 | Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition Subjects: Imagination (Philosophy); Aesthetics; Cognition; Kant Immanuel 1724–1804; Schiller Friedrich 1759–1805; Peirce Charles S. (Charles Sanders) 1839–1914; Traces the concept of the imagination through German idealism of the 18th century, the American philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the findings of contemporary cognitive neuroscience in order to argue for the centrality of aesthetics in human cognition. Kaag John : John Kaag is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His most recent book, Thinking Through the Imagination, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press. He has held academic appointments at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Harvard University. |
