Joshua Myers
Professor
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science
BA University of Miami; PhD New York University
Office: Stevenson Hall
E-mail: jmyers82@uwo.ca
I work at the intersection of mind and epistemology. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how we manage to represent and reason about the world. This has resulted in two (closely related) research projects. The first investigates how the imagination can be a source of epistemic value. The second investigates the nature, semantics, and epistemology of analog and iconic representations. I approach these topics from both a priori and empirically informed perspectives.
Recent Publications
Imaginative Beliefs. Inquiry (2024) online first.
The Epistemic Role of Vividness. Analysis (2025), 85(1):100-110.
How Imagination Informs. The Philosophical Quarterly (2025), 75(1):167-189.
Imagination as a Source of Empirical Justification. Philosophy Compass (2024), 19(3):e12969.
The Structure of Analog Representation. Noûs (2023), 57(1):209-237. (co-authored with Andrew Lee and Gabriel Rabin)
The Epistemic Status of the Imagination. Philosophical Studies (2021), 178(10):3251–3270.
Reasoning with Imagination. Epistemic Uses of Imagination (2021) A. Kind & C. Badura (eds.), Routledge. 103-121.
