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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In this week's post at The Junkyard, Alyssa Walker argues that we should reject the assumption that imagination and the imaginative are interchangeable; in her view, we should pull the imagination and the imaginative apart from one another.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Quick reminder that the CFP deadline for the Junkyard Anniversary Meeting (JAM) is coming up soon - October 15! The conference will be held April 2 - 4 in Claremont, CA. We have a great lineup of invited speakers! Come JAM with us! philevents.org/event/show/1...

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JAM (Junkyard Anniversary Meeting) - Philosophy of Imagination Conference

A philosophy of imagination conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of The Junkyard blog. In addition to the invited speakers, there will be a number of contributed sessions. Call for Papers JA...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This week at The Junkyard, Wojciech Kaftanski explores Kierkegaard's invocation of imagination to explain how a "fragmented bundle of experiences" can "achieve the unity required for moral and existential agency without discarding the power of affect."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Megan Entwistle on whether and why two people can jointly imagine the same thing.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is reading a book akin to a following a recipe? Check out Anhui's post for some reasons we should answer this question in the affirmative.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Antonello Caravelli at TheJunkyard: "Perspective should be understood not only as something represented or adopted within imagination, but also as an organisational dimension of imaginative activity."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This week at The Junkyard, Jonathan Mitchell argues against folks (myself included) who try to solve the puzzle of perceptual presence by invoking imagination.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Petronella Randell on the tendency to catastrophize: "Given that catastrophising is near universally regarded as irrational or maladaptive, what makes it (in)appropriate to imaginatively explore the worst possibilities? How and when should we revise our beliefs in light of imagining the worst?"

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Sometimes, you succeed at imagining. Sometimes, you don’t. How do you, we, or anyone work out whether or not you’ve succeeded?" Nick Wiltsher tries to answer this question in his post this week at The Junkyard.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sadly, my X account was hijacked and I am locked out of it. X says there's nothing they can do. Please unfollow that account if you are still on X. Serves me right for not deleting that account long ago.

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 24/06/2026

Amy Kind argues imagination is the skill we draw on to make our hardest decisions. bit.ly/4vuIw1q Like all skills, it weakens without use, and we're using it less. If we don't exercise it, we'll lose the capacity to conceive of things being different, and risk being trapped in the present.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Mark your calendar for JAM, a philosophy of imagination conference celebrating 10 years of The Junkyard. April 2027 in Claremont, CA. See this week's Junkyard post for further info and details about the CFP.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Imagination and mind-blanking sit at opposite ends of the consciousness spectrum; imagination is associated with richness but mind-blankness with absence of richness. At The Junkyard, Angelica Kaufmann suggests how and why an exploration of mind-blanking proves useful for understanding imagination.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Exploring Iris Murdoch's view of imagination, fantasy, and morality, Idil Çakmur argues that Murdoch takes it be a moral imperative that we become more imaginative.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Lloyd Strickland on how Leibniz develops a logic of imagination or, more precisely, a logic of what is imaginable. As he suggests, the key to developing the account "lies in distinguishing imagination as a faculty from the objects that fall under it."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Drawing on her paper on “The Role of Value in Creative Imagining”, Julia Langkau argues for a distinction among imaginings over and above the one between constrained/unconstrained uses of the imagination: "Whether (epistemically) constrained or not, imagination may or may not be guided by values."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This week @lukeroelofs.bsky.social blogs about their forthcoming book, *Empathic Reason* over at The Junkyard. The book argues for a view they call "empathic rationalism" and makes the case for a tight connection between empathy and altruism and also for the epistemic indispensability of empathy.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In this week's post at The Junkyard, Miranda Anderson argues that there is a "fission-fusion dynamic" between imagination and art, and she then suggests that this means that our imaginative engagement with art enables us to become more critical, creative and compassionate thinkers.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In an exploration of imagination-oriented design, Monika Dunin-Kozicka asks: “how can we design things so that they trigger or afford imaginative actions to those who perceive them?”

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Bruce G. Shapiro on two distinct ways that imagination operates in stage acting

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Georgie Brighouse argues that consideration of aphantasia suggests that we should adopt a pluralistic account of imagination.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Though sensory imagining is often used to provide pleasure in place of a real experience, Vincenzo Grasso argues in his post at The Junkyard that there is a second pleasure involved in sensory imagining, namely, the pleasure of imaginative agency.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Great new project from Sheila Pontis! Every day for 365 days, she is posting a new evidence-based practice designed to strengthen imagination, deepen inner development, and cultivate optimism. Check it out! www.instagram.com/everyoneimag...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Ana Elisa Ulloa Labariega draws our attention to an important aspect of scientific modeling that she thinks is often obscured, namely, "its narrative character, sustained and structured through imagination." (Via @the-junkyard.bsky.social)

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Zachary Srivastava on whether there is a paradox of scientific fiction (re epistemic attitudes towards fictional scientific entities) akin to the paradox of fiction (re emotions towards fictional characters), and he also explores what this reveals abt the nature of scientific vs artistic imagination

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Scholz, Liu, & Blomkvist discuss some important connections between mental imagery research and aphantasia research; they then suggest that both would benefit from interdisciplinary research/collaboration. Bonus: a plug for an upcoming interdisciplinary aphantasia conference at the Univ of Glasgow.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Claiming that imagining the minds of non-human animals involves an "informed imaginative leap," Luca Marchetti explores what kind of imagination is involved in our attempts to understand the minds of animals and what kinds of values are at stake when we make these attempts.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Zach Kohler on the essential role that imagination plays in our experience of magic

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The interplay between the processes of learning and creativity is a complex matter but, as Kerry Clark argues in this post at The Junkyard, developing the skill of imagination proves beneficial for both of these processes.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Avshalom Schwartz explores the philosophical insights that can be gained by taking a philological route to the study of the origins of imagination.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Irene Lonigro, at The Junkyard, on whether we can imagine emotions that we haven't experienced before.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In the first post of 2026 at The Junkyard, Reza Hadisi explores Suhrawardī's views concerning the constitutive norm of imagination.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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).

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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Happy World Philosophy Day! The current presidents and past presidents of the APA Divisions will match up to $3,000 in donations that the APA receives today, November 20. Double your impact with a gift to the APA. Donate now: apaonline.org/donate

World Philosophy Day | November 20, 2025 | Presidents’ Challenge
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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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!

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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."

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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?

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Sheila Pontis on how to harness the power of imagination to improve emotional well-being.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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.

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