Providing a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of higher education this book
steps nimbly through the field, leading it into new areas and advancing an imaginative …

This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to
understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of …

In introductory classes to epistemology, we are taught to distinguish between three different
kinds of knowledge. The first kind is acquaintance knowledge: we know our mothers, our …

When someone masters a skill, their performance looks to us like second nature: it looks as
if their actions are smoothly performed without explicit, knowledge-driven, online monitoring …

Human beings are in contact with the world through their minds. One can make sensory
perceptual contact with the world: One sees the tree and hears its leaves flutter. And one …

Underlying much current work in philosophy of imagination is the assumption that
imagination is a skill. This assumption seems to entail not only that facility with imagining will …

False memories have thus re-energized the remembering-first project, challenging
philosophers of memory to think further about the requirements for successful remembering …

The study of how we develop art knowledge can provide valuable insight into the structure of
underlying cognitive systems that support art expertise and knowledge transfer to new …

Some conceptions of the role of philosophers in climate change focus mainly on theoretical
progress in philosophy, or on philosophers as individual citizens. Against these views, I …

The value of college sport can be measured in many ways. Most people measure it in
dollars, others point to less-tangible benefits such as alumni engagement and campus …