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"""Elegantly written and subtly argued, this work presents a comprehensive and innovative view of imagination, acting as both genealogy and systematic analysis. Justin Humphreys shows that imagination emerges out of the necessity of providing philosophical justification for the solution of geometrical problems, which requires the construction and use of figures intermediate between the sensible and the thinkable. And yet, imagination in its capacity of producing images becomes indispensable for psychology. This book overturns our understanding of the ubiquitous yet enigmatic power of the soul."" --Dmitri Nikulin, The New School for Social Research ""Humphreys offers a radically new contribution to Aristotelian ontology and epistemology, which not only makes a real contribution to scholarship on Aristotle and on ancient Greek mathematics but stands a good chance to change the way people think about the way imagination was conceived in classical Greek thought and why that matters today."" --Michael Weinman, University of Virginia"

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Justin Humphreys is assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University. He earned his PhD at The New School for Social Research and has taught philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania.

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