Th Geneva Research Group (University of Geneva) is hosting a conference on Imagination and Creativity.

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The Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Social Sciences) of the University of Salzburg will host a workshop on imagistic cognition, May 11-13, 2023.  The workshop will feature speakers from philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, whose work has relevance to the nature of problem-solving by means of mental imagery.

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The Editors of Analysis are pleased to announce the inaugural special issue of the journal, on the theme of imagination and guest edited by Alon Chasid (Bar-Ilan University) and Elvira Di Bona (University of Turin). Analysis, which was founded in 1933, is the most established and esteemed journal for short papers in philosophy. For more info see here.

The Centre for Philosophy of Memory is pleased to announce Simulationism 2022, an in-person workshop on the simulation theory of memory to be held on 15-16 July 2022 at the Université Grenoble Alpes. This is the first in a planned series of annual workshops on the simulation theory of memory made possible by funding from the Institut Universitaire de France. For more info, see here.

This conference will be held via Zoom on May 24-25, 2022 from 9 am - 12 noon Pacific time (UTC/GMT -8). It is a pre-read conference. Papers will be distributed to all participants by the end of April.

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The University of Gießen’s Department of Philosophy, together with the DFG-project "Geist und Imagination", invites advanced students and PhD Candidates to join us for the 5th Friend-Summer-Seminar. This year, Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) will be holding the seminar entitled "The Skill of Imagination".

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Hosted by the University of Bristol

Recent years have seen a proliferation of research in the philosophy of the imagination. On one hand, researchers have been interested in understanding the role of the imagination in creativity, in both the arts and the sciences. On the other hand, researchers have been interested in its role in knowledge acquisition in everyday circumstances, in science, in philosophy. Given that the content of imaginative episodes usually diverges from reality, there is a puzzle as to how it can provide us with knowledge that is applicable in everyday circumstances or knowledge of scientific principles. Furthermore, the imagination is often seen as particularly important for philosophical reasoning, which tends to focus on what’s possible or necessary as well as the way the world happens to be.

Despite this newfound focus on the imagination, more attention needs to be paid to recent findings from psychology and neuroscience that have the potential to shed light on the nature of the imagination and the mechanisms that give rise to it. One of the reasons behind the relative neglect of the science of the imagination may be the fact that the imagination is a notoriously difficult subject to study from a scientific perspective, owing to imaginative episodes often lacking clear behavioural effects. As such, the conference will also aim to address methodological issues with the scientific study of the imagination from the perspective of the philosophy of science. The proposed conference aims to address these issues by providing a forum for interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, with the hope that philosophers of imagination can develop more empirically-informed practice, and scientists involved in studying the imagination can develop an understanding of some of the philosophical implications of their research.

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This conference aims at unifying the research of mind-wandering and spontaneous thought in contemporary philosophy by contemplating not only how we can make better sense of this phenomenon but, also, how investigations on mind-wandering can shed light on other related topics. As such, the conference will focus on three general subtopics: (1) the nature of consciousness, (2) mind wandering and other imaginative experiences, and (3) mind-wandering in psychopathology.

The ‘Extremes of Mind Wandering’ conference, hosted by the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences in the University of Edinburgh will take place on June 24-25th 2021 (online) and will consist of two keynote talks by Prof. Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) and Dr Zachary Irving (University of Virginia) as well as contributions from postgraduate researchers selected via a blind review of abstracts

For more info and for the call for abstracts, see here.

Conference (Online/Virtual) for Imagination Domination
This conference will be held via Zoom on May 18-19, 2021 from 9 am - 12 noon Pacific time (UTC/GMT -8) and on May 24, 2021 from 4 pm - 7 pm Pacific time (UTC/GMT -8). It is a pre-read conference. Papers will be distributed to all participants by April 23.

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Conference at the Center for Science and Philosophy

University of Bristol

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In line with traditional philosophical thinking, recent empirical results from psychology and neuroscience have suggested that imagination and memory are intimately related in a variety of ways. This has reinforced the idea that the intersection of the philosophy of imagination and the philosophy of memory is a potentially fruitful area for research. What is the relationship between imagination and memory? Are they mental states of the same kind? Do they allow us to know the world in the same way? This workshop will discuss various questions of mutual interest to philosophers of imagination and philosophers of memory, with the goal of promoting future philosophical research at the intersection of these two domains.

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International workshop on “Memory, Imagination, and the Self” at the Institute for Philosophy, Universität Stuttgart. For more info, see here.

Guest Editors:

• Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

• Tufan Kıymaz (Bilkent University)

Imagination is at the center of contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. The ontological status of mental imagery, the epistemological status of imagined scenarios in terms of counterfactual and modal claims, and the relationship between imaginative ability and phenomenal knowledge are all rigorously debated in analytic literature. Likewise, the nature and function of imagination is an important and lively area of research in neuroscience and psychology.

We invite contributions for the Synthese Topical Collection titled “Imagination and Its Limits.”

The deadline for submissions has been extended to July 15, 2020.

For more info see here.

The Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences journal is calling for submissions for a special issue called "Pretense and Imagination from the Perspective of 4E Cognitive Science" (call for papers due 14 September 2020). See full CFP here.

CONFERENCE AT CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE

HOSTED BY THE GOULD CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES

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The Centre for Philosophical Psychology of the University of Antwerp would like to invite you to submit abstracts for the international conference on Pretend Play and E-Cognition.

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From 5th to 6th September 2019, University Düsseldorf’s Haus der Universität will be hosting the 2nd Düsseldorf Graduate Workshop for Philosophy on imagination, impossibilities and counterfactual reasoning, discussing questions like the following: How do people imagine alternatives to reality? What role plays imagination in counterfactual reasoning? Is imagination a guide to possibility? Can we imagine impossibilities? What is the relationship between imagination and other mental states?

More info can be found here.

The theme of the 11th Principia International Symposium is the Quest for Knowledge. As part of the symposium, there will be a workshop on the Philosophy of Memory and Imagination.

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Institute for Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

The conference aims to explore a broad set of issues concerning the connections between fiction, imagination, and epistemology. 

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See CFP here.

An Interdisciplinary Conference on Dreams, Hallucinations, and Imagination

Hosted by the Center for the Study of the Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow

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Resistant Imaginations

A Conference in Critical Epistemology

University of Oregon, February 1-2, 2019