Introduction: Exploring Imagination Amy Kind
Part 1: Historical Treatments of Imagination
1. Aristotle on Phantasia Deborah Modrak
2. Descartes Dennis Sepper
3. Hume Fabian Dorsch
4. Kant’s Theory of Imagination Samantha Matherne
5. Husserl Julia Jansen
6. Sartre Robert Hopkins
Part 2: Contemporary Discussions of Imagination
7. Imagination and Mental Imagery Dominic Gregory
8. Imagination and Belief Neil Sinhababu
9. Imagination and Perception Bence Nanay
10. Imagination and Memory Dorothea Debus
11. Imagination, Dreaming, and Hallucination Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
12. Desire-Like Imagination Amy Kind
Part3: Imagination in Aesthetics
13. Art and Imagination Nick Wiltsher and Aaron Meskin
14. Music and Imagination James O. Young
15. Imagination and Fiction Kathleen Stock
16. Fiction and Emotion Stacie Friend
17. The Cognitive Architecture of Imaginative Resistance Kengo Miyazono and Shen-yi Liao
Part 4: Imagination in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
18. Imagination and Creativity Dustin Stokes
19. Simulation Theory Shannon Spaulding
20. Imagination and the Self Dilip Ninan
21. Imagining and Action Neil Van Leeuwen
22. Imagination and Child Development Deena Weisberg
23. Imagination and Pretense Elizabeth Picciuto and Peter Carruthers
24. Can Animals Imagine? Robert Mitchell
25. Imagination and Rationality Ruth Byrne
Part 5: Imagination in Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Political Philosophy
26. Moral Imagination Mark Johnson
27. Empathy and the Imagination Karsten Stueber
28. The Ethics of Imagination and Fantasy Aaron Smuts
29. Imagination and the Capabilities Approach Natalie Fletcher
Part 6: Imagination in Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Mathematics
30. Imagination and Learning Greg Currie
31. Thought Experiment and Imagination Roy Sorensen
32. Imagination and Modal Epistemology Peter Kung
33. Imagination in Scientific Modeling Adam Toon
34. Imagination in Mathematics Andrew Arana.
Index
Biography
Amy Kind is Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, USA. She is editor of Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, volume six of The History of the Philosophy of Mind, (Routledge, 2016), and with Peter Kung she is editor of the forthcoming collection Knowledge through Imagination.
'Kind provides a thorough, comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of imagination. … With its 34 well-researched and well-written essays, this volume will be an excellent resource for those interested in this central mental function of life and philosophical theorizing. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - P. Jenkins, Marywood University, CHOICE
'Finally! A comprehensive and multifaceted guide to the philosophy of imagination; one that brings together leading contemporary accounts, historical perspectives, and discussion of problems in many different areas of philosophy. A great achievement by Amy Kind, and an essential reference text.' - Katherine Thomson-Jones, Oberlin College, USA
'With the breadth of its coverage and quality of its scholarship, this Handbook surely deserves to become the definitive reference source on the philosophy of the imagination for years to come. It stands as an excellent reminder of the fact that the imagination is a notion we all, regardless of our specialisations, must make room for.' - Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann, Uppsala University, Sweden
'A breath-taking journey into the realm of Imagination, and an extremely useful addition to the current literature. Following an excellent and articulate Introduction, the chapters in this book are a valuable compass for the reader who wants to orient herself within such a vast literature.' - Margherita Arcangeli, University of Geneva, Switzerland
