This volume presents new essays on the propositional imagination by leading researchers. The propositional imagination---the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that everyone is colour-blind or that Hamlet is a procrastinator---plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. Yet only recently has there been a systematic attempt to give a cognitive account of the propositional imagination. These thirteen essays, specially written for the volume, capitalize on this recent work, extending the theoretical picture of the imagination and exploring the philosophical implications of cognitive accounts of the imagination. The book also investigates broader philosophical issues surrounding the propositional imagination. The first section addresses the nature of the imagination, its role in emotion production, and its sophistication manifestation in childhood. The essays in the second section focus on the nature of pretence and how pretence is implicated in adult communication. The third section addresses the problem of'imaginative resistance', the striking fact that when we encounter morally repugnant assertions in fiction, we seem to resist imagining them and accepting them as fictionally true. In the final section, contributors explore the relation between imagining, conceiving, and judgements of possibility and impossibility. The Architecture of the Imagination will be an essential resource for the growing number of philosophers and psychologists studying the nature of the imagination and on its role in philosophy, aesthetics, and everyday life.

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ARCHITECTURE OF THE IMAGINATION: NEW ESSAYS ON PRETENCE, POSSIBILITY, AND FICTION; ED. BY SHAUN NICHOLS

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edited by Shaun Nichols

Nichols, Shaun.

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

Oxford University Press, USA

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Oxford, New York, England, 2006

October 16, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents 8
Contributors 10
1. Introduction 12
I. THE NATURE OF THE IMAGINATION 28
2. Imagination and Emotion 30
3. Imagination and Simulation in Audience Responses to Fiction 52
4. Imagination and Misimagination 68
5. The Intuitive Cosmology of Fictional Worlds 84
II. PRETENCE 98
6. Why Pretend? 100
7. Why Irony is Pretence 122
III. IMAGINATIVE RESISTANCE 146
8. On the (So-called) Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance 148
9. Imaginative Resistance Revisited 160
10. Puzzling over the Imagination: Philosophical Problems, Architectural Solutions 186
IV. IMAGINATION AND POSSIBILITY 214
11. Modality, Modal Epistemology, and the Metaphysics of Consciousness 216
12. Imaginative Blocks and Impossibility: An Essay in Modal Psychology 248
13. Meta-conceivability and Thought Experiments 268
Index 284
A 284
B 284
C 284
D 285
E 285
F 285
G 285
H 286
I 286
J 286
K 286
L 287
M 287
N 287
O 288
P 288
Q 288
R 288
S 289
T 289
U 289
V 289
W 289
Y 290
Z 290

"This volume presents new essays on the propositional imagination by leading researchers. The propositional imagination -- the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that everyone is colour-blind or that Hamlet is a procrastinator -- plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. Yet only recently has there been a systematic attempt to give a cognitive account of the propositional imagination. These thirteen essays, specially written for the volume, capitalize on this recent work, extending the theoretical picture of the imagination and exploring the philosophical implications of cognitive accounts of the imagination. The book also investigated broader philosophical issues surrounding the propositional imagination."--Back cover

Annotation This volume brings together specially written essays by leading researchers on the propositional imagination. This is the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that Holmes has a bad habit or that there are zombies. It plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. The Architecture of the Imagination capitalizes on recent attempts to give a cognitive account of this capacity, extending the theoretical picture and exploring the philosophical implications

This volume brings together specially written essays by leading researchers on the propositional imagination. This is the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that Holmes has a bad habit or that there are zombies. It plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. The Architecture of the Imagination capitalizes on recent attempts to give a cognitive account of this capacity, extending the theoretical picture and exploring the philosophical implications.
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Edited By Shaun Nichols. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

2025-10-27