The Philosophical Imagination An Introduction To Philosophy
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The Philosophical Imagination An Introduction To Philosophy
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Author : Raziel Abelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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The Philosophical Imagination
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Author : Richard Moran
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-06
The Philosophical Imagination written by Richard Moran and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Philosophy categories.
The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A theme connecting several of the essays is the different ways our capacity for imagination is drawn on in our responsiveness to art, to literature, to the lives of other persons, and in the practice of philosophy itself. Topics explored here include our emotional responses to mimetic works of art, the nature of metaphor as a vehicle of thought and in the work of rhetoric, and the understanding of the concept of beauty, as that is developed in contrasting ways in the work of Immanuel Kant and Marcel Proust. Several of the essays respond to the work of recent and contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Williams, Stanley Cavell, Harry Frankfurt, and Iris Murdoch, in the context of such themes as the philosophical problem of 'other minds', love and practical reason, the legacy of Sartrean existentialism, and the role of history in the disciplinary self-understanding of philosophy. The final group of essays focuses on questions about self-knowledge and the importance of the first-person perspective, developing ideas from Moran's influential book Authority and Estrangement (Princeton 2001). Topics discussed here include the nature of a person's 'practical knowledge' of her own action, the concept of the mental and the differences between self-understanding and the understanding of others, and the ambiguous role of narrative as a form of self-understanding. Throughout there is an attempt to draw out the connections between topics that are often discussed in isolation from each other, and to pursue them in the context of the recognizable human situations and questions which ground them. The essays are written in a vivid, humane, and accessible style which should attract a broad readership, both inside and outside the academic discipline of philosophy.
Twilight Zone Reflections
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Author : Saul Traiger
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Twilight Zone Reflections written by Saul Traiger and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Performing Arts categories.
An introduction to philosophy through thought experiments in the 1959-1964 television series, The Twilight Zone
Philosophical Imagination
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Author : Boris Vezjak
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-07
Philosophical Imagination written by Boris Vezjak and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-07 with Philosophy categories.
Thought experiments by ancient philosophers are often open to debate: in what sense did their reasoning really concern thought experimentation? For instance, in Plato’s Republic, Glaucon uses the myth of Gyges to demonstrate why people who practice justice do so unwillingly. A challenge, posed to Socrates and provided through some sort of thought experiment by imagining the effects of using the ring of invisibility, was intended to answer the question of human nature and our basis for the inclination towards justice or injustice. This collection expands the current, but rare, topic of whether it is possible to articulate a discussion about thought experiments and their arguments from the historical perspective of philosophy and science. It may sometimes seem that, in a loose sense, any philosophical reflection can already be interpreted as some form of thought experiment. Although the functions of it are very diverse and complex, and often closely linked to other cognitive tools, such as visualization, imagination or idealization, the contributions in this book provide new insights into how the concept of a thought experiment coincides with more modern perceptions. The purpose of the book is to show how philosophers, already in antiquity, began to use thought experiments and argumentation to convey theories in an accessible manner and how philosophical hypotheses, often being subjective and impossible to prove through empirical evidence, helped to promote scientific knowledge and discoveries. Different authors develop several lines of argumentation, claiming that philosophical thinking can be understood by comparing it to scientific experimenting, or vice versa: if empirical evidence is usually necessary for science, thought experiments may be used to develop a hypothesis or to prepare for experimentation. The analysis of historical examples of thought experiments might also contribute to a better understanding of philosophical endeavour in antiquity as a whole.
Philosophical Imagination And The Evolution Of Modern Philosophy
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Author : James P. Danaher
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Release Date : 2017
Philosophical Imagination And The Evolution Of Modern Philosophy written by James P. Danaher and has been published by Paragon House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Philosophy categories.
"Philosophy evolves as the philosophical imagination of thinkers seek answers to emerging data and circumstances that inherited perspectives did not provide. This short history of philosophy shows how materialism, immaterialism, rationalism, empiricism, phenomenalism, historicism, existentialism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, the linguistic turn, and feminism developed to sharpen and enlarge the modern mind"--
Art And Imagination
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Author : Roger Scruton
language : en
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Release Date : 1982
Art And Imagination written by Roger Scruton and has been published by London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Art categories.
Included are one hundred eighty-two tales--many available in English for the first time--grouped into eighteen tale types. The tales are versions collected/edited by: the Grimms, Andrew Lang, Achille Millien, Afanas'ev, Luzel, Gonzenbach, Asbjørnsen, and many others. Zipes provides an engaging general Introduction that discusses the folk and fairy tale tradition, the impact of the Brothers Grimm, and the significance of categorizing tales into various types.
Gaston Bachelard Revised And Updated
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Author : Roch C. Smith
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-06-03
Gaston Bachelard Revised And Updated written by Roch C. Smith and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-03 with Philosophy categories.
Gaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this book, Roch C. Smith provides a comprehensive introduction to Bachelard's work, demonstrating how his writings on the literary imagination can be better understood in the context of his exploration of how knowledge works in science. After an overview of Bachelard's writings on the scientific mind as it was transformed by relativity, quantum physics, and modern chemistry, Smith examines Bachelard's works on the imagination in light of particular intellectual values Bachelard derived from science. His trajectory from science to a specifically literary imagination is traced by recognizing his concern with what science teaches about how we know, and his increasing preoccupation with questions of being when dealing with poetic imagery. Smith also explores the material and dynamic imagination associated with the four elements—fire, water, air, and earth—and the phenomenology of creative imagination in Bachelard's Poetics of Space, his Poetics of Reverie, and in the fragments of Poetics of Fire.
The Poetics Of Phantasia
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Author : Anne Sheppard
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-03-13
The Poetics Of Phantasia written by Anne Sheppard and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Philosophy categories.
With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination (phantasia in Greek) was used in ancient aesthetics and literary theory. The Greeks and Romans tended to think of the production of works of art in terms of imitation, either of the world around us or of a transcendent ideal world, rather than in terms of originality and creativity. Study of the way phantasia is used in ancient writing about literature and art reveals important features of the ancient approach to the arts and in doing so will also shed light on modern concepts of imagination and the literary and artistic differences between realism and allegory. Covering a range of literary and philosophical material from the beginnings of Greek literature down to the Neoplatonist philosophers of late antiquity, The Poetics of Phantasia discusses three discrete senses of imagination in ancient thought. Firstly, phantasia as visualization is explored: when a writer 'brings before his eyes' what he is describing and enables his audience or reader to visualise it likewise. The second theory of phantasia is that which is capable not only of conveying images from sense-perception but also of receiving images from intellectual and supra-intellectual faculties in the soul, and thus helping people grasp mathematical, metaphysical or even mystical concepts. Finally, phantasia is seen as a creative power which can conjure up an image that points beyond itself and to express ideas outside our everyday experience.
Imagination In Hume S Philosophy
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Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-21
Imagination In Hume S Philosophy written by Timothy M. Costelloe and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-21 with Philosophy categories.
Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science
Imagining Second Edition
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Author : Edward S. Casey
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-22
Imagining Second Edition written by Edward S. Casey and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-22 with Philosophy categories.
Imagining A Phenomenological Study Second Edition Edward S. Casey A classic firsthand account of the lived character of imaginative experience. "This scrupulous, lucid study is destined to become a touchstone for all future writings on imagination." --Library Journal "Casey's work is doubly valuable--for its major substantive contribution to our understanding of a significant mental activity, as well as for its exemplary presentation of the method of phenomenological analysis." --Contemporary Psychology "... an important addition to phenomenological philosophy and to the humanities generally." --Choice "... deliberately and consistently phenomenological, oriented throughout to the basically intentional character of experience and disciplined by the requirement of proceeding by way of concrete description.... Imagining] is an exceptionally well-written work." --International Philosophical Quarterly Drawing on his own experiences of imagining, Edward S. Casey describes the essential forms that imagination assumes in everyday life. In a detailed analysis of the fundamental features of all imaginative experience, Casey shows imagining to be eidetically distinct from perceiving and defines it as a radically autonomous act, involving a characteristic freedom of mind. A new preface places Imagining within the context of current issues in philosophy and psychology. use one Casey bio for both Imagining and Remembering] Edward S. Casey is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World (Indiana University Press) and The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. Studies in Continental Thought--John Sallis, general editor Contents Preface to the Second Edition Introduction The Problematic Place of Imagination Part One: Preliminary Portrait Examples and First Approximations Imagining as Intentional Part Two Detailed Descriptions Spontaneity and Controlledness Self-Containedness and Self-Evidence Indeterminacy and Pure Possibility Part Three: Phenomenological Comparisons Imagining and Perceiving: Continuities Imagining and Perceiving: Discontinuities Part Four: The Autonomy of Imagining The Nature of Imaginative Autonomy The Significance of Imaginative Autonomy