Imagination will remain a mystery—we will not be able to explain imagination—until we can
break it into simpler parts that are more easily understood. Explaining Imagination is a …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional
people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and defends a pretense theoretic …

I present a formal theory of the logic and aboutness of imagination. Aboutness is understood
as the relation between meaningful items and what they concern, as per Yablo and Fine's …

Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates
philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical …

Jack and Jill were arguing again. This was not in itself unusual, but this time they were
standing in the fast lane of I-95 having their argument. This was causing traffic to bank up a …

Philosophical questions about the arts go naturally with other kinds of questions about them.
Art is sometimes said to be an historical concept. But where in our cultural and biological …

This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to
understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of …

Imagination has been assigned an important explanatory role in a multitude of philosophical
contexts. This paper examines four such contexts: mindreading, pretense, our engagement …

Human interactions are deeply rooted in the interplay of thoughts, beliefs, and desires made
possible by Theory of Mind (ToM): our cognitive ability to understand the mental states of …