| FB-53295-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Dennis Lee Sepper | Locating Imaginative Activity in the History of Western Thought | 6/1/2007 - 5/31/2008 | $40,000.00 | Dennis | Lee | Sepper | | | | University of Dallas | Irving | TX | 75062-4736 | USA | 2006 | Philosophy, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
"Placing Imagination" is a philosophical history of the Western experience of imagination. Through the history it develops a core theory of what imagining is. The history shows that Plato and Aristotle initiated a conception of imagining and its place between sense-perception and reason that gave rise to a theory that prospered for 2000 years. Though Rationalism and Romanticism appeared to deliver the theory a decisive blow, the core elements survived by being implicitly taken up in the so-called “linguistic turn” of philosophy and the human sciences. This history leads to a viable conception of imagining that can help us articulate contemporary experience and outline parameters for future theories of imagination. |