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This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and literature to technology, medicine, and science. Focusing on the contemporary philosophical literature, it will take up several interrelated questions: What is imagination, and how does it fit into the cognitive architecture of the mind? What is creativity? Is imagination required for creativity? Is creativity required for imagination? Is a person simply born either imaginative or not (and likewise, either creative or not), or are imagination and creativity skills that can be cultivated? And finally, are imagination and creativity uniquely human capacities, or can they be had by nonbiological entities such as AI systems?

Imagination (Philosophy) --- Creative thinking --- Philosophy of mind. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Creative ability --- Thought and thinking --- Creative thinking (Education) --- Cognitive psychology --- Theory of knowledge

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Self. --- Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Philosophical anthropology --- Austen, Jane

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This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness. It traces the paradoxical endeavour of reason attempting to understand madness without dissolving the inherent strangeness and otherness of madness. It provides a comprehensive overview of the contributions of phenomenology, critical theory, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and anti-psychiatry to continental philosophy and psychiatry. The book outlines an intellectual tradition of psychiatry that is both fascinated by and withdraws from madness. Madness is a lure for philosophy in two senses; as both trap and provocation. It is a trap because this philosophical tradition constructs an otherness of madness so profound, that it condemns madness to silence. However, the idea of madness as another world is also a fertile provocation because it respects the non-identity of madness to reason. The book concludes with some critical reflections on the role of madness in contemporary philosophical thought. Alastair Morgan is a Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK.

Continental philosophy. --- Psychiatry --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy, Continental --- Philosophy, Modern --- Medicine --- Continental Philosophy. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Self. --- Ethics. --- Psychiatry. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Philosophy of the Self. --- Moral Psychology. --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Health Workforce --- Psychology

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"This study offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory's cultural scope through the lens of Cervantes, and specifically through his novel Don Quixote. The author explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes's world resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomize Renaissance humanist culture and that concurrently will inform the transition to modernity. In Don Quixote, he draws on theories regarding memory that had been developed since classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time: nostalgia for an earlier period as a means to confront the fears that come with a rapidly changing society; exploiting the two interior senses, imagination and memory, as a powerful tool to detach oneself from society's impositions and instead endorse the right to be forgotten; pedagogical theories that evolved as a response to the intellectual overload and the impositions of the imitatio; the role of memory in a society that continued to cling to the oral tradition; the use of influential mnemonic images as persuasive devices within highly visual cultural environments; and, finally, the immense power of memory in individual and collective identity formation and, paradoxically, memory's fragility and malleability when faced with social, religious, and cultural demands."--

Memory in literature. --- Memory --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Social aspects --- History. --- Cervantine. --- Don Quixote. --- Miguel de Cervantes. --- Renaissance literature. --- Sancho. --- Spanish literature. --- art of memory. --- early modern Spain. --- early modern literature. --- memory. --- mnemonic. --- mnemotechnics. --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Spain. --- Cervantes y Saavedra, Miguel de --- Cerbantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Cervantes de Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Cervantes, M., --- Cervantes, Michael a, --- Cervantes, Miguel de, --- Cervantes Saavedra, Michael a, --- Cervantes Saavedra, Michiel de, --- Cervantes Savedra, Miguel, --- De Cervantes, Miguel, --- De Cervantes, Miguel --- Cervantes, Michel --- Hsi-wan-ti-shih, --- Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes, --- Sai-wan-tʻi-ssŭ, --- Savedra, Migelʹ Servantes, --- Savedra, Miguel Cervantes, --- Servantes, M., --- Servantes Saavedra, Migelʹ de, --- Servantes Saavedra, Miguėlʹ, --- Serṿantes Saṿaidrah, Miguʼel de, --- Servantes Savedra, Migelʹ, --- Servantesu, M., --- Sirfāntīs, --- Tservantes, Michaēl, --- Сервантес Сааведра, Мигель де, --- סערװאנטעס סאאװעדרא, מיגעל דע --- סערוואנטעס דע סאאוועדרא, מיגעל דע --- סרונתס סאוידרה, מיגואל די --- סרונטס סאאוידרא, מיגואל די, --- סרונטס סודרה, מיגל דה, --- סרונטס, מיגאל --- צערװאנטעס, מיגועל, --- ثربانتس سابدرا، ميجيل دي، --- سروانتس --- セルバンテス, --- 塞万提斯, --- De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel, --- Ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de La Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Quijote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Don Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Don Quijote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein --- Cervantes Cortinas, Miguel de, --- Cortinas, Miguel de Cervantes, --- De Cervantes Cortinas, Miguel, --- Sai-wan-t�i-ss�u, --- Savedra, Migel� Servantes, --- Servantes Saavedra, Migel� de, --- Servantes Saavedra, Migu�el�, --- Ser�vantes Sa�vaidrah, Migu�el de, --- Servantes Savedra, Migel�, --- Sirf�ant�is, --- Tservantes, Micha�el, --- Cervantes Saavedra, de, Miguel