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This chapter overviews Hume’s thoughts on the nature and the role of imagining, with an almost exclusive focus on the first book of his Treatise of Human Nature. Over the course of this text, Hume draws and discusses three important distinctions among our conscious mental episodes (or what he calls ‘perceptions’): (i) between impressions (including perceptual experiences) and ideas...

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Emotional Imagining and Our Responses to Fiction

Dorsch, Fabian

In: Enrahonar, 2011, vol. 46, p. 153-176

The aim of this article is to present the disagreement between Moran and Walton on the nature of our affective responses to fiction and to defend a view on the issue which is opposed to Moran’s account and improves on Walton’s. Moran takes imagination-based affective responses to be instances of genuine emotion and treats them as episodes with an emotional attitude towards their contents....

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Hume on the Imagination

Dorsch, Fabian

In: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination

Emotional Imagining and Our Responses to Fiction

Dorsch, Fabian

In: Enrahonar, 2011, vol. 46, p. 153-176