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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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Start of the Fall 2013 Mind and Perception Reading Group

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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.

New Site!

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The Mind and Perception Workshop has a new page. Most of the posts here will be announcements about upcoming talks and reading group meetings. I’ve tried my best to put up posts for all the Workshop activity from the last few years, for those who would like to browse and see. Hopefully the comment feature will be useful, e.g. for questions about workshop talks and suggestions for reading group readings.

best!

Fall 2012: Mind and Perception Reading Group

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We will be running the Mind & Perception Reading Group this fall. We’ll meet Mondays from 12 to 1:30 in the lounge. The readings will be drawn from contemporary articles on perception, attention, singular thought and the relation between them (broadly construed). We begin this coming Monday, the 17th. The first paper will be Chalmers’ “Perception and the Fall from Eden”. Further readings will be determined as we go, based on interest in the groups.