Imagination and Experience

This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination.

Autorentext

Íngrid Vendrell Ferran is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marburg, Germany. Her research is in the areas of philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, and aesthetics.

Christiana Werner is Research Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research interests are in philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics, and feminist philosophy.

Inhalt

Imagination and Experience: An Introduction Christiana Werner and Íngrid Vendrell Ferran Part 1: The Epistemology of Imagination and Experience 1. How Imagining Having an Experience Can Deliver Information Frank Jackson 2. Imagination, Modal Knowledge, and Modal Understanding Uriah Kriegel 3. Knowing What It is Like and the Three 'Rs' Yuri Cath 4. Self-knowledge of Imagining and the Transparency Proposal Margherita Arcangeli Part 2: The Ontology and Normativity of Imagination and Experience 5. The Unimaginability of Experience Peter Langland-Hassan 6. A normative aspect of imagining: taking on a (quasi-)doxastic role Alon Chasid 7. Imagination, Belief, and Regarding-as-True Anna Ichino 8. Acquaintance Principle, Imagination, Mental Imagery Bence Nanay 9. Amodal Completion: Imaginative or Perceptual? Alberto Voltolini Part 3: The Phenomenology of Imagination and Experience 10. Phenomenal Knowledge, Imagination, and Hermeneutical Injustice Martina Fürst 11. On Mary's Colour Perception and Soldiers at War - The Knowledge We Gain from Complex Experiences Christiana Werner 12. Imagining Novel Colours Nicholas Wiltsher 13. Can We Empathize with Emotions That We Have Never Felt? Íngrid Vendrell Ferran 14. Imagination and Phenomenal Concepts Julien Bugnon and Martine Nida-Rümelin Part 4: Intersubjectivity of Imagination and Experience 15. Identity of Conscious Subjects in Thought and Imagination Julien Bugnon and Martine Nida-Rümelin 16. Imagining the First-Personal in Others Heidi L. Maibom 17. Imagination and Its Role in Understanding the Experiences of Others Gerson Reuter and Matthias Vogel 18. On Empathy, Morality, and Transformative Experiences Karsten R. Stueber 19. Imagination, Society, and the Self Amy Kind 20. Collective Imagining Timothy Williamson