Call for Commentators (EXTENDED DEADLINE): Workshop: The Borders of Perception

EXTENDED DEADLINE: OCTOBER 25th

Workshop: The Borders of Perception

The aim of this workshop is to bring together several of the top scholars in the field to present new work on a range of philosophical topics related to perceptual experience. Some of the topics that will be discussed include:

(a) High-level vs. low-level views about the content of perceptual experience;

(b) The epistemological implications of cognitive influences on perceptual processes;

(c) The relationship between theories of experience and different sense modalities;

(d) Temporal experience and its relationship to (a)-(c).

The workshop has ten sessions, each of them constituted by a talk delivered by an invited speaker, followed by a short response given by a commentator and a public Q&A. The workshop will be held at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on January 16-17, 2018.

Confirmed Speakers:

Clotilde Calabi (State University of Milan)

Elvira Di Bona (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)

Simone Gozzano (University of L’Aquila)

Hilla Jacobson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Michał Klincewicz (Jagiellonian University)   

Bence Nanay (University of Cambridge and University of Antwerp)

Matthew Nudds (University of Warwick)

Casey O’Callaghan (Washington University in St. Louis)

Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin)

Preston J. Werner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

For any questions, please contact Elvira Di Bona ([email protected]) or Preston Werner ([email protected]).

We invite proposals from commentators with an interest in these topics who would be willing to provide brief responses to a work in progress by an invited speaker. Commentators should have a background in the topics that are the focus of the conference. Please submit a CV and a 1-2 paragraph statement concerning how your attendance at the conference is useful for your current research to Preston Werner at [email protected] Elvira Di Bona ([email protected]). The deadline for submissions is October 25, 2017.