Category Archives: Workshop/Talk

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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Workshop with Cordelia Fine

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Date: February 19, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Duncan College Private Dining Room
About: The session will be open to interested faculty, students, and visitors, and it will operate as a discussion focused on some of Fine’s recent work. Fine will say a few brief introductory remarks, 5 to 10 mins, then the floor will open for discussion.
Sponsors: This talk is generously cosponsored by the Departments of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Cordelia Fine, ‘Neurosexism’: from scanner to sound bite to psyche to society

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Speaker: Cordelia Fine
Senior Research Fellow in Psychological Sciences and Associate Professor
University of Melbourne
Date: Monday, February 18, 2013
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: 309 Sewall Hall
Abstract: This talk will chart the problematic journey of ‘facts’ about sex differences in the brain: from their production in the laboratory, to popular (mis)representation, to lay-beliefs about gender and their corresponding psychological effects. Feminist critics have recently argued that current use of the new technology of functional neuroimaging in sex differences research follows a long tradition of ‘neurosexism’: neuroscientific research or claims that reinforce traditional gender stereotypes and roles in ways that are not scientifically justified. Having argued for the validity of such concerns within the functional neuroimaging literature, I review evidence that such claims (especially when exaggerated by popular commentators), have scope to sustain the very sex differences they seek to explain via their effects on social attitudes and behaviors.
Web: HRC
Sponsors: This talk is generously cosponsored by the Departments of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Tim Bayne, The Problem of Cognitive Phenomenology

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Speaker: Tim Bayne
University Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Location: 308 Herring Hall
Abstract: Dr. Bayne will discuss his recent work on cognitive phenomenology, the unity of consciousness, and the richness of content. This lecture is presented as a part of the HRC Mind and Perception Workshop.
Web: HRC

Workshop with Barry Smith

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Date: November 16, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: 227 Humanities Building
About: Barry will visit prof. O’Callaghan’s Philosophy of Perception seminar on The Senses on Wednesday, Nov 16, from 2:00 to 4:00pm in Humanities 227. The session will be open to interested faculty, students, and visitors, and it will operate as a workshop session focused on some of Barry’s work on the nature of flavor, the sense of taste, and wine. Please come! Barry will say a few brief introductory remarks, 5 to 10 mins, then the floor will open for discussion. It is requested that participants review the papers before the session.