Amy Kind
Biographic Data
| ID | 89164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Kind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kind |
| SIGNATURE | KIND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont McKenna College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9513-8704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Depressive symptoms but not chronic stress mediate the link between income and cognition in Latino and Black older adults
These initial results suggest that the development of interventions targeted toward depressive symptoms in Black and Latino older adults may help promote well-being and alleviate the detrimental consequences of income inequalities on cognition in older adulthood
Is mental imagery everywhere? Commentary on Mental imagery
In Mental imagery: Philosophy, psychology, neuroscience , Bence Nanay argues that mental imagery is everywhere. His argument depends crucially on the way he defines “mental imagery”, namely, perceptual representation that is not directly triggered by sensory input. Nanay defends his adoption of this definition by noting that it accords with the scientific consensus. In this commentary, I explore whether and to what extent he is right about this c…
Issues of Expertise in Perception and Imagination
In this commentary on Dustin Stokes’ Thinking and Perceiving , I focus on his discussion of perceptual expertise. This discussion occurs in the context of his case against modularity assumptions that underlie much contemporary theorizing about perception. As I suggest, there is much to be gained from thinking about considerations about perceptual expertise in conjunction with considerations about imaginative skill. In particular, I offer three di…
Evaluating Policy Changes for Adjusting Payment to Address Health Disparities
This study analyzes area-level Health Equity Benchmark Adjustment formula changes to demonstrate how policy choices result in resource reallocation
The impoverishment problem
Work in philosophy of mind often engages in descriptive phenomenology, i.e., in attempts to characterize the phenomenal character of our experience. Nagel’s famous discussion of what it’s like to be a bat demonstrates the difficulty of this enterprise (1974). But while Nagel located the difficulty in our absence of an objective vocabulary for describing experience, I argue that the problem runs deeper than that: we also lack an adequate subjectiv…
What is Consciousness?
What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard" physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson …
Differential Effects of an Emergency Department-to-Home Care Transitions Intervention in an Older Adult Population
BACKGROUND: Older adults frequently return to the emergency department (ED) within 30 days of a visit. High-risk patients can differentially benefit from transitional care interventions. Latent class analysis (LCA) is a model-based method used to segment the population and test intervention effects by subgroup. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to identify latent classes within an older adult population from a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect…
Philosophy of Mind
Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The real world also furnishes philosophers with an ample supply of such puzzles. This volume collects 50 of the most important historical and contemporary cases in philosophy of mind and describes their significance. The authors divide them into five sections: consciousness and dualism; physicalist theories and the metaphys…
The feeling of familiarity
The relationship between the phenomenology of imagination and the phenomenology of memory is an interestingly complicated one. On the one hand, there seem to be important similarities between the two, and there are even occasions in which we mistake an imagining for a memory or vice versa. On the other hand, there seem to be important differences between the two, and we can typically tell them apart. This paper explores various attempts to deline…
Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Pediatric Readmissions
Introduction
Learning to Imagine
Underlying much current work in philosophy of imagination is the assumption that imagination is a skill. This assumption seems to entail not only that facility with imagining will vary from one person to another, but also that people can improve their own imaginative capacities and learn to be better imaginers. This paper takes up this issue. After showing why this is properly understood as a philosophical question, I discuss what it means to say…
Epistemic Uses of Imagination
This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an epistemic role in a variety of other contexts as well. In this collection, the contributors address an assortment of issues relating to epistemic uses of im…
Can imagination be unconscious
Our ordinary conception of imagination takes it to be essentially a conscious phenomenon, and traditionally that’s how it had been treated in the philosophical literature. In fact, this claim had often been taken to be so obvious as not to need any argumentative support. But lately in the philosophical literature on imagination we see increasing support for the view that imagining need not occur consciously. In this paper, I examine the case for …
Race, Ethnicity, Neighborhood Characteristics, and In-Hospital Coronavirus Disease-2019 Mortality
BACKGROUND: Despite many studies reporting disparities in coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) incidence and outcomes in Black and Hispanic/Latino populations, mechanisms are not fully understood to inform mitigation strategies. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to test whether neighborhood factors beyond individual patient-level factors are associated with in-hospital mortality from COVID-19. We hypothesized that the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), a neighbor…
The Life of Imagination
In recent years, philosophers have increasingly turned to imagination in their attempts to shed light on a vast array of phenomena—pretence, mindreading, the production and consumption of art and literature, metaphors, scientific discovery, dreams, hallucinations, and so on. Typically, this is done piecemeal, with philosophers focusing on only one or two of these phenomena, often in complete isolation from any of the others. In The Life of Imagin…
Making Neighborhood-Disadvantage Metrics Accessible — The Neighborhood Atlas
Interview with Dr. Amy Kind on a new tool for incorporating data on neighborhood disadvantage into research, policy, and health interventions. (15:45)Download Better understanding of variations in neighborhood disadvantage could lead to improved insight into the sociobiologic mechanisms that underlie health disparities, which could, in turn, facilitate the development of improved therapeutics and interventions.
Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Introspection in the 20th century is a vast topic. It has been a focus of interest as a method of investigation and as a psychological and epistemic capacity itself. The author highlights the lack or loss of influence in certain cases, resulting in a more rudimentary conception of the use of introspection towards the end of the century than the often quite sophisticated earlier debates about it would warrant. Moore's paper 'The Refutation of Idea…
Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Neighborhood Disadvantage is Associated with High Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence in Pregnancy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination
Overcoming the Challenges of Unstructured Data in Multisite, Electronic Medical Record-based Abstraction
BACKGROUND: Unstructured data encountered during retrospective electronic medical record (EMR) abstraction has routinely been identified as challenging to reliably abstract, as these data are often recorded as free text, without limitations to format or structure. There is increased interest in reliably abstracting this type of data given its prominent role in care coordination and communication, yet limited methodological guidance exists. OBJECT…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and 30-Day Rehospitalization
BACKGROUND: Measures of socioeconomic disadvantage may enable improved targeting of programs to prevent rehospitalizations, but obtaining such information directly from patients can be difficult. Measures of U.S. neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage are more readily available but are rarely used clinically. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage at the census block group level, as measured by the…
Narratives and Narrators
Gregory Currie's Narratives and Narrators returns to many topics that Currie has touched upon in prior work. But it is here for the first time that these ideas are unified into a comprehensive theory of narratives and the stories they tell. Rich with examples drawn from both literature and film (from Middlemarch to Mr. Beluncle to an extended discussion of Hitchcockpos;s The Birds), the book makes an interesting and important contribution not onl…
A cautionary tale and how-to guide to wonder
The Construction of Social Reality
Learning to Imagine
Underlying much current work in philosophy of imagination is the assumption that imagination is a skill. This assumption seems to entail not only that facility with imagining will vary from one person to another, but also that people can improve their own imaginative capacities and learn to be better imaginers. This paper takes up this issue. After showing why this is properly understood as a philosophical question, I discuss what it means to say…
Transparency and Representationalist Theories of Consciousness
Over the past few decades, as philosophers of mind have begun to rethink the sharp divide that was traditionally drawn between the phenomenal character of an experience (what it's like to have that experience) and its intentional content (what it represents), representationalist theories of consciousness have become increasingly popular. On this view, phenomenal character is reduced to intentional content. This article explores a key motivation f…
The Life of Imagination
In recent years, philosophers have increasingly turned to imagination in their attempts to shed light on a vast array of phenomena—pretence, mindreading, the production and consumption of art and literature, metaphors, scientific discovery, dreams, hallucinations, and so on. Typically, this is done piecemeal, with philosophers focusing on only one or two of these phenomena, often in complete isolation from any of the others. In The Life of Imagin…
Shoemaker, Self-Blindness and Moore's Paradox
I show how the ‘inner–sense’ (quasi–perceptual) view of introspection can be defended against Shoemaker's influential ‘argument from self–blindness’. If introspection and perception are analogous, the relationship between beliefs and introspective knowledge of them is merely contingent. Shoemaker argues that this implies the possibility that agents could be self–blind, i.e., could lack any introspective awareness of their own mental states. By in…
Putting the Image Back in Imagination
Despite their intuitive appeal and a long philosophical history, imagery-based accounts of the imagination have fallen into disfavor in contemporary discussions. the philosophical pressure to reject such accounts seems to derive from two distinct sources. First, the fact that mental images have proved difficult to accommodate within a scientific conception of mind has led to numerous attempts to explain away their existence, and this in turn has …
Can imagination be unconscious
Our ordinary conception of imagination takes it to be essentially a conscious phenomenon, and traditionally that’s how it had been treated in the philosophical literature. In fact, this claim had often been taken to be so obvious as not to need any argumentative support. But lately in the philosophical literature on imagination we see increasing support for the view that imagining need not occur consciously. In this paper, I examine the case for …
Putting the Image Back in Imagination
Despite their intuitive appeal and a long philosophical history, imagery-based accounts of the imagination have fallen into disfavor in contemporary discussions. the philosophical pressure to reject such accounts seems to derive from two distinct sources. First, the fact that mental images have proved difficult to accommodate within a scientific conception of mind has led to numerous attempts to explain away their existence, and this in turn has …
The Construction of Social Reality
Shoemaker, Self-Blindness and Moore's Paradox
I show how the ‘inner–sense’ (quasi–perceptual) view of introspection can be defended against Shoemaker's influential ‘argument from self–blindness’. If introspection and perception are analogous, the relationship between beliefs and introspective knowledge of them is merely contingent. Shoemaker argues that this implies the possibility that agents could be self–blind, i.e., could lack any introspective awareness of their own mental states. By in…
Transparency and Representationalist Theories of Consciousness
Over the past few decades, as philosophers of mind have begun to rethink the sharp divide that was traditionally drawn between the phenomenal character of an experience (what it's like to have that experience) and its intentional content (what it represents), representationalist theories of consciousness have become increasingly popular. On this view, phenomenal character is reduced to intentional content. This article explores a key motivation f…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and 30-Day Rehospitalization
BACKGROUND: Measures of socioeconomic disadvantage may enable improved targeting of programs to prevent rehospitalizations, but obtaining such information directly from patients can be difficult. Measures of U.S. neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage are more readily available but are rarely used clinically. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage at the census block group level, as measured by the…
Narratives and Narrators
Gregory Currie's Narratives and Narrators returns to many topics that Currie has touched upon in prior work. But it is here for the first time that these ideas are unified into a comprehensive theory of narratives and the stories they tell. Rich with examples drawn from both literature and film (from Middlemarch to Mr. Beluncle to an extended discussion of Hitchcockpos;s The Birds), the book makes an interesting and important contribution not onl…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination
Overcoming the Challenges of Unstructured Data in Multisite, Electronic Medical Record-based Abstraction
BACKGROUND: Unstructured data encountered during retrospective electronic medical record (EMR) abstraction has routinely been identified as challenging to reliably abstract, as these data are often recorded as free text, without limitations to format or structure. There is increased interest in reliably abstracting this type of data given its prominent role in care coordination and communication, yet limited methodological guidance exists. OBJECT…
Making Neighborhood-Disadvantage Metrics Accessible — The Neighborhood Atlas
Interview with Dr. Amy Kind on a new tool for incorporating data on neighborhood disadvantage into research, policy, and health interventions. (15:45)Download Better understanding of variations in neighborhood disadvantage could lead to improved insight into the sociobiologic mechanisms that underlie health disparities, which could, in turn, facilitate the development of improved therapeutics and interventions.
Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Introspection in the 20th century is a vast topic. It has been a focus of interest as a method of investigation and as a psychological and epistemic capacity itself. The author highlights the lack or loss of influence in certain cases, resulting in a more rudimentary conception of the use of introspection towards the end of the century than the often quite sophisticated earlier debates about it would warrant. Moore's paper 'The Refutation of Idea…
Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Neighborhood Disadvantage is Associated with High Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence in Pregnancy
The Life of Imagination
In recent years, philosophers have increasingly turned to imagination in their attempts to shed light on a vast array of phenomena—pretence, mindreading, the production and consumption of art and literature, metaphors, scientific discovery, dreams, hallucinations, and so on. Typically, this is done piecemeal, with philosophers focusing on only one or two of these phenomena, often in complete isolation from any of the others. In The Life of Imagin…
Epistemic Uses of Imagination
This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an epistemic role in a variety of other contexts as well. In this collection, the contributors address an assortment of issues relating to epistemic uses of im…
Can imagination be unconscious
Our ordinary conception of imagination takes it to be essentially a conscious phenomenon, and traditionally that’s how it had been treated in the philosophical literature. In fact, this claim had often been taken to be so obvious as not to need any argumentative support. But lately in the philosophical literature on imagination we see increasing support for the view that imagining need not occur consciously. In this paper, I examine the case for …
Race, Ethnicity, Neighborhood Characteristics, and In-Hospital Coronavirus Disease-2019 Mortality
BACKGROUND: Despite many studies reporting disparities in coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) incidence and outcomes in Black and Hispanic/Latino populations, mechanisms are not fully understood to inform mitigation strategies. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to test whether neighborhood factors beyond individual patient-level factors are associated with in-hospital mortality from COVID-19. We hypothesized that the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), a neighbor…
The feeling of familiarity
The relationship between the phenomenology of imagination and the phenomenology of memory is an interestingly complicated one. On the one hand, there seem to be important similarities between the two, and there are even occasions in which we mistake an imagining for a memory or vice versa. On the other hand, there seem to be important differences between the two, and we can typically tell them apart. This paper explores various attempts to deline…
Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Pediatric Readmissions
Introduction
Learning to Imagine
Underlying much current work in philosophy of imagination is the assumption that imagination is a skill. This assumption seems to entail not only that facility with imagining will vary from one person to another, but also that people can improve their own imaginative capacities and learn to be better imaginers. This paper takes up this issue. After showing why this is properly understood as a philosophical question, I discuss what it means to say…
What is Consciousness?
What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard" physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson …
Differential Effects of an Emergency Department-to-Home Care Transitions Intervention in an Older Adult Population
BACKGROUND: Older adults frequently return to the emergency department (ED) within 30 days of a visit. High-risk patients can differentially benefit from transitional care interventions. Latent class analysis (LCA) is a model-based method used to segment the population and test intervention effects by subgroup. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to identify latent classes within an older adult population from a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect…
Philosophy of Mind
Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The real world also furnishes philosophers with an ample supply of such puzzles. This volume collects 50 of the most important historical and contemporary cases in philosophy of mind and describes their significance. The authors divide them into five sections: consciousness and dualism; physicalist theories and the metaphys…
Issues of Expertise in Perception and Imagination
In this commentary on Dustin Stokes’ Thinking and Perceiving , I focus on his discussion of perceptual expertise. This discussion occurs in the context of his case against modularity assumptions that underlie much contemporary theorizing about perception. As I suggest, there is much to be gained from thinking about considerations about perceptual expertise in conjunction with considerations about imaginative skill. In particular, I offer three di…
A cautionary tale and how-to guide to wonder
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