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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/knowing-by-imagining/
SUMMARY:Knowing by Imagining
DESCRIPTION:Franz Berto (U. Saint Andrews)Why imagine? What was the point f
 or our ancestors\, busy with very real problems like feeding and breeding\
 , to explore unrealized possibilities in their minds? A promising answer i
 s that imagination helps with planning as well as tackling causal and expl
 anatory connections: Would I make it to the other side if I jumped the str
 eam? Would we see these footprints if a deer had just passed by? But how c
 an imagination give us knowledge of reality\, if it&rsquo\;s arbitrary dep
 arture from it? A promising answer is that the relevant sort of imaginatio
 n works as simulated belief revision: imagining A\, we find B likely to th
 e extent that B is found likely after a minimal revision of our beliefs on
  the supposition A. Then one can study it by applying a wealth of techniqu
 es from rational belief revision theory. I&rsquo\;ll focus on counterfactu
 al imagination (imagining how things would be or have been like\, if somet
 hing was or had been the case) and I&rsquo\;ll give a couple of examples\,
  one using modal logic and one using probabilities\, or how tools from for
 mal epistemology can help us model and explain imaginative thinking.
CATEGORIES:Extra talks
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia\, Faculty of Philosophy (4th floor)\, Univer
 sity of Barcelona
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