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Summary Perception provides us with access to the actual world -- to things that actually exist and to states of affairs that actually occur.  In contrast, imagination provides us with access to merely possible worlds -- to things that do not actually exist and to states of affairs that do not actually occur.  Imagination is philosophically important for its role in many different domains of inquiry.  In aesthetics, imagination is invoked to explain our engagement with fiction, music, and the visual arts.  In modal epistemology, imagination is invoked to explain how we can justify our modal beliefs.  In philosophy of mind, imagination is invoked to explain our capacity for mindreading.  More generally, imagination is thought to connect with creativity and thus to play a role not only in artistic creation but also in scientific and mathematical discovery. 
Key works Kind 2016 contains over 30 articles covering topics related to both historical and contemporary treatment of imagination.  White 1990 provides a survey of historical treatments of the imagination.  Walton 1990 and Currie 1990 are the seminal texts for the use of imagination in our engagement with fiction.  Several useful recent collections include Nichols 2006 (focusing on pretense, possibility, and fiction), Gendler & Hawthorne 2002 (focusing on modal epistemology), and Kieran & Lopes 2003 (focusing on literature and the visual arts).  Block 1981 is a slightly older collection that focuses on mental imagery.  For a discussion of the nature of imagination, see Kind 2001.
Introductions Useful encyclopedia articles include Gendler 2011 and Kind 2005.
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  1. Lectures on Imagination.Paul Ricoeur - 2024 - University of Chicago Press.
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  2. Kneading Dreams: Material Imagination and Agency in Performative Clay Works.Hanna Louise Grønneberg & Thea Møller Jensen - 2024 - In Nicoletta Isar (ed.), Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites of Disimagination. Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 201-216.
    In the writings of Gaston Bachelard, clay or paste (la pâte) is seen as a basic component of materiality, which enables the material imagination—a dream-like state of mind which emerges in the intimate encounter between human and material. This focus on material qualities and powers resonates with New Materialism, which attends to ways in which matter has agency, affecting humans within entanglements. Following the philosophy of Bachelard and the theories of different new materialists, this paper will examine some of the (...)
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  3. Science, Imagination and Values in the German Energy Turn: an Example of Neurath's Methodology for Social Technology.Ivan Ferreira da Cunha & Alexander Linsbichler - manuscript - Translated by Ivan Ferreira da Cunha & Alexander Linsbichler.
    Neurath’s scientific utopianism is the proposal that the social sciences should engage in the elaboration, development, and comparison of counterfactual scenarios, the ‘utopias’. Such scenarios can be understood as centerpieces of scientific thought experiments, that is, in exercises of imagination that not only promote conceptual revision, but also stimulate creativity to deal with experienced problems, as utopias are efforts to imagine what the future could look like. Moreover, utopian thought experiments can offer scientific knowledge to inform political debates and decisions, (...)
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  4. The Belmont Report doesn’t need reform, our moral imagination does.Kimberley Serpico - forthcoming - Research Ethics.
    In 1974, the United States Congress asked a question prompting a national conversation about ethics: which ethical principles should govern research involving human participants? To embark on an answer, Congress passed the National Research Act, and charged this task to the newly established National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Commission’s mandate was modest however, the results were anything but. The outcome was The Belmont Report: a trio of principles - respect for persons, (...)
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  5. Mental images and imagination in moral education.Wojciech Kaftanski - 2024 - Journal of Moral Education 53 (1):119-138.
    ABSTRACT This article argues for a unique role of imagination and mental images in the moral education of students. Imagination is rendered here as a capacity oriented toward realizable and salient goals; mental images are understood as particular future-oriented self-representations (FOSRs) devised by and held in imagination. FOSRs have four moral attributes: they are 1) expressive of us as moral agents, 2) shape our moral identity, 3) serve as moral pointers, and 4) help devise mitigating strategies. FOSRs can be created (...)
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  6. The Centrality of the Imagination in Scepticism and Animal Faith.Richard Marc Rubin - 2024 - In Martin A. Coleman & Glenn Tiller (eds.), The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith. Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 177-192.
    Rubin examines the central role of the imagination in Santayana’s life and works. He shows how the imagination is fundamental to Santayana’s sceptical inquiry in SAF and a necessary condition for knowledge about the material world and the mind. The imagination is a predominant theme in Santayana’s life and work. Even as a boy, he found himself solitary and unhappy in America and “attached only to a persistent dream life.” He published several literary works, including three plays, a novel, and (...)
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  7. Imagining and Reimagining Imagination via the Ontology of Imagination in Miki Kiyoshi.John W. M. Krummel - 2023 - International Journal of Social Imaginaries 2 (2):239-272.
    The paper explicates what the World War 2 era Japanese philosopher, Miki Kiyoshi, of the Kyoto School, called the logic of imagination and of forms as an ontology. I understand this ontology as ultimately an “anontology”, where novelty and creativity are predicated upon the pathos of singularity and contingency that Miki calls “the nothing” (mu). Its productive function that is technological vis-à-vis the environment involves an embodied praxis that Miki, borrowing the terms of his mentor, Nishida Kitarō, calls “enactive intuition”. (...)
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  8. Imagining future ecologies: Kantian imagination across generations.Irene Gomez-Franco - 2022 - Artnodes 29 (Ecology of the imagination):1-9.
    La imaginación es una facultad que permite al ser humano ponerse en el lugar del otro y tener presentes diferentes puntos de vista. En este artículo examino de qué manera la imaginación puede concebirse en una dimensión ampliada no solo en el espacio sino también en el tiempo, en el sentido de una «visita al otro» futuro. Para este fin, primero examino diversos ejercicios de la imaginación: en tanto que simpatía tal y como la formuló Adam Smith y compromiso según (...)
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  9. In Defence of Radically Enactive Imagination in advance.Ian George Robertson - forthcoming - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.
    Hutto and Myin defend, on the basis of their “radically enactive” approach to cognition, the contention that there are certain forms of imaginative activity that are entirely devoid of representational content. In a recent Thought article, Roelofs argues that Hutto and Myin’s arguments fail to recognise the role of representation in maintaining the structural isomorphisms between mental models and things in the world required for imagination be action-guiding. This reply to Roelofs argues that his objection fails because it fails to (...)
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  10. Religion as belief, a realist theory: a commentary on Religion as Make-Believe, A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity.Joseph Sommer - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.
    Van Leeuwen’s Religion as Make-Believe, A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity argues that religious and political beliefs are fundamentally different from mundane, factual beliefs and represent a cognitive attitude more akin to imagining. To ground this difference, Van Leeuwen proposes four principles defining factual beliefs: ‘involuntariness’ mandates that people cannot choose what they believe; ‘no compartmentalization’ says that factual – but not religious – beliefs guide behavior in all domains; ‘cognitive governance’ requires that inferences be readily drawn from (...)
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  11. Mme de Staël's Philosophy of Imagination.Arthur Krieger - 2023 - Cahiers Staëliens 73:77-100.
    In "De l’Allemagne", Mme de Staël develops a sophisticated philosophical psychology that centers not on reason, but imagination. She does this by bringing French Enlightenment philosophy, particularly Rousseau and Diderot, into dialogue with German thinkers, including Kant and Herder. For Mme de Staël, imagination transcends the epistemic limits of sensibility and reason by incorporating sentiment.
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  12. Crises of the Political Imagination: The Aesthetics of Colonial and Planetary Violences.I. I. I. Alfred Frankowski - 2023 - philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 13 (1):4-15.
    In this article, I focus on intersections between colonial violence, aesthetics, and ecological crises as reflections of a crisis of the political imagination. I engage Namita Goswami’s Subjects That Matter and argue that the ways in which her text pursues forms of questioning racialized and gendered colonial violences provides a context for approaching variations of colonial violence collectively. By engaging Goswami’s text, I propose a postcolonial aesthetics as a way of rethinking our planetary bonds, aesthetically. I further argue that postcolonial (...)
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  13. An Inexplicable Effect of Imagination. Mothers’ Imagination and Its Impact on the Perceptions and Body of the Fetus. Successes and Refutations of the Malebranchist Paradigm in the 18th Century or the Fascinating Question of Psychophysical Interaction.Véronique Costa - 2024 - Iris 44.
    An error that medicine has long shared is to attribute to a desire or an effect of the mother’s imagination during gestation, the deformities, growths or spots that a child bears at birth. The imagination would be capable of imprinting external modifications on a matter and would have an impact on the perceptions and sensory development of the fetus. Returning briefly to the genealogy and posterity of the topos, this article focuses on the successes and refutations of the Malebranchist paradigm (...)
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  14. The Ghosts of the Brain. The Cortex and the Imagination.Philippe Walter - 2024 - Iris 44.
    This study aims at justifying one of Gilbert Durand’s postulates according to which all imaginaire (as a result of mental imagery) is anchored in our physiology but by directing it rather now towards our neurophysiology. New advances in neurobiology, connectome and neurogenomics lead to rethinking the framework of psychic activity and the induction of neural images.
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  15. The Image, Reproduction, Transformation, Creation of the “Unreal”? Some Notes on the Anthropology of Imagination.Jean-Jacques Wunenburger - 2024 - Iris 44.
    In the form of few notes around an anthropology of the imagination, the article questions the complex relationships between imagination and perception, by carrying out a synthesis of the great traditions which concern the image. Between perceptual consciousness and imaging consciousness, the line of demarcation remains problematic, depending on whether the imagination draws from the senses the material of its images or produces new representations giving substance to an unreal, or even a surreal. Impoverished derivation and misleading revival of perception (...)
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  16. The History of an Itinerary or the Inspiration of Her Research. For a Neural Status of the Imagination.Véronique Costa - 2024 - Iris 44.
    As a tribute to Marie-Agnès Cathiard, this opening text which aims to recount the story of a journey and researcher’s commitment places her work around the major themes that structured it. “From the body of speech to imagined bodies”, its contributions and experimental investigations, attentive to the innovations of neuroscience, have influenced the center’s policy in terms of anthropological research, breaking down innovative avenues, particulary on the imagination of the brain and the amputated body. Her contributions have enabled the conjunction (...)
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  17. Francesco Berto, "Topics of Thought. The Logic of Knowledge, Belief and Imagination”. [REVIEW]Giorgio Lenta - 2023 - Aphex 27:128-140.
    Understanding the logical behavior of propositional attitudes, i.e. the mental states that we entertain with propositions (such as knowledge, belief, supposition, imagination, etc.), requires careful consideration of what such attitudes are about: their topic. This is the core intuition of Francesco Berto’s work, a book that fits into one of the most interesting and rich debates of recent decades, ranging over a wide variety of disciplines: from formal semantics to epistemology and even cognitive psychology. But above all, Berto’s book makes (...)
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  18. Meditating and Inquiring with Imagination: Leibniz, Lambert, and Kant on the Cognitive Value of Diagrams.Lucia Oliveri - 2024 - History and Philosophy of Logic 45:1-19.
    Reasoning with diagrams is considered to be a peculiar form of reasoning. Diagrams are often associated with imagistic representations conveyed by spatial arrangements of lines, points, figures, or letters that can be manipulated to obtain knowledge on a subject matter. Reasoning with diagrams is not just ‘peculiar’ because reasoners use spatially arranged characters to obtain knowledge – diagrams apparently have cognitive surplus: they enable a quasi-intuitive form of knowledge. The present paper analyses the issue of diagrams’ cognitive value by enquiring (...)
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  19. Bachelard et « l’imagination matérielle » en peinture.Bernard Teyssèdre - 2024 - Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique 2:99-105.
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  20. Dissociation and re-imagination: the publicity of Chinese marriage law and divorce narrative in the 1950s.Yingyu Luo & Chao Han - 2024 - Trans/Form/Ação 47 (4):e0240056.
    Résumé: Après la promulgation de la loi sur le mariage de la République populaire de Chine en 1950, les œuvres littéraires dérivées du besoin de publicité ont des implications politiques et une signification disciplinaire distinctes. Parce que le problème du divorce a la rationalité des “droits libres” et la sensibilité de l’agitation sociale, le récit du “divorce” à cette époque se situe dans une certaine mesure entre la politique et la réalité. D’une part, les œuvres littéraires doivent promouvoir positivement le (...)
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  21. Confucian heresy and religious imagination: a study of the renderings of Mozi by Protestantism missionaries in 19th century.Jiaxin Lin, Zihan Yu & Honghui Hu - 2024 - Trans/Form/Ação 47 (4):e0240044.
    Resumo: Como uma heresia confucionista, Mozi inicialmente chamou a atenção do missionário inglês Joseph Edkins, em 1858. Posteriormente, o missionário holandês Johann Jakob Maria de Groot traduziu a Doutrina Funerária de Mozi, que tem fortes tonalidades religiosas. Joseph e Groot, que representavam os missionários do protestantismo, interpretaram Mozi em uma variedade de narrativas teológicas. Os dois missionários, que procuravam conexões entre Mozi e o cristianismo, consideravam Mozi um cânone teológico, contendo doutrina cristã. Eles também atacaram o confucionismo, a antítese do (...)
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  22. Henry Corbin and D.T. Suzuki: On Theophanic Imagination as Imaginatio vera.Shun Miyajima - forthcoming - Comparative and Continental Philosophy.
    This paper analyses the concept of the Imagination of Henry Corbin (1903–1978) in relation to Daisetsu T. Suzuki (1870–1966). Besides being a renowned orientalist and scholar of Islamic thought, Corbin was a philosopher par excellence whose original thought deserves to be studied. So, I present this paper as a contribution to the evaluation of Corbin as a philosopher. In doing so, I shall shed light upon the philosophical affinity between Corbin and Suzuki, which has thus far rarely been discussed in (...)
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  23. The Farm in Colonial and Postindependence Imagination: A Crisis of Continuity.Mbuh Tennu Mbuh - 2023 - In Mbih Jerome Tosam & Erasmus Masitera (eds.), African Agrarian Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 409-423.
    In the note of content for this book, emphasis was partly on the “limited resources at [the] disposal” of humans with which “to take care of the ever-growing population.” The functional relationship between humans and their circumambient environment—where the former is an integral part of the latter—in its transitional state will be vital to my engagement here with the manner in which the farm (or farming) became, and has remained, a metaphor for survival, status, rituals, control, and identity; while conditioning (...)
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  24. Image as Theology: The Power of Art in Shaping Christian Thought, Devotion, and Imagination. Edited by C. A. Strine, Mark McInroy, Alexis Torrance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 239. €110.00. [REVIEW]Kevin Hart - 2024 - Heythrop Journal 65 (1):102-104.
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  25. How much geographical imagination does social gerontology need (and why)? Book Review: Geographical Gerontology: Perspectives, Concepts, Approaches. M.W. Skinner, G.J. Andrews, M.P. Cutchin (еds), London; New York: Routledge, 2018. [REVIEW]I. V. Trotsuk - 2019 - Sociology of Power 31 (1):197-211.
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  26. Ilyenkov and Vygotsky on imagination.David Bakhurst - forthcoming - Studies in East European Thought:1-22.
    This paper explores Ilyenkov’s conception of imagination as it is expressed in his writings on aesthetics and in his 1968 book Ob idolakh i idealakh (Of Idols and Ideals). Ilyenkov deemed imagination and creativity to be central to the character of distinctively human forms of mental activity. After examining the many different contexts in which Ilyenkov sees imagination at work—from the most basic operations of perception to the expression of artistic and scientific genius—I bring his ideas into dialogue with the (...)
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  27. Racing Toward Uncertainty: an Ethico-Aesthetics of Imagination.Jack Kahn - 2015 - Considering Disability 1 (1):1-14.
    This paper considers imagination a performative expression using an ethico-aesthetic paradigm. Using William James’ notion of “medical materialism” as a critical tool, I turn to the work of autistic poet Tito Mukhopadhyay, demonstrating how disability politics restructures totalizing systems of domination without referring to rights or identity claims.
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  28. The Role of Imagination in Making Water from Moon Rocks: How Scientists Use Imagination to Break Constraints on Imagination.Michael T. Stuart & Hannah Sargeant - unknown
    Scientists recognize the necessity of imagination for solving tough problems. But how does the cognitive faculty responsible for daydreaming help in solving scientific problems? Philosophers claim that imagination is informative only when it is constrained to be maximally realistic. However, using a case study from space science, we show that scientists use imagination intentionally to break reality-oriented constraints. To do this well, they first target low-confidence constraints, and then higher-confidence constraints, until a plausible solution is found. This paper exemplifies a (...)
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  29. The Solarpunk Conference by From Imagination to Action (review).Ariel Kroon & Kees Schuller - 2024 - Utopian Studies 34 (3):634-640.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Solarpunk Conference by From Imagination to ActionAriel Kroon and Kees SchullerFrom Imagination to Action, The Solarpunk Conference, June 24, 2023, VirtualThe Solarpunk Conference was born out of the desire to see an accessible space dedicated to discussions of solarpunk. With solarpunk growing in popularity in both popular and academic circles, the need for such a space seemed obvious to the organizers. The organizers also felt the need (...)
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  30. What Counts as Cheating? Deducibility, Imagination, and the Mary Case.Amy Kind - forthcoming - Philosophia:1-10.
    In The Matter of Consciousness, in the course of his extended discussion and defense of Frank Jackson’s famous knowledge argument, Torin Alter dismisses some objections on the grounds that they are cases of cheating. Though some opponents of the knowledge argument offer various scenarios in which Mary might come to know what seeing red is like while still in the room, Alter argues that the proposed scenarios are irrelevant. In his view, the Mary case is offered to defend the claim (...)
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  31. Intimacy and Imagination.Alain Beauclair - 2024 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 38 (1):15-30.
    ABSTRACT This article offers an analysis of the concept of intimacy, arguing that it concerns moments of mutual imaginings generative of desire. As a peculiar mode of shared conduct, it is difficult to categorize the value of such actions insofar as they fall outside our ordinary conception of the public and private spheres. Nonetheless, when achieved, intimacy is not only an expansion of the private and a realization of a good-in-itself, but also has a bearing on our orientation to the (...)
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  32. Imagination und Entscheidung: Zur Kritik am aktuellen Boom an politischen Theorien der Einbildungskraft1.Oliver Marchart - 2023 - Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 32 (2):28-47.
    Der Aufsatz kritisiert den unrealistischen Politikbegriff vieler der aktuell boomenden Theorien politischer Imagination. Mit dem Ziel der Entwicklung einer realistischen politischen Theorie der Imagination wird der Begriff der politischen Einbildungskraft mit dem der Entscheidung konterkariert und das Werk von Cornelius Castoriadis mit dem von Ernesto Laclau kontrastiert. Anhand einer Diskussion der Subjekt- und Entscheidungstheorie Laclaus in ihrem Verhältnis zur Imagination erweist sich, dass Dezisions- und Imaginationstheorien im Rahmen eines realistischen Ansatzes aufeinander verwiesen bleiben müssen, denn ihre jeweiligen Defizite, die sich (...)
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  33. Imagination, Mental Representation, and Moral Agency: Moral Pointers in Kierkegaard and Ricoeur.Wojciech Kaftanski - 2024 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 23 (1):179-198.
    This article engages the considerations of imagination in Kierkegaard and Ricoeur to argue for a moral dimension of the imagination and its objects. Imaginary objects are taken to be mental representations in images and narratives of people or courses of action that are not real in the sense that they are not actual, or have not yet happened. Three claims are made in the article. First, by drawing on the category of possibility, a conceptual distinction is established between imagination and (...)
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  34. Milena Ivanova and Steven French, The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-032-33718-0. £110.00 (hardback). [REVIEW]Chiara Ambrosio - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-3.
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  35. Perception, Phantasie, Signification: The Ambiguous Status of Imagination in Husserl's Logical Investigations.Mark Antony Jalalum - 2023 - Kritike 17 (2):62-88.
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  36. Conclusion : Thomas Paine in the Atlantic historical imagination.Seth Cotlar - 2013 - In Simon P. Newman & Peter S. Onuf (eds.), Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions. University of Virginia Press.
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  37. Imagination, Transformation und die Entstehung des Neuen.Philipp Brüllmann, Ursula Rombach & Cornelia Wilde (eds.) - 2014 - Berlin: De Gruyter.
    "Der Band untersucht in 12 interdisziplinären Beiträgen die Rolle der Imagination bei der Genese des Neuen in Prozessen der Antiketransformation. Den Ausgangspunkt bilden zwei wesentliche Zusammenhänge zwischen Imagination und Transformation: Einerseits lässt sich das moderne Verständnis von Imagination als Ergebnis einer Antiketransformation lesen, andererseits stellt die Imagination eine zentrale Produktivkraft in Transformationsprozessen dar."--Cover.
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  38. Imagination et Représentation chez Platon.Mathias Reverchon - 2020 - Philosophique 23.
    Dans la pensée antique, la perception intellectuelle et sensible constitue une réalité homogène, par exemple pour les Pythagoriciens, si la perception intellectuelle perçoit la structure mathématique du monde manifesté, la perception sensible est en adéquation avec le premier ordre perceptif. D’une façon très générale, nous dirons que dans la pensée antique, l’être se manifeste de deux façons, dans l’intellect et dans le sensible, seulement la réalité reste homogène. Avec Platon débute une an...
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  39. L’imagination dans le Traité de la nature humaine.Jean-Pierre Grima - 2009 - Philosophique 12:47-78.
    La philosophie de David Hume entend rompre avec une théorie classique des facultés, redessinant la place que l'imagination joue dans notre vie psychique et déployant ainsi une géographie mentale inédite. Instrument privilégié de son scepticisme philosophique, cette théorie de l'imagination pose cependant autant de questions qu'elle n'en résout, du fait même qu'associant imagination et conception, elle se voit chargée de rendre compte de tendances contradictoires au sein de l'esprit humain. Une clarification terminologique et conceptuelle permet alors, faute de résoudre ces (...)
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  40. La volonté comme imagination des forces.Barbara Puthomme - 2003 - Philosophique 6:45-60.
    La philosophie de Bachelard autour de la volonté prend à contre-pied cette conception centrale de la philosophie. En la déplaçant de son cadre habituel qu’est la philosophie de l’action, il en fait une notion centrale de son esthétique. Il réalise une synthèse où « les rêveries qui veulent » retrouvent la « volonté qui rêve.» Cela notamment dans son Lautréamont qu’on peut lire comme un moment d’une généalogie de la volonté de l’animal à l’humain.
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  41. Imagination, hallucination, voyance : l’écrivain maudit la société.Pierre Jamet - 2008 - Philosophique 11:105-119.
    Cet article redéfinit la fonction poétique pour un certain nombre d’écrivains francophones et anglophones. Chez Keats, Coleridge ou Baudelaire, la vision se voit rapprocher de l’oralité pour donner lieu à une faculté de « voyance » qui pose la question du dérèglement des sens mais affirme la primauté de l’imagination poétique sur ce dérèglement. Chez Rimbaud et Michaux, la poésie acquiert une fonction nette de connaissance et le dérèglement des sens se voit dépasser au profit d’une définition plus large du (...)
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  42. Animistic imagination and scientific learning: some considerations.Teresa Celestino - 2023 - Pampaedia 195:137-159.
    Imagination plays a fundamental role in learning science; it can also be expressedby an animistic dimension intimately related to narrative approach, very helpfulin strengthening self-awareness and cognitive development from early childhood. This paper aims to illustrate some examples about the use of animism, showing itsusefulness in chemistry and physics education. Indeed, its conscious utilisation cancounteract educational poverty by increasing the number of scientific vocations,especially among girls.
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  43. Building blocks of imagination.Chris Jones & Juri van den Heever - 2023 - HTS Theological Studies 79 (2):7.
    In the human context, the ubiquitous faculty of imagination is taken for granted. Whether we are singularly equipped with this ability or whether it is an evolved faculty also present in other life forms is a question that has been an issue ever since Darwin. A variety of research projects have indicated the presence of mental processes in non-human taxa and the faculty of imagination developed with increasing complexity over time, to its present status in humans. As an evolved faculty, (...)
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  44. Features of the play of imagination in the postmodern era.Olena Pavlova - 2002 - Sententiae 6 (2):19-27.
    Based on the texts of postmodern philosophers, the article analyses the crisis of the real and the imaginary. The context of this analysis is the difference between European and American cultures. Through the criticism of social and technological progress, the article substantiates the change in the form of modern consciousness and its manifestations, in particular, the loss of integrity and completeness of being.
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  45. On the sensorial of imagination.Kathleen Coessens & Vanessa Tomlinson - 2019 - In Sensorial aesthetics in music practices. Leuven University Press.
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  46. Spinoza on beings of reason [entia rationis] and the analogical imagination.Michael A. Rosenthal - 2019 - In Charles Ramond & Jack Stetter (eds.), Spinoza in 21st-Century American and French Philosophy.
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  47. Legal Humanism : 'Stylistic Imagination' and the Making of Legal Traditions.Cristina Costantini - 2020 - In Richard Mullender, Matteo Nicolini, Thomas D. C. Bennett & Emilia Mickiewicz (eds.), Law and imagination in troubled times: a legal and literary discourse. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  48. The French Revolution and the Programmatic Imagination : Hilary Mantel on Law, Politics, and Misery.Richard Mullender - 2020 - In Richard Mullender, Matteo Nicolini, Thomas D. C. Bennett & Emilia Mickiewicz (eds.), Law and imagination in troubled times: a legal and literary discourse. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  49. Legal Imagination or an Extra-Legal Hoax : On Storytelling, Friends of the Court and Crossing Legal Boundaries in the US Supreme Court.Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - 2020 - In Richard Mullender, Matteo Nicolini, Thomas D. C. Bennett & Emilia Mickiewicz (eds.), Law and imagination in troubled times: a legal and literary discourse. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  50. Pathologies of Imagination and Legitimacy of Judicial Decision Making.Emilia Mickiewicz - 2020 - In Richard Mullender, Matteo Nicolini, Thomas D. C. Bennett & Emilia Mickiewicz (eds.), Law and imagination in troubled times: a legal and literary discourse. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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