Imagination allows us to escape from the mundane and the real world, yet it also seems to furnish us with knowledge about that world-when we plan for the future

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagina

The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a compre

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of inte

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imaginat