What is sensory imagining and what role does it play in our lives? How
does visualizing a castle, running through a tune in one's head, or
imagining the taste of fish ice cream relate to perceiving such
things, or to remembering them? What are the connections between
imagining and agency, and how does it relate to emotion and other
affect? _The Profile of Imagining_ offers a theory that answers these
and many other questions. It argues that sensory imagining involves
the redeployment of resources central to perception, though in a
radically different context and to very different effect. The result
is a view that explains central features of imagining's phenomenology
and functional role, including its capacity to capture what it would
be like to perceive its objects, while acknowledging the many and
striking differences between imagining and sensing. Hopkins shows how
the view can be extended to imagining in other forms, especially the
imagining of affect; and uses it to argue for some surprising
conclusions: that imagining something is not a way to engage with its
aesthetic character; and that imagining provokes real feeling much
less often than is usually assumed.
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ISBN
9780198896180
Publisert
2024
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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