Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory

by Fiona Macpherson (Editor), Fabian Dorsch (Editor)

Overview

This volume presents ten new essays on the nature of perceptual imagination and perceptual memory, framed by an introductory overview of these topics. How do perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience? And what role does each play in perception and in the acquisition of knowledge? These are the two central questions that the contributors seek to address.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198717881
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Fiona Macpherson is Professor and Head of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she is also director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her work concerns the nature of consciousness, perception and perceptual experience, introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind. She has written on the nature of the senses, on cognitive penetration, and illusion and hallucination. She has published previous edited collections: Hallucination (MIT Press 2013, with Dimitris Platchais), The Senses (OUP 2011), The Admissible Contents of Experience (Wiley-Blackwell 2011, with Katherine Hawley), and Disjunctivism (OUP 2008, with Adrian Haddock).

Fabian Dorsch was Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and the Director of the EXRE Centre of Research for Mind and Normativity, where he ran two research projects: The Normative Mind and The Aesthetic Mind. The main foci of his research were interrelated issues in aesthetics, the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of normativity, notably meta-ethics. He published a monograph on The Unity of Imagining in 2012 (De Gruyter). He was an associate editor of the journal Dialectica and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Estetika: the Central European Journal of Aesthetics.

Table of Contents

1. Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory: An Overview, Fiona MacphersonPart I: The Nature of Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory2. Aristotle on Distinguishing Phantasia and Memory, Richard A. H. King3. Sensory Memories and Recollective Images, Dominic Gregory4. Imagining the Past: On the Nature of Episodic Memory, Robert Hopkins5. Memory, Imagination, and Narrative, Dorothea Debus6. Imaginative Content, Paul NoordhofPart II: The Epistemic Role of Imagination and Memory7. Infusing Perception with Imagination, Derek H. Brown8. On the Uses of Make-Perceive, Robert Eamon Briscoe9. Visually Attending to Fictional Things, Gregory Currie10. Justification by Imagination, Magdalena Balcerak Jackson11. How Imagination Gives Rise to Knowledge, Amy Kind

Editorial Reviews

"Covers two interconnected issues, both fairly grand: the relation between episodic memory and imagination and the relation between imagination and perception. Both of these questions would be of interest [to an] interdisciplinary readership."

— Perception Journal

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