Eric Peterson

Imaginative resistance is roughly a kind of imaginative failure. It happens when one is either unwilling or unable to comply with an author’s request to imagine some content. Most of the current literature focuses on explicit propositions and scenarios that are purported to trigger imaginative resistance. In this paper, I argue that there is an implicit dimension to imaginative resistance. This reveals that the original phenomenon is more elusive than originally thought and this has implications for the general debate concerning the phenomenon of imaginative resistance.

Finestone and Kingston (2022) argue that global persistent crises reveal both a new justification for price gouging as well as the need for the creation and regulation of a new category of goods—reserved goods. While I accept the new justification for price gouging, I raise concerns over the creation and regulation of a new category of goods. In particular, I argue that there are conceptual problems with the current distinction of goods – luxury versus essential – so often used in the price gouging literature. Further, I argue that these problems plague the new category of goods as well.