Abstract According to a widely held view both within and outside philosophy, imagination is innocent in the sense that it does not influence what we think and do. Hence, we can let our imagination wander anywhere. There are two ways of pushing back against this ‘innocence of imagination’ claim. The less controversial one is to argue that imagination does in fact influence some of our other mental states. The defenders of the ‘innocence of imagination’ claim could accept this line of argument and still maintain that this does not mean the loss of innocence as imagination may still never be in a position to have any kind of (harmful) influence on our actions. I argue that imagination is not innocent even in this narrower sense as imagination can and does influence many of our actions.
Bence Nánay (Sun,) studied this question.