2nd Einstein Workshop Jesse Prinz
Within philosophy and the cognitive sciences it has been traditionally assumed that perception is “informationally encapsulated”: it was believed that sensory systems could not be influenced by information outside the senses. This view, also known as the “modularity” of perception, has been widely accepted until recently, but some researchers are beginning to challenge the received view. There is evidence that what we see, for example, can be influenced by our emotional states, motor responses, beliefs, and even the language we speak. If so, this has implications for the epistemic authority of perception, the division between mind and body, and the alleged universality of perceptual experience. This conference brings together an international group of researchers who have been at the forefront of this emerging perspective. Psychologists, psycholinguists, and philosophers will explore ways in which perception might be impure.
Program
Friday, 23 October 2015
13.00 Dustin Stokes (Salt Lake City): Attention and the cognitive
penetration of perception
14.10 Bence Nanay (Antwerp): Perception as controlled mental imagery
15.20 Coffee break
15.40 Anna M. Borghi (Bologna, Rome): Motor and linguistic
contaminations of perception: from object affordances
to abstract concepts
16.50 Panos Athanasopoulos (Lancaster): The Whorfian warp:
perception through the language glass
18.00 Break
18.20 CANCELLED: Simone Schnall (Cambridge)
Saturday, 24 October 2015 10.00 Sally Linkenauger (Lancaster): Welcome to wonderland:
A body-based approach to the scaling of perceived extents
11.10 Jesse Prinz (New York, Berlin): The social construction of seeing
12.30 End of conference
The conference will be followed by a meeting of the Einstein Group of which the first part will be open to the public: Saturday, 24 October 2015 Part I (open to the public) 14.00 Hong Yu Wong (Tübingen): Owning my body
15.10 Dustin Stokes (Salt Lake City): Rich perceptual content
and aesthetic properties Part II (not open to the public) 16.30 Internal meeting
