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  • Anna Abraham
    • Mar 26, 2018 Conference Report - Imagination: Diverse Approaches & Perspectives Mar 26, 2018
    • Mar 7, 2018 A NEUROPHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO THE IMAGINATION Mar 7, 2018
  • Adriana Clavel-Vázquez and María Jimena Clavel Vázquez
    • Oct 9, 2024 On bearing witness, listening, and imagination Oct 9, 2024
    • May 26, 2021 The rhythm of the eye: expectations, imagination, and aesthetic perception May 26, 2021
    • Aug 8, 2018 Embodied imagination: why we can’t just walk in someone else’s shoes Aug 8, 2018
  • Jo Ahlberg
    • Jan 29, 2020 A Picture Says a Thousand Propositions Jan 29, 2020
  • Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez
    • Dec 4, 2024 Dreaming while awake? The case of maladaptive daydreaming (MD) Dec 4, 2024
  • Smaranda Aldea
    • Mar 15, 2023 The Critical Reflective Power of the Imagination – And Why It Matters… A Phenomenological Account Mar 15, 2023
  • Alice Murphy & Federica I. Malfatti
    • Sep 8, 2021 “Seeing” in Understanding Sep 8, 2021
  • Amy Kind & Christopher Badura
    • Aug 23, 2021 Book Symposium: Introduction from Amy Kind and Christopher Badura Aug 23, 2021
  • Anja Berninger and Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
    • Feb 27, 2023 Book Symposium: Introduction from Anja Berninger and Íngrid Vendrell Ferran Feb 27, 2023
  • Claire Anscomb
    • Jun 5, 2024 Using Generative AI as an Imaginative Aid Jun 5, 2024
  • Margherita Arcangeli
    • Nov 14, 2024 Book Symposium: Arcangeli Commentary and Response Nov 14, 2024
    • Aug 30, 2023 The thirst for imagination Aug 30, 2023
    • May 4, 2021 Book Symposium: Arcangeli Commentary and Response May 4, 2021
    • Jan 14, 2020 Five Top Fives: Quotes and Songs Jan 14, 2020
    • Mar 4, 2019 Book Symposium: Introduction from Margherita Arcangeli Mar 4, 2019
    • Nov 1, 2017 Is imagining from the inside just what you imagined? Nov 1, 2017
    • Oct 18, 2017 Book Symposium: Arcangeli Commentary and Response Oct 18, 2017
  • Sara Arjomand
    • Aug 28, 2024 The Puzzle of Imagining Nonsense Aug 28, 2024
  • Arnon Levy and Ori Kinberg
    • Jan 27, 2021 Knowledge via the Imagination: Routes and Roadblocks Jan 27, 2021
  • Sara Aronowitz
    • Sep 15, 2021 Imagination behind the scenes Sep 15, 2021
  • Stephen Asma
    • Apr 24, 2024 Stay Weird, Imagination! Apr 24, 2024
  • Egil Asprem
    • Feb 9, 2022 Hacking perception with ritual practice: Religious experience in predictive minds Feb 9, 2022
  • Paloma Atencia-Linares
    • Feb 1, 2023 Book Symposium: Commentary from Paloma Atencia-Linares Feb 1, 2023
    • Jun 16, 2020 Book Symposium: Atencia-Linares Commentary and Response Jun 16, 2020
  • Antony Aumann
    • May 4, 2022 Art and the Limits of Imagination: The Question of Experiential Knowledge May 4, 2022
  • Avshalom Schwartz and Alicia Steinmetz
    • Jun 7, 2023 Conference Report: Stanford Imagination Workshop Jun 7, 2023
  • Guy Axtell
    • Sep 4, 2019 Recent Work on Religious Imagination Sep 4, 2019
  • Eva Backhaus
    • Mar 1, 2023 Book Symposium: Commentary from Eva Backhaus Mar 1, 2023
    • Sep 1, 2021 How to Choose a Horse – in Pretend Play Sep 1, 2021
  • Christopher Badura
    • Oct 28, 2022 Book Symposium: Badura Commentary and Reply Oct 28, 2022
    • Sep 23, 2020 From doxastic obligations to obligations to imagine – An initial case study Sep 23, 2020
    • May 15, 2019 Logic(s) of Imagination May 15, 2019
  • Olivia Bailey
    • Aug 27, 2021 Book Symposium: Commentary from Olivia Bailey Aug 27, 2021
    • Mar 17, 2021 Empathy, sensibility, and the novelist’s imagination Mar 17, 2021
  • Magdalena Balcerak Jackson
    • Sep 16, 2020 Designing Our Futures Sep 16, 2020
    • Sep 5, 2018 Practical Problems and Imaginative Confabulations Sep 5, 2018
    • Apr 19, 2017 The Imagination and The Intellect Apr 19, 2017
  • Michael Barkasi
    • Jan 12, 2022 Perceiving is imagining the past Jan 12, 2022
  • Alma Barner
    • Jun 10, 2020 Imagination and Team Reasoning Jun 10, 2020
  • Christopher Bartel
    • Mar 27, 2024 Video Games as Vehicles for Projective Imagining Mar 27, 2024
  • Marta Benenti
    • May 18, 2022 Imagine climate change May 18, 2022
  • Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini
    • Oct 31, 2018 Fake News and Imagined Narratives Oct 31, 2018
  • Franz Berto
    • Oct 25, 2022 Book Symposium: Introduction from Franz Berto Oct 25, 2022
  • Mavis Biss
    • Nov 29, 2017 Moral Imagination and the Problem of Reception Nov 29, 2017
  • Jessica Black
    • Feb 6, 2019 Empirically investigating imaginative resistance: Many questions and a few answers Feb 6, 2019
  • Andrea Blomkvist
    • Feb 2, 2022 Conference Report – NIF 4 on “Imagination and Perception” Feb 2, 2022
    • Feb 10, 2021 Who’s got Aphantasia? Switching the Focus from Visual Imagery Feb 10, 2021
    • Jun 19, 2019 Not in the Mood: Affective Forecasting and Cognitive Architecture Jun 19, 2019
  • Brendan Bo O’Connor
    • May 21, 2025 Co-imagination: The future we imagine May 21, 2025
  • Guillemette Bolens
    • May 5, 2021 Book Symposium: Bolens Commentary and Response May 5, 2021
  • Char Brecevic
    • Nov 10, 2021 Thoughts on Imagination, Responsibility, and Technology: A Deweyan Perspective Nov 10, 2021
  • Michael Brent
    • Nov 14, 2018 Imagining as Mental Action Nov 14, 2018
  • Dimitria Gatzia & Berit Brogaard
    • Dec 13, 2017 The imaginarium of politics Dec 13, 2017
  • Derek Brown
    • Feb 19, 2020 Infusing perception with imagination? Feb 19, 2020
  • Margrethe Bruun Vaage
    • May 22, 2024 On feeling conflicted: when fiction pushes moral boundaries May 22, 2024
  • Cameron Buckner
    • Feb 16, 2022 The Debate over Deep Learning Needs More Imagination Feb 16, 2022
  • Radu Bumbăcea
    • Apr 2, 2025 Is mind-reading an intrusion? Apr 2, 2025
  • Elisabeth Camp
    • Oct 21, 2020 Economics of Imagination: Showing and Telling with Pictures and Words Oct 21, 2020
  • Mathilde Cappelli
    • Sep 20, 2023 It's nice and wise to fantasize Sep 20, 2023
  • Dan Cavedon-Taylor
    • Feb 22, 2023 Mental Imagery and the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception Feb 22, 2023
    • Mar 28, 2018 Putting Imagery in its Place Mar 28, 2018
  • Sophie Grace Chappell
    • Feb 22, 2019 How to be somebody else: imaginative identification and the limits of ethics Part III Feb 22, 2019
    • Feb 20, 2019 How to be somebody else: imaginative identification and the limits of ethics, Part II Feb 20, 2019
    • Feb 18, 2019 How to be somebody else: imaginative identification and the limits of ethics, Part I Feb 18, 2019
  • Alon Chasid
    • Dec 16, 2020 Hidden Elements of Imagining Dec 16, 2020
    • Dec 4, 2019 Imaginary Truths Dec 4, 2019
  • Melvin Chen
    • May 30, 2018 Imagination Machines May 30, 2018
  • Bartek Chomanski
    • Oct 3, 2018 How Similar are Imagination, Memory, and Perception? Oct 3, 2018
  • Chris Badura & Tom Schoonen
    • Oct 20, 2021 Imagining Disjunctions by Cases Oct 20, 2021
  • Jennifer Church
    • Sep 21, 2022 Best Left to the Imagination? Sep 21, 2022
    • May 29, 2019 Imagination and the Experience of Sounds as Music May 29, 2019
  • Monika Chylińska
    • Sep 25, 2019 Pretending with no mental images Sep 25, 2019
  • Sam Clarke
    • Apr 21, 2021 Mapping the Mental Image Apr 21, 2021
  • Adriana Clavel-Vazquez
    • Apr 5, 2023 The amorality of imagination Apr 5, 2023
    • May 13, 2020 Controlling (mental) images and aesthetic perception of bodies May 13, 2020
  • Jill Cumby
    • Jun 15, 2022 C.O.V.I.D. conference report Jun 15, 2022
  • Greg Currie
    • Jun 15, 2020 Book Symposium: Introduction from Greg Currie Jun 15, 2020
    • Apr 1, 2020 Marching, boxing, pretending Apr 1, 2020
    • Jul 18, 2018 Reply to Peter Langland-Hassan Jul 18, 2018
  • Jason D'Cruz
    • Apr 29, 2020 Rationalization is Imaginative Apr 29, 2020
  • Jim Davies
    • Mar 3, 2020 Book Symposium: Introduction from Jim Davies Mar 3, 2020
  • Felipe De Brigard
    • Jan 22, 2020 Dimensions of counterfactual thought Jan 22, 2020
    • Sep 19, 2018 How thinking about what could have been affects how we feel about what was Sep 19, 2018
  • Dorothea Debus
    • Oct 7, 2020 Imagining Our Own Future Selves Oct 7, 2020
  • John F. DeCarlo
    • Dec 9, 2020 The Symbolic Link Between Bio Tech & Neuro Tech: An Imaginative Melding of Biological & Existential Homeostasis Dec 9, 2020
    • Nov 13, 2019 The Imaginative Scope and Anatomy of the Poetic Brain Nov 13, 2019
    • Jan 30, 2019 Creative Thought, Emotion, and Imagination Jan 30, 2019
  • Maksymillian Del Mar
    • May 3, 2021 Book Symposium: Introduction from Maksymilian Del Mar May 3, 2021
    • Jul 19, 2017 Thought Experiments in Law: Practice and Theory Jul 19, 2017
  • Megha Devraj
    • Aug 21, 2024 Painful Spectacles and their Links to Creativity Aug 21, 2024
  • Nadine Dijkstra
    • Oct 4, 2023 How our brain distinguishes imagination and reality Oct 4, 2023
  • Daniel Dor
    • Apr 4, 2018 The Birth of Human Imagination out of the Spirit of Language Apr 4, 2018
  • James M. Dow
    • Jun 5, 2019 Enactive Imagination in Nature Aesthetics Jun 5, 2019
  • Monika Dunin-Kozicka
    • May 11, 2023 Book Symposium: Dunin-Kozicka Commentary and Reply May 11, 2023
  • Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich
    • Feb 7, 2024 Climate and Imagination Feb 7, 2024
  • Patrik Engisch
    • Oct 19, 2017 Book Symposium: Engisch Commentary and Response Oct 19, 2017
  • Simon Evnine
    • Jan 26, 2022 Imagi/nation Jan 26, 2022
  • Maria Fedorova
    • Nov 27, 2024 Imagining Better Futures in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Nov 27, 2024
  • Alex Fisher
    • Sep 18, 2024 Infectious Imagination Sep 18, 2024
  • Ruadhán Flynn
    • Nov 23, 2022 Social-epistemic practice and the limits of imagination Nov 23, 2022
  • Katia Franco
    • Mar 12, 2025 Imagination and honesty Mar 12, 2025
    • Oct 19, 2022 Pretense in game play Oct 19, 2022
  • Jacopo Frascaroli
    • Jan 19, 2022 Kant, Predictive Processing and the Ubiquity of Imagination Jan 19, 2022
  • Jennifer Fraser
    • Apr 28, 2021 Imagining the Epidemiological Imagination Apr 28, 2021
  • Stacie Friend
    • Oct 15, 2020 Book Symposium: Friend Commentary and Response Oct 15, 2020
  • Manuel García-Carpintero
    • Jun 17, 2020 Book Symposium: García-Carpintero Commentary and Response Jun 17, 2020
  • Christopher Gauker
    • Aug 15, 2018 Imagistic Cognition Aug 15, 2018
  • Anaïs Giannuzzo
    • Nov 15, 2023 In the grip of rogue sharks Nov 15, 2023
  • Jonathan Gilmore
    • May 6, 2020 Justifying Imaginings May 6, 2020
  • Thalia Goldstein
    • Aug 16, 2017 Questions of Realness Aug 16, 2017
  • Seth Goldwasser
    • Feb 18, 2025 Book Symposium: Goldwasser Commentary and Response Feb 18, 2025
    • Mar 2, 2023 Book Symposium: Commentary from Seth Goldwasser Mar 2, 2023
  • Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
    • Mar 14, 2018 Embodied Imagination Mar 14, 2018
  • Serena Gregorio
    • Oct 11, 2023 What does it mean to understand someone? Conference Report: “Can you imagine?!” The Role of Imagination in Understanding Others Oct 11, 2023
  • Dominic Gregory
    • Nov 13, 2024 Book Symposium: Gregory Commentary and Response Nov 13, 2024
    • Nov 15, 2017 Vision and Visual Imagery Nov 15, 2017
  • Yuchen Guo
    • Jun 12, 2019 Experience-taking and I-states Jun 12, 2019
  • Reza Hadisi
    • Jun 16, 2021 Practical Knowledge and Extramental Imagination Jun 16, 2021
  • Max Haiven
    • Apr 27, 2022 A reflection on the radical imagination: From finance to social movements to games Apr 27, 2022
  • Andrea Halpern
    • May 16, 2018 Inner World of Music (and other sounds) May 16, 2018
  • Yunqing/Isaac Han
    • Sep 25, 2024 The More, The Better? A Defense of the Proliferation of Social Imaginings Sep 25, 2024
  • Hande Tuna and Octavian Ion
    • Mar 3, 2021 That's About Right: In Memoriam Adam Morton Mar 3, 2021
  • Heidi L. Maibom and Kyle Furlane
    • Apr 16, 2025 Getting our Shift Together: Empathy and Moral Gestalt Shifts Apr 16, 2025
  • Bella Honess Roe
    • Nov 24, 2021 Imagination and Knowledge in Animated Documentaries… Or, what animation can teach us about the lives of others Nov 24, 2021
  • Rob Hopkins
    • Feb 17, 2025 Book Symposium: Introduction from Rob Hopkins Feb 17, 2025
  • Steve Humbert-Droz
    • Mar 19, 2025 Imagination─intelligence, a direct flight Mar 19, 2025
    • Apr 22, 2020 If sensory imagining is not a double content, what is it? Apr 22, 2020
    • Mar 5, 2019 Book Symposium: Humbert-Droz Commentary and Response Mar 5, 2019
  • Martin Huth
    • Nov 1, 2023 Social Abjection and Our Ability to Imagine: The Case of Non-Normate Bodies Nov 1, 2023
  • Daniel Hutto
    • Apr 12, 2023 Re-Imagining Episodic Remembering Without Episodic Memory: Or Why It Matters How We Imagine Our Imaginings Apr 12, 2023
  • Madeleine Hyde
    • Apr 24, 2019 Under-explored Epistemic Uses of the Imagination Apr 24, 2019
  • Anna Ichino
    • Jul 26, 2017 SUPERSTITIOUS IMAGININGS Jul 26, 2017
  • Irene Binini, Wolfgang Huemer and Daniele Molinari
    • Nov 17, 2021 Why Thought Experiments? — Putting Perspectives into Play Nov 17, 2021
  • Milena Ivanova
    • Jan 31, 2024 Creating with AI: towards an account of prosthetic imagination Jan 31, 2024
  • Christine J. Thomas
    • Mar 24, 2021 Plato’s Imaginings Mar 24, 2021
  • Julia Jansen
    • Apr 18, 2018 Situated Models of Imagination and Some Political Implications Apr 18, 2018
  • Honey Jernquist
    • Jan 29, 2025 Where is the Imagination? Jan 29, 2025
  • María Jimena Clavel Vázquez
    • May 3, 2023 Empathy beyond accuracy May 3, 2023
    • Jun 3, 2020 Collecting our thoughts Jun 3, 2020
  • Eileen John
    • Sep 30, 2020 Moral imagination, fiction, and meaning-making Sep 30, 2020
  • Jonathan Drake & Eric Peterson
    • May 8, 2019 Imaginary Reasons May 8, 2019
  • Max Jones
    • Aug 22, 2018 Embodied Constraints on Imagination Aug 22, 2018
  • Max Jones
    • Dec 6, 2023 Why is it good to use your imagination? And is this something to worry about? Dec 6, 2023
    • Aug 25, 2021 Book Symposium: Commentary from Max Jones Aug 25, 2021
    • Aug 21, 2019 A Lack of Imagination in the Predictive Mind? Aug 21, 2019
  • Janine Jones
    • May 31, 2023 Looking for a Non-Representational Enactivist Imagining in the Junkyard of the Imagination: (it may not be there) May 31, 2023
  • Samuel Kampa
    • Feb 7, 2018 Imaginative Transportation Feb 7, 2018
  • Will Kidder
    • May 11, 2022 Can the Relationship Between Empathy and Trust Explain Our Distrust in AI? May 11, 2022
  • Daniel Kilov
    • Dec 7, 2022 Mnemonics and Philosophy Dec 7, 2022
  • Hanna Kim
    • Feb 28, 2024 How Creativity Might Explain the Fiction-Imagination Connection Feb 28, 2024
    • Feb 23, 2022 Imagination and the Limits of Fictionality Feb 23, 2022
    • Jan 16, 2019 A Dual Process Model of Imaginative Resistance Jan 16, 2019
  • Amy Kind
    • Oct 30, 2024 Conference Report: Second Annual Meeting of the World Imagination Network Oct 30, 2024
    • Dec 20, 2023 Winter Hiatus Dec 20, 2023
    • May 17, 2023 Salzburg Workshop on Imagistic Cognition: Some Intersecting Themes May 17, 2023
    • Dec 21, 2022 Winter Hiatus Dec 21, 2022
    • Sep 30, 2022 Book Symposium: Kind Commentary and Response Sep 30, 2022
    • Jun 22, 2022 Summer Hiatus Jun 22, 2022
    • Apr 6, 2022 Some Recent Work on Imagination Apr 6, 2022
    • Mar 30, 2022 Happy Birthday to Us! The Junkyard Turns Five Mar 30, 2022
    • Jan 20, 2021 Some Recent Work on Imagination January 2021 Jan 20, 2021
    • Dec 21, 2020 Winter Hiatus Dec 21, 2020
    • Nov 4, 2020 Election Imaginings: Imagining the World We Would Be Waking Up to Today Nov 4, 2020
    • Feb 12, 2020 Some Recent Work on Imagination Feb 12, 2020
    • Oct 9, 2019 Conference Report: Imagination and Social Change Oct 9, 2019
    • Jul 3, 2019 Summer Hiatus Jul 3, 2019
    • Apr 3, 2019 The Junkyard Turns Two! Apr 3, 2019
    • Mar 6, 2019 Book Symposium: Kind Commentary and Response Mar 6, 2019
    • Dec 19, 2018 Winter Hiatus Dec 19, 2018
    • Dec 5, 2018 Some Recent Work on Imagination Dec 5, 2018
    • Jun 6, 2018 Some Recent Work on Imagination Jun 6, 2018
    • May 9, 2018 How’d Imagination Become So Hot? May 9, 2018
    • Apr 3, 2018 Happy Birthday to The Junkyard Apr 3, 2018
    • Dec 20, 2017 Holiday Hiatus Dec 20, 2017
    • Nov 27, 2017 New OUP book series: Philosophy of Memory and Imagination Nov 27, 2017
    • Sep 1, 2017 Imagination is a powerful tool: why is philosophy afraid of it? (A post republished from Aeon by Amy Kind) Sep 1, 2017
    • Jun 7, 2017 Some Recent Work on Imagination Jun 7, 2017
    • May 31, 2017 Upcoming at The Junkyard May 31, 2017
    • Apr 3, 2017 Welcome to the Junkyard Apr 3, 2017
  • Tufan Kiymaz
    • Apr 8, 2020 THE IMAGINATION ARGUMENT AGAINST PHYSICALISM Apr 8, 2020
  • Tobias Klauk
    • Oct 17, 2017 Book Symposium: Klauk Commentary and Response Oct 17, 2017
  • Niels Klenner
    • Oct 16, 2017 Book Symposium: Klenner Commentary and Response Oct 16, 2017
  • Piotr Kozak
    • May 8, 2023 Book Symposium: Introduction from Piotr Kozak May 8, 2023
  • Anatolii Kozlov
    • Apr 3, 2024 On writing prompts Apr 3, 2024
    • Dec 8, 2021 Pretense and Mental Imagery Dec 8, 2021
  • Anežka Kuzmičová
    • Sep 13, 2023 Children’s imagining about facts Sep 13, 2023
  • Derek Lam
    • Oct 27, 2022 Book Symposium: Derek Lam's Commentary, Part 2, and Reply Oct 27, 2022
    • Oct 26, 2022 Book Symposium: Derek Lam's Commentary, Part 1, and Reply Oct 26, 2022
  • Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng
    • Jan 24, 2024 Hauntology and imagination in Troye Sivan’s Got Me Started music video Jan 24, 2024
  • Kevin Lande
    • May 1, 2024 Image Engines May 1, 2024
  • Ethan Landes
    • Feb 17, 2021 Why do philosophers love thought experiments so much? Feb 17, 2021
  • Julia Langkau
    • Jun 12, 2024 Imagination and 'Fiction': The Literary Turn? Jun 12, 2024
    • Mar 23, 2022 The value of creativity Mar 23, 2022
    • Dec 2, 2020 Coming up with a story: waiting, imagining and obsessing Dec 2, 2020
    • Nov 6, 2019 Literary Experience and Affective Responses Nov 6, 2019
    • Oct 24, 2018 Vivid descriptions and intense imaginings Oct 24, 2018
    • Oct 20, 2017 Book Symposium: Langkau Commentary and Response Oct 20, 2017
    • Jun 14, 2017 Reading fiction is like riding a bike with training wheels Jun 14, 2017
  • Peter Langland-Hassan
    • Sep 9, 2022 To which Desdemona may I direct your call? Sep 9, 2022
    • Oct 12, 2020 Book Symposium: Introduction from Peter Langland-Hassan Oct 12, 2020
    • Jan 13, 2020 Five Top Fives: Approximately Five Papers capturing the Zeitgeist within a certain area of imagination-studies: 2010-2019 Jan 13, 2020
    • Oct 23, 2019 Choosing Your Own Adventure? Oct 23, 2019
    • Jun 27, 2018 To which fiction do your imaginings refer? Jun 27, 2018
    • Aug 9, 2017 Imagination, Emotion, and Desire Aug 9, 2017
  • Preston Lennon
    • Sep 14, 2022 What can aphantasia tell us about conscious thought? Sep 14, 2022
  • Sanford Levinson
    • Nov 15, 2022 Book Symposium: Levinson Commentary and Reply Nov 15, 2022
  • Shen-yi Liao
    • Nov 16, 2022 Book Symposium: Liao Commentary and Reply Nov 16, 2022
    • Mar 9, 2022 Notes on Peter Langland-Hassan on Imagining and Remembering Mar 9, 2022
    • Jan 15, 2020 Five Top Fives: Imaginative Edible Concoctions of the Decade Jan 15, 2020
    • Sep 18, 2019 Incrementalist Imagination Sep 18, 2019
    • Oct 17, 2018 Update to the SEP Entry on Imagination Oct 17, 2018
    • May 17, 2017 Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Imagination? May 17, 2017
  • Kristina Liefke
    • Oct 5, 2022 Perspective and the Propositional-Attitude View of Experiential Imagination Oct 5, 2022
  • Ingrid Malm Lindberg
    • Sep 22, 2021 Interactive Religious Imagination Sep 22, 2021
  • Michelle Liu
    • Oct 12, 2022 Mental Imagery and Language Comprehension Oct 12, 2022
  • Giulia Lorenzi
    • May 29, 2024 What does music have to do with imagination? May 29, 2024
  • Avshalom M. Schwartz
    • Feb 21, 2024 Imagination and Democracy Feb 21, 2024
    • May 20, 2020 Plato and Hobbes on Imagination and Political Instability May 20, 2020
  • Matthew MacKisack
    • Apr 17, 2019 Artists with aphantasia: extended imagining? Apr 17, 2019
  • Sridhar Mahadevan
    • Mar 20, 2019 Machines who Imagine Mar 20, 2019
  • Heidi Maibom
    • Sep 26, 2022 Book Symposium: Introduction from Heidi L. Maibom Sep 26, 2022
    • Oct 13, 2021 Imagining with Emotions Oct 13, 2021
    • Nov 20, 2019 Perspectives are subjective, but not private Nov 20, 2019
    • Jan 31, 2018 Imagining Being Someone Else Jan 31, 2018
  • Deb Marber
    • Jun 9, 2021 (Re)creation, imagination, and sunbathing Jun 9, 2021
    • Jan 23, 2019 Belief, Knowledge and Imagination – a common thread Jan 23, 2019
  • Samantha Matherne
    • Sep 6, 2017 The Scope of the Imagination Sep 6, 2017
  • Max Jones & Sam Wilkinson
    • Oct 27, 2021 Which Came First, Creative Practices or Imagination? Oct 27, 2021
  • Christopher McCarroll
    • Mar 16, 2022 Memory and Imagination, Minds and Worlds Mar 16, 2022
  • Miriam McCormick
    • Sep 11, 2019 The Value of a Free and Wandering Mind Sep 11, 2019
  • Jennifer A. McMahon
    • Feb 28, 2018 IMAGINING AND INSIGHT Feb 28, 2018
  • Aaron Meskin
    • Jan 16, 2020 Five Top Fives: Aaron Meskin’s Top Five Imagination List (plus a bonus) Jan 16, 2020
    • May 2, 2018 Eating, Drinking and Imagining May 2, 2018
  • Kourken Michaelian
    • Mar 4, 2020 Book Symposium: Michaelian Commentary and Response Mar 4, 2020
    • Apr 5, 2017 Episodic Imagination and Episodic Memory: What's the Difference? Apr 5, 2017
  • Jukka Mikkonen
    • Feb 2, 2023 Book Symposium: Commentary from Jukka Mikkonen Feb 2, 2023
  • Nenad Miscevic
    • May 1, 2019 IMAGINATIVE ENACTMENTS IN THOUGHT: LOCATING THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS May 1, 2019
  • Kengo Miyazono
    • Oct 16, 2019 How to Distinguish Belief from Imagination Oct 16, 2019
    • Sep 20, 2017 Truth in Fiction and Imaginative Resistance Sep 20, 2017
  • Michele Moody-Adams
    • Nov 14, 2022 Book Symposium: Introduction from Michele Moody-Adams Nov 14, 2022
  • Joseph G. Moore
    • Oct 2, 2024 Sports Fans, Make-Believe, and the Problem of Imaginative Thinness Oct 2, 2024
  • Talia Morag
    • Jun 13, 2018 Imaginative Associations: The Return of the Repressed? Jun 13, 2018
  • Jorge Morales
    • May 24, 2023 What Is Mental Imagery Good For? Mental Rotation in Aphantasia as A Case Study May 24, 2023
  • Felipe Morales Carbonell
    • Mar 20, 2024 Losing one’s ability to imagine Mar 20, 2024
    • Mar 29, 2023 Imagining the questions people may ask Mar 29, 2023
    • Dec 11, 2019 Daydreaming, philosophy and the logics of the imagination Dec 11, 2019
  • Adam Morton
    • Nov 28, 2018 Rehearsal in Imagination Nov 28, 2018
    • May 3, 2017 Damage and Imagination May 3, 2017
  • Caterina Moruzzi
    • Apr 23, 2025 Imagining The Future of Creative Skills and Education Apr 23, 2025
  • Daniel Munro
    • Nov 12, 2024 Book Symposium: Munro Commentary and Response Nov 12, 2024
    • Mar 8, 2023 Manipulating Imaginations to Spread Misinformation: A How-To Guide Mar 8, 2023
    • Oct 28, 2020 Mental Imagery and the Epistemology of Testimony Oct 28, 2020
  • Alice Murphy
    • Aug 28, 2019 Beauty and the Scientific Imagination Aug 28, 2019
  • Josh Myers
    • Feb 19, 2025 Book Symposium: Myers Commentary and Response Feb 19, 2025
    • Aug 24, 2022 The Epistemic Irrelevance of Imaginative Vivacity Aug 24, 2022
    • Apr 15, 2020 Imagination and Hypothesis Generation Apr 15, 2020
  • Stephen Müller
    • Mar 13, 2024 How to Visualize the Non-Existent Mar 13, 2024
  • Bence Nanay
    • Nov 11, 2024 Book Symposium: Introduction from Bence Nanay Nov 11, 2024
    • Jan 17, 2020 Five Top Fives: Five things we couldn’t imagine a decade ago Jan 17, 2020
    • Jul 17, 2019 The Irrationality of Imagination Jul 17, 2019
    • Oct 4, 2017 No introspection please! Oct 4, 2017
  • Thomas Naselaris
    • Nov 22, 2023 Using geometric concepts to describe mental imagery Nov 22, 2023
  • Todd Nicholas Fuist
    • Nov 17, 2022 Book Symposium: Fuist Commentary and Reply Nov 17, 2022
    • Feb 3, 2021 Collective Imagination, Thought Communities, and Politics Feb 3, 2021
  • Nils-Hennes Stear and Robin Zheng
    • Apr 26, 2023 Imagination and Oppression Apr 26, 2023
  • Michael Omoge
    • May 25, 2022 Scripting is Imagining May 25, 2022
    • Mar 11, 2020 Aphantasia and the Cognitive Architecture of Imagination Mar 11, 2020
  • Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa
    • Feb 26, 2025 Synesthesia of Darkness and Silence: How an early modern Mexican nun may have understood concepts as synesthetic negations of sensation Feb 26, 2025
    • Feb 26, 2020 Is ‘political imagination’ a kind of imagination? Feb 26, 2020
    • Oct 25, 2017 Constructive Imagination Oct 25, 2017
  • Silvana Pani
    • Sep 6, 2023 Mental imagery and choreographic practices: a new avenue for the intention-motor interface Sep 6, 2023
  • Claudia Passos-Ferreira
    • Mar 21, 2018 Imagination in Infants Mar 21, 2018
  • Patrik Engisch & Julia Langkau
    • Jan 30, 2023 Book Symposium: Introduction from Patrik Engisch and Julia Langkau Jan 30, 2023
  • Antonia Peacocke
    • Mar 31, 2021 Beyond the Mental Image Mar 31, 2021
  • Sofia Pedrini
    • Nov 20, 2024 Imaginative Justification and the Phenomenology of Imagination Nov 20, 2024
  • Peter Kung and Shawn Klein
    • Apr 10, 2024 Explaining Fandom Apr 10, 2024
  • Eric Peterson
    • Jun 26, 2024 Summer Hiatus Jun 26, 2024
    • Jun 28, 2023 Summer Hiatus Jun 28, 2023
    • Jun 8, 2022 Faith and Imagining Jun 8, 2022
    • May 19, 2021 New NIF Interview May 19, 2021
    • Mar 29, 2021 New NIF Interview Series Mar 29, 2021
    • Jul 3, 2018 Summer Hiatus Jul 3, 2018
    • May 23, 2018 Thought Experiments as a Kind of Genre May 23, 2018
    • Sep 27, 2017 Implicit Imaginative Resistance? Sep 27, 2017
    • Aug 30, 2017 New at The Junkyard: Events Page Aug 30, 2017
  • Corey Pressman
    • Apr 17, 2024 Rewilding the Imagination Apr 17, 2024
  • Zorana Pringle
    • May 15, 2024 From creative ideas to creative accomplishments May 15, 2024
  • Sofiia Rappe
    • Nov 6, 2024 Characterizing constructive processes Nov 6, 2024
  • Hannah Read
    • Sep 27, 2022 Book Symposium: Read Commentary and Response Sep 27, 2022
  • Steph Rennick
    • Jun 2, 2021 Tropes, Possibility, and the Folk Imagination Jun 2, 2021
  • Gerson Reuter
    • Nov 2, 2022 Remarks on the epistemic role of sensory imaginings Nov 2, 2022
  • Sean Riley
    • Oct 18, 2023 Vividness is a Nightmare Oct 18, 2023
  • Andrea Rivadulla-Duró
    • Feb 8, 2023 Resisting episodicization: non-believed memories, impenetrability, and the Episodic Constructive System Feb 8, 2023
  • Andrea Rivadulla-Duró
    • Mar 6, 2024 Perceptual imagination and its consequences: Introducing the Prima Facie View Mar 6, 2024
  • Sarah Robins
    • Aug 31, 2022 Mnemonics, Memory, and Imagination Aug 31, 2022
  • Luke Roelofs
    • Jan 18, 2023 Imagination, Creativity, and Gender Jan 18, 2023
    • Sep 28, 2022 Book Symposium: Roelofs Commentary and Response Sep 28, 2022
    • Sep 29, 2021 Conference Report - The Science and Philosophy of Imagination Sep 29, 2021
    • Nov 18, 2020 Feeling and Time Nov 18, 2020
    • Oct 30, 2019 Choice and Constraint in Fiction Oct 30, 2019
    • Oct 10, 2018 Actually Imagining and Foreseeing Imagining Oct 10, 2018
    • Oct 11, 2017 The Homogeneity of the Imagination Oct 11, 2017
  • Max Roßmann
    • Dec 1, 2021 Imagining a green technology between scientific scenarios and science-fiction Dec 1, 2021
  • Zuzanna Rucinska
    • May 10, 2023 Book Symposium: Rucińska Commentary and Reply May 10, 2023
    • Nov 27, 2019 Pretense and the Enactivist Explanatory Reversal Nov 27, 2019
  • Zuzanna Rucińska
    • Mar 5, 2025 Can you gaslight yourself? Mar 5, 2025
  • Fiora Salis
    • Sep 12, 2018 Knowledge through the scientific imagination Sep 12, 2018
    • Aug 2, 2017 Scientific Imagination Aug 2, 2017
  • André Sant’Anna
    • Apr 20, 2022 Is remembering constructive imagining? Apr 20, 2022
  • André Sant’Anna
    • Feb 28, 2023 Book Symposium: Commentary from André Sant’Anna Feb 28, 2023
  • Andrea Sauchelli
    • Mar 27, 2019 Imagining Being Someone Else and Personal Identity Mar 27, 2019
  • Elisabeth Schellekens
    • Jun 18, 2020 Book Symposium: Schellekens Commentary and Response Jun 18, 2020
  • César Schirmer dos Santos
    • Apr 14, 2021 Is memory continuous to imagination? Apr 14, 2021
  • Christian O. Scholz
    • Oct 16, 2024 The Developmental Roots of Aphantasia Nescience Oct 16, 2024
  • Tom Schoonen
    • May 14, 2025 It's not all about aboutness May 14, 2025
  • Merel Semeijn
    • Dec 18, 2024 Ho ho hoaxing! Dec 18, 2024
  • Dennis Sepper
    • Jan 24, 2018 Imagination and neo-Aristotelian epistemology Jan 24, 2018
  • Neil Sinhababu
    • Jun 21, 2017 Seeing a shade of green that I couldn’t imagine before Jun 21, 2017
  • David Smith
    • Nov 3, 2021 The Dehumanizing Imagination Nov 3, 2021
  • Razvan Sofroni
    • Mar 13, 2019 Moral Knowledge through Imagination Mar 13, 2019
  • Yujia Song
    • Nov 8, 2023 On the uselessness (or usefulness?) of gestures Nov 8, 2023
  • Shannon Spaulding
    • Apr 9, 2025 Trust and Empathy Apr 9, 2025
  • Nathanael Stein
    • Sep 4, 2024 The Utopian Imagination Sep 4, 2024
    • Mar 2, 2022 Great (and not-so-great) Expectations: An understudied role for episodic future-directed imagination Mar 2, 2022
  • Simon Stern
    • Dec 6, 2017 Legal Imagination Dec 6, 2017
  • Steve Humbert-Droz & Juliette Vazard
    • Jun 1, 2022 Are Hopeful Imaginings Valuable? Jun 1, 2022
  • Kathleen Stock
    • Mar 7, 2019 Book Symposium: Stock Commentary and Response Mar 7, 2019
    • Apr 25, 2018 Scientific models, fiction, and imagination Apr 25, 2018
    • Oct 16, 2017 Book Symposium: Introduction from Kathleen Stock Oct 16, 2017
  • Margot Strohminger
    • Feb 20, 2025 Book Symposium: Strohminger Commentary and Response Feb 20, 2025
    • Jan 17, 2024 Thinking About Supposition Jan 17, 2024
    • Oct 14, 2020 Book Symposium: Strohminger Commentary and Response Oct 14, 2020
    • Jun 26, 2019 Knowing by Imagining a Hypothetical Scenario Jun 26, 2019
  • Mike Stuart
    • Oct 23, 2024 Stage as Lab, Lab as Stage: Science and Improv Comedy Oct 23, 2024
    • Jun 19, 2024 Can AI imagine? Jun 19, 2024
    • Aug 26, 2021 Book Symposium: Commentary from Mike Stuart Aug 26, 2021
    • May 12, 2021 Imagining Our Future in Space: NASA’s Sociotechnical Imaginary May 12, 2021
    • Mar 5, 2020 Book Symposium: Stuart Commentary and Response Mar 5, 2020
    • Oct 2, 2019 Ethics of Scientific Imagination: Who Gets to Use Imagination in Science? Oct 2, 2019
    • Sep 26, 2018 From Paintings to Pig-Human Hybrids: Imagination and Our Interaction with Art and Science Sep 26, 2018
    • Sep 13, 2017 Using Imagination to Empathize with Space Robots, Demons, and Other Weird Stuff Sep 13, 2017
  • Karsten Stueber
    • Sep 29, 2022 Book Symposium: Stueber Commentary and Response Sep 29, 2022
  • Michela Summa
    • Apr 11, 2018 On the Genuineness and Rationality of Fictional Emotion: A Phenomenological Approach Apr 11, 2018
  • Thomas Szanto
    • Jun 20, 2018 Beyond Solitary Reveries: On the Possibility of Collective Imagination Jun 20, 2018
  • Luca Tateo
    • Oct 6, 2021 The need of a unified theory of imagining Oct 6, 2021
  • Lu Teng
    • Jul 12, 2017 Sensory Imagining, Perception, and the Significance of Etiology Jul 12, 2017
  • Ruxandra Teodorescu
    • Nov 29, 2023 Science Fiction as Resource for the Moral Imagination Nov 29, 2023
  • Enrico Terrone
    • Apr 19, 2023 Imagination in Fiction and Life: A Kantian Move and a Spinozian Countermove Apr 19, 2023
  • K. Bailey Thomas
    • Jun 14, 2023 Ignorance as Imaginative Resistance Jun 14, 2023
  • Cain Todd
    • Nov 22, 2017 Imagination, Transparency, and Attention Nov 22, 2017
  • Uku Tooming
    • Feb 12, 2025 Imagination in Inquiry: Contemporary and Ancient Views Feb 12, 2025
    • May 9, 2023 Book Symposium: Tooming Commentary and Reply May 9, 2023
    • Jan 11, 2023 Emotion, perception, and imaginative disanalogy Jan 11, 2023
    • May 27, 2020 Ideal pleasures May 27, 2020
    • Feb 27, 2019 Imagination and Acquaintance Principle Feb 27, 2019
    • Nov 8, 2017 Desire, Imagination, and the Guise of the Good Nov 8, 2017
  • Saam Trivedi
    • Jan 17, 2018 Field Trips for Philosophers? Jan 17, 2018
  • Emine Hande Tuna
    • Feb 14, 2018 Imaginative resistance and disgust Feb 14, 2018
  • Tomer Ullman
    • Oct 25, 2023 The Mind’s Lazy Eye Oct 25, 2023
  • Nele Van de Mosselaer
    • Mar 10, 2021 Questions and Confusions Regarding Ambiguous (Non)Fictionality Mar 10, 2021
  • Nele Van de Mosselaer
    • Sep 11, 2024 Doors: An Experiment in Playable Philosophy Sep 11, 2024
  • Neil Van Leeuwen
    • Dec 11, 2024 Quasi-Emotions Revisited Dec 11, 2024
    • Dec 13, 2023 Two Notions of “Epistemic Safety”? Dec 13, 2023
    • Dec 14, 2022 Imagination: More Like Air Than Gold Dec 14, 2022
    • Dec 15, 2021 The Logic of Pretext Dec 15, 2021
    • Nov 11, 2020 A Puzzle About Pretending Nov 11, 2020
    • Dec 18, 2019 Why We Hate Spoilers Dec 18, 2019
    • Dec 12, 2018 Why Belief Isn’t Enough Dec 12, 2018
    • Jun 28, 2017 Lying and Pretending Jun 28, 2017
  • Jennifer Van Reet
    • Aug 29, 2018 The Potential Importance of Considering Visual Perspective in Representations of Pretense Aug 29, 2018
    • Jul 5, 2017 Pretending Without Action Is Not the Same as Imagining Jul 5, 2017
  • Alfredo Vernazzani
    • Feb 5, 2025 The Culturally-Inflected Imagination Feb 5, 2025
  • Cassandra Vieten
    • May 7, 2025 The Power of Reimagining: How Imagination Can Reshape Our Past, Future, and Selves May 7, 2025
  • Em Walsh
    • Jan 25, 2023 Making a Place for Others Inside of Ourselves Jan 25, 2023
  • Catherine Wearing
    • Mar 26, 2025 Creative products and creative processes Mar 26, 2025
    • May 6, 2021 Book Symposium: Wearing Commentary and Response May 6, 2021
    • Nov 7, 2018 Resisting an invitation to suppose Nov 7, 2018
  • Clas Weber
    • Sep 27, 2023 Imagination from the First-Person Perspective, Possibility, and the Self Sep 27, 2023
  • Jonathan Weinberg
    • Sep 7, 2022 Hanging Up on the In-the-Fiction Operator Sep 7, 2022
  • Anna Welpinghus
    • Feb 5, 2020 Imagination and implicit bias Feb 5, 2020
  • Isabelle Wentworth
    • Feb 14, 2024 How “Creative” is AI Creativity? Feb 14, 2024
  • Christiana Werner
    • Mar 3, 2023 Book Symposium: Commentary from Christiana Werner Mar 3, 2023
  • Christiana Werner
    • Aug 23, 2023 Conference Report “How Does It Feel? Interpersonal Understanding and Affective Empathy” Aug 23, 2023
  • Cecily Whiteley
    • May 22, 2019 Extreme Imagination and the Nature of Dreaming May 22, 2019
  • Nicholas Whittaker
    • Jun 21, 2023 Misery Enough, No Poetry Jun 21, 2023
  • Nathan Wildman
    • Aug 24, 2021 Book Symposium: Commentary from Nathan Wildman Aug 24, 2021
  • Nick Wiltsher
    • Apr 30, 2025 The value of epistemic imagining Apr 30, 2025
    • Nov 9, 2022 Afrofuturism and collective imaginaries Nov 9, 2022
    • Oct 13, 2020 Book Symposium: Wiltsher Commentary and Response Oct 13, 2020
    • Mar 25, 2020 Is philosophy of imagination socially isolated? Mar 25, 2020
    • Aug 23, 2017 Who Killed The Faculty? Aug 23, 2017
  • Sabine Winters
    • Feb 15, 2023 A View from the Moon: How Imagination Offers an Alternative Perspective. Feb 15, 2023
  • Michel-Antoine Xhignesse
    • Jan 31, 2023 Book Symposium: Commentary from Michel-Antoine Xhignesse Jan 31, 2023
    • Feb 24, 2021 Junk Fiction and the Junkyard of the Imagination Feb 24, 2021
  • Ying-Tung Lin & Vilius Dranseika
    • Apr 7, 2021 Memory vs. imagination: A perspective from self-consciousness studies Apr 7, 2021
  • Ying-Tung Lin, et. al.
    • Nov 30, 2022 Workshop Report: Successful and Unsuccessful Remembering and Imagining Nov 30, 2022
  • James O. Young
    • Feb 21, 2018 Imagination, Literary Fiction, and Virtue Feb 21, 2018
  • Ben Young
    • Mar 18, 2020 Imagined Smells Mar 18, 2020