CFP: Special Issue on Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence (Philosophical Psychology)

CFP: Special Issue on Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence (Philosophical Psychology)

Manuscript Deadline: 31 May 2026

Special Issue Editors

Kengo Miyazono, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hokkaido University, Japan

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Fiora Salis, Department of Philosophy, University of York, UK

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The aim of this special issue is to explore the relation between imagination, creativity and artificial intelligence through interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of philosophy, psychology and artificial intelligence. Many areas where human creativity has been crucial in the past are now being transformed by machines. Creativity is often associated with imagination, but the cognitive relationship between imagination and creativity in humans is still poorly understood, and no account of the role of imagination in computational creativity has been developed, yet.

Appropriate topics for submission are, among others:

• The nature of human and machine creativity

• The nature of human and machine imagination

• The prospects of machine creativity in the arts and the sciences

• The implications of machine creativity for human agency

• The methods for evaluating and measuring computational creativity

• The differences between human creativity and imagination and their machine counterparts

• The implications of machine creativity for our notions of imagination and creativity

• The potential impacts of machine imagination and creativity on philosophical practices

Invited contributors include:

• Allison Hills (University of Oxford) and Alexander Bird (University of Cambridge)

• Dustin Stokes (LMU Munich)

• Elliot Samuel Paul (Queen’s University)

• Katsunori Miyahara (University of Hokkaido)

• Sebastian Sunday Gréve (University of Peking)

Informal queries should be directed at: Dr Fiora Salis ([email protected])

Special Issue URL:https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/imagination-creativity-artificial-intelligence/

Submission Instructions

• Contributors are invited to submit papers that examine the relation between the three elements of imagination, creativity and artificial intelligence.

• Papers should be original research articles, 7000-8000 word long (excluding bibliography).

• Case reports that are relevant to the philosophical debate in this area are also welcome.

• When submitting your paper, please select "Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence" as the title of the special issue in the drop-down menu.

• It is our policy that only papers that have been through peer review and have attracted two positive reports from independent reviewers are accepted for publication.

• Papers will be published online as they become available but they will only be assigned to an issue when all papers in the special issue will have completed production.

• We encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence.