Imagination and Experience: Philosophical Explorations (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination.

The importance of imagination seems to stand in tension with the assumed unique and irreplaceable role of experience in our lives. However, new arguments in various philosophical debates suggest that there is a need to examine how both areas of research interrelate and can enrich one another. The chapters in this volume examine whether the traditional accounts of experience and imagination need to be challenged. They are divided into thematic sections that discuss epistemological, ontological, normative, phenomenological, and intersubjective questions related to experience and imagination.

Imagination and Experience is an essential resource for scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of psychology.

Chapters 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, and 19 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 licenses.

Íngrid Vendrell Ferran is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marburg, Germany. Her research is in the areas of philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, and aesthetics.

Christiana Werner is Research Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research interests are in philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics, and feminist philosophy.