Explaining Imagination

Peter Langland-Hassan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a BA in philosophy from Columbia University. His published work spans the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and empirical psychology. He was a co-editor and contributor to Inner Speech: New Voices (OUP, 2018).

• 1: Explaining Imagination2: Folk Psychology and Its Ontology3: Imagistic Imagining Part I: Imagery, Attitude Imgaining, and Recreative Imagining4: Imagistic Imagining Part II: Hybrid Structure, Multiple Attitudes, and Daydreams5: Conditional Reasoning Part I: Three Kinds of Conditionals and the Psychology of the Material Conditiona6: Conditional Reasoning Part II: Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Ramsey Test7: Pretense Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths8: Pretense Part II: Psychology9: Consuming Fictions Part I: Recovering Fictional Truths10: Consuming Fictions Part II: The Operator Claim11: Consuming Fictions Part III: Immersion, Emotion, and the Paradox of Fiction12: Creativity

The centerpiece of Explaining Imagination is a brilliantly articulated theory of the imagination, a theory that challenges many preconceptions and provides what will no doubt be an orienting landmark for future work in the area [...] The book contains a number of additional treasures, including especially innovative accounts of pretense, fiction, and creativity. These other accounts [...] will no doubt have an influence that extends well beyond readers who are principally interested in questions about the metaphysical nature of the imagination.