Understanding Imagination The Reason of Images /

• Main Author: Sepper, Dennis L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 33
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Science > Philosophy.; Psychology > History.; Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Philosophy.; History of Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6507-8

This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a framework that presents imagination a...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Beginning in the Middle of Things
• 2 Locating Emergent Appearance
• 3 Locating Imagination: The Inceptive Field Productivity and Differential Topology of Imagining (Plus What It Means to Play a Game)
• 4 Plato and the Ontological Placement of Images
• 5 Aristotles phantasia: From Animal Sensation to Understanding Forms of Fields
• 6 The Dynamically Imaginative Cognition of Descartes
• 7 The Cartesian Heritage: Kant and the Conceptual Topology of Imagination and Reason
• 8 After Kant: Appropriating the Conceptual Topology of Imagination
• 9 The Ethos of Imagining.�.