Workshop - Imagination & Memory : A Matter of Degrees ?

Workshop - Imagination & Memory : A Matter of Degrees ?

2nd and 3rd November 2021

Salle Jaurès, ENS, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

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.

Speakers :

• Alma Barner (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
• Erica Cosentino (Ruhr University of Bochum)
• Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) - virtual participation
• Julia Langkau (Europa-Universität Flensburg)
• Peter Langland-Hassan (Cincinnati University) - type of participation TBC
• Christopher McCarroll (Ruhr University of Bochum)
• Erik Myin (University of Antwerp)
• Denis Perrin (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
• André Sant’Anna (Washington University in St.Louis) - virtual participation 
• Dustin Stokes (University of Utah)

The workshop is organised by Margherita Arcangeli (EHESS-IJN), Christopher McCarroll (Ruhr University of Bochum) and André Sant’Anna (Washington University in St.Louis).

It is financed by the IJN, SublimAE project (ANR-18-CE27-0023-01) and the Centre for Philosophy of Memory (grant ANR-15-IDEX-02).

REGISTRATION - Contact Margherita Arcangeli