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Imagination and reason

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2008

Joseph Agassi
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel. [email protected]://www.tau.ac.il/~agass/

Abstract

Byrne's book is intended to explain why people imagine the things they do when they create alternatives to reality. Two fruitful areas of further research are: (1) How can her approach explain dreams and daydreams? (2) What is the developmental time course of the child's understanding of reality and imagination?

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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References

Byrne, R. M. J. (2005) The rational imagination: How people create alternatives to reality. MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar