This review article explores how metaphors and analogies used throughout urban history
can simulate mental imagery to inspire innovation. The study addresses three critical …

Psychedelic substances elicit powerful, uncanny conscious experiences that are thought to
possess therapeutic value. In those who undergo them, these altered states of …

Recently, various philosophers have argued that we can obtain knowledge via the
imagination. In particular, it has been suggested that we can come to know concrete …

We have chosen to organize the volume by epistemic context. The fifteen chapters have
been divided into four sections, each of which focuses on a particular context in which …

One of the most exciting debates in philosophy of imagination in recent years has been over
the epistemic use of imagination where imagination epistemically contributes to justifying …

I provide a novel, non-reductive, action-first skill-based account of active imagining. I call it
the Skillful Action Account of Imagining (the skillful action account for short). According to this …

The imagination is epistemically useful. When used in the right way, it can justify beliefs
about what the world is like. But how should we understand the epistemic role and structure …

ABSTRACT I argue for the existence of imaginative beliefs: mental states that are
imaginative in format and doxastic in attitude. I advance two arguments for this thesis. First …

An influential objection to the epistemic power of the imagination holds that it is
uninformative. You cannot get more out of the imagination than you put into it, and therefore …

What is the epistemic function of imagination? Traditionally, philosophers have claimed that
the epistemic function of imagination is exhausted by its ability to provide justification for …