The Faculty of All Faculties: Re-Imagining Moral Imagination

New College of Florida
College Hall
May 8-9, 2026 

Schedule of Events:Friday May 8—5:30 pm
Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College 
“Imagination, Fantasy, and Desire”
Friday May 8—6:30 pm-7:30 pm Reception

Saturday May 9—10:00 am-11:00 am
Genia Schönbaumsfeld, University of Southampton
(presenting online)
“Dialectical Intrepidity” 
Saturday May 9—11:00 am-12:00 pm
Wojciech Kaftanski, Jagiellonian University 
“Moral Imagination for Moral Education”  
Saturday May 9—12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Eleanor Helms, California Polytechnic State University 
“Fictions and Categories”
Saturday May 9—1:00 pm Lunch 

This groundbreaking event is designed to develop novel approaches to the human capacity for moral imagination. Drawing on Søren Kierkegaard’s claim that moral imagination is not just a human faculty but rather the faculty encompassing all others, we intend to show how moral imagination decisively shapes knowing, feeling, and willing. Questions to discuss might include: What are the moral issues that arise from the exercise of imagination? What virtues are required to pursue the imaginative life? How does imagination enter into education and formation? What are the connections between ethics and aesthetics? Students, faculty, and community members alike will find much to consider.