 A variety of roles have been attributed to imagination across various domains of human understanding and activity  (section 3).  Not surprisingly, it is doubtful that there is one component of the mind that can satisfy all the various roles attributed to imagination (Kind 2013). Nevertheless, perhaps guided by these roles, philosophers have attempted to clarify the nature of imagination in three ways. First, philosophers have tried to disambiguate different senses of the term “imagination” and, in some cases, point to some core commonalities amongst the different disambiguations  (section 1.1).  Second, philosophers have given partial taxonomies to distinguish different types of imaginings  (section 1.2).  Third, philosophers have located norms that govern paradigmatic imaginative episodes  (section 1.3).