It might be argued that the development of new technologies (such as Artificial Intelligence) and advances in healthcare support the view that knowledge has progressed. In this talk I shall consider the question of whether knowledge has progressed. I shall focus on the role of imagination in the creation of knowledge.
“The faculty of imagination is a blind but indispensable function of the soul without which we should have no knowledge whatsoever, but of which we are scarcely conscious” (Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, B104| A78)
Recommended reading:
• Mathew J Brown, Science and Moral Imagination
• Ruth M.J. Byrne, 2016, ‘Counterfactual Thought’, Ann. Rev. Psychol
• Mark Johnson, Moral Imagination
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
• Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good