Imaginative minds
Ilona Roth (Editor), British Academy
This volume brings the theories and methods of a range of disciplines to bear on the imaginative workings of the human mind. The distinguished contributors demonstrate their own imaginative flair in a fascinating and varied collection of essays about this most elusive and special human capacity.
Print Book, English, 2007
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Proceedings of the British Academy, no. 147
Aufsatzsammlung
xvii, 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
9780197264195, 0197264190
155678788
Imaginative minds : concepts, controversies, and themes / Ilona Roth
Seven steps in the evolution of the human imagination / Steven Mithen
Great ape cognition and the evolutionary roots of human imagination / Andrew Whiten and Thomas Suddendorf
Memes, minds, and imagination / Susan Blackmore
Autonomy and control in children's interactions with imaginary companions / Marjorie Taylor, Stephanie M. Carlson and Alison B. Smawber
Imagination and testimony in cognitive development : the cautious disciple? / Paul L. Harris and Melissa Koenig
Imagining things : mind into music (and back again) / Nicholas Cook
Music, science, and culture / Ian Cross
Claim on the reader / Gregory Currie
Mental imagery and creative thought / David G. Pearson
Way we imagine / Mark Turner
Specialized inference engines as precursors of creative imagination? / Pascal Boyer
Module for metaphor? : the site of imagination in the architecture of the mind / Daniel Nettle
Autism and the imaginative mind / Ilona Roth
Imaging imagination : brain scanning of the imagined future / John G. Geake and Morten L. Kringelbach
Collection of essays from a two-day symposium organized by the British Academy, held April 30-May 1, 2004