TY - BOOK ID - 61231424 TI - A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding PY - 2020 SN - 3030380254 3030380246 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Knowledge, Theory of. KW - Epistemology KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Cognitive psychology. KW - Emotions. KW - Epistemology. KW - Cultural studies. KW - Cross-cultural psychology. KW - Cognitive grammar. KW - Cognitive Psychology. KW - Emotion. KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Cross Cultural Psychology. KW - Cognitive Linguistics. KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Cross-cultural psychology KW - Ethnic groups KW - Ethnic psychology KW - Folk-psychology KW - Indigenous peoples KW - National psychology KW - Psychological anthropology KW - Psychology, Cross-cultural KW - Psychology, Ethnic KW - Psychology, National KW - Psychology, Racial KW - Race psychology KW - National characteristics KW - Psychology, Cognitive KW - Cognitive science KW - Feelings KW - Human emotions KW - Passions KW - Affect (Psychology) KW - Affective neuroscience KW - Apathy KW - Pathognomy KW - Imagination. KW - Imagery, Mental KW - Images, Mental KW - Mental imagery KW - Mental images KW - Educational psychology KW - Intellect KW - Reproduction (Psychology) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61231424 AB - This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge. It is fully acknowledged by epistemologists that imagination is not something opposed to rationality; it is not mere fantasy opposed to intellect. In philosophy and cognitive sciences, imagination is generally “delimiting not much more than the mental ability to interact cognitively with things that are not now present via the senses.” For centuries, scholars and poets have wondered where this capability could come from, whether it is inspired by divinity or it is a peculiar feature of human mind . The omnipresence of imaginative work in both every day and highly specialized human activities requires a profoundly radical understanding of this phenomenon. We need to work imaginatively in order to achieve knowledge, thus imagination must be something more than a mere flight of fantasy. Considering different stories in the field of scientific endeavor, I will try to propose the idea that the imaginative process is fundamental higher mental function that concurs in our experiencing, knowing and understanding the world we are part of. This book is thus about a theoretical idea of imagining as constant part of the complex whole we call the human psyche. It is a story of human beings striving not only for knowledge and exploration but also striving for imagining possibilities. ER -