Philosophy of Imagination: by PHIL 347, Occidental College

Memory and Imagination

Podcast by Ryan Moats.
Munro, D. Remembering the Past and Imagining the Actual. Rev.Phil.Psych. 12, 175-197 (2021). https://doi-org.oxy.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00499-1

A Discussion on ”Dreams and Imagination”

A discussion on Jonathan Ichikawa's "Dreaming and Imagination" between Sam Modesitt and Madison Trafton. In it, we cover orthodox vs. imaginative views of dreaming, as well as real belief vs. dream belief.
Ichikawa, J. (2009), Dreaming and Imagination.
Matravers, D. 1997: The paradox of fiction: the report versus the perceptual model.
Hjort and S. Laver, Emotion and the Arts
Walton, K. L. 1997: Spelunking, simulation, and slime: on being moved by fiction.
 

On Imaginative Transportation

Podcast by Kai Morfín. 
Citation: 
Kampa, Samuel. 2018. "Imaginative Transportation." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96. (4): 683-696. https://philpapers.org/archive/KAMIT.pdf 
 
 

Imagination and Empathy

There is much that we have yet to understand about empathy. Richard Wollheim, a noteworthy philosopher in the areas of the mind and emotions, argues that we confuse empathy and sympathy more often than we think, and that we actually don't practice empathy as often as we may believe to. This episode will explore Wollheim's criteria for empathy, the vital role that imagination plays in the act of empathy, and how we could become better at empathy in our daily lives. By Sydney Leiweke.

Art and the Political Imagination

This episode explores the relationship between art and the imagination, particularly through an understanding of how politically motivated art can catalyze the imagination by exploring new social and political ideals and morals for individuals. By Odelia Zuckerman. 

Welcoming Fear: A Philosophical Account of The Appeal of Horror Movies

A philosophical account of horror movies, and the appeal of fear itself, by Patrick Walsh
Citations:
Bantinaki, Katerina. “The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70:4, (2012): 383–392.
Smuts, Aaron. “Art and Negative Affect.” Philosophy Compass 4/1, (2009): 39–55.

Mental Imagery and Dreaming

Isaac Modabber 
Citations:
Whiteley, Cecily M. K. (2020). Aphantasia, imagination and dreaming. Philosophical Studies 178 (6):2111-2132.
Ichikawa, J. (2009). Dreaming and Imagination. Mind and Language., 24(1), 103-121
Ichikawa, J. (2016). Imagination, dreaming and hallucination. In Amy Kind (Ed.), Routledge handbook of the philosophy of imagination (pp. 149-162). London: Routledge.

Just a Dream

My podcast explores the argument of whether dreams are imaginings or hallucinations. By Chloe Lahham.
 
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. “Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities.” De Gruyter, University of Chicago Press, 14 May 2015 
Thomas, Nigel J. T. “Nigel J. T. Thomas, the Multidimensional Spectrum of Imagination - Philpapers.” Humanities, 1 Jan. 1970

Virtual Avatars and Physical Bodies

Podcast by Amol Patil
 

Lessons from the Breakfast Club: when and why we experience imaginative resistance

This episode, narrated by Mariah Menaker, deals with one philosopher's take on what happens when fiction prompts us to imagine the morally reprehensible as morally right.
 
Bradford Skow, Questioning Imaginative Resistance and Resistant Reading, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 2021.