Einstein held that imagination is more important than knowledge: 'I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.' I define ...

Focuses first on imagination as a function of mind, placing it in relation to other functions such as perception, emotion, and conceptualization. Attention is then given to the difference between the ...

Imagination is widely thought to come in two varieties: perception-like and belief-like imagination. What precisely sets them apart, however, is not settled. More needs to be said about the features ...

A popular view has it that the mental representations underlying human pretense are not beliefs, but are "belief-like" in important ways. This view typically posits a distinctive cognitive attitude (a ...

Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the imagination. As the philosopher Stephen Asma and the actor Paul Giamatti pointed out in an essay in March, Plato gave the impression that imagination is a ...

In a discussion on philosophy, Bertrand Russell defines philosophy as speculation about matters beyond current scientific knowledge. He contrasts philosophy with science, stating that while science ...

BC Philosopher Richard Kearney has written new books on the importance of the sense of touch and the need to engage in narrative exchanges with others Photo of Richard Kearney by Lee Pellegrini. A lot ...

On January 31, 2019, the Binghamton University Art Museum opened the exhibition, Visions and Imagination: Cuban American and Argentinian Art. The show features paintings and drawings by leading ...