Dear all, The Mental Sciences Club is an work-in-progress group for informal cross-disciplinary discussion of topics in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, including psychology, psychiatry, and artificial intelligence. All are welcome to attend. This term, meetings will be on alternate Thursdays from 4:00 till 5:30 p.m., and will take place via Zoom. Recurring zoom details are at the very end of this email, and will be sent out again before each meeting. If you would like be added to our mailing list, or are interested in presenting at a future session (all are warmly encouraged to do so) email Jessie Munton ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) or Tom McClelland ([email protected]).
Our first meeting will be this Thursday, the 8th of October, when Jessie Munton will present some in-progress work, “Perceptual Epistemology without Perceptual Atomism” An abstract is below, along with details of our other upcoming meetings this term. Best wishes, Tom and Jessie Perceptual Epistemology without Perceptual Atomism Abstract: Our visual experience appears to unfold seamlessly through time: it does not obviously decompose into separable temporal chunks or atoms. That dynamic aspect of perceptual experience is in apparent tension with two fundamental assumptions in perceptual epistemology: that perception provides information that can, at least in principle, be segmented into units on which a perceiver can update their beliefs, and that perception is epistemically privileged in virtue of its constitutive link with the present moment. In this talk I examine whether that kind of atomism is empirically supported by evidence of discrete “frames” in visual perception, and argue that it is not. In light of this, we need to rethink the epistemic role of visual experience and the relationship between perception and cognition. Mental Sciences Term Card Meets are alternate Thursdays 4:00 till 5:30 p.m. on Zoom: Thursday 8th October Jessie Munton (Philosophy) “Perceptual Epistemology without Perceptual Atoms” Thursday 22nd October Sahanika Ratnayake (Philosophy) "It's Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis" November 5th Thomas McClelland (Philosophy) “Gendered Affordance Perception" November 19th Rune Nyrup (HPS) Ethics and Epistemology of AI: on transparency and value-ladenness in AI systems December 5th Katharina Zuhlsdorff (Psychology): TBA Mental Sciences Zoom Meeting: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/97991710019?pwd=QnU0Y2FERktqb0dWMWdqNzMvUjdpQT09 <https://zoom.us/j/97991710019?pwd=QnU0Y2FERktqb0dWMWdqNzMvUjdpQT09> Meeting ID: 979 9171 0019 Passcode: 908079 Lecturer in Philosophy University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA Email: [email protected] jessiemunton.wixsite.com/philosophy _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
