Puzzling over the Imagination: Philosophical Problems, Architectural Solutions

The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Weinberg, Jonathan M ^a   Meskin, Aaron ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cognitive architecture; Emotions; Epistemology; Fiction; Imagination; Imaginative resistance; Modal intuitions; Naturalistic approach; Supposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275731.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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