Thinking through the imagination: aesthetics in human cognition

✍ Scribed by John J. Kaag

Publisher: Fordham University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Series: Fordham American Philosophy
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
1 The Cultivation of the Imagination (page 1)
2 Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination (page 25)
3 C.S. Peirce and the Growth of the Imagination (page 57)
4 Abduction: Inference and Instinct (page 75)
5 Imagining Nature (page 93)
6 Ontology and Imagination: Peirce on Necessity and Agency (page 120)
7 The Evolution of the Imagination (page 139)
8 Emergence, Complexity, and Creativity (page 165)
9 Be Imaginative! Suggestion and Imperative (page 192)
Notes (page 211)
Bibliography (page 235)
Index (page 249)

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