Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination

Amy Kind is Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, USA. She is editor of Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, volume six of The History of the Philosophy of Mind, (Routledge, 2016), and with Peter Kung she is editor of the forthcoming collection Knowledge through Imagination.

• Introduction: Exploring Imagination Amy Kind Part 1: Historical Treatments of Imagination 1. Aristotle on Phantasia Deborah Modrak 2. Descartes Dennis Sepper 3. Hume Fabian Dorsch 4. Kant’s Theory of Imagination Samantha Matherne 5. Husserl Julia Jansen 6. Sartre Robert Hopkins Part 2: Contemporary Discussions of Imagination 7. Imagination and Mental Imagery Dominic Gregory 8. Imagination and Belief Neil Sinhababu 9. Imagination and Perception Bence Nanay 10. Imagination and Memory Dorothea Debus 11. Imagination, Dreaming, and Hallucination Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa 12. Desire-Like Imagination Amy Kind Part3: Imagination in Aesthetics 13. Art and Imagination Nick Wiltsher and Aaron Meskin 14. Music and Imagination James O. Young 15. Imagination and Fiction Kathleen Stock 16. Fiction and Emotion Stacie Friend 17. The Cognitive Architecture of Imaginative Resistance Kengo Miyazono and Shen-yi Liao Part 4: Imagination in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science 18. Imagination and Creativity Dustin Stokes 19. Simulation Theory Shannon Spaulding 20. Imagination and the Self Dilip Ninan 21. Imagining and Action Neil Van Leeuwen 22. Imagination and Child Development Deena Weisberg 23. Imagination and Pretense Elizabeth Picciuto and Peter Carruthers 24. Can Animals Imagine? Robert Mitchell 25. Imagination and Rationality Ruth Byrne Part 5: Imagination in Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Political Philosophy 26. Moral Imagination Mark Johnson 27. Empathy and the Imagination Karsten Stueber 28. The Ethics of Imagination and Fantasy Aaron Smuts 29. Imagination and the Capabilities Approach Natalie Fletcher Part 6: Imagination in Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Mathematics 30. Imagination and Learning Greg Currie 31. Thought Experiment and Imagination Roy Sorensen 32. Imagination and Modal Epistemology Peter Kung 33. Imagination in Scientific Modeling Adam Toon 34. Imagination in Mathematics Andrew Arana. Index

'Kind provides a thorough, comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of imagination. … With its 34 well-researched and well-written essays, this volume will be an excellent resource for those interested in this central mental function of life and philosophical theorizing. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - P. Jenkins, Marywood University, CHOICE'Finally! A comprehensive and multifaceted guide to the philosophy of imagination; one that brings together leading contemporary accounts, historical perspectives, and discussion of problems in many different areas of philosophy. A great achievement by Amy Kind, and an essential reference text.' - Katherine Thomson-Jones, Oberlin College, USA'With the breadth of its coverage and quality of its scholarship, this Handbook surely deserves to become the definitive reference source on the philosophy of the imagination for years to come. It stands as an excellent reminder of the fact that the imagination is a notion we all, regardless of our specialisations, must make room for.' - Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann, Uppsala University, Sweden'A breath-taking journey into the realm of Imagination, and an extremely useful addition to the current literature. Following an excellent and articulate Introduction, the chapters in this book are a valuable compass for the reader who wants to orient herself within such a vast literature.' - Margherita Arcangeli, University of Geneva, Switzerland