Table Of ContentPerceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory
Perceptual Imagination
and Perceptual Memory
edited by
Fiona Macpherson
and Fabian Dorsch
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In memory of Fabian Dorsch (1974–2017)
An honest man here lies at rest,
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with knowledge so inform’d;
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.
—Epitaph On A Friend
Robert Burns
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors xi
1. Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory: An Overview 1
Fiona Macpherson
Part I. The Nature of Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual
Memory
2. Aristotle on Distinguishing Phantasia and Memory 9
R. A. H. King
3. Sensory Memories and Recollective Images 28
Dominic Gregory
4. Imagining the Past: On the Nature of Episodic Memory 46
Robert Hopkins
5. Memory, Imagination, and Narrative 72
Dorothea Debus
6. Imaginative Content 96
Paul Noordhof
Part II. The Epistemic Role of Imagination and Memory
7. Infusing Perception with Imagination 133
Derek H. Brown
8. Superimposed Mental Imagery: On the Uses of Make-Perceive 161
Robert Eamon Briscoe
9. Visually Attending to Fictional Things 186
Gregory Currie
10. Justification by Imagination 209
Magdalena Balcerak Jackson
11. How Imagination Gives Rise to Knowledge 227
Amy Kind
Index 247
Preface and Acknowledgements
The chapters forming this volume were first presented as talks at a conference on
‘Perceptual Imagery and Perceptual Memory’ held at the Centre for the Study of
Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow. Further details of the Centre can
be found at <www.gla.ac.uk/cspe>. Fabian Dorsch and I were very grateful to the Scots
Philosophical Association, the Mind Association, the University of Fribourg, and the
College of Arts at the University of Glasgow for providing the funding to run the
conference.
I would like to thank enormously all of the contributors for their essays, and for their
quite considerable patience while we produced this volume containing them. I would
also like to thank Peter Langland-Hassan and an anonymous referee for their invalu-
able comments on the specific chapters, and the volume as a whole. Finally, I thank
Peter Momtchiloff and his staff at Oxford University Press for their help and advice in
preparing the volume.
The writing of this preface coincided with my receiving the shocking news of
Fabian’s unexpected and untimely death at the age of 42. Fabian wrote much important
work about perception, imagination, and aesthetics throughout his career. He gradu-
ated with a PhD from University College London in 2005, and thereafter spent time at
several institutions around the world, including Berkeley, Paris, and Warwick. I met
him at various conferences and remember great nights talking to him over many a
beer—not only about philosophy but about all concerns in life. We became great
friends.
Fabian took up a position in Fribourg, Switzerland, and not long after, we organized
a conference there on ‘Phenomenal Presence’ in 2010. He spent the Spring semester of
2011 as a visiting faculty member at the University of Glasgow where he partook in all
the various academic and social aspects of life at Glasgow with gusto. During that time,
we organized and held the conference on perceptual imagination and perceptual
memory on which this volume is based.
Fabian founded the European Society for Aesthetics in 2008. The organization has
now named the newly launched European Society for Aesthetics Essay Prize after him.
He served for over four years as an associate editor of the journal Dialectica and
then became Editor-in-Chief of the journal Estetika: The Central European Journal
of Aesthetics. In 2009 he became the Research Coordinator of the Fribourg-based
research group Experience & Reason (EXRE). Among other things, he recently pub-
lished a monograph The Unity of Imagining (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), and at the time
of his death was preparing to publish a monograph on imagination with Routledge. In
addition to this volume, we were also jointly editing a volume on Phenomenal Presence
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
