Conference: Imagination in the History of Philosophy

Name: Conference: Imagination in the History of Philosophy
Start: 2025-10-09T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-11T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Tóth Kálmán u. 4., Budapest, Hungary, 1097

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 08:45 am to Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Tóth Kálmán u. 4., Budapest, Hungary, 1097 | Budapest, BU

Conference: Imagination in the History of Philosophy
Phantasia, imaginatio, imagination: from Plato to Hume
Date: October 9-11, 2025
Organisers: Attila Hangai & Dániel Attila Kovács & Dániel Schmal
The conference traces the notion of mental representation (phantasia, imaginatio) in ancient, medieval, and early modern philosophy. The papers cover various aspects of the notion, including its role in cognitive activities – e.g., sense-perception, memory, imagination, dreaming, discursive thinking – as well as in moral psychology, especially as the bearer of motivational content both in humans and in other animals. By tracing the development of the notion from its ancient origins through its medieval reception until early modernity, we expect to gain a new perspective on the history of ideas of human cognition.
Read more: https://fi.abtk.hu/en/articles/109-events/2029-conference-imagination-in-the-history-of-philosophy