The workshop, organized by research projects PID2023-152118NB-I00 & PID2024-155717NB-I00, explores the role of imagination in metaphysics, focusing on how imaginative practices contribute to the constitution, discovery, or articulation of different kinds of objects. Imagination appears central to domains that involve entities whose ontological status is contested or complex, such as fictional characters, hypothetical scientific entities, psychiatric conditions, or socially constructed objects. The goal of the workshop is to clarify the epistemic and metaphysical roles imagination plays across these domains, and to assess whether imagination merely provides heuristic access to independently existing possibilities or whether it actively participates in bringing certain kinds of objects into being. By comparing these different cases, the workshop aims to shed light on the broader relationship between imagination, modality, and ontology.
Dates: October 8-9, 2026
Place: Sala de Juntas, Psychology Building, Universidad de Granada.
PROGRAM
Thursday 8
8:45 Welcome
9:00-10:00 Manuel García-Carpintero (Barcelona): Imaginative resistance and knowledge from fiction
10:00-11:00 Víctor Fernández Castro & Miguel Núñez de Prado (Granada): Virtues and vices of mental fictionalism in mental health
Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Antonello Caravelli (Genoa): Constituting fictional worlds through perspectival-participative imagination
12:30-13:30 Francesco Consiglio (Valencia): Imagining stories. An enactivist account of narratives
Lunch (Cafeteria Faculty of Economics)
15:30-16:30 Mirco Sambrotta (Viena): Propositional imagination: A normative pragmatist account
16:30-17:30 Fernando Martínez-Manrique (Granada): How do we know that we imagined it right?
Friday 9
10:00-11:00 Javi Arias Crespo (Granada): What could we possibly be thinking when we were thinking the impossible?
11:00-12:00 Enrique Aranda (Granada): Imagination, fiction and narratives
Coffee break
12:30-13:30 Alejandro Marín González (Granada) On the unreality of the imaginary
Lunch (Cafeteria Faculty of Economics)
15:30-16:30 María José García-Encinas (Granada): Imagination, supposition and intuition in modal metaphysical knowledge.
16:30-17:30 Otávio Bueno (Miami): The Limits of Imagination in Metaphysical Theorizing
Email for information: fmmanriq@ugr.es