TY  - BOOK
AU  - Badura,Christopher
AU  - Badura,Christopher
AU  - Kind,Amy
TI  - Epistemic Uses of Imagination
SN  - 9780367480561
PY  - 2021///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Epistemics
KW  - Imagination (Philosophy)
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Épistémique
KW  - Théorie de la connaissance
KW  - fast
KW  - epistemology
KW  - aat
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
KW  - Philosophy and Religion
KW  - thema
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Topics in philosophy
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - philosophy of imagination
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an epistemic role in a variety of other contexts as well. In this collection, the contributors address an assortment of issues relating to epistemic uses of imagination, and in particular, they take up the ways in which our imaginings must be constrained so as to justify beliefs and give rise to knowledge. These constraints are explored across several different contexts in which imagination is appealed to for justification, namely reasoning, modality and modal knowledge, thought experiments, and knowledge of self and others. Taken as a whole, the contributions in this volume break new ground in explicating when and how imagination can be epistemically useful. Epistemic Uses of Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students who are working on imagination, as well as those working more broadly in epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57844
ER  -