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This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and philosophers informed by the phenomenological tradition. Part 1 consists of novel contributions to ontological issues regarding the nature of memory and imagination and their respective structural features. Part 2 focuses on questions of justification and perspective regarding both states. The chapters in Part 3 discuss issues regarding memory and imagination as skills or powers. Finally, Part 4 focuses on the relation between memory, imagination, and emotion. Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of memory, philosophy of imagination, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

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Kant's reflections on animals open up a hitherto overlooked approach to his conception of human intuition and imagination. In her book, Rahel Villinger shows how Kant's aesthetics, epistemology, and theory of history become completely readable against the background of the assumption of animal cognition through intuition and imagination. Kant as a frigid thinker of human reason, who sees in the forces of sensuality nothing but immorality and animal lethargy: this prejudice is still widespread. In fact, sensuality for Kant is an intrinsic and independent faculty of knowledge through intuition and imagination. Kant radically upgraded sensuality, which was independent of reason, from the rationalistic school philosophy of his day and also against the newly emerging philosophy of German idealism. We need the imagination of other animals to be able to think our own and to critically push the boundaries. Therefore, an imagination of animals with Kant includes both: the notion of a superhuman power of purely sensual intuition and imagination whose singularity and immediacy reflect the perfection and infinity of divine intuition; and the specific imagination of rational animals, whose descriptive activity combines image and writing, vividness and concept, and which becomes possible only through the imagination of their premature origin - their animal prototype. The guide to his reflections on animals thus reveals a hidden ambiguity in Kant's thinking of sensual nature, which determines the foundations of modern aesthetics, poetics, and pictorial theory.

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"Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics. This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organized into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including: Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre; What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming; Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and 'imaginative resistance;' Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition; Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of 'moral imagination' and empathy; Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modeling, and mathematics." -- Publisher's descriptionImagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics. This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organised into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including: Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and `imaginative resistance' Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of 'moral imagination' and empathy Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modelling, and mathematics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and ethics. It will also be a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and art.

Philosophical anthropology --- Imagination (Philosophy) --- Imagination (Philosophy). --- Philosophy of mind --- History.