Robert Hopkins

The Profile of Imagining (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

What is sensory imagining and what role does it play in our lives? How does visualizing a castle, running through a tune in one's head, or imagining the taste of fish ice cream relate to perceiving such things, or to remembering them? What are the connections between imagining and agency, and how does it relate to emotion and other affect? The Profile of Imagining offers a theory that answers these and many other questions. It argues that sensory imagining involves the redeployment of resources central to perception, though in a radically different context and to very different effect. The result is a view that explains central features of imagining's phenomenology and functional role, including its capacity to capture what it would be like to perceive its objects, while acknowledging the many and striking differences between imagining and sensing. Hopkins shows how the view can be extended to imagining in other forms, especially the imagining of affect; and uses it to argue for some surprising conclusions: that imagining something is not a way to engage with its aesthetic character; and that imagining provokes real feeling much less often than is usually assumed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198896180
• Artikelnr.: 70175123

Autorenporträt

Robert Hopkins studied at Cambridge and UCL. Before moving to New York University in 2012, he taught at the univiersities of Birmingham and Sheffield. He has served as Honorary Secretary of the Mind Association and President of the European Society of Aesthetics. In 2001 he received a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research. His work, which is mostly in philosophy of mind and aesthetics, has appeared in a wide range of collections and journals, including Mind, Journal of Philosophy and Philosophical Review. He is an editor of the second edition of the Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, and author of Picture, Image and Experience.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Acting and Representing
1: Imagining and Agency
2: To Be Given as a Representation
Part II: Profiling and Knowledge in Sensory Imagining
3: Knowledge of Sensory Profiles
4: Profiles in Imagination
5: Observation, Overflow and Attention
Part III: Imagining and Knowing
6: Episodic Memory
7: Learning from Imagining
Part IV Imagining and Feeling
8: Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining, and the Draw of the Real
9: Reacting to Imagining?
Conclusion