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"Modes of Imagining: Selective and Reflective Imagining"

Presented by E. Hande Tuna, UC Santa Cruz; part of Philosophy's Sapientia lecture series.

2/4/2022
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

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"Modes of Imagining: Selective and Reflective Imagining"

Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to build on the existing taxonomies of imagination. I argue that there are two modes of imagining, selective and reflective. These modes apply to all different kinds of imaginings, such as propositional, phenomenal, sensory, constructive, and so on. The secondary aim of this paper is to put this distinction to use in understanding how story processing works and explain why in some cases when we process stories (both fictional and non-fictional) the mental states of imagining that p and believing that in the story p come apart and in other cases they don’t.

 

The Sapientia Lecture Series is underwritten by the Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy, which is an endowment established in 1996 to help support the study of philosophy at Dartmouth College.

 

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Professor Christie Thomas
philosophy@dartmouth.edu
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