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Author:   Tamar Szabó Gendler (, Yale University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.552kg
ISBN:  

9780199683154

ISBN 10:   0199683158
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   18 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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)

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`By urging us to view ourselves not only as the objects of empirical enquiry, but also as the subjects of reason and understanding, she issues once again the invitation to do more philosophy. ' London Review of Books `a scintillating book ... sparkling, erudite, compellingly unorthodox papers, stuffed with interesting and provocative examples and theses and ideas for future work ... This book offers a tantalizing picture of a totally new philosophical psychology. ' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

`By urging us to view ourselves not only as the objects of empirical enquiry, but also as the subjects of reason and understanding, she issues once again the invitation to do more philosophy. ' London Review of Books `a scintillating book ... sparkling, erudite, compellingly unorthodox papers, stuffed with interesting and provocative examples and theses and ideas for future work ... This book offers a tantalizing picture of a totally new philosophical psychology. ' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This book is richly detailed and fully deserves a careful study. Gendler has made strong contributions to the nature of belief, imagination, intuition, and imagination, as well as the role of thought experiments in science and in philosophy. Furthermore, she is making original contributions in the rather neglected field of philosophical methodology. * Soraj Hongladarom, Minds & Machines *

This book is richly detailed and fully deserves a careful study. Gendler has made strong contributions to the nature of belief, imagination, intuition, and imagination, as well as the role of thought experiments in science and in philosophy. Furthermore, she is making original contributions in the rather neglected field of philosophical methodology. Soraj Hongladarom, Minds & Machines

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

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