Research interests

My main research areas are the philosophy of imagination and creativity, empathy, the philosophy of fiction, and philosophical methodology. Here is the link to the Geneva Research Group Creativity and Imagination: creaphil.org.

Publications

• Empathizing Across Sensibilites (together with Patrik Engisch), forthcoming in Philosophical Explorations.
• The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, edited together with Amy Kind, forthcoming.
• Theories of Creativity, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, forthcoming.
• Kreative Vorstellung in Literatur und Philosophie, forthcoming in: Gregorio, S./Reuter, G./Vogel, M./Werner, C., Geist und Imagination. Zur Bedeutung der Vorstellungskraft fuer Denken und Handeln, Suhrkamp, forthcoming.
• How Imaginative Engagement with Art Can Connect Us with Reality, in: SDGzine special issue WHO Arts & Health, 2024, 28-30.
• Komik und Anschaulichkeit (together with Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Koeppe), in Medienaesthetik der Komik, edited by Susanne Kaul and Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2023, 251-264.
• Two Notions of Creativity, in: Pfisterer, Chr./Rathgeb, N./Schmidt, E., Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, Routledge 2022, 254-271.
• Literary Fiction and Imagination (together with Magdalena Balcerak Jackson), in: Engisch, P./Langkau, J., The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition, Routledge 2022, 140-156.
• Introduction to volume The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition (together with Patrik Engisch), Routledge 2022, 1-22.
• Truth Matters, Aesthetically, Estetika (together with Tilmann Koeppe): The European Journal of Aesthetics LVIII/XIV, no. 2 (2021): 114-128.
• Two Kinds of Imaginative Vividness, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021): 1-15.
• On Imagining Being Someone Else, in: Kind, A./Badura Chr. (eds.): Epistemic Uses of Imagination, Routledge 2021, 260-278.
• The Empathic Skill Fiction Can't Teach Us, Philosophical Psychology, 33: 3 (2020), 313-331.
• Wie kann Anschaulichkeit dazu beitragen, dass wir von Sachtexten lernen?, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes Vol. 66, No. 2 (2019): 132-142.
• Thought Experiments from Fiction, in: Bornmueller, F./Franzen, J./Lessau, M. (eds.): Literature as Thought Experiment? Perspectives from Philosophy and Literary Studies, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, (2019): 57-69.
• Quellen des Wissens: Imagination (together with Margherita Arcangeli), in: Martin Grajner/Guido Melchior (eds.), Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, Metzler Verlag (2019): 159-165.
• Quellen des Wissens: Intuitionen, in: Martin Grajner/Guido Melchior (eds.), Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, Metzler Verlag 2019, 152-158.
• Fiction, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of the Self (together with Tilmann Koeppe), DIEGESIS 6, Nr. 1 (2017), 46-57.
• Intuitionen in der analytischen Philosophie, Zuercher Philosophische Vortraege 10, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Rother, Schwabe: Basel (2017).
• Metaphilosophy and the Role of Intuitions, Topoi (2016): DOI 10.1007/s11245-015-9360-1.
• Ein gelungenes Handbuch zur Fiktionalitaet (Rezension zu: Tobias Klauk / Tilmann Koeppe (Hg.): Fiktionalitaet. Ein interdisziplinaeres Handbuch. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2014.) In: IASLonline (04.04.2016)
• The Method of Reflective Equilibrium and Intuitions, in: Hoeltje, Miguel; Spitzley, Thomas; Spohn, Wolfgang, Was sollen wir tun? - Sektionsbeitraege des achten internationalen Kongresses der Gesellschaft fuer Analytische Philosophie e.V. Duisburg-Essen, 352-364. ISBN 978-3-00-042332-1 (2013).
• Towards a Non-Rationalist Inflationist Account of Intuitions, Essays in Philosophy, 13, Nr. 1 (January 2012).
• Appealing to Intuitions (Dissertation):\\ https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/3544/6/JuliaLangkauPhDThesis.pdf (2012).
• Concepts - New Perspectives, Special Volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien (ed. together with Christian Nimtz), Nr. 80 (2010).
• Concepts in Philosophy - A Rough Geography (together with Christian Nimtz), in: Concepts - New Perspectives, Special Volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien, Nr. 80 (2010)