Our Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception project (funded by New Directions in the Study of the Mind) is hosting its capstone conference on July 11-12, 2017. The conference will feature papers addressing the aims of our project.
To register, please send an email to spinperception@gmail.com. Attendance is free, and affordable accommodation is available on site. We aim to make our conference fully accessible; please do specify any arrangements you require when registering.
Venue: Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds
July 11th
9.00-9.30: registration
9.30-11.30:
Maja Spener (Birmingham), “Experiential Pluralism and Mental Kinds”
Commentator: Dan Cavedon-Taylor (Southampton)
11.30-12.45: lunch
12.45-2.45:
Joshua Gert (William and Mary), “Neo-pragmatism and Philosophy of Perception”
Commentator: Laura Gow (Cambridge)
2.45-3.00: break
3.00-5.00:
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Sheffield), “Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Perception—Methodology”
Commentator: Dave Ward (Edinburgh)
7.00: conference dinner
July 12th
9.30-11.30:
Anil Gomes (Oxford), “Perception and Autonomy”
Commentator: Rachael Wiseman (Durham)
11.30-12.45: lunch
12.45-2.45:
Bill Fish (Massey), “Perceptual Paradigms”
Commentator: Zoe Drayson (UC Davis)
2.45-3.00: tea/coffee break
3.00-5.00:
Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon), “Introspecting Perceptual Consciousness”
Commentator: Roberta Locatelli (Tübingen)
Abstracts for the conference talks are available here.
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