Marian Miner Cook
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Imagining Others

Tue, April 17, 2018
Lunch Program
Amy Kind

Can one know what it's like to live a life very different from one's own? This question is particularly pressing in contemporary society as we try to bridge racial, ethnic, and gender divides. In this talk, Amy Kind, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, will explore whether and how imagination might play a role in providing us with access to experiential perspectives quite different from our own.

Amy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where she has been on the faculty since 1997. Her research interests lie broadly in the philosophy of mind, but most of her work centers on issues relating to imagination and to phenomenal consciousness. 

In addition to authoring the introductory textbook Persons and Personal Identity (Polity, 2015), she has edited The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination (Routledge, 2016) and she has co-edited Knowledge Through Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her edited volume Philosophy of Mind in the 20th and 21th Centuries, volume six of a six volume series on the history of philosophy, will be published by Routledge in 2018. She has previously served as president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology and as a member of the board of officers of the American Philosophical Association.

Professor Kind's Athenaeum presentation celebrates her installation ceremony as the Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at CMC.

 

View Video: YouTube with Amy Kind

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