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Imagination
Paperback
Series: New Problems of Philosophy
ISBN13: 9780367000660
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 16 2026
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.99
Language: English
Imagination plays a central role in key debates across a range of philosophical subjects including philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology. What is imagination, and how can we best account for its nature? How does imagination relate to other mental states like belief, desire, perception, and memory? What role does it play in epistemic, creative, and ethical contexts?
In this excellent and wide-ranging survey of imagination, Amy Kind addresses these questions and more, with a focus on key topics including:
- three leading theories of imagination
- the importance of imagination for decision-making, planning, and knowledge acquisition
- the connection between imagination and creativity
- the role of imagination in our engagement with fiction, and several puzzles to which this engagement gives rise
- how imagination contributes to our understanding of others
- the ethical assessment of imaginative activities, and particularly the activity of fantasizing
- The future of imagination.
With the addition of chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary of key terms, Imagination is essential reading not only for those studying imagination for the first time but also for more advanced students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, aesthetics, and ethics.
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