Conference on the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception:Psychology and Ethics

Conference Program

Saturday 4/19

10:30 am                  Coffee

11:00 am- 1:00 pm  “Cognitive penetrability of perception in the age of prediction: Predictive systems are penetrable systems”

                                Presenter: Gary Lupyan (Wisconsin)

                                Commentators: Ned Block (NYU)

                                Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow)

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm     Lunch

2:00 pm-3:45 pm       “Top-down inference in uncertain contexts: a general account of cognitive penetrability”

                                 Presenter: Jakob Hohwy (Monash)

                                 Commentator: Jona Vance (Northern Arizona)

3:45 pm- 4:15 pm      Coffee

4:15 pm -6:00 pm      “Perception of absence and penetration from expectation”

                                  Presenter: Anya Farennikova (ANU)

                                  Commentator: Jack Lyons (Arkansas)

7:00 pm                     Dinner

Sunday 4/20

10:30 am                   Coffee

11:00 am- 1:00 pm    “Social vision: functional forecasting and the integration of compound social cues”

                                 Presenter: Reginald Adams (Penn State)

                                 Commentators: Josefa Toribio (ICREA-Barcelona)

                                 Francesco Marchi (Ruhr-Bochum)

1:00 pm-2:00 pm       Lunch

2:00 pm- 3:45 pm      “'Let me Look Again': On Confrntations with Reality in Iris Murdoch's  

                                Philosophy"

                                 Presenter: Kate Manne (Cornell)

3:45 pm -4:15 pm      Coffee

4:15-6:00 pm            “The Moral Significance of Perceptual Experience”,

                                 Presenter: Paul Katsafanas (BU)

                                 Commentator: Anna Bergqvist (Manchester Metropolitan)