CFP: Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition

Workshop Dates: 26-27 September 2024
Location: Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris (and online)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sense-reality-workshop-2024

There is more to perception than mere sensory contents: we typically have the feeling that what we perceive is real and not, for example, merely imagined. We have a sense of reality. This sense is often taken for granted, but what makes an experience feel real? How do we distinguish between reality, imagination, and hallucination?

This workshop aims to bring together early-career and senior researchers from across disciplines whose work contributes in any way to the understanding of the sense of reality in perception, memory, imagination, and cognition more broadly.

We welcome submissions from philosophy (including phenomenology), cognitive sciences, and related fields. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

•    Reality monitoring in perception and memory
•    Sense of reality and its subjective markers
•    The feeling of perceptual presence
•    Differences between perception, imagination, episodic remembering, and hallucinations
•    Mental imagery, especially as it relates to differentiating between perception and imagination
•    Hallucinations, delusions, and derealization in psychiatric disorders
•    Sense of reality in virtual and augmented reality
•    Epistemology of perception and imagination
•    Consciousness as it relates to reality monitoring

Confirmed keynote speakers (in person):
•    Ophelia Deroy (LMU Munich)
•    Nadine Dijkstra (University College London)
•    Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod, EHESS, ENS-PSL)
•    Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)
•    Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alpes)

If you would like to present your work at the workshop (30 minutes, including Q&A), please submit your abstract of 300 words (excluding references) by August 1st using this link:

https://forms.gle/i1Rkkqmw3d5qUXJv5

We will reach out to let you know if your application was successful by August 15th.

Unfortunately, we cannot cover travel or accommodation costs for the submitted contributions due to limited funding. Please keep that in mind when deciding whether you would like to present your paper remotely or in person. The preferred way of participating will not be a factor in evaluating the abstracts.

Attendance is free, but we highly recommend registration (especially for in-person participation) as seats are limited.

To register, please send an email indicating your name, career stage, preferred manner of participation (online or in person), and institutional affiliation to the workshop email address by September 1st:

[email protected]

You can use the same address for any other inquiries regarding the event.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Paris!