SSPP 2025: Selina Guter on the Perception of Beauty

Humans see faces as beautiful: The role of superadditive mechanisms in determining visual content. Selina Guter, MIT Our conscious visual experience presents us with various features of objects: among others, their shape, color, and size. But what about aesthetic properties, like beauty? My paper argues that at least one kind …

Anil Seth on AI, Consciousness, and Agency

This is the fourth instalment in our series of short interviews on the topics of artificial intelligence and agency. In the interest of both our guests’ and audience’s time, these interviews will be concise, but each is accompanied by a reading list to facilitate further exploration of the subject matter. …

Belief and Knowledge

Explaining our Actions: A Critique of Common-Sense Theorizing (CUP, 2025)Peter Carruthers 4. Belief and knowledge Chapter 7 discusses the other main component in common-sense belief-desire psychology: beliefs. (Chapter 8 – which discusses the question whether attitudes like belief, desire, and intention admit of degrees – takes up the alleged existence …

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