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Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts we already understand.
Explaining Imagination is a guidebook for doing just that, where the parts are other ordinary mental states like beliefs, desires, judgments, and decisions.
List of contents
- 1: Explaining Imagination
- 2: Folk Psychology and Its Ontology
- 3: Imagistic Imagining Part I: Imagery, Attitude Imgaining, and Recreative Imagining
- 4: Imagistic Imagining Part II: Hybrid Structure, Multiple Attitudes, and Daydreams
- 5: Conditional Reasoning Part I: Three Kinds of Conditionals and the Psychology of the Material Conditiona
- 6: Conditional Reasoning Part II: Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Ramsey Test
- 7: Pretense Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths
- 8: Pretense Part II: Psychology
- 9: Consuming Fictions Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths
- 10: Consuming Fictions Part II: The Operator Claim
- 11: Consuming Fictions Part III: Immersion, Emotion, and the Paradox of Fiction
- 12: Creativity
About the author
Peter Langland-Hassan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a BA in philosophy from Columbia University. His published work spans the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and empirical psychology. He was a co-editor and contributor to Inner Speech: New Voices (OUP, 2018).
Summary
Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts we already understand. Explaining Imagination is a guidebook for doing just that, where the parts are other ordinary mental states like beliefs, desires, judgments, and decisions.
