Tamar Szabo Gendler

Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199589760
• ISBN-10: 0199589763
• Artikelnr.: 30883294

Autorenporträt

Tamar Szabó Gendler is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University

Inhaltsangabe

* 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)