The architecture of the imagination: new essays on pretence, possibility, and fiction

Introduction / Shaun Nichols

pt. I. The nature of the imagination. Imagination and emotion / Timothy Schroeder, Carl Matheson ; Imagination and simulation in audience responses to fiction / Alvin Goldman ; Imagination and misimagination / Adam Morton ; The intuitive cosmology of fictional worlds / Deena Skolnick, Paul Bloom

pt. II. Pretence. Why pretend? / Peter Carruthers ; Why irony is pretence / Gregory Currie

pt. III. Imaginative resistance. On the (so-called) puzzle of imaginative resistance / Kendall Walton ; Imaginative resistance revisited / Tamar Szabo Gendler ; Puzzling over the imagination : philosophical problems, architectural solutions / Jonathan M. Weinberg, Aaron Meskin

pt. IV. Imagination and possibility. Modality, modal epistemology, and the metaphysics of consciousness / Christopher S. Hill ; Imaginative blocks and impossibility : an essay in modal psychology / Shaun Nichols ; Meta-conceivability and thought experiments / Roy Sorensen.