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Are there imperatival aspects to perceptual experience? Do any experiences have intrinsic motivational powers? If so, is this at odds with their being correct or incorrect? If not, what are they correct or incorrect about? One way to approach them is by comparing perceptual experiences to speech acts. If perceptual experiences were modeled by speech acts, would the best models be assertions, imperatives, or neither? If in some ways, or on some occasions, experiences are more like imperatives than assertions are these imperatival aspects of experience reflected in any way in their accuracy conditions? Are they at odds with their having accuracy conditions at all? Are they at odds with representationalism? In this workshop we explore these and related questions.
Thursday August 29
Schedule
Wednesday August 28
9:30 Welcome and Introduction (Sebastian Watzl and Susanna Siegel)
10:00-11:30 John Bengson (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Practical Perception”
Commentator: Avery Archer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Commentator: Avery Archer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
11:45-13:15 Susanna Siegel (Harvard University, CSMN): “Affordances and the Contents of Perception”
Commentator: Anna Bergqvist (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Commentator: Anna Bergqvist (Manchester Metropolitan University)
14:15-15:45 Sebastian Watzl (University of Oslo, CSMN): “Perceptual Guidance”
Commentator: Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford University, University of Oslo)
Commentator: Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford University, University of Oslo)
16:00-17:30 Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA): “The Representation of Space in Visual Sequences”
Commentator: Farid Masrour (Harvard University)
Commentator: Farid Masrour (Harvard University)
Thursday August 29
9:30-11:00 Hilla Jacobson (Ben-Gurion University): “Not only a Messenger: From a Purely Representational to a Hybrid Account of the Phenomenal Character of Pain”
Commentator: Maja Spener (University of Birmingham)
Commentator: Maja Spener (University of Birmingham)
11:15-12:30 Ole Koksvik (University of Bergen): “Pushiness”
13:30-15:00 Manolo Martínez (University of Barcelona): “Imperativism about Perceptual Experience – The Case of Disgust”
Commentator: Michael Brady (University of Glasgow)
Commentator: Michael Brady (University of Glasgow)
15:15-16:45 Tim Bayne (University of Manchester): “Phenomenal Attitudes”
Commentator: Anders Nes (University of Oslo, CSMN)
Commentator: Anders Nes (University of Oslo, CSMN)
