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Author: Gregory Currie (, Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham) ,
Ian Ravenscroft (, Lecturer in Philosophy, Flinders University, Adelaide)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.356kg
ISBN: 9780198238096
ISBN 10: 0198238096
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 03 October 2002
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Recreative Minds is an insightful and wide-ranging discussion of the nature of imagination and its role in human cognition. Topics covered include the distinctions amongst different kinds of imagining (for example, between belief-like imaginings and perception-like imaginings), the mechanisms underlying visual and motor imagery, the role of emagination in mind-reading (that is, in mental-state attribution), the nature and developmental significance of childhood pretence, our emotional responses to literature and theatre, and explanations of autism and schizophrenia as (distinct) kinds of disorder of the imagination. Currie and Ravenscroft write clearly and engagingly throughout, and their careful dissection of many of the issues and arguments that they consider is quite masterful. The book deserves to be widely read by both philosophers and psychologists interested in any of the above topics. Peter Carruthers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews an excellent and wide-ranging discussion of the character and role of the imagination: read it and profit Peter Carruthers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Recreative Minds is an insightful and wide-ranging discussion of the nature of imagination and its role in human cognition. Topics covered include the distinctions amongst different kinds of imagining (for example, between belief-like imaginings and perception-like imaginings), the mechanisms underlying visual and motor imagery, the role of emagination in mind-reading (that is, in mental-state attribution), the nature and developmental significance of childhood pretence, our emotional responses to literature and theatre, and explanations of autism and schizophrenia as (distinct) kinds of disorder of the imagination. Currie and Ravenscroft write clearly and engagingly throughout, and their careful dissection of many of the issues and arguments that they consider is quite masterful. The book deserves to be widely read by both philosophers and psychologists interested in any of the above topics. Peter Carruthers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews an excellent and wide-ranging discussion of the character and role of the imagination: read it and profit Peter Carruthers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
