Imagination in Inquiry - A. Pablo Iannone

Imagination in Inquiry

A Philosophical Model and Its Applications
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4972-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Imagination in Inquiry investigates the nature, kinds, component elements, functions, scope, and uses of the imagination that are at work in inquiry. It develops a homeostatic model and discusses its applications in various branches of philosophy, from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology to ethics and aesthetics.
Imagination in Inquiry: A Philosophical Model and Its Applications investigates the nature, kinds, component elements, functions, scope, and uses of the imagination involved in inquiry. It further discusses how these kinds and functions vary and interact depending on the context of inquiries carried out in philosophy and its branches—from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology to ethics, sociopolitical philosophy, and aesthetics—and institutions like science, technology, art, and education. Using a homeostatic model, A. Pablo Iannone advances a conception of the imagination as a disposition to search for answers to various types of problems, abstract or concrete, theoretical or practical faced in inquiry. The book treats this as a working characterization, though it develops progressively clearer, more precise, and less ambiguous meanings. All along, the primary concern of the author—as well as of contributors Alejandra Iannone and Rocci Luppicini—is with the moral, aesthetic, logical, communicative, scientific, technological, artistic, literary, and philosophical uses and roles of the imagination. The book’s primary focus is not just on such things as the capacity to generate mental images, but especially on the ability to discover and create, anticipate and envision, entertain and manage.

A. Pablo Iannone is emeritus professor of philosophy at Central Connecticut State University.

Part I: Conceptualizations

Chapter One: A Conceptual Cartography of Inquiry, the Imagination, and their Interconnected Roles

Chapter Two: Dynamics of the Imagination

Chapter Three: The Imagination’s Elements: Motives, Abilities, Circumstances, Instruments, and Functions

Chapter Four: The Interactive Imagination

Part II: The Imagination: Philosophical And Practical

Chapter Five: The Philosophical Imagination

Chapter Six: Wonder, Reason, and the Imagination in Philosophical Inquiry Contrasted with Inquiry in Art, Literature, and Science

Chapter Seven: Inquiry and the Imagination’s Balancing Act

Chapter Eight: Basic Philosophical Attitudes and the Imagination

Part III: Comparative Assessments

Chapter Nine: Feedback Loops, Today's World, and the Practical Imagination

Chapter Ten: Analogies and Disanalogies between the Roles of the Imagination in Inquiries in Philosophy, the Arts, Sciences, Other Branches of Inquiry, and Everyday Life

Part IV: Applications and Tests of This Book’s Model

Chapter Eleven: Speech Acts, the Exercise of Logic, and the Imagination in Inquiry

Chapter Twelve: The Imagination, Humor, and a Sense of Humor

Chapter Thirteen: The Imagination, and the Mixed Gift of Vision in Individual and Social Life

Chapter Fourteen: Inquiry and The Imagination in Moral Decision Making

Part V: The Imagination, Current Developments, and Future Prospects in Art and the Digital World

Chapter Fifteen: Imagining Dance Mash-Ups: A Practice-based Inquiry

Alejandra Iannone

Chapter Sixteen: Expanding Youth Ballet Education with Web-hosted Video Post-COVID

Alejandra Iannone

Chapter Seventeen: The Imagination in Technology-Ethics: The Factual, the Virtual, and the Fictional: Imagination, Appreciation, and the Open-Ended Domain of Cultural Expressions in the Digital World

Chapter Eighteen: The Imagination in Technology-Aesthetics

Rocci Luppicini

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 237 mm
Gewicht 549 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 1-7936-4972-3 / 1793649723
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-4972-0 / 9781793649720
Zustand Neuware
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