Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

New York: Fordham University Press (2014)
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Abstract

The cultivation of the imagination -- Enlightening thought: Kant and the imagination -- C.S. Peirce and the growth of the imagination -- Abduction: inference and instinct -- Imagining nature -- Ontology and imagination: Peirce on necessity and agency -- The evolution of the imagination -- Emergence, complexity, and creativity -- Be imaginative! suggestion and imperative.

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