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Workshop: How perception makes things available for thought

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The Senses Project at Rice will be running a workshop, How perception makes things available for thought, Nov. 9th from 10am until 6pm. There will be a pre-workshop meeting of the Mind and Perception Reading Group at 4pm, Nov. 8th.

Main speakers & Schedule:

Imogen Dickie (10a-12p)
University of Toronto
“How attentional links with objects enable ‘that’ thoughts”

Adam Pautz (1:30p-3:30p)
University of Texas, Austin
“How does consciousness ground thought?”

Jeff Speaks (4p-6p)
University of Notre Dame
“Perceptual content and the explanatory role of experience”

Pre-workshop Meeting:

Note that there will be a pre-workshop meeting of the Mind and Perception Reading Group on Friday, October 8:

Indrek Reiland (4p-6p)
University of Southern California
“Experiences, Sensings, and Seemings”

Sponsor(s):

  • Mind & Perception Workshop, Humanities Research Center
  • Philosophy Department

Event Poster: download
For additional information, see philevents.

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Upcoming Reading Group Meetings

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Here is the schedule for the next two weeks of readings. Please note the schedule change.

  • Oct 9: Berit Brogaard (2012) “Vision for Action and the Contents of Perception” Journal of Philosophy 569–587
  • Oct 16: Alva Noe (2009) “Conscious Reference” Philosophical Quarterly 470-482

Update 10/17: For our next meeting, October 23, we’ll be reading the prelude and chapter 1 of:

  • Oct 23: Mohan Matthen (2005) Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception, Oxford University Press
  • Oct 30: off, no reading
  • Nov 6: week of the The Senses workshop.

As the list indicates, after that we’ll have a week off before the week of the The Senses workshop. We won’t have any reading group meeting that week either.