{"id":64,"date":"2026-08-08T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:55:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-light-color has-secondary-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f7728970b8f2398d097fc05eabd731f0\" style=\"text-transform:capitalize\">About the project \/ Projektikirjeldus<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-light-color has-dark-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2657044af974edf3e0935b4530c318eb\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Our project brings into dialogue approaches to imagination in contemporary and Ancient Greek philosophy to analyze the ways in which imagination contributes to fulfilling the aims of inquiry. By comparing and contrasting contemporary and ancient perspectives, the project seeks to uncover from ancient philosophy cognitive roles of imagination that have not thus far been sufficiently considered in the contemporary literature, such as its role in the generation of hypotheses and in attaining understanding, and to apply contemporary conceptual distinctions concerning imagination to ancient authors to develop fruitful and novel interpretations of historical debates about the cognitive role of imagination.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-light-color has-dark-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-a972e01aeb3dad120b348697967d331d\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Projekt toob kokku kaasaegsed ja antiik-Kreeka arusaamad kujutlusest, et anal\u00fc\u00fcsida seda, kuidas kujutlus panustab tunnetustegevuste eesm\u00e4rkide t\u00e4itmisse. V\u00f5rreldes kaasaegsed ja antiikseid vaatekohti, teeb projekt \u00fchelt poolt antiikfilosoofia abil n\u00e4htavaks kujutluse tunnetuslikud rollid, mida seni pole kaasaegses filosoofias piisavalt arvesse v\u00f5etud, nagu n\u00e4iteks selle roll h\u00fcpoteeside p\u00fcstitamisel ning arusaamise v\u00f5imaldamisel. Teiselt poolt laseb projekt rakendada kaasaegseid kujutlust puudutavaid eristusi antiikautorite vaadetele, arendamaks v\u00e4lja viljakad ja uudsed kujutluse tunnetusliku rolli kohta k\u00e4ivate ajalooliste arutelude t\u00f5lgendused.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the project \/ Projektikirjeldus Our project brings into dialogue approaches to imagination in contemporary and Ancient Greek philosophy to analyze the ways in which imagination contributes to fulfilling the aims of inquiry. By comparing and contrasting contemporary and ancient &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":752,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/imagination-in-cognition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}