John Kaag

Thinking Through the Imagination

Aesthetics in Human Cognition

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Produktbeschreibung

An important scholarly contribution from the author of several trade books on philosophy that have reached a wide readership.

Produktdetails

• American Philosophy
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 230mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781531501846
• ISBN-10: 1531501842
• Artikelnr.: 63434663

Autorenporträt

John Kaag

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1 The Cultivation of the Imagination 1
2 Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination 25
3 C. S. Peirce and the Growth of the Imagination 57
4 Abduction: Inference and Instinct 75
5 Imagining Nature 93
6 Ontology and Imagination: Peirce on Necessity and Agency 120
7 The Evolution of the Imagination 139
8 Emergence, Complexity, and Creativity 165
9 Be Imaginative! Suggestion and Imperative 192
Notes 211
Bibliography 235
Index 249