Perception, Memory, Imagination
09 Apr 2026 - 10 Apr 2026
SHHK Conference Room
Alumni, Current Students, Industry/Academic Partners, Prospective Students, Public
In recent years, philosophy of mind has become increasingly specialised in the way that researchers investigate core topics such as perception, memory, and imagination. ‘Philosophy of perception’, ‘philosophy of memory’, and ‘philosophy of imagination’ have matured as established sub-fields with their own intellectual communities and concerns. While this has no doubt been a successful turn, researchers working in these sub-fields engage with one another less frequently than they could, despite the deep conceptual and empirical connections between the three phenomena.
This workshop seeks to bridge these gaps by bringing together leading researchers to explore the bigger picture that emerges out of the rich interconnections between perception, memory, and imagination.
PROGRAMME
Day 1 – April 9th 2026
All talks in SHHK Conference Room (05-57).
09:20–09:30. Welcome.
09:30–10:30. Daniel Stoljar (ANU), title TBC.
10:30–10:45. Tea/coffee break.
10:45–11:45. Christopher McCarroll (NYCU), ‘Episodic memory and the sense of us: The phenomenology of remembering the shared past’ (with Shin Sakuragi).
11:45–12:45. Michelle Liu (Monash), ‘Phenomenology and two kinds of impoverishment’.
12:45–14:00. Lunch served next to Conference Room.
14:00–15:00. Ben Blumson (NUS), ‘Fiction and imagination’.
15:00–16:00. Winnie Sung (NTU), ‘Subjective experiential aspects of imagining and believing’.
16:00–16:30. Tea/coffee break.
16:30–17:30. James Stazicker (KCL), ‘The autonomy of subjective representation’.
Informal dinner (location TBC).
Day 2 – April 10th 2026
Morning session talks in SPMS Lecture Theatre 5 (03-08).
09:30–10:30. Lu Teng (ANU), ‘Imagery without pictures’.
10:30–10:45. Tea/coffee break.
10:45–11:45. André Sant’Anna (Yonsei), ‘The dynamic phenomenology of remembering’.
11:45–12:45. James Openshaw (NTU), ‘Beyond the episodic: From multiple memory systems to remembering the personal past’ (with Jonathan Najenson).
12:45–14:00. Lunch served in Staff Lounge.
Afternoon session talks in SHHK Conference Room (05-57).
14:00–15:00. Tony Cheng (Waseda), ‘Unconscious aphantasia reimagined’.
15:00–16:00. Neil Mehta (NUS), ‘Can you read with your ears?’.
16:00–16:15. Tea/coffee break.
16:15–17:15. David Papineau (KCL), ‘Keeping track of the contents of experience’.
17:15–17:45. Closing discussion.
Workshop dinner (location TBC).
DETAILS AND REGISTRATION
Attendance is free but we kindly ask participants to register by Friday March 20th.
ENQUIRIES
For further information, or to sign up for the workshop dinner on either date, please contact the organisers, James Openshaw and Winnie Sung.
FUNDING
This workshop is funded by a CoHASS Joint NTU-ANU NTU-KCL Workshop scheme.