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This book investigates certain philosophical issues concerning imagination, creativity, and the relationship between them. Is there a single mental act that we call'imagining'? How does imagining differ from perceiving and believing? What role do images play in imagination? Is our perception of the world itself informed by imagination? What contribution does the imagination make to our thought processes? What is creativity? Can creativity be explained? What role does the imagination play in creative processes? After initial consideration of the varieties of imaginative experience, the first part explores the relationships between imagination, perception and thought, discussing the views of Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein. The second part focuses on creativity, examining some of the definitions and explanations that have been offered, and looking at some examples of creative activities.… (plus d'informations)
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... nothing invigorates the imagination more than a spell of sharp thinking ...
(Eva T.H. Brann, The World of the Imagination, 1991, 32)
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Preface In much of western thought from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the imagination was accorded a central role in human cognitive activity alongside that of perception and thought. Its nature and status were admittedly unclear, but in Romanticism, for example, it was attributed enormous powers, and was seen as underlying all forms of creativity.
1 Imagination: the missing mystery of philosophy?
In much of western thought, the imagination has an ambiguous status, seemingly poised between spirit and nature, mediating between mind and body – the mental and the physical – and interceding between one soul and another. For Aristotle, the imagination – or phantasia – was a kind of bridge between sensation and thought, supplying the images or 'phantasms' without which thought could not occur.
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The upshot is that the traditional linking of creativity to imagination is correct. Though the relation is more complex than at first appears, there are substantive and important connections – empirical, constitutive and heuristic – between the two domains. Much remains to be learned about this topic, but I hope that I have at least shown that there is a rich and interesting set of issues to be investigated here.
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This book investigates certain philosophical issues concerning imagination, creativity, and the relationship between them. Is there a single mental act that we call'imagining'? How does imagining differ from perceiving and believing? What role do images play in imagination? Is our perception of the world itself informed by imagination? What contribution does the imagination make to our thought processes? What is creativity? Can creativity be explained? What role does the imagination play in creative processes? After initial consideration of the varieties of imaginative experience, the first part explores the relationships between imagination, perception and thought, discussing the views of Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein. The second part focuses on creativity, examining some of the definitions and explanations that have been offered, and looking at some examples of creative activities.
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