exhibits a particular philosophical methodology: that of drawing both on empirical findings from contemporary psychology, and on classic texts in the philosophical tradition (particularly the work of Aristotle and Hume.) By exploring and exhibiting the fruitfulness of these interactions, Gendler promotes the value of engaging in such cross-disciplinary conversations in illuminating philosophical issues.

Desire and Imagination

Author : Regina Barreca
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Desire and Imagination written by Regina Barreca and published by Plume. This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this 20-strong collection date from the 18th to the 20th centuries and broadly illustrate the wide ranging history of social and clinical thinking as regards sexuality.

The Ethical Imagination

Author : Sean Fitzpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815378167
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Imagination written by Sean Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Imagining the imagination -- What do we make of fantasy? -- Imagining ethics -- Eating the liver, killing the tortoise: the ethical and the imaginal -- A dream of the desiring imagination -- The law of the (imaginal) land -- Conclusions.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317329449
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination written by Amy Kind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics. This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organised into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including: Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and ‘imaginative resistance’ Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of 'moral imagination' and empathy Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modelling, and mathematics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and ethics. It will also be a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and art.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317329457
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination written by Amy Kind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics. This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organised into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including: Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and ‘imaginative resistance’ Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of 'moral imagination' and empathy Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modelling, and mathematics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and ethics. It will also be a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and art.

Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination

Author : Anja Berninger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000785785
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination written by Anja Berninger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and philosophers informed by the phenomenological tradition. Part 1 consists of novel contributions to ontological issues regarding the nature of memory and imagination and their respective structural features. Part 2 focuses on questions of justification and perspective regarding both states. The chapters in Part 3 discuss issues regarding memory and imagination as skills or abilities. Finally, Part 4 focuses on the relation between memory, imagination, and emotion. Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of memory, philosophy of imagination, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

The Moral Imagination

Author : John Paul Lederach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974758X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Imagination written by John Paul Lederach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2005.

Art and Imagination

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780416808001
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Art and Imagination written by Roger Scruton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagination Creates Reality

Author : Neville Goddard
Publisher : Merchant Books
ISBN 13 : 9781603868853
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Imagination Creates Reality written by Neville Goddard and published by Merchant Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unabridged edition, to include: One Cause -- How the Law Works -- Conscious Use of the Law Choice - Free Will -- Desire -- Be Observant -- Appearances -- Inner Conversations -- Revision -- States of Consciousness -- The Play -- Your Real Purpose -- Case Histories

The Radical Imagination

Author : Doctor Alex Khasnabish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780329032
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Imagination written by Doctor Alex Khasnabish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the imagination and what might make it 'radical'? How can it be fostered and cultivated? How can it be studied and what are the possibilities and risks of doing so? This book seeks to answer these questions at a crucial time. As we enter into a new cycle of struggles marked by a worldwide crisis of social reproduction, scholar-activists Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish explore the processes and possibilities for cultivating the radical imagination in dark times. A lively and crucial intervention in radical politics, social research and social change, and the collective visions and cultures that inspire them.