The Science and Philosophy of Imagination Conference Programme
Wednesday 15th September (Online Only)
· 11:00-11:15: Welcome & Introduction
· 11:15-12:00: I-Jan Wang & Ying-Tung Lin (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), How Embodiment Constrains Imagination
· 12:05-12:50: Tom Schoonen (University of Amsterdam), Embodied Imagination and Modal Objectivity
· 12:50-14:00: Lunch & Breakout Rooms
· 14:00-15:00: Imagination in the Predictive Mind Roundtable Discussion
· 15:05-15:50: Tom McClelland (University of Cambridge), Affording Imagination
· 15:50-16:15: Tea Break
· 16:15-17:30: Margherita Arcangeli (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris), What Aphantasia Might (Not) Be
Thursday 16th September (Hybrid In-Person/Online)
· 9:30-10:00: In-person registration and welcome
· 10:00-10:45: Edward Armitage (University of Sheffield), The Place of the Imagination in Emotionally Recalcitrant Worry
· 10:50-11:35: Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge), Fiction, Ethics, and Virtual Action
· 11:35-12:00: Coffee Break
· 12:00-13:15: Ruth Byrne (Trinity College, Dublin), Thinking About What Was Once Possible and What Was Never Possible
· 13:15-14:30: Lunch
· 14:30-15:15: Luke Roelofs (New York University), Imaginative Attitudes and Mental Models
· 15:20-16:05: Andrea Rivadulla (University of Barcelona), On Storing and Retrieving Episodic Imaginings
· 16:05-16:30: Coffee Break
· 16:30-17:45: Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp), Against Imagination
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· 19:30: Conference Dinner (Racks, St Paul’s Road, Clifton)
Friday 17th September (Hybrid In-Person/Online)
· 09:45-10:30: Alan Winfield (University of the West of England), Robots with an Artificial Imagination
· 10:35-11:35: Imaginative Robots and AI Roundtable Discussion
· 11:35-12:00: Coffee Break
· 12:00-13:15: Crawford Winlove (University of Exeter), The Neural Correlates of Visual Imagery
· 13:15-14:30: Lunch
· 14:30-15:15: Adam Toon (University of Exeter), Imagination, Pretence and Mental Fictionalism
· 15:20-16:05: Adriana Clavel Vazquez (University of Oxford) & Maria Jimena Clavel Vazquez (University of Tartu), Embodying Imagination
· 16:20-16:30: Coffee Break
· 16:30-17:45: Mike Stuart (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), How To Do Epistemology of Imagination
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· 18:00: After conference drinks (venue TBC)