Imagination as a process

Nicholas Wiltsher

doi:10.1111/phpr.12861

Imagination as a process

Nicholas Wiltsher

Philosophy

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According to recent orthodoxy, imagination is best characterised in terms of distinctive imaginative states. But this view is ill-suited to characterisation of the full range of imaginative activities—creation, fantasy, conceiving, and so on. It would be better to characterise imagination in terms of a distinctive imaginative process, with the various imaginative activities as more determinate implementations of the determinable process.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	434-454
Number of pages	21
Journal	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Volume	106
Issue number	2
Early online date	16 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12861
Publication status	Published - 8 May 2023

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