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IMAGINATIVE CONTAGION
Author(s) -
GENDLER TAMAR SZABÓ
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2006.00430.x
Subject(s) - phenomenon , priming (agriculture) , emotional contagion , psychology , mental image , epistemology , cognitive psychology , aesthetics , sociology , social psychology , philosophy , cognition , neuroscience , botany , biology , germination
Abstract: The aim of this article is to expand the diet of examples considered in philosophical discussions of imagination and pretense, and to offer some preliminary observations about what we might learn about the nature of imagination as a result. The article presents a number of cases involving imaginative contagion : cases where merely imagining or pretending that P has effects that we would expect only perceiving or believing that P to have. Examples are offered that involve visual imagery, motor imagery, fictional emotions, and social priming. It is suggested that imaginative contagion is a more prevalent phenomenon than has typically been recognized.