Toronto-London Workshop on Perception

Join us for an international workshop on perception.

Organized by Jacob Beck (York University), Bill Brewer (King’s College London), Kevin J. Lande (York University), Sonia Sedivy (University of Toronto, Scarborough), Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London), and James Stazicker (King’s College London)

Program

Friday, Nov 1 

9:30-11:00 – Kevin Lande (York University): “The Spatial Unity of Perception”

Comments: Andrew Rubner (NYU)

11:15-12:45 – James Stazicker (King’s College London): “Metacognition, Informative Identity, and Related Ways of Underestimating Consciousness”

Comments: Matthias Michel (MIT)

12:45-2:00 – Lunch

2-3:30 – Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London): “Time Consciousness and the Temporal Phenomenology of Perceptual Consciousness”

Comments: Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto)

4-5:30 – Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge) “How Long Is a Visual Experience”

Comments: Andrew Lee (University of Toronto, Scarborough)

Saturday, Nov 2

10:30-12:00 – Bill Brewer (King’s College London): “The Role of Concepts in Perceptual Objectivity”

Comments: Myrto Mylopoulos (Carleton University)

12-1:30 – Lunch

1:30-3:00 – Umrao Sethi (Brandeis University) & Dominic Alford-Duguid (University of British Columbia): “Perceiving Particulars”

Comments: Alison Springle (University of Miami)

3:30-5:00 – Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto): “Indeterminacy as a Phenomenon of Focus – the Case of Property Representation”

Comments: Frances Egan (Rutgers University)