In a related vein, Tamar Gendler (2000) points out that while attempting to vividly imagine something like that female infanticide is morally right seems to generate imaginative resistance, merely supposing it does not.
Rather than mapping a particular future, these writers generate imaginative access to a range of futures.
To see some alternative ways to engage students, Daniels might have a look at our lessons at the Zinn Education Project, which use Zinn's People's History of the United States in role plays, in critical reading activities, to generate imaginative writing, and to search for the "silences" in students' own textbooks.
Real utopia, Murdoch suggests, exists not in a primitive isolationist lifestyle inspired by William Morris, but in the ongoing struggle to be as virtuous as we can and "find the connexion", the always incomplete and ultimately impossible attempt to generate an imaginative sympathy with others that has little to do with any specific form of faith but comes simply from love.
Martin Amis has in his life generally toed what he calls "the Flaubertian line" — the belief that writers generate their boldest imaginative success by keeping things stable and routine at home.
One of the issues in applying evolutionary techniques to conceptual design is how to represent designs in a way in which genetic algorithms can be used to support the process of generating and optimising innovative and imaginative geometric components and parts.
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Space is at a premium in London and we have to use imaginative ways of generating new road capacity to replace road space allocated for other improvements, while recognising the need to improve safety and cut emissions.
The encoded map thus appears to serve as a template for generating replay sequences and facilitating imaginative navigation.
In particular, the 'outward element' the bodily work provides the sensuous content or impressions out of which the conscious imagination generates ideas, constituting the 'total imaginative experience'(see Davies 2008 for more on this issue).
