Conference: Imagination in the History of Philosophy – Phantasia, imaginatio, imagination: from Plato to Hume
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.