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Amy Kind
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Philosopher, Claremont McKenna College
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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
Eric Peterson on the mutual reinforcement of value between imagination and free speech
June 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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May 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Felipe Morales Carbonell on imagining how, epistemic friction, and epistemic freedom
May 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Congratulations to Dustin Locke of Claremont McKenna College, winner of the 2024 Anthony J. Lisska Prize! www.apaonline.org/page/2025pri...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Brendan Bo O'Connor reports on recent work from his lab that sheds light on the question of how co-imagining a shared future with someone else might influence social connection, and also how it might shape the phenomenology and content of what is imagined.
May 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Tom Schoonen raises a worry for the truth-conditional condition of one prominent logic of imagination, Berto’s two-component semantics.
May 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Cassi Vieten on how imagination can heal our relationship to the past and can also help us build a better future.
May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Nick Wiltsher takes a stand against the claim that imagination is valuable as a way of achieving epistemic ends; in his view, "the value of epistemic imagining must have to do with the fact that one is using imagination to pursue epistemic ends; the value inheres in the process, not in the product."
April 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM