2016
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12097
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The Role of Imagination in Decision‐Making

Abstract: The psychological mechanism of decision‐making has traditionally been modeled with the help of belief‐desire psychology: the agent has some desires (or other pro‐attitudes) and some background beliefs and deciding between two possible actions is a matter of comparing the probability of the satisfaction of these desires given the background beliefs in the case of the performance of each action. There is a wealth of recent empirical findings about how we actually make decisions that seems to be in conflict with … Show more

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“…van Leeuwen 2013, 226 We can imagine a wide range of examples of this basic type, where the way mental imagery unfolds in time is governed by our dispositional mental states. I can "deliberate" in imagination when it comes to settling on an intention (Nanay 2016), and my deliberations will be constrained by what I believe it is possible for me to do, and what I think is the likely result of some imagined action. Furthermore, we see no reason to limit this governing role to beliefs.…”
Section: Content and Rational Controlmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…van Leeuwen 2013, 226 We can imagine a wide range of examples of this basic type, where the way mental imagery unfolds in time is governed by our dispositional mental states. I can "deliberate" in imagination when it comes to settling on an intention (Nanay 2016), and my deliberations will be constrained by what I believe it is possible for me to do, and what I think is the likely result of some imagined action. Furthermore, we see no reason to limit this governing role to beliefs.…”
Section: Content and Rational Controlmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…And these accounts all give states of supposition the right kind of contents and structure to support functions of action guidance and reasoning. As an aside, this latter point should come as no surprise: it is widely recognized that states of imagination are useful for purposes of action guidance and reasoning (for elaboration, see Funkhouser & Spaulding, ; Nanay, ; Van Leeuwen, ).…”
Section: Believing At Willmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Timothy Williamson discusses how imagination can play a role in the discovery and justification of knowledge, for example, when a person uses his imagination to form a true belief as to what would happen to him in hypothetical circumstances, and Magdelena Balcerak Jackson has also recently argued that imagination provides us with justification . Bence Nanay defends the idea that there is an important role for imagination in representing and comparing different outcomes when an agent is trying to make decisions between possibilities for her future . Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack discuss first person decision‐making involving reasoning about anticipated regret, and Dilip Ninan explores the relationship between imagination and the self .…”
Section: Prospection and Preferencesmentioning
confidence: 99%