I'm an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Cincinnati.  Most of my work falls within the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of cognitive science.  
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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.

Contact: Langland-Hassan at uc dot edu


Upcoming Events:

March 15, 2021: Conference talk (title TBA) at New Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Theory Building (Rome, Italy) (online).

February 18, 2021:  "Forgetting through Familiarity"  talk at Generative Episodic Memory converence, Bochum, Germany.  (Online)

February 12, 2021: Online Symposium on Explaining Imagination, at the Brains Blog.

October 26, 2020: Online Research Talk:  "Remembering, Imagining, and Memory Traces:  Toward a Continuist Causal Theory" Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Memory Conference (follow link for online access).
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October 15, 2020: Online Research Talk:  "What sort of Imagining Might Remembering Be?"  Bochum-Grenoble Memory Colloquium, on Zoom:  meeting ID: 829 7050 5769 password: 8rraW0

October 14, 2020:  Online Symposium on Explaining Imagination, at Junkyward of the Mind Blog.





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Peter Langland-Hassan