{"product_id":"explaining-imagination-9780198904380","title":"Explaining Imagination","description":"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts we already understand. \u003cem\u003eExplaining Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e is a guidebook for doing just that, where the parts are other ordinary mental states like beliefs, desires, judgments, and decisions. In different combinations and contexts, these states constitute cases of imagining. This reductive approach to imagination is at direct odds with the current orthodoxy, according to which imagination is a \u003cem\u003esui generis\u003c\/em\u003e mental state or process--one with its own inscrutable principles of operation. \u003cem\u003eExplaining Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e upends that view, showing how, on closer inspection, the imaginings at work in hypothetical reasoning, pretense, the enjoyment of fiction, and creativity are reducible to other familiar mental states--judgments, beliefs, desires, and decisions among them. Crisscrossing contemporary philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and aesthetics, \u003cem\u003eExplaining Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e argues that a clearer understanding of imagination is already well within reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Langland-Hassan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198904380","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43881537994889,"sku":"9780198904380","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_4e89e471-a1c0-4e3b-bd24-27a65a43a32d.jpg?v=1744697439","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/explaining-imagination-9780198904380","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}