This is my second entry on mental imagery, this time on the role mental imagery plays in everyday perception. Mental imagery: Perceptual processing that is not triggered by corresponding sensory stimulation in the relevant sense modality.
I am going to do a mixed blog/vlog for the next week about my new project, which is on mental imagery and the role it plays in our mental life. [[[ “Officially” my task was to write something about my previous book, called Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception, but I …
Together with Nick Byrd and Cameron Buckner I’m excited to say that the following papers have been selected for the 2016 Minds Online Conference, to be held at the Brains blog this coming September: “Visual Spatial Awareness Probably Requires Visual Awareness of Space”, by Bartek Chomanski (University of Miami) “The multiple localizability …
CFP for BPPA Masterclass on Naïve Realism and Its Challenges At the University of Warwick, on the 8th of October 2016; Room TBC The deadline for submitting your work is the 1st of September 2016. Until recently, the idea that perceptual experiences are representational states was dominant, if not unquestioned. …
Bias in Context: Psychological and Structural Explanations The University of Sheffield, September 5th & 6th. Deadline: 1st May 2016 Theme: What is the relationship between psychological and structural explanations of persistent social injustice? Much empirical and philosophical work focuses on individualistic psychological explanations for ongoing injustice. Such explanations appeal to …
I’m happy to kick off our latest Mind & Language symposium on Bence Nanay’s “The Role of Imagination in Decision-Making,” from the journal’s February 2016 issue, with commentaries by Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna ) and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State). The psychological process of decision-making is often explained in terms of an agent’s beliefs and desires (or other pro-attitudes): practical reasoning is essentially a …
Call for Papers and Workshop Announcement Ruhr-Universität Bochum June 20-22, 2016 Prof. Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen): Lectures on Self and Other Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of various books on Husserl’s Phenomenology, …
