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Amy Kind
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Philosopher, Claremont McKenna College
Avshalom Schwartz explores the philosophical insights that can be gained by taking a philological route to the study of the origins of imagination.
February 18, 2026 at 7:28 PM
In a post written while watching the Superbowl, Neil Van Leeuwen explores why we are considerably more inclined to rewatch movies and other fictions than we are to rewatch sports.
February 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Hannah Fasnacht builds on others’ work on anticipatory grief to show that we can also grieve the impossible, i.e., we can have grief directed not at an actual person or object or something in the past, but rather at an imagined (im-)possible future that will never come to be.
February 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Irene Lonigro, at The Junkyard, on whether we can imagine emotions that we haven't experienced before.
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
In the first post of 2026 at The Junkyard, Reza Hadisi explores Suhrawardī's views concerning the constitutive norm of imagination.
January 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
How big is a trillion? Grasping really big numbers is hard, but this week at The Junkyard Ansley Avis discusses how we can use imagination "to make these numbers more meaningful and clear for ourselves and others."
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Dorothy Wade discusses her research into facets of the imagination that emerge in altered states of consciousness, research that she hopes will lead to new therapies for patients with delirium and thereby help them to cope "with the disturbing experience of the imagination going wild."
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In this week's post at The Junkyard, Joshua Myers and Johannes Mahr argue that episodic construction is fundamentally compositional in nature, and they offer reasons that their Episodic Compositionality view is more plausible than an associationist alternative.
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In this week's Junkyard post, Eric Peterson explores the connection between imagination and interpersonal knowledge; in doing so, he offers reasons to think that imagination might indeed have a unique epistemic end (contra some claims by Nick Wiltsher in a previous post on the blog).
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️
Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue
June 10-12, 2026

Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us!

Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Raquel Krempel discusses her work aiming to better understand aphantasic experience. This draws on studies she conducted (w/ collaborators) that compared aphantasics and controls when they were asked to describe their experiences trying to imagine and trying to remember something.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In this week's Junkyard post, Julia Minarik offers reasons to think that "machine-made images have less content than images created by human hands."
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In this week's Junkyard post, Jianghao Liu attempts to bridge empirical neuroscience and philosophical accounts of imagination and awareness by defending what he calls *the attention model* of aphantasia.
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This week at The Junkyard, Maria Fedorova explores the nature of psychedelic visions and argues that they are immersive mental simulations. "quasi-perceptual in terms of their phenomenology and imaginative with respect to their cognitive origin."
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This week at The Junkyard, Luke Roelofs asks: What exactly do we do when we leave something to the imagination? And what is the “imagination” that things are being left to?
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sheila Pontis on how to harness the power of imagination to improve emotional well-being.
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In this week's post at The Junkyard, Edvard Aviles-Meza argues that imaginative experience plays an important role in determining whether phenomenal consciousness overflows attention.
October 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Noting the diversity of strategies that we use in empathizing with others, Sarah Vernallis argues that the roles of imagination in empathy are more varied than the standard story allows.
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
How can we learn through play? According to Lucia Oliveri, our learning owes to imagination. In her post for The Junkyard, she presents an argument for this claim inspired by the work of Comenius and Leibniz.
September 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Niklas Maranca discusses his work to develop imagination games – formats that integrate perception, imagination, and reflection – towards the goal of showing how imaginative processes can be practiced, observed, and investigated in a structured yet experiential way.
September 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Seth Goldwasser reviews Melz Owusu's *Undisciplined* -- a book that calls upon the need for radical imagination as part of its argument for the abolishment of academia as an institution.
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Junkyard returns from its summer hiatus with a post from Mark Windsor and Jakub Stejskal on the archaeological sublime and the imaginative failure it involves.
September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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APA Pacific 2026 paper submissions are open with two new options: workshops for structured discussion of in-progress work, and lightning sessions for testing out new ideas. Colloquium and symposium options are still available as well! Submit a paper today. papers.apaonline.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Call for Abstracts
Workshop: Creative Imagination from Art to Science
University of Geneva, September 29–30, 2025
Organizers: Julia Langkau and Amy Kind
Creative Imagination from Art to Science
Call for Abstracts Workshop: Creative Imagination from Art to Science University of Geneva, September 29–30, 2025 Organizers: Julia Langkau and Amy Kind Over the last couple of decades, ima...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM