ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the implications of imaginary worlds for human philosophical practice. It also discusses how the tools of imaginary worlds enable and channel the philosophical drive that exists among human race. While technology is making things more pragmatic, this move, from philosophy to world instead of the other way around, has been an imaginative part of the world-builder's craft for a long time. The early pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, built their school of thought on the hope of using the consequences of a concept to resolve metaphysical disputes about it or related matters. The tradition to which J. R. R. Tolkien contributes is well worthy of serious consideration. And indeed it may be the only basis we have within philosophy for making sound judgments about the crafting of the future imaginary worlds in which we seem destined to live.
