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Thinking through the imagination : aesthetics in human cognition /

John Kaag explores these questions: What is the imagination? And where does the imagination come from? In order to answer them, Kaag explains the way that the concept of the imagination has been articulated in the history of Western philosophy, concentrating on its development in 18th century German...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaag, John, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:American philosophy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The cultivation of the imagination
  • Enlightening thought: Kant and the imagination
  • C.S. Peirce and the growth of the imagination
  • Abduction: inference and instinct
  • Imagining nature
  • Ontology and imagination: Peirce on necessity and agency
  • The evolution of the imagination
  • Emergence, complexity, and creativity
  • Be imaginative! suggestion and imperative.