Philosophy of Imagination: by PHIL 347, Occidental College

Focused Daydreaming versus Mind-Wandering

In this podcast, I use my personal daydreams and instances of mind-wandering to help draw a distinction between the two mental phenomena based on their agency, intelligibility, purposiveness, and narrative structure. I used Fabian Dorsch’s paper to help support my argument that these two mental phenomena are distinct. By Phoebe Patinkin.

Subverting the Paradox of Fiction

Siena Lucido 
Worth, Sarah E. 2004. “Narrative Understanding and Understanding Narrative.” Contemporary Aesthetics 2. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7523862.0002.009.
 

Imaginative Resistance and Empathy

By Sela Moretti-Hitchcock 
Citations: 
Stueber, K. R. (2011). Imagination, empathy, and moral deliberation: The case of imaginative resistance.
Walton, Kendall L., and Michael Tanner. “Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality.” 
 

Conversations on Sympathy

Podcast by Emmaline Jeansonne

Inside the Basket

Oliver To
Engisch, Patrik (2020). Recipes and Culinary Creativity. The Noma Legacy. Humana Mente 13 (61-82).

Cures for Indecisiveness

Cures for Indecisiveness by Faith Hutapea
Citation: Kjetil Rommetveit, Jackie Leach Scully, Rouven Porz, The Role of Moral Imagination in Patients’ Decision-Making, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 160–172 

Virtual Ethics

Ty Gaskins
 
Wolfendale, Jessica. 2007. “My Avatar, My Self: Virtual Harm and Attatchment” Ethics and Information Technology 9 (2): 111-119