The Workshop

Venue and Date

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; 14-15 May 2018.

Purpose of the Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together world-leading researchers that work on the topics of perception and mental imagery. One of the main questions that we want to investigate in this workshop is in how far perception and mental imagery should be understood or modelled as the result of inferential processes, and what philosophical and neuroscientific consequences such an understanding might have. Furthermore, we ask how perception and mental imagery influence our cognitive states and, thus, how they inform our beliefs and shape our actions.

Invited Speakers

Ophelia Deroy (Munich)
Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh)
Bence Nanay (Antwerp)
Jona Vance (Northern Arizona)

Organizers

The workshop is hosted by the Emmy-Noether research group From Perception To Belief and Back Again, and it is organized by Peter Brössel (RUB Bochum), Albert Newen (RUB Bochum), and Filippo Vindrola (RUB Bochum).

Poster

Program

Monday, May 14, 2018 Mercator Room (GA 04/187) Time Speaker and Topic 10:00 – 11:00 Ophelia Deroy (Munich): Lessons from crossmodal mental imagery 11:10 – 12:10 Filippo Vindrola (RUB): Direct justification and the perceptual principal principle 12:10 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 14:30 Luis Rosa (Cologne): Mental models, imagery and symbolic processing 14:40 – 15:40… Continue reading Program

Contact

For information about practical matters, please contact: perception-belief@rub.de. The subject line of the email should be: “Perception, Mental Imagery and Inference”.

Call for Submissions

We welcome submissions for additional contributed talks. Each contributed presentation will be one hour long, including a 15-minute Q&A session. Submission instructions: Please submit both an extended abstract of no more than 750 words and a shorter abstract of 150 words to: perception-belief@rub.de by March 15, 2018. The subject line of the email should be: “Perception,… Continue reading Call for Submissions