Amy Kind, How Imagination Gives Rise to Knowledge

Speaker: Amy Kind
Associate Professor and Chair
Claremont McKenna College Department of Philosophy
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011
Time: 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: 118 Humanities Building
Note: There will be a workshop session from 11:30 to 1:00 pm open to interested faculty, students, and visitors. We will discuss a couple of Amy’s recent papers on imagination: “The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire” (AJP, 2010) and “The Heterogeneity of Imagination” (ms). Amy will give a brief introductory presentation and then the floor will be opened for discussion. It is requested that participants review the selected material in advance.