Speaker: Barry Smith
Director of the Institute of Philosophy and of the Center for the Study of the Senses
University of London
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: 117 Humanities Building
Abstract: This talk will explore the nature of tastes and tasting. Are tastes in the food and liquids we consume or merely subjective experiences in us? Is there a difference between what expert and novice tasters perceive, or do experts just know more about what they are eating or drinking? I will defend the claim that there are objective facts about the flavours of the foods and wines we consume and look at the different ways experts and novices come to know about them.
Category Archives: Workshop/Talk
Cameron Buckner, Mentality is About Flexibility: What Comparative Neuropsychology Teaches Us About Rational Intentionality
Speaker: Cameron Buckner
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Houston Department of Philosophy
Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
Time: 4:15 pm to 6:15 pm
Location: 119 Humanities Building
Web: HRC
Amy Kind, How Imagination Gives Rise to Knowledge
Speaker: Amy Kind
Associate Professor and Chair
Claremont McKenna College Department of Philosophy
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011
Time: 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: 118 Humanities Building
Note: There will be a workshop session from 11:30 to 1:00 pm open to interested faculty, students, and visitors. We will discuss a couple of Amy’s recent papers on imagination: “The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire” (AJP, 2010) and “The Heterogeneity of Imagination” (ms). Amy will give a brief introductory presentation and then the floor will be opened for discussion. It is requested that participants review the selected material in advance.
Wayne Wu, Perceptual Fields and the Unity of Spatial Content in Experience
Speaker: Wayne Wu
Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Date: Friday, October 5, 2010
Time: 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: 118 Humanities Building
Note: There will be a workshop with Wayne Friday from 1:00 to 3:30 pm (Hum 227). The session will be open to interested faculty, students, and visitors, and it will operate as a workshop session on selections from a paper in progress entitled “Seeing and Feeling the World: Space, Perceptual Fields, and the Body”. Wayne will give a brief, 15 to 20 min, introductory presentation. Then the floor will open for discussion. It is requested that participants review the selected material in advance.
Jeff Speaks, A Quick Argument Against Phenomenism, Fregeanism, Appearance Property-ism, and Some Versions of Functionalism
Speaker: Jeff Speaks
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Date: Friday, September 12, 2010
Time: 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: 118 Humanities Building
Abstract: Whether or not the phenomenal characters of experiences supervene on their contents, some combinations of phenomenal character and content are impossible. This can be used to argue against, not just anti-intentionalist views of perceptual content, but also some intentionalist theories: in particular, Fregean theories and theories which make use of appearance properties. It is also a problem for some versions of functionalism.
Note: Jeff will be visiting prof. O’Callaghan’s Philosophy of Perception seminar on Friday from 1:00 to 4:00 pm (Hum 227). The session will be open to interested faculty, students, and visitors, and it will operate as a workshop session on selections from a book in progress on varieties of intentionalism about phenomenal character. Please come! Jeff will give a brief, 15 to 20 min, introductory presentation. Then the floor will open for discussion. It is requested that participants review the selected material in advance.