Fourth Meeting – 20 January 2022, online

FIONA MACPHERSON (University of Glasgow)
"The Phenomenal Character of Visual Imagery and Visual Perceptual Experience"

NADINE DIJKSTRA (UCL)
"Perceptual Reality Monitoring: Neural Mechanisms for Dissociating Imagination from Reality"

OPHELIA DEROY (LMU Munich)
"Extraordinary Perception and the Sense of Reality"

ELISABETH CAMP (Rutgers University)
"Point of View and Perspective in Pictures and Words"

Interview with Magdalena Balcerak Jackson

Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (University of Miami) discusses with Deb Marber her latest work on the epistemic and social role of imagination. This video was produced together with the Junkyard of the Mind – a scholarly blog dedicated to the study of  imagination.

Third Meeting - 26 April 2021, online

Adriana ​Clavel-Vázquez (University of Oxford) and
María Jimena Clavel Vázquez (University of Tartu)
The Rhythm of the Eye

Alice Murphy (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Aesthetics and Imagery in Scientific Understanding

Tom Schoonen (University of Amsterdam)
The Epistemological Value of Pretense Imagination

Max Jones (University of Bristol)
Enculturated Imagination in the Predictive Mind

Interview with Robert Hopkins

Robert Hopkins (New York University) discusses with NIF's Deb Marber his recent work on the sensory imagination and gives a juicy preview of his forthcoming book on the topic. This video was produced together with the Junkyard of the Mind – a scholarly blog dedicated to the study of  imagination.

Second meeting - 16 October 2020, online

Dominic Gregory (University of Sheffield)
Experiential Phenomenology and the Representational Limitations of Mental Imagery

Jo Ahlberg (University of Hertfordshire)
Painting the Imagination

Fiora Salis (University of York)
Learning Through the Scientific Imagination