Imagining Under Constraints

Kind, Amy; Küng, Peter

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716808.003.0007

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“…There are also doubts from an empirical perspective: it has been argued that an appeal to tacit knowledge is enough to explain people's performance in scanning tasks (Pylyshyn 1973). 12 See also Kind (2016). 13 By saying this, I am not implying that the epistemic relevance of imagination is not an interesting issue.…”

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There is Something about the Image: A Defence of the Two-Component View of Imagination

Tooming¹

2018

Dialectica

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According to the two‐component view of sensory imagination, imaginative states combine qualitative and assigned content. Qualitative content is the imagistic component of the imaginative state and is provided by a quasi‐perceptual image; assigned content has a language‐like structure. Recently, such a two‐component view has been criticized by Daniel Hutto and Nicholas Wiltsher, both of whom have argued that postulating two contents is unnecessary for explaining how imagination represents. In this paper, I will defend the two‐component theory by arguing that it has three explanatory advantages over its competitors. First, it makes explicit a widely acknowledged distinction between engaged imagination and mere supposition. Second, it explains how imagination is constrained by objects’ perceptual appearances. Third, it explains how imaginings can be exploratory.

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Section: Imaginary Explorationsmentioning

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There is Something about the Image: A Defence of the Two-Component View of Imagination

Tooming¹

2018

Dialectica

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“…To mention a few examples: Peter Railton discusses and defends the importance of prospection for moral learning. Amy Kind, & forthcoming, argues that imagining can play a role in justifying our beliefs and can expand our epistemic capacities . John Campbell discusses the important role for imaginative empathy when we make decisions for others .…”

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“…See (Kind ). Kind also defends the view that imagining has epistemic significance (Kind forthcoming ).…”

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DE SE PREFERENCES AND EMPATHY FOR FUTURE SELVES1

Paul

2017

Philosophical Perspectives

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“… This is the way imagining in fiction is understood in Amy Kind (), 158. See also Kind and Kung (): 1, 13, 15–16, 23.…”

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The Ancient Quarrel Between Art and Philosophy in Contemporary Exhibitions of Visual Art

McMahon¹

2019

Curator The Museum Journal

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At a time when professional art criticism is on the wane, the ancient quarrel between art and philosophy demands fresh answers. Professional art criticism provided a basis upon which to distinguish apt experiences of art from the idiosyncratic. However, currently the kind of narratives from which critics once drew are underplayed or discarded in contemporary exhibition design where the visual arts are concerned. This leaves open the possibility that art operates either as mere stimulant to private reverie or, in the more contentful cases, as propaganda. The ancient quarrel between art and philosophy is that art influences surreptitiously while philosophy presents reasons that invite rational scrutiny. As such, in contrast to philosophy, art would undermine our agency. In July 2017, a group of philosophers gathered at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW), in Sydney, Australia, in the presence of two AGNSW curators to explore the basis of their own experiences of selected artworks. Here, those commentaries are reproduced. Each reveal that objective grounds for an experience of art can be based in the community from which one draws one's terms of reference. In our commentaries we see the expertise of the respective philosophical communities but other communities of culture or expertise might serve the same purpose and hence resolve the ancient quarrel. Before hearing these commentaries, I explain what is at stake when the ancient quarrel between art and philosophy is understood in contemporary terms. This Issue of the Curator also includes an article on the community‐based art criticism that emerges from these commentaries followed by an exhibition review which reveals the incorrigible impulse (also demonstrated in the commentaries) to find the basis for the most apt experience of an artwork.

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Imagining Under Constraints

Cited by 119 publications

References 5 publications

There is Something about the Image: A Defence of the Two-Component View of Imagination

There is Something about the Image: A Defence of the Two-Component View of Imagination

DE SE PREFERENCES AND EMPATHY FOR FUTURE SELVES1

The Ancient Quarrel Between Art and Philosophy in Contemporary Exhibitions of Visual Art

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