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720 1 _aBadura, Christopher
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245 0 0 _aEpistemic Uses of Imagination
260 _bTaylor & Francis
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300 _a1 online resource
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520 _aThis book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an epistemic role in a variety of other contexts as well. In this collection, the contributors address an assortment of issues relating to epistemic uses of imagination, and in particular, they take up the ways in which our imaginings must be constrained so as to justify beliefs and give rise to knowledge. These constraints are explored across several different contexts in which imagination is appealed to for justification, namely reasoning, modality and modal knowledge, thought experiments, and knowledge of self and others. Taken as a whole, the contributions in this volume break new ground in explicating when and how imagination can be epistemically useful. Epistemic Uses of Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students who are working on imagination, as well as those working more broadly in epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind.
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aPhilosophy of mind
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650 7 _aPhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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653 _aEpistemology, philosophy of imagination
720 1 _aBadura, Christopher
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720 1 _aKind, Amy
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720 1 _aKind, Amy
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