The Unity of Imagining / / Fabian Dorsch.

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• VerfasserIn: Dorsch, Fabian,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (485 p.)

In this highly ambitious, wide ranging, immensely impressive and ground-breaking work Fabian Dorsch surveys just about every account of the imagination that has ever been proposed. He identifies five central types of imagining that any unifying theory must accommodate and sets himself the task of determining whether any theory of what imagining consists in covers these five paradigms. Focussing on what he takes to be the three main theories, and giving them each equal consideration, he faults the first two and embraces the third. The scholarship is immaculate, the writing crystal clear and the argumentation always powerful. Malcolm Budd, FBA, Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London Excerpt Open publication

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Detailed Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One. The Nature and Variety of Imagining -- Introduction to Part One -- CHAPTER 1. Unified Accounts of Imagining -- CHAPTER 2. Key Features of Imaginative Episodes -- CHAPTER 3. Key Features of Sensory Imaginings -- CHAPTER 4. Imagination and Knowledge -- CHAPTER 5. Other Theories of Imagining -- Part Two. The Epistemological Account -- Introduction to Part Two -- CHAPTER 6. O’Shaughnessy’s View -- CHAPTER 7. O’Shaughnessy’s Arguments -- CHAPTER 8. Critical Assessment -- Part Three. The Dependency Account -- Introduction to Part Three -- CHAPTER 9. The Representational Account -- CHAPTER 10. Visual Imagining As Experiential Imagining -- CHAPTER 11. Emotional Imagining As Experiential Imagining -- Chapter 12. Semantic Dependency, Simulation, and Pretense -- Part Four. The Agency Account -- Introduction to Part Four -- CHAPTER 13. Imaginative Agency -- CHAPTER 14. Meeting the Desiderata -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index