Imagination in Inquiry

A. Pablo Iannone

doi:10.5771/9781793649737

Summary

Imagination in Inquiry: A Philosophical Model and Its Applications investigates the nature, kinds, component elements, functions, scope, and uses of the imagination involved in inquiry. It further discusses how these kinds and functions vary and interact depending on the context of inquiries carried out in philosophy and its branches—from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology to ethics, sociopolitical philosophy, and aesthetics—and institutions like science, technology, art, and education. Using a homeostatic model, A. Pablo Iannone advances a conception of the imagination as a disposition to search for answers to various types of problems, abstract or concrete, theoretical or practical faced in inquiry. The book treats this as a working characterization, though it develops progressively clearer, more precise, and less ambiguous meanings. All along, the primary concern of the author—as well as of contributors Alejandra Iannone and Rocci Luppicini—is with the moral, aesthetic, logical, communicative, scientific, technological, artistic, literary, and philosophical uses and roles of the imagination. The book’s primary focus is not just on such things as the capacity to generate mental images, but especially on the ability to discover and create, anticipate and envision, entertain and manage.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4972-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4973-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 254
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Figures No access
4. List of Figures No access
5. 1. This Book’s Central Questions No access
  2. Interdisciplinary Character of the Present Book No access
  3. This Book’s Conception of Inquiry No access
  4. The Search Involved in Inquiry, and the Role of Attention in It No access
  5. This Book’s and Other Philosophical, Psychological, or Sociological Conceptions of the Imagination No access
  6. This Book’s and Cognate Conceptions of the Imagination No access
  7. This Book’s Readership No access
  8. Outline and Some Highlights of the Book No access
  9. Notes No access
6. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Objects of the Imagination No access
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2. 1. Outline of the Imagination’s Homeostatic Model: Motives, Equilibrium, and Types of Equilibrium Break Down No access
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3. 1. Imagination and Creativity No access
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4. 1. A Limiting Precondition for Exercising the Imagination No access
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1. 1. Senses of the Term Philosophy No access
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2. 1. Wonder in Philosophy by Contrast with Other Forms of Inquiry No access
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3. 1. The Imagination, Failing Habits, and Dashed Expectations No access
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4. 1. Mental Attitudes and Traits of Character No access
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1. 1. William James’s Thesis No access
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2. 1. Imagination in Science No access
  2. The Imagination in Childhood No access
  3. Imagination and Inquiry in Art, Literature, and the Humanities No access
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1. 1. Language Crossings No access
  2. The Imagination in Logic, Language, and Literature: Linguistic Attitudes No access
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2. 1. Scope and Method No access
  2. Humor and Its Cognates No access
  3. Laughter and Humor No access
  4. Humor, Its Species, Its Signals, Its Opposites, and Its Framework No access
  5. 1. Superiority Theory No access
    2. Relief Theory No access
    3. Incongruity Theory No access
    4. Combined Theories No access
    5. Play Theory No access
    6. Psychic Distance Theory and the Role of the Imagination in Humor No access
  6. 1. Humor, the Imagination, and Shared Frameworks for Engagement No access
    2. Humor, Jokes, and Context No access
  7. The Fluid Realm of Linguistic Conventions and Humor Conventions No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
3. 1. Some Historical Examples of Vision in the Humanities and Individual and Social Life No access
  2. A Twentieth-Century Controversy about the Value of Worldview Vision in the Humanities and Society No access
  3. Having Vision and Having a Vision No access
  4. The Value and Uses of Vision No access
  5. Visions, Politics, and the Arts and Humanities No access
  6. A Vibrant Society, Vision and Imaginative Balance No access
  7. A Role for the Humanities No access
  8. The Case of the European Renaissance, Political Life, and the Arts and Humanities No access
  9. Back to the Present: A Role for the Humanities, the Arts and Sciences in Today’s World No access
  10. Modern Specialization and the Growing Role of Cross-Pollination among the Arts and Humanities and between These and the Sciences No access
  11. Imagination and the Prospects for Collaborative Inquiry between the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences No access
  12. Notes No access
4. 1. Historical and Taxonomic Remarks No access
  2. Framing Moral Problems and Issues No access
  3. The Ethics of Care: A Sounder Alternative? No access
  4. Moral Decision Procedures No access
  5. The Imagination and the Particularization versus Generalization Issue in Ethics No access
  6. Lazy Reason, Sluggish Imagination No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. Philosophical Inquiry and Mash-up Theory No access
  2. A Working Characterization of the Mash-Up No access
  3. Elements Informing This Characterization No access
  4. Danced Applications of the Mash-Up Model No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. Chapter Structure No access
  2. Indirectly Related Literature No access
  3. Linking Related Literature No access
  4. Video as a Teaching Tool No access
  5. Video as a Dance Teaching Tool No access
  6. Creative, Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy No access
  7. Sense of Belonging No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
3. 1. Senses of “Appreciation” No access
  2. The Development of Appreciation No access
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4. 1. Techno-Aesthetics and the Evolving Imagination No access
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Conclusion No access Pages 229 - 232
Bibliography No access Pages 233 - 246
Index No access Pages 247 - 250
About the Contributors No access Pages 251 - 252
About the Author No access Pages 253 - 254