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Are there limits to what we can imagine?

Mon, April 10, 2017
Dinner Program
Kathleen Stock

Occasionally, novels and stories ask us to imagine certain things, yet readers have difficulty complying. That is, they experience difficulty in imagining what they are supposed to. Kathleen Stock, philosopher from the University of Sussex, will explore a range of cases, and survey some possible explanations.

Kathleen Stock is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of the monograph 'Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination', forthcoming with Oxford University Press in summer 2017; and the editor of 'Philosopher on Music' (Oxford, 2007). She has published widely on questions concerning the imagination, fiction, and art, as well as on the nature of sexual.

objectification. In the past she has been the recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council research grant; a trustee of the American Society of Aesthetics; and the Secretary of the British Society of Aesthetics. She continues to be an Editorial Consultant for the British Journal of Aesthetics.

Professor Stock’s Athenaeum talk is facilitated by a Mellon Global Liberal Arts Visiting Scholar grant.

View Video: YouTube with Kathleen Stock

 

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