BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260607T154300Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191008T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191008T093000 SUMMARY:The Aspectuality of Perceptual Experience: Learning / Knowing How to See UID:20260616T040037Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:1117 Cathedral of Learning\, University of Pittsburgh\, Pittsburgh\, United States\, 15260 DESCRIPTION:

Abstract: \; In this talk\, I will be concerned with the \;aspectuality \;of conscious perceptual experience. Aspectuality is a property of perceptual experience that can colloquially be expressed by noting that (conscious) perception is not merely \;of \;something or other\, of tables and chairs\, animals and faces\, but it presents to us what it is of \;as being some way or other \;&ndash\; where this has both phenomenological and functional (cognitive and epistemic) consequences. That perceptual experience \;is \;aspectual will not be my main concern here (though I will provide some support for this claim\, by way of illustrating and clarifying the phenomenon). Rather\, my concern is more specifically with what might \;account \;for its aspectuality\, and how certain challenges from the philosophy of science\, philosophy of mind\, and epistemology\, might shape such an account. In particular\, I will argue against the plausibility of certain traditional accounts that ground aspectuality in a perceiver&rsquo\;s background theories\, conceptual endowment\, or via the phenomenon of cognitive penetration. I will then briefly develop an alternative account\, and highlight some of its implications and merits with respect to the cluster of challenges afflicting the traditional accounts and with respect to what the study of (conscious) perception should involve.

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