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LOCATION:Key Auditorium (Roger Bacon 202)
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Department Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">What We Can Learn From What We Can't Imagine</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">Jonathan Weinberg</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">Associate Professor of Philosophy</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">University of Arizona</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Here is a tension in our understanding of how the imagination works: on the one hand\, the imagination is a zone of creative freedom\, whose purpose is at least in part to be untethered from facts and actualities\; on the other hand\, the imagination is an important epistemic tool\, especially in philosophy\, where our ability to dream up various scenarios in &quot\;thought-experiments&quot\; is meant to be taken as evidence for particular philosophical claims. How can these both be true? The answer\, I will suggest\, lies importantly in the ways in which our imagination is not totally free\, but can sometimes be &quot\;blocked&quot\; from imagining particular propositions or sets of propositions. I will first present a naturalistic account of the imagination\, and an explanation of this phenomenon of imaginative blockage. I will then provide an account of how these blocks can be exploited to provide an important window of knowledge on to the world at large &ndash\; but I will also suggest some important limitations on that knowledge as well.</span></p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">Friday\, March 1\, 2013</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">Key Auditorium</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">4:30-6:00PM</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;"><br />\nSponsored by the Siena College Philosophy Department</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size: 18px\;">For more information\, please contact jalexander@siena.edu</span></p>
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