CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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We are pleased to announce that our research group on Metaphysics and Categories (https://oncategories.wixsite.com/home), will be hosting the workshop “Imagining Reality” in Granada (Spain) 8-9 October 2026.

 

The workshop 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, 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. 

 

The workshop will bring together scholars working on metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science to examine how imagination functions in our engagement with these domains and whether it plays a genuine role in determining what is possible, impossible, or real.

 

Most of the speakers will be members of our research group, but we have 2 more slots. Thus, we are inviting researchers who are willing to talk with us about the role of imagination, if any, in making things, such as fictional objects, possible or impossible objects, scientific objects, social objects, and so on. Accommodation expenses would be covered by our project.

 

If you are interested, please send an extended abstract (around 1,000 words) with the main argument for your proposal, and a separate sheet with your name and affiliation.

 

Abstract deadline: 1 July 2026

Send abstract to: fmmanriq@ugr.es

Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026

 

Organised by research project PID2023-152118NB-I00

 

Local organisers: Enrique Aranda Murillo, Javier Arias Crespo, María José García Encinas, Alejandro Marín, Fernando Martínez Manrique