Imagination

References and further reading

None of these works is very technical. Russow and Strawson are recommended as introductory pieces.

	Aristotle (c. 360s–320s) On the Soul and On Dreams, in (ed.) R. McKeon The Basic Works of Aristotle, New York: Random House, 1941, 535–603 and 618–625. (Mentioned in §3.)
	Brann, E. (1991) The World of Imagination, Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield. (An encyclopedic and cross-disciplinary study of our image-making ability.)
	Casey, E. (1976) Imagining: A Phenomenological Study, Bloomington IN: University of Indiana Press. (A prominent philosopher of imagination in the phenomenological tradition.)
	Hume, D. (1739–40) A Treatise on Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. (Discussed in §4 and 5. See especially book I, part I and book I, part IV, §2.)
	Johnson, M. (1985) ‘Imagination in Moral Judgment’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46: 265–280. (Explores a topic mentioned in §5.)
	Kant, I. (1787) Critique of Pure Reason, trans. N. Kemp Smith, London: Macmillan, 1929. (Discussed in §4, mentioned in §5. See especially ‘Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding’.)
	Kant, I. (1790) Critique of Judgment, trans. J. C. Meredith, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. (Discussed in 4. Contains discussion of aesthetic deployment of imagination.)
	Mill, J.S. (1843) A System of Logic in The Collected Works of J.S. Mill, vol. 7, book II, ch.5. (Mentioned in §5.)
	Russow, L. (1978) ‘Some Recent Work on Imagination’, American Philosophical Quarterly 15: 57–66. (Useful survey and bibliography.)
	Ryle, G. (1949) The Concept of Mind, New York: Barnes and Noble, ch. 8. (Discussed in §2.)
	Sartre, J.-P. (1948) The Psychology of Imagination, New York: Philosophical Library. (Discussed in §3.)
	Strawson, P.F. (1970) ‘Imagination and Perception’ in L. Foster and J.W. Swanson (eds) Experience and Theory, 31–54. (Contains excellent discussion of Hume and Kant.)
	Warnock, M. (1976) Imagination, London: Faber & Faber. (Useful history of the concept of imagination from Hume to the twentieth century, aimed at bringing out the importance for education of cultivating the imagination.)
	Wittgenstein. L. (1953) Philosophical Investigations, trans. E. Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell. (Mentioned in §3. A lot of suggestive and much-discussed material on imagination.)