SECOND ANNUAL C.O.V.I.D. GATHERING

Conference (Online/Virtual) for Imagination Domination

This conference will be held via Zoom on May 18-19, 2021 from 9 am - 12 noon Pacific time (UTC/GMT -8). It is a pre-read conference. Papers will be distributed to all participants by April 23.

Each 50 minute session will start with two prepared commentaries, plus a brief response from the paper author. The remaining time will be for discussion.

The conference is limited to 28 participants. Please email me if you are interested in attending.

In addition to the schedule below, there is also a bonus day on May 24 from 4pm - 7 pm — timed so as to accommodate philosophers in Asia and Australia.

Schedule

TUESDAY, May 18

9 - 9:50 a.m.

Nick Wiltsher, “Imagined Embodied Experience: Always Extraordinary?”

Commentators:  Luke Roelofs; Julia Langkau

10 - 10:50 a.m.

Antonia Peacocke: “Image or Intention: What Settles the Contents of Active Imaginings?”

Commentators: Neil Van Leeuwen; Peter Kung

11 - 11:50 a.m.

Peter Langland-Hassan: “Remembering, Imagining, and Attitudinal Continuism”

Commentators: Alon Chasid; Christopher Badura

WEDNESDAY, May 19

9 - 9:50 a.m.

Mike Stuart, “Scientists are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination”

Commentators: Josh Myers; Alice Murphy

10 - 10:50 a.m.

Adriana Clavel-Vasquez and Mena Clavel Vasquez, “The Rhythm of the Eye: Expectations, Imagination, and Aesthetic Perception”

Commentators: Dustin Stokes; Mikael Pettersson

11 - 11:50 a.m.

Andrea Blomkvist: “Aphantasia: In Search of a Theory”

Commentators: Cecily Whiteley; Steve Humbert-Droz

Additional participants: Joanna Ahlberg, Sara Aronowitz, Olivia Bailey, Magdalena Balcerak Jackson, Felipe Morales Carbonell, Jill Cumby, Reza Hadisi, Derek Lam, Eric Peterson, Luana Poliseli, Tom Schoonen.