Philosophy Compass 8 (3):220-230 (2013)
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In this article , I first engage in some conceptual clarification of what the words "imagine," "imagining," and "imagination" can mean. Each has a constructive sense, an attitudinal sense, and an imagistic sense. Keeping the senses straight in the course of cognitive theorizing is important for both psychology and philosophy. I then discuss the roles that perceptual memories, beliefs, and genre truth attitudes play in constructive imagination, or the capacity to generate novel representations that go well beyond what's prompted by one's immediate environment
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Keywords | imagination imagining make-believe pretending pretense mental imagery propositional imagining fiction belief Hume |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00508.x |
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