Twelve conceptions of imagination

British Journal of Aesthetics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 238-259

  Stevenson, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.3.238     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Tleotogica, I 85 ad 3.
2. Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View,§15, Ak. VII: 153.
3. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, B151, There are other conceptions of imagination in Kant's critical philosophy, some of which we shall discuss below.
4. G. Evans, The Varieties of Reference (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), ch. 5.
5. Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (London: Chatto, 1992), p. 391.
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1.7-22.
7. K. L. Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 1990), see ch. I especially 1.5. Walton takes the notion of imagination as primitive, whereas I am trying to explore it, though I am not offering a conceptual analysis in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, but something more like a Wittgensteinian family-resemblance account.
8. 3, 427b27ff, trans. D. W. Hamlyn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968).
9. Meditations, Adam and Tannery edn, VII.53.
10. R. Pasnau, Aquinas on Human Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002), ch. 9.
11. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, I.i.8; hereafter Essay.
12. Essay, II.xxix.2
13. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, I.i.i, p. I. My page references are to the edition by L, A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, I888, repr. 1967); hereafter THN.
14. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, BI, in the English translation by Guycr and Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1998); hereafter CPR.
15. Kant was not perhaps quite as clear on these points as I here suggest. I am interpreting him in the light of recent cognitive science. For more elaboration see my paper 'Synthetic Unities of Experience', Philosophy and Phenomenologhal Research, vol. LX (March 2000), no. 2, pp. 281-305.
16. Strawson noted similarities and differences between Hume and Kant (and Wittgenstein) on the imagination in his well-known paper 'Imagination and Perception' in L. Foster and J. W. Swanson (eds), Experience and Theory (London: Duckworth, 1970).
17. reprinted in P. F. Strawson, Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays (London: Methuen, 1974).
18. Wordsworth, Home at Grasmere, from lines 959-1014;
19. Kant, Critique of Judgment, §.I AK. V. 203, trans. W.J. Pluhar (Indianopolis: Hackett, 1987); hereafter CJ.
20. C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (London: Geoffrey Bles 1960).
21. The connected trio of faith, hope, and love reappear on the last page of John Cottingham, On the Meaning of Life (London: Routledge, 2003).
22. Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, lines 76-77, 82-86
23. Murdoch, Metaphysics, p. 321.
24. Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (London: Duckworth 1998), pp. 55, 57.
25. A Midsummer Night's Dream, V.i.