Epistemic uses of imagination:

"This book explores how imagination can be put to epistemic use. More specifically, the contributors address ways in which our imaginings must be constrained so as to justify beliefs and give rise to knowledge. Imagination can be constrained in at least two ways. One concerns the contents we mi...

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Weitere Verfasser: Badura, Christopher 1993- (HerausgeberIn), Kind, Amy 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge 2021
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explores how imagination can be put to epistemic use. More specifically, the contributors address ways in which our imaginings must be constrained so as to justify beliefs and give rise to knowledge. Imagination can be constrained in at least two ways. One concerns the contents we might entertain in a certain imaginative episode. The other concerns the appropriate ways to manipulate the content within the imagination. The essays in this volume explore several different contexts in which imagination is appealed to for justification, namely reasoning, modal epistemology, thought experiments, and knowledge of self and others. Together, they explain when and how imagination can be epistemically useful, and outline certain contexts where imagination is used epistemically. Epistemic Uses of Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students who are working on imagination, as well as those working more broadly in epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind"--
Beschreibung:VI, 334 Seiten
ISBN:9780367480561
9781032018935