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Amy Kind on Imagination
“The New Basics: Imagination” by Amy Kind
Philosophers like Blaise Pascal are undoubtedly right that imagination cannot be an “infallible rule of truth;” it can certainly go off the rails on occasions. But, as Amy Kind argues in this essay, more traditional epistemic sources like perception are not infallible either: there are plenty of times when we’re insufficiently attentive, when we misperceive, when we’re subject to illusion. Just as perception is not the enemy of reason despite its fallibility, neither is imagination.
Through examining the history of philosophy and the ambiguous status of imagination within this history, Kind looks to philosophical methods like thought experiments to defend the centrality of imagination to the philosophical endeavour. You can read her essay here.
