Celebrating Mohan Matthen

This three-day event will celebrate the life and work of our dear colleague Mohan Matthen, who is retiring this year.

Program

JULY 13

9:00-9:15 AM

Introduction and Welcome

9:15-10:15 AM

Lana Kuhle (Illinois State), “The Tone of Embodiment in Perception & Action”

10:30-11:30 AM

Casey O’Callaghan (Washington in St. Louis), “A Capacities Approach to the Perception-Cognition Distinction”

11:45-12:45 PM

Dustin Stokes (Utah), “Expertise, Perceptual Content, and Pluralism”

12:45-2:30

Lunch

2:30-3:30 PM

Jennifer Nagel (Toronto), “Metacognitive Experience and Epistemic Action”

4:00-5:00 PM

Vincent Bergeron (Ottawa), “Assigning Functions to Brain Structures: How Teleology Gets in the Way”

6:00 PM

Dinner

JULY 14

9:30-10:30 AM

Jonathan Cohen (California, San Diego), “Wine Tasting, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation”

11:00-12:00 PM

Matthew Fulkerson (California, San Diego), “Musical Emotion and Multi-Affective Interactions”

12:00-2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00-3:00 PM

Dominic Lopes (UBC), “Diversity or Disinterest? Bernard Bolzano and Mohan Matthen on Aesthetic Value”

3:15-4:15 PM

Kevin Connolly (Minerva Schools at KGI), “Perceptual Learning: Variations on Mohanian Themes”

6:00 PM

Dinner

JULY 15

10:45-11:45 AM

Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary), “Matthen on Homology and History”

11:45-2:30 PM

Lunch

2:30-3:30 PM

Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto)

4:00-5:00 PM

Mohan Matthen (Toronto)

5:00-7:00 PM

Reception