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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 17h

In this week's post at The Junkyard, Edvard Aviles-Meza argues that imaginative experience plays an important role in determining whether phenomenal consciousness overflows attention.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 17h

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Edvard Aviles-Meza junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/10...

Imaginative Jailbreak and Phenomenal Overflow — The Junkyard

A post by Edvard Aviles-Meza Have a look at Raphael’s School of Athens (figure 1 below). During a quick glance, do you see each of the individuals depicted? Surely, you wouldn’t recognize them at...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 7d

Noting the diversity of strategies that we use in empathizing with others, Sarah Vernallis argues that the roles of imagination in empathy are more varied than the standard story allows.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 7d

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Sarah Vernallis junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...

Imaginative Choices in Empathy — The Junkyard

A post by Sarah Vernallis Empathy is an imaginative activity. When we succeed in empathizing, we come to understand what it is like for another person. But what role, exactly, does the imagination pl...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 14d

How can we learn through play? According to Lucia Oliveri, our learning owes to imagination. In her post for The Junkyard, she presents an argument for this claim inspired by the work of Comenius and Leibniz.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 14d

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Lucia Oliveri junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...

Imagine Learning Through Play — The Junkyard

A post by Lucia Oliveri Imagine a world destroyed by a thirty-year-long war, the most devastating war that seventeenth-century Europe had ever seen. Imagine standing in front of a destroyed land, lik...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 21d

Niklas Maranca discusses his work to develop imagination games – formats that integrate perception, imagination, and reflection – towards the goal of showing how imaginative processes can be practiced, observed, and investigated in a structured yet experiential way.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 21d

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Niklas Maranca junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...

Touching Invisible Walls — The Junkyard

A post by Niklas Maranca Insight into the structure and approach of a practice-based PhD project on imagination This text traces a path from practice to research. It opens with three short scenes ...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · 28d

Seth Goldwasser reviews Melz Owusu's *Undisciplined* -- a book that calls upon the need for radical imagination as part of its argument for the abolishment of academia as an institution.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · 28d

This week at The Junkyard: Seth Goldwasser reviews Melz Owusu's *Undisciplined* junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/9/...

The University in Crisis: A Review of Undisciplined: Reclaiming the Right to Imagine — The Junkyard

A post by Seth Goldwasser I never had the pleasure of meeting or speaking with Dr. Melz Owusu before his passing, which occurred after I had cited interest in reviewing his book. I’m deeply saddened ...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Junkyard returns from its summer hiatus with a post from Mark Windsor and Jakub Stejskal on the archaeological sublime and the imaginative failure it involves.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Sep 3

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Mark Windsor and Jakub Stejskal junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/8/...

In and out of touch with the past: the archaeological sublime — The Junkyard

A post by Mark Windsor and Jakub Stejskal Many of us are inexorably drawn to material remains of humanity’s deep past: we like to read about new archaeological finds and observe them up close in sit...

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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 7

APA Pacific 2026 paper submissions are open with two new options: workshops for structured discussion of in-progress work, and lightning sessions for testing out new ideas. Colloquium and symposium options are still available as well! Submit a paper today. papers.apaonline.org

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Jul 15

Call for Abstracts
Workshop: Creative Imagination from Art to Science
University of Geneva, September 29–30, 2025
Organizers: Julia Langkau and Amy Kind

Creative Imagination from Art to Science

Call for Abstracts Workshop: Creative Imagination from Art to Science University of Geneva, September 29–30, 2025 Organizers: Julia Langkau and Amy Kind Over the last couple of decades, ima...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Jun 4

Eric Peterson on the mutual reinforcement of value between imagination and free speech

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Jun 4

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Eric Peterson junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/6/...

Free Speech and Imagination — The Junkyard

A post by Eric Peterson Free speech is either a civil liberty essential for a flourishing liberal democracy or a threat to that very democracy, depending on who you ask. There are many arguments that...

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Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · May 29

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.

Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · May 28

Come join me at the WCA in Edmonton this fall! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Western Canadian Philosophical Association

Call for Papers The 61st annual meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association in conjunction with the 9th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Sociét...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · May 28

Felipe Morales Carbonell on imagining how, epistemic friction, and epistemic freedom

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 28

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Felipe Morales Carbonell junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...

To imagine how, creatively — The Junkyard

A post by Felipe Morales Carbonell Note: This is a side-piece to a longer essay I am working on, which focuses on how imagination can help us learn how to do things or how to act. The topic here is ...

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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations to Dustin Locke of Claremont McKenna College, winner of the 2024 Anthony J. Lisska Prize! www.apaonline.org/page/2025pri...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · May 21

Brendan Bo O'Connor reports on recent work from his lab that sheds light on the question of how co-imagining a shared future with someone else might influence social connection, and also how it might shape the phenomenology and content of what is imagined.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 21

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Brendan Bo O'Connor junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...

Co-imagination: The future we imagine — The Junkyard

A post by Brendan Bo O’Connor Our future is not a foregone conclusion. It’s actively constructed at the horizon of the present. In a moment when the world feels divisive and isolating, I’d like to sh...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · May 14

Tom Schoonen raises a worry for the truth-conditional condition of one prominent logic of imagination, Berto’s two-component semantics.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 14

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Tom Schoonen junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...

It's not all about aboutness — The Junkyard

A post by Tom Schoonen It's been almost ten years since a great burst of logics of imagination appeared (depending on when you start counting, of course). The idea behind these formalisations is th...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · May 12

Wishing you peace

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · May 7

Cassi Vieten on how imagination can heal our relationship to the past and can also help us build a better future.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · May 7

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Cassandra Vieten junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/5/...

The Power of Reimagining: How Imagination Can Reshape Our Past, Future, and Selves — The Junkyard

A post by Cassandra Vieten As a psychologist and researcher, my career has focused on how people change. In particular, I have investigated the experiences, practices, and environments that transform...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Apr 30

Nick Wiltsher takes a stand against the claim that imagination is valuable as a way of achieving epistemic ends; in his view, "the value of epistemic imagining must have to do with the fact that one is using imagination to pursue epistemic ends; the value inheres in the process, not in the product."

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 30

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Nick Wiltsher junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...

The value of epistemic imagining — The Junkyard

A post by Nick Wiltsher Here are three related claims to which I’m increasingly sympathetic: (1) Imagination has no distinctive epistemic ends. (2) The epistemic ends that can be pursued using imag...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Apr 23

Caterina Moruzzi makes that case that imagining the future of our creative interactions with AI technologies is crucially important for proactively anticipating the transformative impact of these emerging technologies on creative education and professional practice.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 23

This week at the Junkyard: A post by Caterina Moruzzi junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...

Imagining The Future of Creative Skills and Education — The Junkyard

A post by Caterina Moruzzi Imagine the near future of 2030 where AI has become deeply embedded in creative workflows. What does that future look like? This is one of the questions that ...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Apr 17

Heidi Maibom and Kyle Furlane on how empathy can bring about a gestalt shift -- and more specifically, a gestalt shift that is a shift in moral orientation.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 17

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Heidi L. Maibom and Kyle Furlane junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...

Getting our Shift Together: Empathy and Moral Gestalt Shifts — The Junkyard

A post by Heidi L. Maibom and Kyle Furlane In his essay Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell describes the following encounter with a fascist: “a man, presumably carrying a message to an officer, jum...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Apr 10

How can we achieve understanding across polarized gaps? Shannon Spaulding raises some worries for the suggestion that we should do so not by way of empathy but by way of trust.

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 9

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Shannon Spaulding junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/...

Trust and Empathy — The Junkyard

A post by Shannon Spaulding Can you have trust without understanding? This is not an esoteric question. It is a question directly relevant for the many politically and affectively polarized debates i...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happy birthday to The Junkyard! It's hard for me to believe that we've been doing this for eight years, and I definitely didn't realize what I was getting myself into when it all started, but I'm so happy I decided to give it a go. Thanks to everyone who has been a part of the blog thus far!

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Junkyard turns 8 today! Happy birthday to us! Over these last 8 years, we've run well over 400 posts from well over 200 different contributors, and we've garnered over 121K distinct visitors. Thanks to all our contributors and readers for helping to make this blog what it is.

A candle in the shape of the number 8, with red and yellow stripes, topped by a red and yellow flame.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Apr 2

Radu Bumbăcea on mind-reading, privacy, and virtue

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Apr 2

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Radu Bumbăcea junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/3/...

Is mind-reading an intrusion? — The Junkyard

A post by Radu Bumbăcea The perfect mind-reader. When you go to the office in the morning, your colleague is already there: after saying hello, she scans you for a few seconds, tracks your eye and ...

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Apr 1

Please take action to support the NEH!

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I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

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Amy Kind @amylkind.bsky.social · Mar 26

In this exploration of AI creativity, Catherine Wearing explores whether we can characterize the products of generative AI as creative even if we deny that generative AI itself is creative. (Spoiler alert: Her answer is no.)

the-junkyard.bsky.social @the-junkyard.bsky.social · Mar 26

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Catherine Wearing junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/3/...

Creative products and creative processes — The Junkyard

A post by Catherine Wearing Recent gains in the capabilities of generative AI systems pose a dilemma for our thinking about creativity. On the one hand, some of the products of these systems seem pre...

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