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How rational is the imagination?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2008

Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
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Office of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02114. Robert.sternberg@tufts.ed
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Abstract

Byrne has written a terrific book that is, nevertheless, based on a mistaken assumption – that imagination is largely rational. I argue in this commentary that her book follows very well, if one accepts her assumption of rationality, but that the bulk of the evidence available to us contradicts this assumption.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 467
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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