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Zusatztext Should I devote time to reading this volume? That question lingers when the book in question is a collection of previously published essays, and you the prospective reader have likely read a few of the better-known pieces already. In this case, the answer is a firm yes. Gendler has compiled and edited the book with loving care ... Reading the more nuanced understandings of belief, affect, and imagination from later papers back into earlier papers stimulates insight not had from reading earlier papers separately. Informationen zum Autor Tamar Szabó Gendler is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University Klappentext Tamar Gendler draws together a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, and shows the value for philosophy of empirical psychology. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology: Gendler explores how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. Zusammenfassung Tamar Gendler draws together a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, and shows the value for philosophy of empirical psychology. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology: Gendler explores how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Part I: Thought Experiments, Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology Thought Experiments in Science 1: Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment 2: Thought Experiments Rethought - and Reperceived Thought Experiments and Personal Identity 3: Exceptional Persons: On the Limits of Imaginary Cases 4: Personal Identity and Thought-Experiments Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology 5: The Real Guide to Fake Barns: A Catalogue of Gifts for Your Epistemic Enemies 6: Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions and Cognitive Equilibrium Part II: Pretense, Imagination and Belief Imaginative Resistance 7: The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance 8: Imaginative Resistance Revisited Pretense and Belief 9: On the Relation between Pretense and Belief 10: Self-Deception as Pretense Imagination and Emotion 11: Genuine Rational Fictional Emotions 12: Imaginary Contagion Belief and Alief 13: Alief and Belief 14: Alief in Action (and Reaction) ...
