On the leaks and boundaries of imagination

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Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Filosofia
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Rivadulla Duró, Andrea
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2022-07-29T08:35:34Z
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2023-07-25T22:45:22Z
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2022-07-25
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http://hdl.handle.net/10803/675082
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Programa de Doctorat en Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge
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The present dissertation explores the role of imagination in different philosophical domains of inquiry. The thesis set out as a collection of self- standing essays and can be divided into two parts: leaks of imagination and boundaries of imagination. The first part concerns what I name leaks of imagination: Effects imagination has on attitudes and behavior. In Chapter 1, I review clinical and empirical evidence on the consequences imagining experiences has. To account for this evidence, I propose a theory—the Prima Facie View—and argue for the implicit assertoric force of imagination. According to this view, experiential imagination is not epistemically innocuous. Chapter 2 concerns the role of imagination in intrinsic symbolic actions. I argue that these actions elude an explanation in terms of a belief- desire pair or an emotion, and characterize them as symbolically displaced imaginings. The second part of the thesis, boundaries of imagination, delimits the appeal to the imagination. Chapter 3 criticizes the appeal to the imagination to explain the functional profile of delusions. This criticism is followed by a positive doxastic account of delusions in a fragmented and psychofunctional system of belief. Chapter 4 examines the Simulation Theory of Memory, which reduces episodic memory to imagination. I argue that given the way it equates episodic memory with imagination, the theory is in a compromised position to account for the characteristic phenomenology of episodic memory, and thus for its reliability. Overall, in this dissertation, I present a critical overview of four independent fields and propose new accounts of the problems at hand.
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164 p.
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application/pdf
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eng
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Universitat de Barcelona
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L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
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Teoria del coneixement
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Teoría del conocimiento
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Theory of knowledge
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Cognició
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Cognición
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Cognition
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Imaginació (Filosofia)
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Imaginación (Filosofía)
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Memòria (Filosofia)
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Memoria (Filosofía)
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Memory (Philosophy)
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Simbolisme (Psicologia)
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Simbolismo (Psicología)
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Symbolism (Psychology)
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Ciències Humanes i Socials
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On the leaks and boundaries of imagination
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info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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16
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García-Carpintero, Manuel
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Macià, Josep
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García-Carpintero, Manuel
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess


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