Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience

Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience Research Seminars 2023/24

First Semester

2^nd October (In-person/Hybrid)

Title: Place cells: a map in the brain and of the brain

Speaker: Kate Jeffery (University of Glasgow)

 

30^th October (Online)

Title: The Perception of Silence

Speaker: Chaz Firestone (Johns Hopkins University; Perception & Mind Laboratory)

 

20^th November (In-person/Hybrid)

Title: A Compositional Semantics for Venn Diagrams

Speaker: Bryan Pickel (University of Glasgow) and Brian Rabern (University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh Meaning Sciences Group)

 

27^th November - co-sponsored by SPIN (Online)

Title: Singular Experiences (With and Without objects)

Speaker: Angela Mendelovici (University of Western Ontario)

 

11^th December - co-sponsored by SPIN (Online)

Title: What do the Attentionally Blind See?

Speaker: Ian Phillips (John Hopkins University; Foundation of Mind).

 

Second Semester

 22^nd January (Online)

Title: Accuracy in imagining

Speaker: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College; Director of Gould Centre for Humanistic Studies)

 

5^th February (Online)

Title: From point of view of perspective

Speaker: Elizabeth Camp (Rutgers)

 

14^th February (Hybrid)

Title: What's going on in the real world? The past, current, and future of mobile neuroimaging

Speaker: Olave Krigolson (Victoria, Canada)

 

19^th February (In-person/Hybrid) -RESCHEDULED

Title: TBA

Speaker: Craig French (University of Nottingham)

 

29^th February *Thursday*  (In-person/Hybrid)

Title: Place Perception

Speaker: Keith Allen (York University)

 

 4^th March (Online)

Title: Hunger, Desire, and the Foundations of Practical Reason

Speaker: Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto)

 

11^th March (In-person/Hybrid)

Title: Epistemic Risks and Psychedelics

Speaker: Sascha Fink (Otto von Guericke Universität, Magdeburg; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences)

 

Third Semester

29^th April (In-person/Hybrid)

Title: The Role of Episodic Memory in Mental Imagery

Speaker: Andrea Blomkvist (London School of Economics)

 

13^th May (In-person/Hybrid)

Title: Psychological Commitments of Pleasure Fundamentalism

Speaker: Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore).

 

20^th May (In-person/Hybrid)

Title: The Cognitive Life of Maps

Speaker: Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod)

 

7th June (new date)

Title: TBA

Speaker: Petra Vetter (University of Fribourg)