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Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory edited by Fiona Macpherson and Fabian Dorsch 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © the several contributors 2018 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2018 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. 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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 published 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).