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Thinking through the imagination : aesthetics in human cognition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaag, John J., 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:American philosophy series.
Subjects:
Imagination (Philosophy)
Aesthetics.
Cognition.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Schiller, Friedrich, > 1759-1805.
Peirce, Charles S. > (Charles Sanders), > 1839-1914.
Table of Contents:
  • The cultivation of the imagination
  • Enlightening thought: Kant and the imagination
  • C.S. Peirce and the growth of the imagination
  • Abduction: inference and instinct
  • Imagining nature
  • Ontology and imagination: Peirce on necessity and agency
  • The evolution of the imagination
  • Emergence, complexity, and creativity
  • Be imaginative! suggestion and imperative.