books
Philosophy of Mind: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (co-authored with Torin Alter and Robert Howell), Routledge (2024)
What is Consciousness? A Debate (co-authored with Daniel Stoljar), Routledge (2023)
Philosophy of Mind: The Basics, Routledge (2020)
Persons and Personal Identity, Polity (2015)
MONOGRAPHS
Imagination and Creative Thinking, Cambridge (2022)
edited Books
Epistemic Uses of Imagination, co-edited with Christopher Badura, Routledge (2021)
Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Routledge (2018)
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination, Routledge (2016)
Knowledge Through Imagination, co-edited with Peter Kung, Oxford University Press (2016)
Selected Papers on imagination
(For an overview of my research on imagination, see my interview at 3:16, "The Compatibilist Imagination")
“Issues of Expertise in Perception and Imagination: Commentary on Stokes” in Philosophical Studies (available open access)
“Memory, Imagination, and Skill,” in Anja Berninger and Ingrid Vendrell Ferran, eds., Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (available open access)
“Fiction and the Cultivation of Imagination” in Patrik Engisch and Julia Langkau, eds., The Philosophy of Fiction (available open access)
“Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination” (intro to Topical Collection on Imagination and Its Limits) in Synthese
“The Feeling of Familiarity” in Acta Scientiarium: Human and Social Sciences (available open access)
“Learning to Imagine” in British Journal of Aesthetics online first (available open access)
“Can Imagination Be Unconscious?” Synthese 199: 13121-13141 (2022)
“The Possibility of Imagining Pain” - commentary on Jennifer Radden’s “Imagined and Delusional Pain” in Rivista Internazionale Di Filosofia E Psicologia commentary on Jennifer Radden’s “Imagined and Delusional Pain” (available open access)
“Bridging the Divide: Imagining Across Experiential Perspectives” - in Christopher Badura and Amy Kind, eds., Epistemic Uses of Imagination (available open access)
“The Skill of Imagination,” in The Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise, Ellen Fridland and Carlotta Pavese, eds. (2020)
“Imaginative Experience,” in Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness, Uriah Kriegel, ed. (2020)
“What Imagination Teaches,” in Becoming Someone New: Essays on Transformative Experience, Choice, and Change, Encoh Lambert and John Schwenkler, eds. (2020)
“Philosophical Perspectives on Imagination in the Western Tradition,” in Cambridge Handbook of Imagination, Anna Abraham, ed. (2020)
“Mary’s Powers of Imagination,” in The Knowledge Argument, Sam Coleman, ed. (2019)
“How Imagination Gives Rise to Knowledge,” in Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination, Fabian Dorsch and Fiona Macpherson, eds. (2018)
“Imaginative Presence,” in Perceptual Presence, Fabian Dorsch, Fiona Macpherson, and Martine Nide-Rumelin, eds. (2018)
“Imaginative Vividness,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 3: 32-50 (2017)
“Imagining Under Constraints,” in Knowledge Through Imagination, Amy Kind and Peter Kung, eds. (2016)
“Desire-Like Imagination,” in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination, Amy Kind, ed. (2016)
“The Snowman’s Imagination,” American Philosophical Quarterly 53: 341-348 (2016)
“The Heterogeneity of Imagination,” Erkenntnis 78: 141-159 (2013)
“The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89: 421-439 (2011)
“Putting the Image Back in Imagination,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62: 85-109 (2001)
selected Papers on Consciousness and Qualia
“The Impoverishment Problem,” Synthese 203, 120 (2004)
“Pessimism about Russellian Monism,” in Consciousness in the Physical World, Torin Alter and Yujin Nagasawa, eds. (2015)
“The Case Against Representationalism About Moods,” in Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Mind, Uriah Kriegel, ed. (2013)
“How to Believe in Qualia,” in The Case for Qualia, E.O. Wright, ed. (2008)
“Restrictions on Representationalism,” Philosophical Studies 134: 405-427 (2007)
“Panexperientialism, Cognition, and the Nature of Experience” Psyche 12 (2006)
“What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” Philosophical Studies 115: 225-244 (2003)
“Qualia Realism,” Philosophical Studies 104: 143-162 (2001)
selected PAPERS on personal identity
“Biometrics and the Metaphysics of Personal Identity,” in IET Biometrics
“The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Special Concern for the Future,” Metaphilosophy 35: 536-553 (2004)
selected OTHER PAPERS
“Computing Machinery and Sexual Difference,” in Feminist Philosophy of Mind, ed. Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny (2022)
“Shoemaker, Self-Blindness and Moore’s Paradox,” The Philosophical Quarterly 53: 39-48 (2003)
Selected Blog Posts and Other online Writing
“Do Androids Dream of Sanctuary Moon?” (at The Splintered Mind)
“Social Change and the Science Fiction Imagination” (at The Splintered Mind)
“The Time of Your Life” (at The Splintered Mind)
“Identity Across the Multiverse” (at The Splintered Mind)
“What is it Like to be a Plant?” (at The Splintered Mind)
“Learning from Science Fiction” (at The Splintered Mind)
“How’d Imagination Become So Hot?” (at The Junkyard)
“Imagination is a powerful tool: why is philosophy afraid of it?” (at Aeon)