Philosophy of Smell Workshop

May 4, 2022 - May 6, 2022
Department of Philosophy, University of Nevda, Reno

Reno
United States

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The Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno will be hosting a workshop on the Philosophy of Smell on May 4-6, 2022. The workshop will bring together established and early career philosophers working on smell with the hope of initiating a series of workshops in the coming years. The schedule can be found below and remote zoom access will be available for some talks. Please contact Ben Young for zoom details.

UNR Smell Workshop

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Wednesday May 4th

4:30 pm – Philosophy Department Atrium – Jones Center

Bill Lycan (University of Connecticut)

The Layering of Olfactory Content

Thursday May 5th - Morrill Hall - Clark Room

 9-10:15 am Becky Millar & Louise Richardson (University of York) via Zoom

Grief, smell, & the olfactory air of a person

10:15-10:30 am – Short Break

10:30-11:45 am – Tajana von Solodkoff (University College Dublin) via Zoom

Perfumes and Fiction

11:45-1 Lunch at Laughing Planet

1-2:15 pm - Clare Batty (University of Kentucky) via Zoom

            Smell and Space

2:15-3:30 pm - Harry Sherwood (University of London)

            Olfactory Imagery is: Nonexistent

3:30-4:00 pm Break

4:00-5:15 pm – Keynote – Barry Smith (University of London)

Smell as a not so neglected sense

 Friday May 6th - Morrill Hall - Prupus room

9-10:15 am Ophelia Deroy (Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich)

Trusting our sense of smell : Metacognition and more

10:15-10:30 am – Short Break

10:30-11:45 am – Keith Wilson (University of Oslo)

            The Temporality of Olfaction

11:45-1 pm Working Lunch and Roundtable Discussion

1-2:15 pm - Chiara Brozzo (University of Barcelona)

            Aesthetically Appreciating Nature through Perfumes

2:15-3:30 pm – Ben Young (University of Nevada)

            Challenging the non-Linearity Challenge

3:30-4:00 pm Break

4:00-5:15 pm – Andreas Keller (Rockefeller University)

            Accuracy Conditions of Olfactory Experiences

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May 3, 2022, 9:00am PST

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