TY - CHAP A2 - Metzinger, Thomas K. A2 - Windt, Jennifer M. AB - Jérôme Dokic and Margherita Arcangeli develop a taxonomy of the mental states classified as experience-like imaginings in their paper “The Heterogeneity of Experential Imagination”. Experience-like imaginings are thought to re-create experiences. Therefore, the taxonomy of the Experiential Imagination suggested by the authors mirrors a taxonomy of the underlying, re-created experiences. In this commentary, I will focus on the notion of re-creation that is invoked, and argue that this notion must either be fleshed out further or omitted from the taxonomy. Two further points follow this discussion: first I will discuss the idea of different kinds of self-involvement in objective and subjective imagination and suggest an alternative view. Then I raise some doubts about the classification of cognitive imaginings as experiential imaginings. To summarise, I will suggest an alternative interpretation of these findings by claiming that we can obtain a useful taxonomy of imaginative states based on our pre-theoretical opinions. Furthermore, I will explore the idea that experiential imaginings involve an empty point of view. AU - Brüggen, Anne-Sophie CY - Frankfurt am Main DO - 10.15502/9783958570481 KW - Cognitive imagination, Experiential imagination, Objective imagination, Sensory imagination, Subjective imagination LA - English PB - MIND Group PY - 2015 SE - 11(C) SN - 9783958570481 ST - Imagination and Experience T2 - Open MIND TI - Imagination and Experience UR - https://open-mind.net/papers/imagination-and-experience-a-commentary-on-jerome-dokic-and-margherita-arcangeli ID - 11