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Imagination and Experience Philosophical Explorations
This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination.
The importance of imagination seems to stand in tension with the assumed unique and irreplaceable role of experience in our lives. However, new arguments in various philosophical debates suggest there is a need to examine how both areas of research interrelate and can enrich one another. The chapters in this volume examine whether the traditional accounts of experience and imagination need to be challenged. They are divided into thematic sections that discuss epistemological, ontological, normative, phenomenological, and intersubjective questions related to experience and imagination.
Imagination and Experience is an essential resource for scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of psychology.
Imagination and Experience: An Introduction Christiana Werner and Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
Part 1: The Epistemology of Imagination and Experience
1. How Imagining Having an Experience Can Deliver Information Frank Jackson
2. Imagination, Modal Knowledge, and Modal Understanding Uriah Kriegel
3. Knowing What It is Like and the Three ‘Rs’ Yuri Cath
4. Self-knowledge of Imagining and the Transparency Proposal Margherita Arcangeli
Part 2: The Ontology and Normativity of Imagination and Experience
5. The Unimaginability of Experience Peter Langland-Hassan
6. A normative aspect of imagining: taking on a (quasi-)doxastic role Alon Chasid
7. Imagination, Belief, and Regarding-as-True Anna Ichino
8. Acquaintance Principle, Imagination, Mental Imagery Bence Nanay
9. Amodal Completion: Imaginative or Perceptual? Alberto Voltolini
Part 3: The Phenomenology of Imagination and Experience
10. Phenomenal Knowledge, Imagination, and Hermeneutical Injustice Martina Fürst
11. On Mary’s Colour Perception and Soldiers at War – The Knowledge We Gain from Complex Experiences Christiana Werner
12. Imagining Novel Colours Nicholas Wiltsher
13. Can We Empathize with Emotions That We Have Never Felt? Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
14. Imagination and Phenomenal Concepts Julien Bugnon and Martine Nida-Rümelin
Part 4: Intersubjectivity of Imagination and Experience
15. Identity of Conscious Subjects in Thought and Imagination Julien Bugnon and Martine Nida-Rümelin
16. Imagining the First-Personal in Others Heidi L. Maibom
17. Imagination and Its Role in Understanding the Experiences of Others Gerson Reuter and Matthias Vogel
18. On Empathy, Morality, and Transformative Experiences Karsten R. Stueber
19. Imagination, Society, and the Self Amy Kind
20. Collective Imagining Timothy Williamson
Biography
Íngrid Vendrell Ferran is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marburg, Germany. Her research is in the areas of philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, and aesthetics.
Christiana Werner is Research Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research interests are in philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics, and feminist philosophy.
