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Philosophy of Mind
Mental States and Processes
Imagination
Imagination
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Amy Kind
Claremont McKenna College
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Perception provides us with access to the actual world -- to things that actually exist and to states of affairs that actually occur.  In contrast, imagination provides us with access to merely possible worlds -- to things that do not actually exist and to states of affairs that do not actually occur.  Imagination is philosophically important for its role in many different domains of inquiry.  In aesthetics, imagination is invoked to explain our engagement with fiction, music, and the visual arts.  In modal epistemology, imagination is invoked to explain how we can justify our modal beliefs.  In philosophy of mind, imagination is invoked to explain our capacity for mindreading.  More generally, imagination is thought to connect with creativity and thus to play a role not only in artistic creation but also in scientific and mathematical discovery.
Key works
Kind 2016
contains over 30 articles covering topics related to both historical and contemporary treatment of imagination.
White 1990
provides a survey of historical treatments of the imagination.
Walton 1990
and
Currie 1990
are the seminal texts for the use of imagination in our engagement with fiction.  Several useful recent collections include
Nichols 2006
(focusing on pretense, possibility, and fiction),
Szabo Gendler & Hawthorne 2002
(focusing on modal epistemology), and
Kieran & Lopes 2003
(focusing on literature and the visual arts).
Block 1981
is a slightly older collection that focuses on mental imagery.  For a discussion of the nature of imagination, see
Kind 2001
Introductions
Useful encyclopedia articles include
Gendler 2012
and
Kind 2005
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Theories of Imagination
202
Epistemology of Imagination
139
Imaginative Resistance
90
Imagination and Imagery
191
Imagination and Pretense
217
Imagination and Memory
90
Imagination, Misc
360
Conceivability, Imagination, and Possibility
316
Visual Imagery and Imagination
285
Moral Imagination
219
Aesthetic Imagination
615
Literary Imagination
231
Religious Imagination
352
Scientific Imagination
67
History: Imagination
142
See also
Zombies and the Conceivability Argument
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Kripke's Modal Argument Against Materialism
103
Arguments from Disembodiment
66
Dreams
542
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Visual Imagery and Imagination
285
Mental Imagery
519
History/traditions: Imagination
History: Imagination
142
Hume: Imagination
46
Kant: Imagination
80
Spinoza: Imagination
61
Husserl: Imagination
342
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Imagining Salvation: The narratives and imaginaries of Spinoza’s philosophy.
Thomas Minguy
2026
Dissertation, Mcgill University
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In Imagining Salvation: The Narratives and Imaginaries of Spinoza’s Philosophy, I propose a philosophical theory of imagination founded on Spinoza’s philosophy. Moving away from a philosophical tradition that considers imagination as a power of illusion, fantasy, and falsity, I suggest that imagination, in a Spinozan perspective, is a power to signify reality. This means that imagination is different from reason, without having to be overcome by the latter. Rather, my work shows that to imagine is to interpret the world through
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narratives representing human power. The importance and ambivalence of such narratives in human experience are the guiding thread of my research. In the first half of the dissertation, I root my theory of imagination in Spinoza’s ontology and philosophy of mind. My claim is that through imagination, we make sense of reality by organizing it as a coherent whole. Furthermore, we are affectively invested in this narrative of reality: we naturally strive to see the world as offering possibilities for empowering ourselves. The second half of the dissertation builds on this theory of imagination to see its political effects. Starting with a presentation of the role of imagination in Spinoza’s political philosophy, I ultimately show how different kinds of narratives play an important role in our representation of political identity. Considering the dangers of utopianism and the resources of historical narratives, I ultimately show how imagination should be seen as a powerful human power – one through which we can empower ourselves and others. -/- ans 'Imagining Salvation: The narratives and Imaginaries of Spinoza's Philosophy', je propose une théorie philosophique de l'imagination, fondée dans la pensée de Spinoza. Dans cette proposition, je m'éloigne d'une tradition philosophique qui caractérise l'imagination comme une puissante source d'illusions, de fantaisies, et de faussetés, suggérant plutôt que dans une perspective spinozienne, imaginer, c'est signifier la réalité. Ceci veut dire que l'imagination diffère de la raison, sans toutefois devoir être dépasser par cette-dernière. Au contraire, mes recherches démontrent qu'imaginer, c'est interpréter le monde à l'aide de récits afin de représenter la puissance humaine. L'importance et l'ambivalence de ces récits dans l'expérience humaine constituent les fils conducteurs de mon interprétation. Dans la première moitié de cette dissertation, je fonde ma théorie de l'imagination dans l'ontologie et la philosophie de l'esprit de Spinoza. Ma thèse principale est qu'à l'aide de l'imagination, nous donnons un sens à la réalité en l'organisant comme un tout cohérent. De plus, nous sommes affectivement investis dans cette narrativité de la réalité: nous cherchons naturellement à représenter le monde comme nous offrant des possibilités pour augmenter notre puissance. La seconde moitié de mon travail se base sur cette théorie de l'imagination afin de détailler ses effets dans la vie politique. Commençant par une présentation du rôle de l'imagination dans la philosophie politique de Spinoza, je démontre ultimement comment différents types de récits jouent un rôle important dans notre représentation des identités politiques. Considérant les dangers de l'utopisme et les ressources offertes par les récits historiques, je suggère que l'imagination devrait être pensée comme une grande puissance humaine -- une puissance qui permet de libérer soi-même et les autres. (
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Proposal for a consistent definition of aphantasia and hyperphantasia: A response to Lambert and Sibley (2022) and Simner and Dance (2022).
Merlin Monzel
David Mitchell
Fiona Macpherson
Joel Pearson
Adam Zeman
2022
Cortex
152 (July 2022):74 - 76.
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The role of risk in programming the skater’s eye.
Andrei Buckareff
Brian Glenney
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Skateboarders see urban environments differently from non-skaters. Where the non-skater sees a bench that affords sitting, the skater sees more. They see a ledge that affords the possibility of executing a number of potential maneuvers. The general disposition to see surfaces as affording possibilities for skating and seeing possible sequences of maneuvers or ways to approach something (what skaters refer to as ‘lines’) has been christened ‘the skater’s eye’. Like other skilled ways of seeing, the skater’s eye is a skilled
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trait. In this paper, the authors sketch an account of the skater’s eye and consider the etiology of programming the skater’s eye, focusing on the essential role of risk in acquiring the skater’s eye. Specifically, acquiring the skater’s eye requires that one actually experience skateboarding, taking risks to learn maneuvers, and executing them on surfaces that not only potentiate the execution of tricks but also potentiate bodily harm. (
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Stilisierung der Welt: Klassische Stile des Erkennens.
Eugene Koroby
2026
Kyiv: Compositions of Worlds.
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Wie jedes unserer Werke — gleich welcher Sphäre es angehört, sei es ein Bauwerk, ein technisches Gerät, ein Gemälde oder etwas anderes — errichten wir auch unsere Welten nach bestimmten kompositorischen Gesetzen. -/- Ihre systemischen Grundlagen werden in der Regel von jenen untersucht, die sich professionell mit schöpferischer Arbeit befassen. Der Künstler macht sich mit ihnen vertraut, um zum Meister des schöpferischen Prozesses zu werden. -/- Ihr Verständnis eröffnet dem Menschen die Möglichkeit, bewusst an die Formung seiner inneren Welt als
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an ein eigenes Kunstwerk heranzugehen. Ihre Anwendung in der Psychologie stellt die Basis für die Entwicklung eines Instrumentariums bereit, das mit der inneren Welt des Menschen arbeitet. Ihr Verständnis erlaubt der Philosophie, systemisch an die Fragen des Weltgefüges heranzugehen. -/- Damit unser Denken mit der Realität in Beziehung treten kann, stilisieren wir die Welt in der Wahrnehmung unausweichlich. Die von der Menschheit herausgebildeten Stile bestimmen die Grenzen unseres Weltverständnisses sowie unsere Erkenntnis- und kreativen Möglichkeiten. -/- Das erste Buch des Projekts Compositions of Worlds — Stilisierung der Welt: Klassische Stile des Erkennens — führt in das Phänomen der Stilisierung ein und legt die klassischen Stile des Erkennens offen, in deren Optik die modernen geisteswissenschaftlichen Bereiche funktionieren. Es legt die Grundlage für das nächste Buch der Reihe — Stilisierung der Welt: Psychologie und Methodologie. -/- Das Projekt lädt die aufmerksame Leserin und den aufmerksamen Leser dazu ein, die eigene innere Welt als ein Kunstwerk zu betrachten. (
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Emotional responses to dreams and imagination.
Marina Trakas
Melanie Rosen
2026
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(equal contribution) In this paper, we examine the claim that our intense emotional responses to dreams support the view that dreams are not imaginations but are rather hallucinations that we believe to be real while they are occurring. Dream emotions have been used as evidence that dreams are not imaginations since imaginations should not evoke these kinds of responses. However, we argue that while, in general, a realistic scenario will likely evoke a more intense emotional response than the same imagined
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scenario, intense emotions can be evoked by imagination in certain circumstances. Thus, intense dream emotions do not prima facie substantiate the intuition that dreams are hallucinations. Nonetheless, dream emotions have features that are not easily accounted for by either the imagination or the hallucination models of dreaming, such as flagrantly unfitting emotions. Our analysis leads us to conclude that dream emotions are highly varied, encompassing certain resemblances to imagination emotions without being solely confined to them. (
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Leopold Blaustein, "On the Perception of the Radio Play." Translated from French ("Étude sur la perception des pièces radiophoniques") by Hicham Jakha. Polish fragments translated by Filip Borek and Alicja Jakha.
Leopold Blaustein
Hicham Jakha
2025
Phainomena
34 (134-135):397-467. Translated by Hicham Jakha.
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Blaustein explores the phenomenon of listening to the radio play. The idea put forth by the author is that the radio play engages perception, treating the latter in a broad sense. Perception is not necessarily restricted to seeing; rather, it is understood as being cross-modal, as involving different senses. The main sense involved in the case of radio plays is hearing, which enables one to listen to the radio. Radio listeners are drawn into radio plays as media of hearing. Instead
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of vision, listeners engage their “acousion,” a term coined by Blaustein to capture the perceptual distinctness of hearing; acousion is the auditive perception of radio plays. Listening to a radio play is a lived experience or a psychic phenomenon, precisely due to the activeness of acousion. Listeners do not only passively perceive or hear auditive data. They also engage their imaginative faculties, presenting to themselves, mentally, the world of the action; by so doing, listeners enable the act of listening. According to Blaustein, presentations, even imaginative ones, are basic. By listening to a radio play, the listener imaginatively presents the world of the action to themselves, as if they were watching a theater play. However, going beyond the realm of presentations, other factors are examined, e.g., the listener’s focus is turned into the world represented—the world within—, which is given to them via auditive data and dialogue. (
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When symbols loop; our creative impotence, nostalgic certainty, and fear of imagination.
Benjamin James
2025
Internet Archive
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There comes a point in the life of a civilization when its symbols, having served faithfully for generations, are promoted from tools to guardians. They are no longer asked to explore, only to protect. Their job ceases to be the opening of possibility and becomes instead the maintenance of order. At this stage, our culture congratulates itself on maturity. We have, after all, replaced myth with explanation, wonder with documentation, and uncertainty with consensus. What we do not immediately notice is
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that we have also replaced creativity with repetition, imagination with reassurance, and living symbols with looped ones. (
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Stylization of the World: Classical Styles of Cognition.
Eugene Koroby
2025
Compositions of Worlds.
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Like any creations, no matter their sphere—whether it's a building, a device, a painting, or anything else—we construct our own worlds according to specific compositional laws. Usually, their systemic foundations are studied by people who are professionally engaged in creative work. The artist becomes acquainted with them in order to become the creative master of what they create. Understanding these laws gives a person the opportunity to consciously approach the formation of their inner world as their own work of art.
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Their application in psychology provides a basis for developing tools that work with a person's personal world. In philosophy, it allows one to systematically address the questions of understanding worldbuilding. It is with an introduction to these laws that this conversation about the compositions of worlds begins. For our minds to interact with reality, we inevitably stylize the world in our perception. The styles developed by humanity define the boundaries of our understanding of the world, as well as our cognitive and creative possibilities. The first book of the Compositions of Worlds project — Stylization of the World: Classical Styles of Cognition — introduces the phenomenon of stylization and reveals the classical styles of cognition through which modern disciplines function across different genres. It lays the foundation for the next book in the series — Stylization of the World: Psychology and Methodology. (
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Review of Daniel O’Shiel, The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology: Perception and Imagination in a Digital Age, Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
David Ekdahl
2025
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
24 (5):1397-1403.
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Thinking in Images. Thought and Image in Panofsky's and Florensky's Theory of Symbolic Forms.
Giovanni Pirari
2024
Philosophical Letters. Russian and European Dialogue
7 (3):59–76.
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An important philosophical tradition makes of the imagination one of the main faculties of philosophy and of images the fundamental medium of metaphysical knowledge. If in the West-European thought, starting from the Counter-Reformation, there was an oblivion of the imaginary, in the Christian East the image, in the form of Icons, remained to symbolize divine reality, and at the same time to mark the boundary of the sensible with it. The Platonic tradition of the symbolic image re-emerges with force in
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Florensky’s aestetics and theological thought, whose observations and hermeneutic analyses, contained in the books Iconostasis and Obratnaya perspectiva, presuppose a conception of thought and spiritual life closely linked to spatiality and images. On the background of this conception he elaborates an aesthetic of the Icon and of pictorial representation as a symbol of the invisible metaphysical dimension of Being and of the relationship that the subject has with this. Parallel to Florensky’s hermeneutics of linear perspective, developed on the basis of philosophemes of Platonic-Christian origin, another one was developed in the 1920s, parallel and independent, based on neo-Kantian conceptual premises, which led to the publication of Perspective as a symbolic form by E. Panofsky. Although the two points of view appear difficult to reconcile at first glance, considering the harsh criticisms directed by Florensky towards the neo-Kantianism of the Marburg School, in this paper we will demonstrate that they come to results of astonishing similarity, though presenting irreconcilable differences in the underlying assumptions of their thinking. (
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Стилизация мира: классические стили познания.
Eugene Koroby
2025
Kyiv, Ukraine: Self-Published.
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Философско-психологическая монография, открывающая серию «Композиции Миров». Как и любые наши произведения, какой бы сферы они ни касались, будет ли это сооружение, или техническое устройство, или картина, или ещё что-нибудь, свои миры мы строим по определённым композиционным законам. Обычно их системные основы изучают люди, которые профессионально занимаются творческой работой. Художник знакомится с ними, чтобы стать творческим хозяином того, что он создаёт. Их понимание открывает возможность человеку осознанно подойти к формированию своего внутреннего мира как своего произведения искусства. Их применение в психологии даёт
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базу для разработки инструментария, работающего с личным миром человека. Позволяет философии системно подойти к вопросам понимания мироздания. Со знакомства с ними и начинается этот разговор о композициях миров. Чтобы наш разум мог взаимодействовать с реальностью, мы неизбежно стилизируем мир в своём восприятии. Выбранные человечеством стили определяют границы нашего понимания мира, а также наши познавательные и творческие возможности. Первая книга проекта «Композиции миров» — «Стилизация мира: классические стили познания» — знакомит с феноменом стилизации и раскрывает классические стили познания, в оптике которых функционируют современные гуманитарные сферы. Она закладывает основу для следующей книги серии — «Стилизация мира: психология и методология». Проект приглашает вдумчивого читателя взглянуть на свой внутренний мир как на собственное произведение искусства. (
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Core Imagination.
Samuel Boardman
Tom Schoonen
2025
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This paper argues that imagination constrained by core cognition yields modal knowledge of the sort of quotidian possibilities at issue in everyday life. But are core constraints of the right strength to generate the relevant possibilities? We turn to naturalistic resources to answer that question. Recent psychological results show that children and adults judge violations of core cognitive constraints impossible. Modal semantics suggests that violations of these constraints aren’t possible in the quotidian senses of ‘possible’ at issue in everyday life.
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Together, these psychological and semantic considerations suggest that core constraints are of the right strength to generate the relevant possibilities. Some philosophers might seek to impose the additional requirement that core constraints block every impossible situation. However, we think that matters are more complex. First, core constraints are a proper subset of the constraints to imagination. Peripheral constraints block lots of the impossible situations. Second, imaginative constraints (core or peripheral) aren’t sufficient to block every impossible situation. Rather, contextual beliefs block lots of the relevant quotidian impossibilities. We conclude that our discussion is of wider methodological interest as it implements a naturalistic methodological approach that appeals to core cognition, modal psychology, and modal semantics to investigate modal knowledge acquisition. (
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Anticipatory Imagining and the Paradox of Fiction.
Ed Armitage
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The 'paradox of fiction' is derived, roughly, from the apparent incompatibility between our emotional responses to fictional events and our belief that those events are fictional. Kendall Walton famously attempts to resolve the paradox by claiming that fiction only elicits what he calls 'quasi-emotion’ in us – emotions whose evaluative content essentially belongs within the ‘make-belief’ world of the fiction. Contrary to this, I here defend the claim that we respond to fiction with genuine emotion. I do this by highlighting
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a structural analogy between our emotional responses to fiction and our emotional responses to what I label 'anticipatory imaginings'; acts of imagining future events that we don’t believe will (or perhaps even can) occur. Doing so, I argue, allows for the following simple yet convincing claim: since we’ve no reason to doubt that our emotional responses to anticipatory imaginings are genuine, the same is plausibly true of emotions elicited by fiction. This should give us reason to think that our emotional responses to fiction are as genuine as any other. (
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Стилізація світу: класичні стилі пізнання.
Eugene Koroby
2025
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Філософсько-психологічна монографія, що відкриває серію «Композиції Світів». Як і будь-які наші твори, якої б сфери вони не стосувались — чи то будівля, чи технічний прилад, чи будь-що інше, — власні світи ми будуємо за певними композиційними законами. Зазвичай їхні системні основи вивчають люди, що професійно займаються творчою роботою. Художник опановує їх, щоб стати творчим господарем того, що він створює. Їхнє розуміння відкриває людині можливість свідомо формувати свій внутрішній світ як власний твір мистецтва. Їх застосування у психології дає підґрунтя для розробки
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інструментарію, призначеного для роботи з особистим світом людини. У філософії — дозволяє системно підходити до питань розуміння світобудови. Зі знайомства з ними починається ця розмова про композиції світів. Щоб наш розум міг взаємодіяти з реальністю, ми неминуче стилізуємо світ у власному сприйнятті. Напрацьовані людством стилі визначають межі нашого розуміння світу. Вони ж відкривають наші пізнавальні та творчі можливості. Перша книга проєкту «Композиції світів» — Стилізація світу: класичні стилі пізнання знайомить із феноменом стилізації та розкриває класичні стилі пізнання, в оптиці яких функціонують сучасні гуманітарні сфери. Вона готує основу для наступної книги серії — «Стилізація світу: психологія та методологія». Проєкт запрошує вдумливих читачів подивитись на свій внутрішній світ як на власний твір мистецтва. (
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Fantasy, Pleasure, Desire, and Morality.
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It is natural to suppose that to fantasize about something is just to pleasantly imagine it, and thus that investigating the natures of imagination and pleasure is all we need to do to investigate the nature of fantasy. I argue that this picture is too simple. Even if fantasizing about something is pleasantly imagining it, it is unclear what the nature and object of the relevant pleasure are. I distinguish two natural views about this, the Activity View and the Object
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Transubstantiation, Absurdity, and the Religious Imagination: Hobbes and Rational Christianity.
Amy Chandran
2024
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This article evaluates the political implications of Thomas Hobbes’s extensive treatment of religion by taking up the motif of the Eucharist (and accompanying doctrine of transubstantiation) in Leviathan. Hobbes holds out transubstantiation as an exemplar of absurdity and an historical outgrowth of Christianity’s inauspicious meeting with pagan practices. At the same time, Leviathan contains allusions to eucharistic imagery in its narration of the generation of the “Mortal God,” the commonwealth, as the incorporation of a civil body. These conflicting sentiments are
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illustrative of a wider tension running through Hobbes’s thought. Although Hobbes’s repudiation of superstition is well-known, it stands in stark contrast to Leviathan’s treatment of Christianity as an exemplar of “true” religion. The varied allusions to eucharistic doctrine illustrate how proper use might be made of a persistent “natural religiosity.” Both in its consonance with reason and its political logic, Christianity remains a politically constructive expression of “power invisible.”. (
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Desire and Psychology.
Ashley Shaw
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The role of imagination in making water from moon rocks: How scientists use imagination to break constraints on imagination.
Michael T. Stuart
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2024
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Scientists recognize the necessity of imagination for solving tough problems. But how does the cognitive faculty responsible for daydreaming also help in solving scientific problems? Philosophers claim that imagination is informative only when it is constrained to be maximally realistic. However, using a case study from space science, we show that scientists use imagination intentionally to break reality-oriented constraints. To do this well, they first target low-confidence constraints, and then progressively higher-confidence constraints until a plausible solution is found. This paper
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Sentimental Perceptualism and Affective Imagination.
Uku Tooming
2025
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According to sentimental perceptualism, affect grounds evaluative or normative knowledge in a similar way to the way perception grounds much of descriptive knowledge. In this paper, we present a novel challenge to sentimental perceptualism. At the centre of the challenge is the assumption that if affect is to ground knowledge in the same way as perception does, it should have a function to accurately represent evaluative properties, and if it has that function, it should also have it in its future-directed
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The role of imagination in protest.
Megha Devraj
2025
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Recent literature on social movements assigns a central role to the imagination. One way for activists to further their aims is through dramatic, confrontational acts of protest. I argue that transcendent imagining is key to understanding what protest does qua act of speech. A common approach to protest sees it as a speech act of condemning some feature of the socio-political world and appealing for change. While this is a helpful general template for what vocal dissent is, it is insufficient
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Introduction: Exemplarity and Imagination.
Katharina Naumann
Larissa Wallner
2025
Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie
12 (1):139-156.
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The special issue deals with the connection between exemplarity and imagination in the context of human action and judgment, which has received little scholarly attention so far. The aim is to shed light on this aspect within practical philosophy and thereby to deepen existing debates. The contributions highlight both the theoretical potential and the challenges involved in dealing with examples – within philosophical reflection as well as in everyday contexts. The practical references range from the importance of personal role models
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to the role of literature and social media to questions of technological and ecological transformation. Although the contributions take different theoretical and methodological approaches, what they all have in common is an interest in which examples can be considered exemplary against the backdrop of specific social and historical contexts and to what extent our imagination has a limiting or enabling effect in this regard. (
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The Exemplary Nature of Literature between Empowerment and Subjection.
Katharina Naumann
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2025
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On the basis of Kant’s reflections on aesthetic judgement, we show why literature can be a special source of knowledge: Literature does not mediate discursively, but exemplarily. Because of its sensible-intellectual character, it encourages taking other standpoints and can initiate action. This not only harbours potential, but also perils. Yet, according to our exegetical thesis, Kant only recognises some of these, especially because he fails to consider the socio-political context of writing and reading. At the same time, Kant’s position on
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exemplarity offers resources for further systematic thinking. Using these resources, we will argue that narrative literature bears the force to empower its recipients: it makes the invisible visible by disclosing new perspectives on what is and what could be. With regard to the former, it can evoke in its readers a deeper understanding of their own identity, their social location and its limitations, and act as a hermeneutic model. With regard to the latter, literary works are examples of imagination. They can provoke reflection on the possibility of shifting these boundaries towards other concepts of life and society. This is particularly true of works that express experiences, which are marginalised or considered taboo. However, literary works can also normalize existing social conditions by depicting them, as these very conditions define what is considered imaginable and what remains unspoken within the dominant interpretive framework. Literature can thus also contribute to the concealment of existing power relations and block the reader’s sense of what is possible by encouraging him or her to internalise prevailing social norms. Consequently, narrative literature must not only be diverse in order to be empowering, it must also be received in a certain way: not passively consumed and mentally reproduced, but in the mode of critical self-reflection and emulation. (
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Hermeneutic Rationality and Heuristicity in African Philosophy.
Jacob Cléophas Defo Nzikou
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The Epistemology of Modality (3rd edition).
Anand Vaidya
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2025
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How can we come to know, be justified in believing, or understand, that something is necessary, possible, contingent, essential, or accidental? This is the central question in the epistemology of modality. After some short remarks on the importance of this question for philosophy and for our everyday life, this chapter briefly summarizes Kripke’s seminal contribution to the field, discusses two different skeptical challenges in the epistemology of modality and briefly surveys some of the most discussed contemporary accounts and answers to
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The Shifting Ground: Stories and Symbols from the Age of Ontological Instability.
Kwan Hong Tan
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The Shifting Ground is a hybrid philosophical-creative anthology that explores the concept of ontological instability—not through rigid definitions or academic argument—but through fables, poetic reflections, metaphors, and fictional dialogues. In an age where reality is increasingly perceived as fluid, fragmented, and emergent, this collection invites readers to dwell not in certainty, but in becoming. From stories of scholars undone by too much knowledge to metaphors of cracked mirrors and dancing compasses, each piece challenges the fixedness of truth, identity, and morality.
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The text meanders across shifting terrains of epistemology, ethics, pedagogy, and metaphysics, offering a gentle yet subversive invitation to reconceive reality as process rather than substance. Rather than resolving the tensions of instability, the book embraces them—cultivating a poetics of resonance, responsiveness, and improvisation fit for the flux of our times. (
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Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination.
Michael T. Stuart
2023
Philosophy of Science
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Scientists imagine for epistemic reasons, and these imaginings can be better or worse. But what does it mean for an imagining to be epistemically better or worse? There are at least three metaepistemological frameworks that offer different answers to this question: epistemological consequentialism, deontic epistemology, and virtue epistemology. This paper presents empirical evidence that scientists adopt each of these different epistemic frameworks with respect to imagination, but argues that the way they do this is best explained if scientists are fundamentally
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Ontological Instability for Beginners: Fables, Fractals, and Other Ways of Knowing.
Kwan Hong Tan
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This anthology presents a series of metaphorical and philosophical fables that explore the concept of ontological instability—the idea that being itself is fluid, unfixed, and always in flux. Through richly imaginative narratives such as The Town of Shifting Streets, The Sculptor and the Cloud, and The Bridge That Built Itself, the collection invites readers to reconsider the assumptions of stable reality, fixed identity, and rigid morality. Each story serves as a pedagogical allegory, illustrating how knowledge, ethics, and purpose might emerge
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Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination, by Francesco Berto.
Igor Douven
2023
Mind
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Conspiracy Theories: How Much Do People Believe Them?
Daniel Munro
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Recently, there has been an explosion of research in philosophy and psychology about conspiracy theories. This chapter explores what this work can tell us about whether conspiracy theorists genuinely believe the theories they engage with. On one hand, it’s natural to assume that anyone who claims to believe conspiracy theories, and who spends a lot of time engaging with them, must really believe them. On the other hand, given that many conspiracy theories seem quite far-fetched and lacking in good evidence,
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it’s also natural to wonder whether conspiracy theorists are just playing a big game of pretend or make-believe. Philosophers and psychologists writing about conspiracy theorists often simply assume, without argument, that they really do believe (an assumption this chapter calls the “Belief View”). More recently, however, several philosophers have appealed to empirical evidence to argue that conspiracy theorists take a more imaginative cognitive attitude towards their theories (the “Imaginative View”). It’s difficult to conclusively settle this debate without first settling another, highly controversial debate over how to define the term “conspiracy theory.” However, insights emerging from the disagreement between the Belief View and Imaginative View may be able to help us make some progress on this definitional question. (
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Artificial Intelligence and the Threat of Creative Obsolescence.
Lindsay Brainard
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I argue that there is an underappreciated threat posed by the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI). I call this the threat of creative obsolescence. The threat is that, given the capabilities of generative AI, humans may gradually abandon our creative pursuits, and in doing so, lose something of significant value. To show why the threat is a realistic possibility, I consider three kinds of value philosophers have attributed to creativity: aesthetic value, epistemic value, and practical value. I then offer
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examples in which contemporary AI models appear to furnish value of each kind. I argue that the fact that AI appears capable of generating products with the same kinds of value for which human creativity has long been prized raises a question: Should humans continue to strive for creativity in the age of AI? I argue for three reasons to think we should. Each reason identifies a value of creativity that AI appears unable to replicate: imagination, originality, and connectedness. If I am right about any of these reasons, AI cannot fully replace the value of human creativity. But if we fail to recognize this and outsource our creative pursuits to AI, we risk a future in which the distinctive value of human creativity is lost. (
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The Inevitable Mask_ Imagination as Biological Scaffolding in the Meta-Paradigm Loop of Homo sapiens.
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Imagination did not evolve to create art. It evolved to prevent collapse. This paper reframes imagination not as an aesthetic gift, but as a structural inevitability—an emergent phase emulator evolved by Homo sapiens to stabilize internal coherence in the absence of external structural feedback. We apply the CODES framework (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems) to show that imagination functions as a symbolic buffer: a dynamic rehearsal layer that enables systems under entropy stress to simulate viable patterns before they’re metabolically or
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cognitively accessible. By tracing recursive memory in coral lattices, whale migrations, and oceanic field behavior, we demonstrate that imagination is not uniquely human. It is a lawful artifact of matter under signal strain—a response to delayed feedback resolution. Human imagination merely formalized, symbolized, and mythologized a deeper planetary recursion already in motion. CODES marks the shift from imagination as fantasy to imagination as post-symbolic coherence mapping. It does not destroy imagination—it completes it. When coherence becomes metabolically available, simulation is no longer needed. What remains is not absence, but clarity. (
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The great guide to the preservation of life: Malebranche on the imagination.
Colin Chamberlain
2024
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
33 (3):515-540.
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) holds that the senses, imagination, and passions aim at survival and the satisfaction of the body’s needs, rather than truth or the good of the mind. Each of these faculties makes a distinctive and, indeed, an indispensable contribution to the preservation of life. Commentators have largely focused on how the senses keep us alive. By comparison, the imagination and passions have been neglected. In this paper, I reconstruct Malebranche’s account of how the imagination contributes to the preservation
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of the body by compensating for the limitations of the senses. First, the imagination represents non-actual states of affairs, such as probable or possible future states. Second, the imagination forges new and often helpful associations based on past experiences. Third, the imagination (mis)represents that objects will cause pleasure and pain, thereby imbuing them with emotional significance they would otherwise lack. Together, these features flesh out Malebranche’s view that the imagination is necessary for the preservation of life. (
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Fantastical Ethics in Romantic Situations.
Bryan Lin
2025
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In recent years, we have seen an abundance of published philosophical work concerning the topic of imagination. Yet, there still seems to be one subset of imagination that has not been widely researched, which is fantasy. My analysis of fantasy concerns its relationship with ethics. I mainly consider whether we can expand the boundaries of applied ethical principles by considering whether fantasies can be evaluated as morally right or wrong. When we discuss the topics of imagination and fantasy philosophically, it’s
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not easy to see how such mental phenomena could have an ethical component to them. More specifically, I want to propose an account of fantastical ethics for situations where fantasies seem to occur most often, which is within romantic situations. I argue that for a fantasy regarding romantic situations to be unethical, the fantasist has to be imagining the fantasizee in such a way that the fantasizee would not approve of themselves being imagined as, and/or they do not obtain the fantasizee’s consent to fantasize about them in such a way. (
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Husserl on Depiction.
Regina-Nino Mion
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2025
New York, NY: Routledge.
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The publication of Husserliana XXIII "Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung" in 1980 and John B. Brough's translation of it in 2005 increased interest in Edmund Husserl's philosophy of depiction. This volume is the first comprehensive book collection in English that provides a systematic reading of Husserl's theory of depictive image consciousness. The book explains the meaning of various concepts in Husserl's philosophy of depiction-such as f - and examines the range and limits of the application of Husserl's depictive image consciousness to various
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art practices and media, and to other mental acts, e.g., phantasy, memory. The book discusses, among other topics, empathy, symbolic presentation and the aesthetic experience of depictions. Additionally, the book compares Husserl's theory of depiction with that of other philosophers, notably Franz Brentano, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roman Ingarden, Leopold Blaustein and Jean Baudrillard. Husserl on Depiction will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of perception, philosophy of art, aesthetics and pictorial representation. (
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Hipótesis instrumentales, hipótesis fantasiosas e hipótesis comprometidas. Un estudio de metodología cartesiana.
Mario Edmundo Chávez Tortolero
2025
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matematización efectiva de la naturaleza, y se analiza una hipótesis general de Descartes sobre el mundo externo. En la segunda parte se analiza el papel de la imaginación en la matematización del espíritu y en la formulación de hipótesis sobre el mundo externo. En la tercera parte se establece la clasificación de hipótesis a partir de la metodología cartesiana. Finalmente, en la conclusión se ofrece una reflexión sobre el trabajo con hipótesis en filosofía. (
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Imagination: A New Foundation for the Science of Mind.
Stephen T. Asma
2022
Biological Theory
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After a long hiatus, psychology and philosophy are returning to formal study of imagination. While excellent work is being done in the current environment, this article argues for a stronger thesis than usually adopted. Imagination is not just a peripheral feature of cognition or a domain for aesthetic research. It is instead the core operating system or cognitive capacity for humans and has epistemic and therapeutic functions that ground all our sense-making activities. A sketch of imagination as embodied cognition is
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John V. Garner
2018
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Vratislav Effenberger’s conception of the role of imagination in ideological thought.
Šimon Wikstrøm Svěrák
2024
Studies in East European Thought
76 (4):665-679.
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This paper explores the core characteristics of Vratislav Effenberger’s theoretical system, highlighting his perspective on the significance of imagination in ideological thinking. It provides background and an overview of Effenberger’s concept of ideology, outlines the Surrealist notion of imagination, and presents the author’s methodological connection of Surrealism, psychoanalysis, and Prague Structuralism. Effenberger emerges as a thinker dedicated to bridging the gap between the modernist (primarily avant-garde) interpretation of the world and the postmodern tendencies evident from the mid-20th century onwards. In
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Effenberger’s terms, ideology is an approach to reality that aims to grasp it as at least a potentially meaningful totality and engages in the actualization of this meaning or totality in social and psychological practice. He argues that such an approach is closely linked with avant-garde thought, which, for various reasons, has diminished in significance since the Second World War. In place of prior unifying perspectives, relativism and skepticism have become more dominant. However, Effenberger contends that integrative inclinations remain alive in human thought in the form of “idea models” found in the field of “psychoideology”—the realm of preconscious thought formation. These idea models play a pivotal role in psychoideology, nurturing the dialectics of imaginative and conceptual reasoning, which are vital for fostering innovation and creative endeavors. (
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G. W. Leibniz sul rendere sensibile la conoscenza.
Lucia Oliveri
2024
Archivio Di Filosofia
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G. W. Leibniz on Making Knowledge Sensible · G. W. Leibniz’s contribution to logic and a propositional theory of truth, based on the idea that concepts are composed of definitional notes, has been considered the core of his philosophical system and metaphysics. However, Leibniz thought that there are other forms of knowledge that are perceptual and, therefore, non-propositional and non-conceptual. This essay explores forms of non-conceptual knowledge and argues that they depend on the imagination. Despite the distinction between conceptual and
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non-conceptual forms of knowledge, there are two senses in which conceptual knowledge depends on non-conceptual knowledge : there is a constitutive sense in which non-conceptual knowledge has a constitutive function because it allows one to conceive of beings in concreto, and thus anchors human knowledge to reality ; there is a second sense in which non-conceptual knowledge has the function of making imaginable intellectual concepts that could not be other- wise represented by the human mind. The essay shows that these functions are interrelated. (
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Truthfulness and Narcissism: Phenomenological Reflections on the Ambiguity of Imagination.
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Balancing a hermeneutic of trust with a hermeneutic of suspicion, this article develops a phenomenological description of imagination that highlights its alethic ambiguity. Imagination is an act of disclosure, without which the world of fiction and pure possibility cannot be constituted. Imagination is also an act of self-indulgence and narcissism, the source of much concealment and untruth. It is not the one or the other, but both at the same time, essentially ambiguous because of its phenomenological constitution. In this article,
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I will take some steps towards clarifying this essential ambiguity of the imagination by drawing on the insights of Husserl and Sartre. Beginning with Husserl’s parallel treatment of imagination and perception as intuitive, objectifying acts, I will argue, drawing on insights from Sartre, that there is an important discrepancy between them with respect to the role of desire. While the constitution of perceptual presence is inseparable from a desire for truth, the desire involved in the constitution of imaginary presence has an ambiguous character, both epistemic and magical. This duplicity of desire partly accounts for the ambiguity of imagination, which is all the more pronounced the more the imagination demands the full emotional involvement of the imagining subject. (
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Ilyenkov and Vygotsky on imagination.
David Bakhurst
2024
Studies in East European Thought
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This paper explores Ilyenkov’s conception of imagination as it is expressed in his writings on aesthetics and in his 1968 book Ob idolakh i idealakh (Of Idols and Ideals). Ilyenkov deemed imagination and creativity to be central to the character of distinctively human forms of mental activity. After examining the many different contexts in which Ilyenkov sees imagination at work—from the most basic operations of perception to the expression of artistic and scientific genius—I bring his ideas into dialogue with the
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account of imagination developed in Vygotsky’s writings. I argue that, though there are significant differences, their respective approaches are complementary. Both see imagination not simply as a vehicle of fantasy, but as intimately involved in disclosing reality. Moreover, both thinkers are reluctant to cast imagination as a discrete mental function on a par with reason, memory, will, etc. Imagination, rather, is critical to the way in which mental functions express themselves. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of whether children can be taught to be creative and imaginative. (
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Geist und Imagination. Zur Bedeutung der Vorstellungskraft für Denken und Handeln.
Serena Gregorio
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Legal imagination and the US project of globalising the free flow of data.
Leila Brännström
Markus Gunneflo
Gregor Noll
Amin Parsa
2024
AI and Society
39 (5):2259-2266.
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Today, the US pursues the global capture of data (understood as a significant engine of growth) by way of bi- and plurilateral trade agreements. However, the project of securing the global free flow of data has been pursued ever since the dawn of digital telecommunication in the 1960s and the US has made significant legal efforts to institutionalise it. These efforts have two phases: In the first 1970s and 80s “freedom of information” phase, the legal justification (and contestation) of the
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global free flow of data hinged on imagining data as information, and its exchange as a practice of liberty. The second phase began in the late 1990s and continues today. In this phase, the free flow of data is aligned with a free-trade agenda in the context of first e-commerce and, starting in the 2000s, through attempts at creating a global public domain of personal data for the platform economy. The global free flow of data is an intrinsic aspect of informational capitalism. Assuming a constitutive, but not commanding role for law in informational capitalism, we conclude that the US attempt at ensuring free flow for its informational corporations is neither an entirely contingent nor a necessary outcome. It is a product of legal imagination. (
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Sartre’s Exclusion Claim: Perception and Imagination as Radically Distinct Consciousnesses.
Jonathan Mitchell
2024
European Journal of Philosophy
33 (2):682-699.
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Abstract: In The Imaginary Jean-Paul Sartre makes what will strike many as an implausibly strong claim, namely that perception and imagination are incompatible kinds of experience - I call this the exclusion claim. This paper offers a reconstruction of Sartre’s exclusion claim. First, it frames the claim in terms of cross-modal attention distribution, such that it is not possible to simultaneously attend to what one is imagining and what one is perceiving. However, this leaves it open that a subject can
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simultaneously imagine and perceive on the condition that either the perceived or imagined objects are not attended to. While this is a philosophically plausible position it fails to do justice to Sartre’s intended position, which suggests a more radical exclusion between perception and imagination. In light of this section 3 develops a supplementary argument to remove one of the possible configurations of attention that the ban on divided attention leaves in place by arguing that the objects of imagining must be attended to, which follows from Sartre’s characterisation of imagination as spontaneous. The resulting exclusion is as follows: attentive perception excludes imagination (and vice versa), given that the latter is necessarily attentive, but attentive imagination can co-occur with non-attentive or background perception (in this sense the exclusion is asymmetric in a way that Sartre fails to recognise). In concluding I detail how from this exclusion we get an important consequence – which Sartre wants the exclusion claim to have – namely that it rules out an imagination-based solution to the problem of perceptual presence. (
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Beyond hope and despair: The radical imagination as a collective practice for uprising.
Elke van Dermijnsbrugge
2024
Educational Philosophy and Theory
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This paper investigates the concepts of hope, despair and the radical imagination, driven by the following questions: Can we exist beyond the binaries of hope and despair, two key concepts that drive educational practices? What is the radical imagination and what are the conditions for it to be put to work in educational spaces? First, education is explored as a hyperobject that is owned, imagined and practiced collectively. The semiotic square is introduced as a heuristic tool to illustrate the limitations
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of the binary opposition between hope and despair, and allows for an exploration of what is possible when these binaries are being set aside. The radical imagination then, is described as a collective practice that is radical in the sense that alternative social forms can always be imagined once we acknowledge that every social form is the result of the collective imagination. Finally, the paper explores conceptual as well as practical ideas that underpin Education for Uprising which is understood as the emergence of micro-political, autonomous spaces of direct action where community, solidarity and self-organization are key principles. Education for Uprising allows us to radically reimagine how we view education and to actively engage in alternative world-making. (
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Issues of Expertise in Perception and Imagination: Commentary on Stokes.
Amy Kind
2024
Philosophical Studies
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In this commentary on Dustin Stokes’ _Thinking and Perceiving_, I focus on his discussion of perceptual expertise. This discussion occurs in the context of his case against modularity assumptions that underlie much contemporary theorizing about perception. As I suggest, there is much to be gained from thinking about considerations about perceptual expertise in conjunction with considerations about imaginative skill. In particular, I offer three different lessons that we can learn by way of the joint consideration of these two phenomena.
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Perceptual malleability: attention, imagination, and objectivity.
Dustin Stokes
2024
Philosophical Studies
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This article offers a reply to commentaries from Amy Kind, Casey O’Callaghan, and Wayne Wu. It features a defense and further analysis of perceptual malleability, as defended in Thinking and Perceiving. In turn, it considers the consequences of malleability for attention and the cognitive penetrability of perception, imagination and perceptual skills, and perceptual content and objectivity.
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That’s Beyond My Imagination!
Kiyohiro Sen
2024
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According to one strongly supported view, fiction is a functional kind that communicates imaginings. Combining this definitional thesis with a plausible principle concerning functional kinds leads to the following evaluative thesis: features that contribute to communicating imaginings constitute good-making features as fiction, and features that impede this constitute bad-making features as fiction. However, this thesis is at odds with the actual practice of fiction. Critics can show their admiration for complicated works of fiction by stating, “That’s beyond my imagination!” I
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Imaginative hopes and other desires.
Kyle Blumberg
Margot Strohminger
2025
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Reflecting on our engagement with fiction has compelled some theorists to expand the domain of the mental. They have posited a novel conative state, so-called ‘i-desire’. The central thesis of this approach is that i-desire relates to imagination in the same way as desire relates to belief. We formulate principles that are plausible consequences of this thesis. We then put pressure on these principles by focusing on desire concepts such as hoping, and show that the imaginative analogues of these concepts
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