Recent Talks

Value in Creative Imagining, Workshop: The Composition of Creative Intelligence, Autonomous University of Barcelona, October 2025
Value in Creative Imagining, Workshop: Creative Imagining from Art to Science, University of Geneva, September 2025
Imagination's Roots in Memory, Symposium: Down to Earth Imagining, ESPP 2025 Conference Warsaw, September 2025
Affective Imagining in Response to Fiction and the Author's Intention, 19th International Pragmatics Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, University of Queensland in Brisbane, June 2025 (online)
Bats, Sheep and Pyromaniacs: On the Role of Thought Experiments in Philosophical Creativity, CUSO Workshop University of Geneva, June 2025
Was ist Kreativitaet? Muenchenwiler Seminar "Kreativitaet", Collegium Generale, University of Bern, May 2025
Creative Imagining as Guided Mind-Wandering, Workshop - Creativity, Imagination & Artificial Intelligence, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, March 2025
Creative Imagining, Warwick-Geneva-Leipzig Workshop in the Philosophy of Mind, University of Leipzig, November 2024
Creative Imagining, Imagination in the Context of Situated Cognition, Workshop in Cognitive Science and Philosophy, Bochum/Osnabrueck, Ruhr University Bochum, October 2024
Towards a Taxonomy of Experiential Thinking, Conference: Fantasy: Its Nature, Norms and Value, University of Geneva, October 2024
Imaginative Resistance in Empathy with Political Opponents, Conference: At the Limits of Imagination: Otherness in Humans & Nonhuman Animals, University of Vienna, September 2024
Literary Narratives, Empathy and the Creative Reader, Summer School of Cognitive Science: The Narrative Mind, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, September 2024
Imagining What We Will Remember, Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium, Ruhr-University Bochum, June 2024
Fiction, Truth and Literariness, II International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction, Federal University of Cariri, Brazil, June 2024 (online)
Literariness and the Creative Use of Imagination, XI International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Pablo de Olavide University Sevilla, May 2024
The Role of Value in Creative Processes, Colloque de recherche, Institut de Philosophie, University of Neuchatel, April 2024
On Creative Imagination, Research Colloquium Research Group Aesthetics&Critique, University of Fribourg, March 2024
Wie wir literarische Texte lesen, Forschungskolloquium Philosophie, University of Lucerne, March 2024
Creative Uses of Imagination, ICARUS seminar, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, January 2024
Imaginative Resistance in Empathy, Workshop: Can you imagine? The Role of Imagination in Understanding Others, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, September 2023
On the Future of the Notion of Creativity, Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Society: Concepts and Their Uses, University of Bern, August 2023
Creativity in Philosophy and the Role of Intuitions, Workshop The Role of Intuitions in Philosophy, University of Cologne, June 2023
Reading Literary Fiction: A Creative Use of Imagination, Workshop Between Fiction and Non-Fiction, Uppsala University, June 2023
What is Creative Imagining?, Fourth Annual Online Conference on Imagination, organized by Amy Kind, May 2023
Theories of Creativity, Conference Imagination and Creativity, University of Geneva, May 2023
Life and Literary Fiction, BW12 Fiction, Literature and Beyond, University of Barcelona, May 2023
Imagining Future Memories, Cognitive Science Centre, University of Neuchatel, April 2023
Phenomenal Concepts and our Ability to Imagine, Workshop Phenomenal Concepts and their (New) Applications, University of Fribourg, February 2023
Qu'est-ce que la creativite?, Inaugural Lecture, University of Geneva, December 2022
Imagining what we will remember?, Quodlibeta talk, University of Geneva, November 2022
Belief, Imagination, and the Experience of Fiction, Workshop Imagination and Belief, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Bar-Ilan University Jerusalem, September 2022
Explaining Creativity, Workshop: Reductive Explanations of Imagination, University of Salzburg, July 2022
What it is Like and the Gap Between Experience and Imagination, Conference: Interpersonal Understanding: Transcending Boundaries?, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, June 2022
Experiencing Literary Fiction, 2022 Conference of the Association for Philosophy and Literature, Banff, May 2022
Was Gedankenexperiment und Literatur unterscheidet, Philosophische Gesellschaft Basel, April 2022
Creativity: Thought Experiments and Literary Fiction, University of Bern, April 2022
What is Creativity?, PhilEAs talk, University of Geneva, March 2022
Two Notions of Creativity, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, March 2022 (online)
Two Notions of Creativity, Colloquium of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, March 2022
The Empathic Skill Fiction Can't Teach Us, Max Planck School of Cognition, Berlin, December 2021
Was ist Kreativität? Philosophie mittenmang, Flensburg, November 2021
Complex Imaginative Experiences and Memory, Workshop: Imagination and Memory: A Matter of Degrees?, Institut Jean Nicod EHESS, Paris, November 2021
On Imagining Being Someone Else, Workshop: Empathy and its Limits, TU Dortmund, October 2021 (online)
Two Notions of Creativity, Festschrift Symposium for Hans-Johann Glock, University of Zurich, September 2021
Goodman: Languages of Art, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, April 2021 (online)
Vivid Imagining and the Experience of Literary Fiction, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, April 2021 (online)
Vivid Imagining and the Experience of Literary Fiction, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, April 2021 (online)
On Imagining Being Someone Else, University of Haifa, December 2020 (online)
On Imagining Being Someone Else, LOGOS Extra talk, University of Barcelona, November 2020 (online)
On Imagining Being Someone Else, Utrecht Lunch Talks, Utrecht University, November 2020 (online)
Metaphilosophie und die Rolle der Psychologie, Ringvorlesung Frühjahrssemester 2020: Metaphilosophie, University of Zurich, April 2020 (online)
Experiencing Literary Fiction, TP Colloquium, Utrecht University, December 2019
Experiencing Literary Fiction, Women* Academics: a Philosophy Workshop, University of Lausanne, December 2019
Truth Matters, Aesthetically, The Aesthetic Mind: Third Workshop, University of Fribourg, September 2019
Experiencing Literary Fiction, Conference: Philosophical Reasoning as Transformative Experience, Konstanz, July 2019
Two Kinds of Imaginative `Vividness', Conference on Fiction, Imagination, Epistemology, Bochum, June 2019
The Empathic Skill Fiction Can't Teach Us, Arche Anniversary Conference, St Andrews, June 2019
Thought Experiments and Fiction, `What if??' - Counterfactual Explorations and Thought Experiments, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, May 2019
Two Kinds of Imaginative `Vividness', Thumos Seminar, University of Geneva, March 2019
The Empathic Skill Fiction Can't Teach Us, Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati, March 2019
Creativity, Imagination and Tradition, The Aesthetic Mind: Second Workshop, University of Fribourg, February 2019
Vivid Literary Descriptions and Intense Experiences, ExRe Colloquium, University of Fribourg, December 2018
Empathic Skills and the Carryover Problem, Workshop: Attention, Compassion, and Empathy in Ethics, University of Fribourg, September 2018