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August 16-18, 2008

 

 

 

 

CONFERENCE THEME: The theme of the conference is perception. Some questions about perception are among the oldest in philosophy:

 

á         What is the object of perception?

á         How can perception give rise to knowledge?

á         How are perception and action linked?

á         What is the difference between perception and belief?

á         What is the difference between perception and sensation?

á         Why and in what sense are perception and imagination similar?

á         What is the difference between different sensory modalities?

á         How do we perceive colors?

á         What do animals perceive?

 

Others philosophical questions about perception are more recent but just as intriguing:

 

á         How could the recent empirical findings about the distinction between the dorsal and the ventral visual subsystems help us to understand some of the traditional issues in philosophy of perception?

á         Does perception represent the world?

á         What are the properties that are represented in perception?

á         What (if anything) does perception have in common with hallucination?

á         How does perception contribute to our evolutionary fitness?

á         What do we see when we look at pictures or photographs?

á         In what sense can we ÔperceiveÕ occluded objects?

 

The conference aims to explore these themes as well as the intricate connections between philosophy of perception and other branches of philosophy: epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For further information about this conference, please contact Bence Nanay by email

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