Dear all,
Reminder: the first meeting of this term's Cambridge Mind Seminar will be on
Tuesday 1 May at 11am. Henry Shevlin (Cambridge) will present a paper.
The Cambridge Mind Seminar is an advanced philosophy of mind seminar with short
talks by local and not-so-local people, followed by discussion.
Meetings take place on Tuesdays from 11:00-13:00, location: Old Senior
Combination Room, Queens’ College (unless otherwise specified). Refreshments
will be provided.
Object categorisation: perception or cognition?
Henry Shevlin (CFI, Downing College)
1 May, 11:00 (Old Senior Combination Room, Queens' College)
Abstract: The relationship between perception and cognition is a matter of
intense controversy, both in philosophy and cognitive science. A prominent
claim in recent work by Block (2014) and Burge (2010) is that there is a ‘joint
in nature’ between perception and cognition. In this talk, I present a
challenge to that view in the form of object categorisation, a form of
processing that differs somewhat from central cases of both perceptual and
cognitive processing. Instead, I propose that perceptual categorization be
understood as a further psychological kind in its own right, a position I term
the three kinds view. I develop an exploratory account of this position, and
attempt to motivate it on the basis of both theoretical and empirical
considerations. I conclude by suggesting that the three kinds view may offer a
useful framework in debates about the architecture of the mind.
Cambridge Mind Seminar
Easter 2018 Schedule
• 1 May: Henry Shevlin (CFI, Downing College)
• 8 May: Solveig Aasen (Oslo)
• 15 May: Neil Barton (Vienna)
• 22 May: Anastasia Berg (Corpus Christi)
• 5 June: TBA
• 12 June: Umrao Sethi (CUNY) [Angevin Room, Queens’ College]
• 19 June: Sophie Archer (Keble College, Oxford) [Angevin Room, Queens’
College]
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Dr Maarten Steenhagen
Lecturer and Director of Studies
Faculty of Philosophy / Queens’ College
University of Cambridge
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