Call For Papers: 'On The Varieties of Experience' Graduate Conference,
University of Glasgow, 7th & 8th of July 2009
Keynote Speakers: Tim Bayne & Pekka Vayrynen
In recent years there has been renewed interest in the idea that we can talk
legitimately about perceptual, or perception-like experiences, that don't
relate to any of the sensory modalities, traditionally conceived: moral
experiences, aesthetic experiences and experiences of agency have all been
touted as perceptual, or at least, perception-like. This renewed interest
has been complemented by more general work on the nature of perceptual
experience.
Under this heading, the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the
University of Glasgow is holding a Graduate Conference on this subject, and
we invite papers on the subject of the varieties of experience: possible
topics include, but are not limited to, moral experiences and related themes
in ethical intuitionism, aesthetic experiences, experiences of agency,
synaesthesia and synaesthetic experiences, perceptual disorders such as
blindsight, the individuation of the senses, perceptualist approaches to
pain, the content and epistemological significance of moral and agentive
experiences, as well as papers dealing with the nature of perceptual
experience more generally.
Abstracts (of no more than 500 words) should be submitted to
s.crutchfield.1@research.gla.ac.uk, or r.cowan.1@research.gla.ac.uk by the
30th of April. Notifications will be made by the end of May.
More information, when available, will be on the Centre's webpages:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/cspe/
