Memory and Imagination: Varieties of (Dis)Continuism

Satellite Workshop at GAP 11 and Call for Flash Talks

The aim of this workshop is to systematically examine the relationship between episodic memory and imagination from distinct perspectives. This workshop brings together key researchers in the field to explore the different ways of understanding the (dis)continuism debate about memory and imagination, from a metaphysical, epistemological, attitudinal, or normative perspective, and explore the nuances of the relation between these two fundamental cognitive capacities. The workshop hence aims to develop a more precise understanding of the relationship between memory and imagination, and brings the internationally already well established and currently hotly debated topic on the relationship between memory and imagination to a broader audience in the German speaking and European philosophical community.

We invite philosophers to submit a brief abstract (ca. 200 words) to present a flash talk. A flash talk pitches a single idea or question in a maximum of 5 minutes, and serves to draw attention to work in progress or published elsewhere. This format allows both early career and more senior philosophers to exchange ideas on the topic of the workshops. The deadline for abstract submission is June 30. Notifications of acceptance will be send by August 1.

For the most up-to-date information, please check the workshop website at: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/gap11-memory-imagination.html. The website of the GAP.11 conference can be found here: https://gap11.de/programm.html

The workshop is organized by Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum), Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei) and Anco Peeters (Ruhr University Bochum) and takes place in cooperation with the DFG Research Group FOR 2812 “Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory”.