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Supposition and the Imaginative Realm: A Philosophical Inquiry book cover

1st Edition

Supposition and the Imaginative Realm A Philosophical Inquiry

By Margherita Arcangeli Copyright 2019
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge
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Supposition is frequently invoked in many fields within philosophy, including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and epistemology. However, there is a striking lack of consensus about the nature of supposition. What is supposition? Is supposition a sui generis type of mental state or is it reducible to some other type of mental state? These are the main questions... Read more

Introducing supposition: To imagine or not to imagine, that is the question  



Part 1: The facets of supposition 



1. Phenomenology 



2. Emotionality 



3. Participation 



4. Features proper to supposition 



Part 2: The nature of supposition 



5. Supposition as non-imaginative 



6. Supposition as imaginative 



Supposition and the imaginative realm: Remapping the territory 



References 



Index

Biography

Margherita Arcangeli is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is the author of several articles on the imagination and other topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and aesthetics, among which are thought experiments, memory and the sublime.

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