Imagination and Thought Expereriments Conference

CONFERENCE ON THE IMAGINATION AND THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS

12-13th May 2006

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
DEPARTMENT of PHILOSOPHY
9 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 4PU

Organized by Anthony Everett and Finn Spicer

PROGRAMME

Friday 12th May

• 1:10 - 2:25 Michael Beaney (York) The Imaginary Nature of Imagining
• 2:30 - 3.45 Aaron Meskin (Leeds) & Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University) The Cognitive Architecture of Imaginative Resistance

4:00 - 6:00 There will be a talk in the philosophy department by Professor Peter Vallentyne. (Brute Luck and Responsibility)

6.00 Drinks and dinner

Saturday 13th May

• 8:30 - 9.45 Aaron Meskin (Leeds) & Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University) The Imagination/Supposition Distinction
• 10:00 - 11.15 Kathleen Stock (Sussex) Imagination and Motivation
• 11.15 - 12.30 Robert Hopkins (Sheffield) Imagination and Observation

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

• 1.30 - 2.45 Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) Imagining Fictions
  
• 3.00 - 4.15 Gregory Currie (Nottingham) Irony and the Imagination (Keynote address)
  

We would like to thank the following institutions for their very generous support and sponsorship:

The Aristotelian Society
The British Society of Aesthetics
BIRTHA
The University of Bristol Alumni Foundation