Tamar Gendler draws together a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, and shows the value for philosophy of empirical psychology. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology: Gendler explores how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. INDICE: Preface; Introduction; Part I: Thought Experiments, Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology; Thought Experiments in Science; 1: Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment; 2: Thought Experiments Rethought - and Reperceived; Thought Experiments and Personal Identity; 3: Exceptional Persons: On the Limits of Imaginary Cases; 4: Personal Identity and Thought-Experiments; Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology; 5: The Real Guide to Fake Barns: A Catalogue of Gifts for Your Epistemic Enemies; 6: Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions and Cognitive Equilibrium; Part II: Pretense, Imagination and Belief; Imaginative Resistance; 7: The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance; 8: Imaginative Resistance Revisited; Pretense and Belief; 9: On the Relation between Pretense and Belief; 10: Self-Deception as Pretense; Imagination and Emotion; 11: Genuine Rational Fictional Emotions; 12: Imaginary Contagion; Belief and Alief; 13: Alief and Belief; 14: Alief in Action (and Reaction)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958976-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés