Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts [Paperback]

Imagination, Philosophy and the Artsis the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the nature of imagination and its role in understanding and making art.

Imagination is a central concept in aesthetics with close ties to issues in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, yet it has not received the kind of sustained, critical attention it deserves. This collection of seventeen brand new essays critically examines just how and in what form the notion of imagination illuminates fundamental problems in the philosophy of art.

Part 1: Imagination, Narrative, and Emotion  1. Reasons, Emotions, and Fiction, Berys Gaut  2. How I Really Feel About JFK, Stacie Friend  3. Imagination and Emotion in Fiction, Peter Goldie  4. In Search of a Narrative, Matthew Kieran  Part 2: Truth in Imagination  5. Fictional Assent and the (So-Called) Problem of Imaginative Resistance, Derek Matravers  6. The Owl, the Pussycat, and Other Impossible Tales, Kathleen Stock  7. Quarantining and Contagion, Fertility and Unproductivity, Tamar Szabo Gendler  8. Literature, Thought Experiments and the Value of Detail, Eileen John  9. The Aesthetic and ethical Value of Literature, Roman Bonzon  10. Imagining the Truth: An Account of Tragic Pleasure, James Shelley  Part 3: Sensory Imagination  11. Seeing Things Twice Over, Christopher Williams  12. Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Dominic McIver Lopes  13. The Imaged, the Imagined, and the Imaginary, David Davies  14. Film and the Transcendental Imagination: Kant and Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Melissa Zinkin