We theorize why and how strategists develop different types of theories when confronted
with different types of problems by combining knowledge and imagination in different ways …

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 …

Imagination plays a rich epistemic role in our cognitive lives. For example, if I want to learn
whether my luggage will fit into the overhead compartment on a plane, I might imagine trying …

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 …

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 …

Traditionally, philosophers have been skeptical that the imagination can justify beliefs about
the actual world. After all, how could merely imagining something give you any reason to …

This paper responds to two arguments that have been offered against the positing of 'i-
desires', imaginative counterparts of desire supposedly involved in fiction, pretence, and …

ABSTRACT A number of authors have asked what it takes for a course of mental imagery to
be epistemically or practically useful. This paper addresses a prior question, namely, the …