Robert Hopkins studied at Cambridge and UCL. Before moving to New York University in 2012, he taught at the univiersities of Birmingham and Sheffield. He has served as Honorary Secretary of the Mind Association and President of the European Society of Aesthetics. In 2001 he received a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research. His work, which is mostly in philosophy of mind and aesthetics, has appeared in a wide range of collections and journals, including Mind, Journal of Philosophy and Philosophical Review. He is an editor of the second edition of the Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, and author of Picture, Image and Experience.

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• Introduction Part I: Acting and Representing 1: Imagining and Agency 2: To Be Given as a Representation Part II: Profiling and Knowledge in Sensory Imagining 3: Knowledge of Sensory Profiles 4: Profiles in Imagination 5: Observation, Overflow & Attention Part III: Imagining and Knowing 6: Episodic Memory 7: Learning from Imagining Part IV Imagining and Feeling 8: Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining, and the Draw of the Real 9: Reacting to Imagining? Conclusion

Robert Hopkins studied at Cambridge and UCL. Before moving to New York University in 2012, he taught at the univiersities of Birmingham and Sheffield. He has served as Honorary Secretary of the Mind Association and President of the European Society of Aesthetics. In 2001 he received a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research. His work, which is mostly in philosophy of mind and aesthetics, has appeared in a wide range of collections and journals, including Mind, Journal of Philosophy and Philosophical Review. He is an editor of the second edition of the Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, and author of Picture, Image and Experience.

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• Introduction Part I: Acting and Representing 1: Imagining and Agency 2: To Be Given as a Representation Part II: Profiling and Knowledge in Sensory Imagining 3: Knowledge of Sensory Profiles 4: Profiles in Imagination 5: Observation, Overflow & Attention Part III: Imagining and Knowing 6: Episodic Memory 7: Learning from Imagining Part IV Imagining and Feeling 8: Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining, and the Draw of the Real 9: Reacting to Imagining? Conclusion