{"product_id":"explaining-imagination-9780198904380","title":"Explaining Imagination","description":"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts we already understand. \u003cem\u003eExplaining Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e is a guidebook for doing just that, where the parts are other ordinary mental states like beliefs, desires, judgments, and decisions. In different combinations and contexts, these states constitute cases of imagining. This reductive approach to imagination is at direct odds with the current orthodoxy, according to which imagination is a \u003cem\u003esui generis\u003c\/em\u003e mental state or process--one with its own inscrutable principles of operation. \u003cem\u003eExplaining Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e upends that view, showing how, on closer inspection, the imaginings at work in hypothetical reasoning, pretense, the enjoyment of fiction, and creativity are reducible to other familiar mental states--judgments, beliefs, desires, and decisions among them. Crisscrossing contemporary philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and aesthetics, \u003cem\u003eExplaining Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e argues that a clearer understanding of imagination is already well within reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Langland-Hassan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198904380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Langland-Hassan, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter 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 \u003cem\u003eInner Speech: New Voices\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2018).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43765645836403,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":37.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_13ec0471-d3cc-4415-8a50-436f5fe5b8b4.jpg?v=1756985696","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/explaining-imagination-9780198904380","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}