Supposition and the Imaginative Realm: A Philosophical Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9780367583033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 148 str.

Margherita Arcangeli

Opis

Supposition is frequently invoked in many fields within philosophy, including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and epistemology. However, there is a striking lack of consensus about the nature of supposition. This book will be of great interest to students of philosophy of psychology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosop

Spis treści

Introducing supposition: To imagine or not to imagine, that is the question  

Part 1: The facets of supposition 

1. Phenomenology 

2. Emotionality 

3. Participation 

4. Features proper to supposition 

Part 2: The nature of supposition 

5. Supposition as non-imaginative 

6. Supposition as imaginative 

Supposition and the imaginative realm: Remapping the territory 

References 

Index

O autorze

Margherita Arcangeli is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is the author of several articles on the imagination and other topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and aesthetics, among which are thought experiments, memory and the sublime.