Naï\;ve Realism 2.0 - Workshop
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The workshop "Naï\;ve Realism 2.0" will take place at TU Dortmund from 18&ndash\;20 February 2026 over two and a half days. It is hosted at Emil-Figge-Straß\;e 50\, Dortmund\, and is part of the international research project Naive Realism under Pressure.
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The workshop brings together invited speakers and members of the Naive Realism under Pressure project to discuss the nature of perceptual experience. We will focus on naive realist and relationalist theories of perception\, their challenges\, and their relation to competing theories of perception.
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Speakers
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Alfredo Vernazzani (HWK &ndash\; TU Dortmund)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Quentin Coudray (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Laura Gow (University of Liverpool)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Daniel Kim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Farid Masrour (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Giulia Martina (University of Nottingham)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; David Papineau (King's College London)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Ayoob Shahmoradi (Ruhr University Bochum)
&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Assaf Weksler (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
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Program
18.02.2026
\n8:45-9:00 Welcome and Registration
\n9:00 - 10:20 David Papineau "Kinds of Sensory State"
\n10:20 - 11:40 Eva Schmidt "Against Fine-Grained Perceptual Reasons"
\n11:40-12:00 Coffee break
\n12:00 - 13:20 Johannes Roessler "The Status of Naive Realism"
\n13:20 - 14:45 Lunch break
\n14:45 - 16:05 Assaf Weksler &\; Quentin Coudray "High-Level Perceptual Experience Is Not Diaphanous: An Empirical Case rom Object Segmentation"
\n16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break
\n16:30 - 17:50 Farid Masrour "The Terminator: A New Epistemic Argument for Relationalism"
\n19:30 Conference Dinner
\n19.02.2026
\n8:45-9:00 Welcome and Registration
\n9:00 - 10:20 Giulia Martina "Seeing Features"
\n10:20 - 11:40 Susanna Schellenberg "Perspectives and Schemas"
\n11:40-12:00 Coffee break
\n12:00 - 13:20 Laura Gow "Physicalism Entails Non-Relationalism"
\n13:20 - 14:45 Lunch break
\n14:45 - 16:05 Daniel Kim "Diaphaneity and the Phenomenological Method"
\n16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break
\n16:30 - 17:50 Fiona Macpherson \;"Naï\;ve Realism and Colour Illusion"
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20.02.2026
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Registration
\n9:00 - 10:20 Alfredo M. Vernazzani "The Compresent Properties View of Object Perception" \;
\n10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
\n10:50 - 12:10 Ayoob Shahmoradi "Seeing\, Seeing-As\, and Visual Discrimination" \;
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Registration
The workshop is open to all interested participants and free of charge. To register\, please contact Rebecca Sadowski\, subject line "Registration Naive Realism 2.0"\, before 2 February\, 2026.
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rebecca.sadowski@tu-dortmund.de
Organization
Ori Beck\, Quentin Coudray\, Daniel Kim\, Eva Schmidt\, Alfredo Vernazzani\, and Assaf Weksler.
The project "Naive Realism under Pressure" is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It investigates how naive realism can respond to a range of important contemporary challenges. In particular\, the project examines issues arising from variability in perceptual responses\, the \; distinctive epistemic role of perceptual experience\, and the \; contribution of perceptual capacities to how we perceive the world. Its central aim is to investigate how naive realism can develop and adapt in light of these challenges while remaining a distinctive and compelling theory of perception. For further information about the workshop and the research project\, please visit the project website: Naive Realism under Pressure.