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Imagination - Erkenntnis - Medien
… dabei die sie produzierende und konsumierende Imagination und ihre kulturell bedingten Veränderungsprozesse. Als solches wird im ersten Kapitel zunächst die als Imagination, Phantasie, bildhaftes Denken oder Einbildungskraft bezeichnete menschliche Fähigkeit in ihrer Bedeutung im …
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Just My Imagination
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Keats's Dreaming Imagination
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What imagination teaches
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 …
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Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core
… the answer to this question in the productive imagination. In order to evaluate the viability of this answer, I problematize the imagination as it has been found in the history of Western philosophy. By tracing the historical use of the imagination in archetypal figures from both empiricist and …
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Playground for the Imagination
Over the past years, my work has been based on a desire to depict the spiritual and physiological interdependence humans have with the wetland ecosystem. As I examine the shapes of trees and their roots through rubbings, paintings, and sculpture, I sought to express this interaction between humans …
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Cultivating the Moral Imagination
The moral imagination is a type of moral competence, moral disposition, or moral intelligence that can be cultivated and that leads to an expanded vision of whom the moral agent has a moral duty to. The moral imagination is essential in the lifework of the clinician and it is a type of moral …
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A Machine for Imagination
It began with the question, "What if the Modern Man was successful in his dominion over nature?" 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 …
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Memos: the imagination of memory
… or has happened in the performance of Memos: the Imagination of Memory, though it is a meandering towards and away from it. The images are derived from performance showings, research, rehearsal and play. It is accompanied by quotes and excerpts borrowed from others and my own writing.
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Guyanese comfa: arts of imagination
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the study of African-Caribbean cultural and religious practices. Research in this area has tended to focus on Cuban Santeria, Haitian Vodou, Trinidadian Shango/Orisha/Spiritual Baptist and Jamaican Myal/Kumina practices. There has been little research on …
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Play in the Roman imagination
This thesis traces a discourse of play in the Roman republic from Plautus’ *palliata* comedies via Lucilius’ satires to Cicero’s philosophical dialogue *De oratore*. Methodologically, it combines philological close reading with historical analysis to interpret the function of appeals to play in the …
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Enabling imagination through story alignment
… of stories which is a step towards enabling imagination in artificial intelligence. This capability is made possible by reducing the runtime of a previously intractable computational problem to polynomial time. In the course of this research, these algorithms have been applied to a variety of …
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Moral properties and moral imagination
… between the moral and sensational: our moral imagination is considerably more limited than our sensational imagination. That there are limits to our moral imagination is interesting. "Imaginative Resistance" solves an old puzzle from Hume about the limits of our imaginative capacities, for …
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Understanding language through visual imagination
This thesis introduces a multimodal approach to natural language understanding by presenting a generative language-vision model that can generate videos for sentences and a comprehensive approach for using this capability to solve natural language inference, video captioning and video completion …
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Imagination, content, and the self
… focus on the first set of issues, issues of imagination and content. Chapter 4 extends and applies some of these insights to a puzzle about personal identity over time.
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Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes
… the Cartesian method and its conception of the imagination. Descartes must take on the task of inaugurating a break from Scholastic metaphysics and physics. Because of the limitations he sees in Scholasticism’s methods, especially in syllogisms and syntheses of previously established knowledge, …
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Promising America: Imagining Democracy, Democratizing Imagination
<p>This project elucidates the politics of imagination in the United States and interrogates the conditions of democratic imagination in particular. I evaluate the role of imagination in political theory and in United States history, contextualizing my theoretical arguments through analyses of the …
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