Seeing-as and Novelty

Seeing-as is a topic of deep relevance and importance to several major areas of academic philosophy across various approaches. The phenomena is of clear importance in issues concerning aesthetics, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, and epistemology, not only from a Wittgensteinian perspective, but in analytic philosophy more generally, as well as in the work of phenomenological philosophy that follows in the footsteps of figures such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty.

The more specific focus of the conference is how we should understand the relationship between our capacity for seeing-as, the determination of new concepts, and our capacity for using and extending the use of concepts in hitherto novel situations.

Schedule:

9.00 - 9.20 - Registration and Tea/Coffee

9.30 - 10.20 - Rachael Wiseman (York): ‘Intentional Objects and the
Experience of Seeing-as’

10.20 - 11.10 - Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Nottingham):
‘Seeing-as in Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of the Gestalt’

11.10 - 11.25 - Tea/Coffee Break

11.25 - 12.15 - Bill Child (Oxford): ‘Wittgenstein on Aspect-Blindness,
Meaning-Blindness, Novelty, and Understanding’

12.15 - 13.00 - Panel 1

13.00 - 13.50 - Lunch

13.50 - 14.40 - Marie McGinn (York/ UEA): 'Two Senses of 'See''

14.40 - 15.30 - Tom Stoneham and Anders Nes (York; CSMN): ‘Perceptual
Relationism and the Challenge of Persistence Perception’

15.30 - 16.00 - Panel 2

16.00 - 16.15 - Tea/Coffee Break

16.15 - 17.05 - Naomi Eilan (Warwick): 'Aspect Seeing and Thinking'

17.05 - 17.55 -  Michael Beaney and Robert Clark (York): ‘Seeing-as and
Mathematical Creativity’

17.55 - 18.30 - Panel 3

18.30 onwards - Drinks Reception

Registration: £30 (waged), £15 (student)

Registration in advance is not necessary, but preferred.

There are a number of graduate bursaries still available. To register your interest in a bursary, or for any other enquiries, please contactBrendan Harrington or Dominic Shaw at: 

[email protected]