PETER LANGLAND-HASSAN
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Greetings -- I am Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Cincinnati.  Most of my work falls within the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, or experimental psychology.  
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My research focuses on questions such as:
  • What is imagination?
  • How does imagination help us do things like pretend, reason hypothetically, enjoy fiction, and be creative?
  • What is the relationship of imagination to episodic memory?
  • What is "inner speech," and what does it allow us to do?
  • What is the relationship between language and abstract thought? 
  • How do we know our own minds?

My book, Explaining Imagination, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2020.  It's available free as a PDF download, thanks to a TOME grant from the University of Cincinnati.  It's also available in hardcopy at the usual places.  You can find out more about the book--and reactions to it--on this site's Explaining Imagination page.

I was recently interviewed about my work on the Futurati Podcast. 

Contact: Langland-Hassan at uc dot edu


Upcoming and Recent Events:

April 21, 2022:  "The Imagery Debate:  Still Debatable,"  invited talk at Imagistic Cognition Workshop, University of Salzburg, Austria (online).

May 24, 2022: Comments on Reza Hadisi's: “Between the Universal and the Particular: Lessons from Suhrawardi," Online at COVID Imagination Workshop, Claremont McKenna College, CA.

June 15-16, 2022: "Thought Insertion as a Persecutory Delusion," invited talk at Deluded by Experience workshop, University of Birmingham, England.
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July 13, 2022:  Workshop on Reductive Theories of Imagination, and Explaining Imagination, University of Salzburg, Austria.  Invited talk:  "Compatibilism about Imagination"

July 15-16, 2022:  "Episodic Memory and the Threat of Collapse," invited talk at Simulationism 2022, Center for the Philosophy of Memory, Universite Grenoble Alps, Grenoble, France.  

August 3-5, 2022:  Invited talk at Issues in Philosophy of Memory 3, Duke University, NC.


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