Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Charles Travis - Kings College London
Dr. David McNeill - University of Essex
Registration will take place from 9.00am in the foyer of the Computer Science Building on Square 1.
Deadline for submissions: 29 February 2012
'Perception'
The nature and limits of perception are fiercely contested -- both by analytic and continental philosophers as well as researchers in other disciplines. For example, some take ethical perception, or perceptual access to forms or structures, to be genuine phenomena, whereas others find this empirically or philosophically implausible. Furthermore, it remains disputed whether in ordinary sensory awareness we perceive objects, facts, representations, sense data, qualia, concepts, or other entities.
Furthermore, the intense interdisciplinary interest in perception -- spanning psychology, art, neuroscience and psychiatry, amongst other areas -- can promise to provide philosophy with exciting new resources and opportunities for collaborative inquiry. Yet, it also raises questions about the boundaries of philosophical investigation into perception, including whether philosophy has such any legitimate role at all.
In this conference, we seek to explore the scope of the philosophy of perception (understood as broadly as possible). Submissions from graduate students working within all traditions of philosophy are encouraged, alongside contributions from non-philosophers with research interests in this area.
See full Call for Papers for details of how to apply
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