The rational imagination : how people create alternatives to reality /
"The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2005.
©2005 |
Colección: | Bradford book.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The counterfactual imagination
- 2. Imagination and rational thought
- 3. Imagining how actions might have been different
- 4. Thinking about what should have happened
- 5. Causal relations and counterfactuals
- 6. ``Even if . . .''
- 7. The ``last chance''
- 8. Individuals and creative thoughts
- 9. The idea of a rational imagination.