We will be starting up the Mind and Perception Reading Group again this fall. The group will meet on Wednesdays, 12:00–1:30 in the philosophy lounge. Our first meeting will be on September 4, and we’ll aim to meet weekly. Hopefully we will have 10–12 meetings during the semester. The group will focus on recent philosophy and philosophically informed cognitive science articles on the following topics:

• Multimodal perceptual experiences
• The Naive Realist/Representationalist debate and externalism about phenomenology
• Philosophy of perception informed epistemology
• Concepts and demonstrative thoughts
• Empirically-informed philosophy of mind/perception

For the first meeting we’ll be reading

Heather Logue (2012), “What Should the Naive Realist Say about Total Hallucinations?” Philosophical Perspectives 26 (1):173–199 (link)

After that there is no set schedule. I’ve attached a short list of some preliminary reading suggestions, but I hope that members of the group will make other suggestions. Suggestions and readings need not be limited to the topics listed above. Since we’ll be meeting weekly, we will try to avoid very long papers. Information about upcoming meetings will be posted up here as the readings are set.