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Macknight, Vicki Sandra. "Teaching imagination." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7035.

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This thesis is about the teaching imagination. By this term I refer to three things. First, the teaching imagination is how teachers define and practice imagination in their classrooms. Second, it is the imagination that teachers themselves use as they teach. And thirdly, it is the imagination I am taught to identify and enact for doing social science research.<br>The thesis is based upon participant-observation research conducted in grade four (and some composite grade three/four) classrooms in primary schools in Melbourne, a city in the Australian state of Victoria. The research took me to f
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Andersson, Sofie. "Ignite Imagination." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146205.

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The intention with this project is to explore and open up the imagination, through investigating how text can be transformed into architecture. The outcome of the investigation during this project is a series of 9 architectural objects. The objects are independent from the text and could be thought of as ‘short-stories’.<br>Intentionen med detta examensarbete var att undersöka och öppna upp fantasin, genom att utforska hur text kan transformeras till arkitektur. Resultatet av detta utforskande projekt är en serie av 9 objekt. Objekten är oberoende av texten och kan ses som ’short-stories’ i si
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Gilmour, Nathan P. "Visionary imagination." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Lin, Chien Heng. "What is imagination? : a study of young children's imagination." Thesis, Brunel University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439074.

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Nash, Hassan Khalid. "On Wings of Imagination: The Power of Imagination Politics." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1557478123922316.

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Anderson, Linda Viktoria. "Plato's political imagination." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99570.

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Traditional interpretations of Plato see him either as an enemy of the imagination in his views of philosophic discussion, or as a purveyor of imaginative lies in his authoritarian and anti-democratic view of politics. Instead this thesis challenges both these interpretations by showing how the imagination is both philosophical and democratically political. In the Republic images and stories balance and enrich rational argumentation. I first analyze the imaginary aspects of Plato's ideal city. Secondly, I look more closely to the role of images in education and poetry by focusing on Plato's di
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Grant, James. "Criticism and imagination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539958.

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Davis, Jack Frank. "Belief and imagination." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10049327/.

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Two assumptions are often made about the nature of the cognitive attitudes that allow us to engage with fiction and in pretence: the uniformity and the non-doxastic assumptions. The uniformity assumption tells us that both of these activities involve the same cognitive attitudes. The non-doxastic assumption tells us that these cognitive attitudes are not beliefs, but belief-like states that we can call belief-like imaginings. I will challenge both of these assumptions in this thesis. In the case of the uniformity assumption, I will draw a distinction between voluntary and involuntary imaginati
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Ortiz-Hinojosa, Sofia. "What imagination teaches." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107091.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>An investigation of the imagination, as both a mental process and a capacity to acquire knowledge about the world and other minds. It is argued that imagination is a unique mental process, whose primary feature is the capacity to construct and manipulate sets of mental representations. This feature unifies the diverse activities we call imaginings into a single class. In addition, use of this capacity in a rul
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Bell, Nicholas. "Reason And Imagination." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2134.

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Altorf, Marije. "Iris Murdoch and the art of imagination : imaginative philosophy as response to secularism." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1677/.

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This dissertation examines the work of the British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch. A centre concern of this work is a question Murdoch poses more than once: ‘How can we make ourselves morally better?” This question is understood to initiate a form of philosophy which is critical of much of its tradition and its understanding of reasoning and argument. It also recognises its dependence on other disciplines. Murdoch develops this form of philosophy in reply to the cultural phenomenon of secularisation. In the absence of God, she attributes tasks to philosophy formerly performed by religio
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Thompson, Michael. "Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002945.

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Frein, Mark. "Pedagogy of the imagination." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25048.pdf.

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Miller, B. Darlene. "Playground for the imagination." Click here to access thesis, 2006. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2006/rebecca%5Fh%5Fsmith/smith%5Frebecca%5Fh%5F200601%5Fma.pdf.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2006.<br>"A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Fine Arts" ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57).
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Hughes, Marnie Therese Elizabeth. "Historical imagination and education." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339818.

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Marques, Hugo Gravato. "Architectures for Embodied Imagination." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520097.

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Dorsch, Stefan Fabian Helmut. "Imagination and the will." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1300296/.

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The principal aim of my thesis is to provide a unified theory of imagining, that is, a theory which aspires to capture the common nature of all central forms of imagining and to distinguish them from all paradigm instances of non-imaginative phenomena. The theory which I intend to put forward is a version of what I call the Agency Account of imagining and, accordingly, treats imaginings as mental actions of a certain kind. More precisely, it maintains that imaginings are mental actions that aim at the formation of episodic representations, the content of which is directly determined by what we
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Tozer, Amanda J. A. "Celestina and dialogic imagination." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272567.

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Jones, Nicholas. "Imagination, perception and belief." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430531.

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Bruce, A. C. "Medieval theories of imagination." Thesis, University of York, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372769.

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Parra, Alain. "Hypnose, attention et imagination." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0450.

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Afin de mieux comprendre les phénomènes hypnotiques décrits dans le domaine de la recherche expérimentale, nous avons réalisé un travail de synthèse sur les différents cadres théoriques de l’hypnose. A l’issue de travail de synthèses nous avons pu proposer une redéfinition et une modélisation, le Modèle I3, de ce que l’on appelle « hypnose » en pensant ces situations en termes de mécanismes psychologiques et cognitifs simples. Dans le but de tester notre modélisation, nous avons construit une série d’expérimentations autour de deux phénomènes hypnotiques dits « sensoriels » présents dans les é
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Rafati, Tofan. "A Machine for Imagination." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35729.

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<P>It began with the question, â What if the Modern Man was successful in his dominion over nature?â </P> <P>By means of Architecture this thesis became a speculation and commentary on the human condition. But, more than that, this is a story that tells the evolution and outcome of a series of questions and inquiries into the relationship between Architecture, art and the mythopoetic-narrative realm. </P><br>Master of Architecture
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Rollins, Donna Lee. "Imagination makes things perfect /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11640.

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Matlak, Robert Paul. "Imagination and poetic witness." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Sheaffer, Lucas. "Damming the American Imagination." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/562228.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>This work intervenes in the complex relationship between the large-scale management and exploitation of water in the United States and its impact on the bioregional literary imagination in the Tennessee Valley between 1933-1963. It shows through site-based environmental criticism and literary analysis that the “dam” becomes a material and symbolic place of convergence where one can examine the relationship between humans and their biospheres. As interdisciplinary rhetorical, literary, historical, archival and cultural analysis, this work engages writers such as David E. Lil
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CORVALAN, ESPINOLA RODRIGO JAVIER. "Crisis of the imagination." Doctoral thesis, Università IUAV di Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11578/287416.

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Crisis of the Imagination In my imprecise memory is the memory of an interview with Helio Piñón and Albert Viaplana . I must confess that, everything that came from the imagination and the work table of these architects, called my attention a lot in my early days as a young professional architect, years in which the overwhelming current postmodern proposal monopolized all the attention of editorial publications in paper, when digital editions were not yet rated; It is also important to note that in Paraguay, in this general context, the situation was even poorer, since the paper editions
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Bates, Jennifer Ann. "The genesis and spirit of imagination (Hegel's theory of imagination between 1801-1807)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27875.pdf.

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Hardy, Annie. "The 'reality oriented' imagination : a philosophical examination of the imagination in 'mentalization' and 'neuropsychoanalysis'." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10052413/.

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This thesis is concerned with the conceptualization of the imagination in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, focusing in particular on its connection with knowledge. I will propose that imaginative processes form the core of psychic ‘health’ by instantiating a state of mind in which the subject is genuinely open to ‘learning from experience’. At the centre of the investigation is a psychic process that I term the ‘reality oriented’ imagination: a form of conscious mental activity that facilitates an epistemological connection with both the internal and external worlds and renders the unobserv
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Tandberg, Svein Erik. "Imagination, form, movement and sound /." Gothenburg : Univ. of Gothenburg, Academy of Music and Drama, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016990312&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Shimabukuro, Rika. "Invisible : the play of imagination." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3562.

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My master degree project is investigating how certain ideas from the traditional Japanese culture can be used within the field of interior design. The project has resulted in everyday objects - lamps and room dividers. In my opinion, these objects can very effectively be used to add life and poetry to space. I wanted to make objects for meditation and for keeping the balance of mind. Another ambition with the project has been to find ways to express immediate emotions through this specific media. For this reason I have turned to the technique of Japanese calligraphy1. This technique, which I h
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Coates, Corey Harper. "Empires of the historical imagination." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0003/NQ41127.pdf.

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Lam, Janneke. "Whose pain? childhood, trauma, imagination /." [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam : ASCA ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2002. http://dare.uva.nl/document/66830.

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Oh, Jung Hyun. "Exegesis and imagination in preaching." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Denham, Alison Edwina. "Metaphor and the moral imagination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314928.

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Dickson, Barnabas W. "Practical reason: desires and imagination." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.564136.

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This thesis offers an account of certain aspects of practical reason. The chief aim is to develop our understanding of practical rationality by undermining some of the connections which are thought to exist between explicit criteria and codifiable rules on the one hand, and practical reason on the other. The thesis begins with a consideration of the question of what reasons for action are constituted from. It is argued that a necessary component of any practical reason is a desire of the person for whoa the reason is a reason (Part One). Equipped with this account of practical reasons two rati
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Clune, Niamh. "Acquiring wisdom through the imagination." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248092.

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Ninan, Dilip. "Imagination, content, and the self." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45621.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-113).<br>I begin with a discussion of two ways of imagining something: 'from the inside' and 'from the outside'. My interest in this topic is two-fold: First, I want to see what studying this topic can teach us about the nature of mental content -- in particular, about the content of de se and de re tho
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Doggett, Tyler 1976. "Moral properties and moral imagination." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28836.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-73).<br>"Moral Realism" is about an argument against moral realism, why it is unsound, and what emerges from that. The argument is that if there were moral properties, they would be queerly related to non-moral properties and this is sufficient reason to think there are no moral properties. The argument is unsound for two reasons. The first emerges from consideration of sensational properties like being in pain or being in ecstasy-they bear the queer
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Fay, Matthew Paul. "Enabling imagination through story alignment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71281.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82).<br>Stories are an essential piece of human intelligence. They exist in countless forms and varieties seamlessly integrated into every facet of our lives. Stories fuel human understanding and our explanations of the world. Narr
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Guerin, Robert Michael. "Imagination Bound: A Theoretical Imperative." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/8.

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Kant’s theory of productive imagination falls at the center of the critical project. This is evident in the 1781 Critique of Pure Reason, where Kant claims that the productive imagination is a “fundamental faculty of the human soul” and indispensable for the construction of experience. And yet, in the second edition of 1787 Kant seemingly demotes this imagination as a mere “effect of the understanding on sensibility” and all but withdraws its place from the Transcendental Deduction. In his 1929 Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Martin Heidegger provided an explanation for the revisions betw
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Laux, Henri. "Imagination et religion chez Spinoza." Paris 1, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA010576.

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Il s'agit d'identifier le complexe des forces que produit la rencontre de l'imagination et de la religion, et de qualifier ainsi la puissance socio-historique de l'imagination. L'analyse de la prophetie, puis celle du miracle, montrent dans la revelation une ethique de l'integration sociale et dans le miracle l'essence theoricopratique du religieux en sa plus grande exteriorite. A ce point, ou les effets de desintegration apparaisent constitutifs de la religion, intervient dans sa logique le chapitre 7 du ttp : celui-ci ne constitue pas un traite autonome de technique exegetique, il enonce les
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Ausperk, Ryan. "Phenomenology, Imagination, and Aesthetic Experience." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398270498.

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Pallay, Karyn. "Reclaiming the Imagination through Science." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/115.

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This thesis attempts to reclaim the imagination, defined by Ann Berthoff as the "name for the active mind," by looking at brain biology as it relates to teaching and learning. The section titled "Keeping Biology in Mind: The Brain as Speculative Instrument" demonstrates how biological naturalism, a philosophy developed by John Searle, validates the concept of an ontologically subjective "I" and hence the creation of course materials based on David Kolb's experiential-learning model. In addition, it discusses how biologist James Zull maps the actual structure of the brain onto Kolb's model. Add
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Gothrup, Thomas Ryan. "The Imagination and the Real." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1756.

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This thesis challenges the sedentary nature of living vicariously through the television, whether it be watching sports or playing video games. Since the advent of professional sports spectators have become accustomed to stadiums stuffed with people cheering on their favorite teams. The television substitutes for this visceral experience and allows viewers to live surrogate lives without leaving the living room. Ultimately, I see this thesis as a social commentary on the impact of sports and media in our society. This project highlights the sociological implications of the loss of interpersona
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Moore, Margaret Elizabeth. "Imagination and the Mind's Ear." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/106063.

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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation provides an analysis of the phenomenon of musical imagery, or the internal 'hearing' of music. I uphold the view that musical imagery, as a kind of auditory imagery, is a kind of sensory or perceptual imagination, and cannot be incorporated into a propositional model of imagination. I further argue that musical imagery differs in important respects both from visual imagery and from other types of auditory imagery, such as inner speech. For this reason, this project makes a contribution to what would be a larger project (not necessarily carried out by a
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Fredericks, Pamela R. "Music & the creative imagination /." Online version of thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12145.

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Beauclair, Alain. "John Dewey's ethics of imagination /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1617305591&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-222). Also available online in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Tam, Francis Man-Kwan. "Embracing imagination in Chinese preaching." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Woodling, Casey. "Zombies and the active imagination." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0014741.

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Ichino, A. "Imagination in thought and action." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/280094.

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In this thesis I ask what the role of imagination is in our representation of the world and interactions with it. A standard answer to this question is that imagination has no direct role: imagination’s proper function is rather to allow us to disengage from reality; its motivating power, if it has any, is basically limited to children’s pretence. I argue that this standard answer is mistaken: imagination’s role is much larger than that. I consider a number of cases – including cases of superstitious and religious actions, or so-called ‘expressive behaviours’ – where we are moved to act by rep
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