Between Perception and Action
Bence Nanay
Funded by:
FWO FWO Odysseus Grant 2011-2016 (987,100 Euros)
FP7 Marie Currie Career Integration Grant 2011-2015 (100,000 Euros)
University of Antwerp BOF LP Grant 2011-2015 (190,000 Euros)
University of Antwerp BOF KP Grant 2011-2012 (7,500 Euros)
University of Antwerp BOF Bridge Grant 2012-2013 (43,500 Euros)
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NEW!
Workshop on Mind, Action and Responsibility: Empirical and non-empirical perspectives (co-organized with the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values at the University of Antwerp)
June 19-20, 2013
Speakers:
Pamela Hieronymi
Joshua Knobe
Brian Leiter
Thomas Pink
Jesse Prinz
Gideon Yafffe
Workshop on mental imagery and pretense
May 21, 2013
Gregory Currie
Amy Kind
Susanna Schellenberg
Neil Van Leeuwen
One or Two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Philosophy of Perception at the University of Antwerp
Applications are invited for one or two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Antwerp. The postdoc(s) will be part of Bence Nanay’s research group (funded by an FWO, an FP7 CIG and a BOF UA grant) and will work with Professor Nanay. The length of the fellowship is two years. The pay is (for US and UK standards) very generous. Postdoctoral researchers in Belgium are public employees with very generous benefits. Antwerp is commutable from a number of European cities, including Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Cologne. The research group has three postdocs at the moment.
There is no teaching or service obligation or really any obligation at all except for working on joint projects with Professor Nanay (and other members of the research group). So the candidate should have a significant overlap of research interests with Nanay (and the research group).
This specific call for postdocs is restricted to philosophers of perception working in the analytic tradition and candidates are encouraged to email nanay@berkeley.edu if they have doubts about whether their profile matches this call. There may be other, more indirect, funding schemes for those who are not strictly speaking analytic philosophers of perception. Candidates must have a PhD degree in philosophy. Some background in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience or primatology is a significant plus.
Please send a cv, a max 5000 word writing sample and a max 1-page outline of what joint papers/projects the candidate envisages to write/have with the primary investigator to nanay@berkeley.edu and have two letters of reference sent to the same email address. Please write ‘Postdoc: P&A’ in the subject line of any email sent.
Deadline: April 21, 2013
Starting date of the position: Spring/Summer/Fall 2013 (negotiable)
Congratulations to our postdoc, Craig French, who is taking up a three-year postdoctoral position at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
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Second Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture:
May 23, 2013
Tyler Burge
Congratulations to our postdoc, Maja Spener, who is taking up a permanent position at the University of Birmingham
Perception and Action Speaker series, Spring 2013 (theme: the origins of social cognition):
February 21: Josef Perner
March 21: Joelle Proust
April 25: Corrado Sinigaglia
May 2: Stephen Butterfill
May 23: Tyler Burge (The Second Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture)
Congratulations to the two prize-winners at our first Essay Prize: Hong-Yu Wong and Eric Mandelbaum
Call for papers: Philosophy of Perception and Aesthetics Conference, University of Antwerp, December 5-6.
Topic: The conference is about possible interactions between (analytic) philosophy of perception and (analytic) aesthetics: ways in which recent work in philosophy of perception may change the way we think about some problems in aesthetics (and maybe vice versa).
Confirmed speakers:
Catharina Abell
Jerome Dokic
John Kulvicki
Mohan Matthen
Aaron Meskin
Matt Nudds
Diana Raffman
Alberto Voltolini
CFP: There are some slots reserved for contributed papers (no parallel sections).
Length: 3000 words. Single spaced!
Deadline: September 1, 2012. Papers should be sent to nanay@berkeley.edu
More info: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/bence.nanay/paw.htm
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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.
Deadline: July 15, 2012
Essays should be sent, suitable for blind refereeing, 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.
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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,
Christopher Mole,
Casey O’Callaghan,
Christopher Peacocke
Ian Phillips,
Jesse Prinz,
Susanna Siegel,
Barry Smith,
James Stazicker,
Michael Tye,
Sebastian Watzl,
Wayne Wu,
Registration ends on June 15.
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First Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture:
May 3, 2012
Pierre Jacob
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Perception and Action Speaker series, Spring 2012:
March 22: David Papineau
April 19: Elisabeth Pacherie
May 3: Pierre Jacob
May 24: Juan-Carlos Gómez
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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
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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 at my publications page:
This page is very much under construction – more info coming soon.