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Imagination and Experience: Philosophical Explorations book cover

1st Edition

Imagination and Experience Philosophical Explorations

Edited By Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, Christiana Werner Copyright 2025
422 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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, and 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 Nick 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.

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