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"Thought in Time" Grenoble-Tartu workshop on memory and imagination

Grenoble-Tartu workshop on memory and imagination, titled "Thought in Time" will take place 27–28 February 2025 at the University of Tartu, Jakobi 2-336. This workshop will bring together philosophers from Tartu and Grenoble to discuss themes of common interest related to the philosophy of memory and imagination. The talks will cover both empirically informed approaches in contemporary philosophy of mind and historical perspectives. 

Keynote:

Dorothea Debus (Erlangen)

Speakers:

  • Vilius Dranseika (Kraków), “Hackenschmidt on forgetting”;
  • Meelis Friedenthal (Tartu), “About the interior senses, common sense, imagination and memory in early modern philosophical disputations”;
  • Jelena Markovic (Grenoble), “The value of memory building in grief”;
  • Kourken Michaelian (Grenoble), “Causalism(s) and mnemic reference”;
  • Bruno Mölder (Tartu), “Natural kinds and memory”;
  • Denis Perrin (Grenoble), “What is a memory trace if it is a disposition”;
  • Jakub Rudnicki (Grenoble), “Singular thought is abstracted thought”;
  • Riin Sirkel (Tartu), “Stoics on phantasia”;
  • Uku Tooming & Roomet Jakapi (Tartu), “Aphantasia and the Humean account of abstraction”.

The workshop is organised by:

Uku Tooming (Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu);

Kourken Michaelian (Centre of Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes).

To register, please contact: uku.tooming@ut.ee.

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