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Situated imagination [PDF]

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2020
Imagination is often considered the pinnacle of representational cognition. Looking at the concrete details of imagining in context, this paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature that is challenging this representational view by offering a ...
Ludger van Dijk, Erik Rietveld
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Philosophical Perspectives on Imagination in the Western Tradition [PDF]

, 2020
Philosophers in the Western tradition have both theorized about imagination and used imagination in their theorizing about other matters. In this chapter, I first provide a brief overview of philosophical theorizing about imagination with a special ...
Brann, Churchland, Dennett, Descartes, Doggett, Egan, Gendler, Gertler, Hofstadter, Hume, Kind, McGinn, Parfit, Peacocke, Rawls, Sartre, Strawson, Thomson, Tidman, Walton, Weinberg, White   +21 more
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What Imagination Teaches [PDF]

, 2020
David Lewis has argued that “having an experience is the best way or perhaps the only way, of coming to know what that experience is like”; when an experience is of a sufficiently new sort, mere science lessons are not enough.
Kind, Amy
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Aboutness in Imagination [PDF]

, 2017
I present a formal theory of the logic and aboutness of imagination. Aboutness is understood as the relation between meaningful items and what they concern, as per Yablo and Fine’s works on the notion.
Berto, Franz
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Systemic evil and the international political imagination [PDF]

, 2016
In light of the persistence of discourses of atrocity in the post-Holocaust era, and with the resurgence of talk of evil that followed 11 September 2001, it is clear that the idea of evil still possesses a powerful hold upon the modern imagination.
Hayden, Patrick
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Armchair Access and Imagination [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper, I focus on the Armchair Access Problem for E=K as presented by Nicholas Silins (2005), and I argue, contra Silins, that it does not represent a real threat to E=K.
Fratantonio, Giada
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Negative Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Mental Health

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Infection by the parasite Toxoplasma, which affects about 33% of world population, is associated with an increased risk of several mental health disorders, the most strongly with schizophrenia.
Jaroslav Flegr, Jaroslav Flegr, Jiří Horáček   +2 more
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Mary's Powers of Imagination [PDF]

, 2019
One common response to the knowledge argument is the ability hypothesis. Proponents of the ability hypothesis accept that Mary learns what seeing red is like when she exits her black-and-white room, but they deny that the kind of knowledge she gains is ...
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Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination [PDF]

, 2009
From the geocentric, closed world model of Antiquity to the wraparound universe models of relativistic cosmology, the parallel history of space representations in science and art illustrates the fundamental role of geometric imagination in innovative ...
Aristotle, Aristotle, Copernicus, Einstein, Ernst, Galilei, Greene, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Kepler, Kepler, Kepler, Kepler, Klibansky, Lachièze-Rey, Lehoucq, Livio, Luminet, Luminet, Luminet, Luminet, Penrose, Penrose, Plato, Salat, Thoren, Vitruvius   +25 more
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Imagination and transformations to sustainable and just futures

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2020
The ability of individuals and groups to identify, assess, and pursue alternative possible futures is an essential component of their ability to deliberately and collectively respond to major sustainability challenges rather than experience unguided or ...
M. Moore, M. Milkoreit
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