Between Perception and Action

Bence Nanay

 

 Funded by:

FWO Odysseus Grant (987,100 Euros)

University of Antwerp BOF Research Council KP Grant (7,500 Euros)

 

NEW!

 

Essay Prize

 

Topic: The multimodality of perception. More precisely: How recent findings about the multimodality of perception change some of the classic debates in the philosophy of perception.

Eligibility: The Essay Prize is open to those who received their PhD after May 2006 or who are PhD students.

Length: 3000 words. Single spaced!

Deadline: July 15, 2012

Essays should be sent to nanay@berkeley.edu

Prize money: 2,500 Euros. The author of the winning essay will be invited to give a presentation at a major workshop to be organized some time in 2013 on the multimodality of perception at the University of Antwerp.

 

NEW!

 

Two-day conference on perceptual attention

September 1-2, 2012.

 

Participants:

 

Berit Brogaard,

John Campbell,

David Chalmers,

Tim Crane,

Carolyn Dicey Jennings,

Imogen Dickie,

Katalin Farkas,

Mohan Matthen,

Christopher Mole,

Casey O’Callaghan,

Ian Phillips,

Jesse Prinz,

Susanna Siegel,

Barry Smith,

James Stazicker,

Michael Tye,

Sebastian Watzl,

Wayne Wu,

 

First Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture:

May 3, 2012

Pierre Jacob

 

 

Perception and Action Speaker series, Spring 2012:

 

March 22: David Papineau

April 19: Elisabeth Pacherie

May 3: Pierre Jacob

May 24: Juan-Carlos Gómez

 

 

New postdocs on the project:

 

Maja Spener

Carolyn Dicey Jennings (nee Suchy-Dicey)

Craig French

 

New PhD students on the project:

 

Angelica Kaufmann

Nick Young

 

 

 

One of the main outcomes of this project is a book with the tentative title ‘Between Perception and Action’. It is under contract with Oxford University Press.

The very rough draft of the Introduction is here:

 

Some related publications on the topic of the project are here:

Action-oriented perception (European Journal of Philosophy)

Do we see apples as edible? (Pacific Philosophical Quarterly)

Do we sense modalities with our sense modalities? (Ratio)

 

This page is very much under construction – more info coming soon.

 

                                   

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