Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. What is Imagination?
2. The Imagery Theory
3. The Recreative Theory
4. The Reductionist Theory
5. Imagination in an Epistemic Context
6. Imagination in a Creative Context
7. Imagination in an Ethical Context
Conclusion.
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Amy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, USA. Her many books relating to imagination or consciousness include the following Routledge volumes: Philosophy of Mind: The Basics (2020), What is Consciousness? A Debate (with Daniel Stoljar, 2023), Philosophy of Mind: Fifty Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (with Torin Alter and Robert Howell, 2024), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination (editor, 2016), Epistemic Uses of Imagination (edited with Christopher Badura, 2021), and Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (editor, 2019).
'Kind offers an exceptional introduction to the philosophy of imagination, its history, and its interdisciplinary significance. The book expertly weaves together and organizes the different strands of a rapidly-expanding subfield, and shows how philosophical examination of imagination can illuminate debates in ethics, art, epistemology, cognitive science, and elsewhere.' - Luke Roelofs, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
'A timely contribution to philosophy of imagination that will be of interest to newcomers and specialists alike. It combines an authoritative account of the field’s current state with a compelling defense of the “imagery theory” of imagination, which has not received the sustained scholarly attention it deserves since its original development. The book thus provides both an illuminating overview of relevant literature and fills a central gap within it.' - Daniel Munro, Boston University, USA
