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Ichikawa, Jonathan. Imagination and epistemology. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T39C6XR0

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Uniform TitleImagination and epistemology
NameIchikawa, Jonathan (author); Sosa, Ernest (chair); Goldman, Alvin (internal member); Stanley, Jason (internal member); Weatherson, Brian (internal member); Szabo Gendler, Tamar (outside member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - New Brunswick
Date Created2008
Other Date2008-10 (degree)
SubjectPhilosophy, Imagination (Philosophy), Knowledge, Theory of
Extentxix, 174 pages
DescriptionAmong the tools the epistemologist brings to the table ought to be, I suggest, a firm understanding of the imagination--one that is informed by philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. In my dissertation, I highlight several ways in which such an understanding of the imagination can yield insight into traditional questions in epistemology. My dissertation falls into three parts.
In Part I, I argue that dreaming should be understood in imaginative terms, and that this has important implications for questions about dream skepticism. In Part II, I argue that an understanding of the imagination is important for understanding important parts of philosophical methodology--particularly those involving thought experiments. I mean in Part II to be vindicating a great deal of traditional methodology. In Part III, I explore what I take to be a number of deep connections between knowledge and counterfactuals. I defend a form of contextualism in each domain, and argue that inference among imaginings, with its important structural similarities to inference in belief, plays a central role in the epistemology of counterfactuals.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-173).
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T39C6XR0
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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