Colloquium by Piotr Kozak "On the Possibility of Non-Reductive Approaches to Imagination"

On Monday, 28.04.2025 at 16.15–17.45 in Jakobi 2-336 an open philosophy colloquium by Piotr Kozak "On the Possibility of Non-Reductive Approaches to Imagination". Students, both undergraduate and graduate, are especially encouraged to attend!

Piotr Kozak is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bialystok, Poland. Author of "Thinking in Images" by Bloomsbury Publishing. He is also anthology Editor of "The Legacy of Kant in Contemporary Philosophy".

Summary
In my talk, I will describe the possible non-reductive approaches to the nature of imagination. I will argue that imagination can be taken as a distinctive skill. Based on the insights from invariant theory in mathematics, I will hold that imagination is a matter of determining the states of information space to find invariant properties of the latter. I will illustrate this description with geometrical and non-geometrical examples. I will demonstrate that such a description offers a unified and non-reductive approach to imagination.