Greetings -- I am  a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.  Most of my work falls within the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and experimental psychology.  While I mainly write philosophy papers, some of my reserach involves designing and carrying out psychological experiments.
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My research considers questions such as:

• What is imagination, and what does it allow us to do?
• What can we learn about human thought, by reflecting on contemporary AI systems?
• What is "inner speech," and what does it allow us to do?
• What is the relationship of imagination to episodic memory?
• 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:

October 19-21, 2023: "In Search of Imaginationland," Imagination Workshop, Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination, University of San Diego, California.  

May 15-17, 2023: Imagiantion, Creativity, and Artificial Intelligence, invited talk at Imagination and Creativity Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.
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April 3-5, 2023: Explaining Imagination, Author meets critics session at Pacific APA, Sanfrancisco, CA.

November 17, 2022:  "Knowing What You are Imagining,"  invited talk at Successful and Unsuccessful Remembering and Imagining, (online).

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

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.  

July 13, 2022:  Workshop on Reductive Theories of Imagination, and Explaining Imagination, University of Salzburg, Austria.  Invited talk:  "Compatibilism about Imagination"

June 15-16, 2022: "Thought Insertion as a Persecutory Delusion," invited talk at Deluded by Experience workshop, University of Birmingham, England.

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.

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

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Peter Langland-Hassan

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