The Brains Blog — perception

A new action-based theory of spatial perception

John Schwenkler December 12, 2017 December 12, 2017 Neuroscience / perception

by Andrew Glennerster and James Stazicker (Psychology and Philosophy, University of Reading) In both the neuroscience and the philosophy of spatial perception, it is standard to assume that humans represent a perceived scene in either an egocentric or a world-based 3D coordinate frame, and a great deal of work in …

Symposium on Pendaran Roberts, Keith Allen, and Kelly-Ann Schmidtke’s “Folk Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception”

Welcome to our fourth Ergo symposium, featuring Pendaran Roberts (University of Warwick), Keith Allen (University of York), and Kelly-Ann Schmidtke’s (University of Warwick) “Folk Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception” with commentaries by Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) and John Schwenkler (Florida State University). I’d like to thank …

The 3rd Annual Minds Online Conference Starts Monday!

Nick Byrd September 9, 2017 September 9, 2017 Academia / Attention / Belief / Conferences / Experimental Philosophy / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Social Cognition

Mark your calendars! The conference starts Monday and runs for three weeks. The first session’s papers are already posted. Commenting for the first session starts Monday. Check out the full post for the rest of the details.

A few links of interest

John Schwenkler April 11, 2017 April 11, 2017 Consciousness / perception

A BBC Radio 4 series on “The Uncommon Senses”, with Barry Smith (University of London) and sound artist Nick Ryan. A full list of episodes is here.
A special issue of Nautilus on the topic of Consciousness, including a profile of Christoph Koch and an essay on Russellian Monism by Hedda Hassel Mørch (NYU/Oslo).
And some more Barry Smith, with an essay on “overestimating consciousness” at IAI.

4. Inference and Experience: conceptual challenges to inferentialism

Susanna Siegel April 9, 2017 April 9, 2017 Belief / Epistemology / perception / Susanna Siegel: The Rationality of Perception

I find the challenges to the coherence of inferentialism much more powerful than the objections inherent in alternatives. That’s why I devote more time in the book to making the case that inferentialism is coherent, and to explaining what form it could take. Perhaps a first type of challenge to …

3. Weakening the power of experience

Susanna Siegel April 8, 2017 April 9, 2017 Belief / Epistemology / perception / Susanna Siegel: The Rationality of Perception

In previous posts, I discussed the problem generated by the case of Jack and Jill. When Jill’s fear influences her visual experience that presents Jack as angry, does Jill get as much reason from her experience to believe her eyes, as she could if her fear didn’t influence her experience? …