Area of Specialisation > Philosophy of Mind

This interactive two-day programme will include guest lectures and seminars, and will consist of presentations by seminar leaders and collaborative talks providing opportunities for substantial dialogue between philosophers, clinicians, and scientists.

Heather Logue (University of Leeds): An anti-sceptical metaphysics of perception

Matthew Parrott | 'Self-Knowledge and the Capacity to Judge'

Adrian Al Smith | KCL | 'Imagination, Illusion, and Virtual Reality'

Zijian Zhu: 'The Ontology and the Perspective of the Progressive'

Clare MacCumhaill (Durham University): 'Acting where I am not now stationed'

Bill Child: ‘Wittgenstein and Immunity to Error through Misidentification’

David Collins: 'Shedding Light on Seeing Things Through Photographs: ‘Indirect’ or ‘Mediated’ Seeing and the Question of Photographic Transparency'

Joe Gough: ''Mind' and 'mental': extended, pluralistic, eliminated'

Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod): 'The cognitive life of maps'

Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford): 'The Psychology of Framing Effects and the Ethics of Ordinary Consent'

Matt Parrott | St Hilda’s College

Milo Phillips-Brown and Nilanjan Das (Toronto): 'The anatomy of anankastic conditionals'

James Laing: 'Joint Attention, Communication, and Perceptual Interaction'

Patrick Butlin (Oxford): 'Functions, content and understanding in language models'

 Zijian Zhu: 'The View from Nowhere and the View from Nowhen'

Anil Gomes | Trinity College | 'Strawson and Metacritique'

Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh): 'The Davos Debate over AI'

Chris Mole (UBC): ‘The Metaphysics of the Computational Theory of the Mind’

 J. Corns (Glasgow): 'Promiscuous Kinds and Individual Minds'

Michelle Liu | Hertfordshire/Monash | 'Mental Imagery & Co-Predication'

Rachel Fraser: Narrative Understanding

Shaun Nichols (Cornell University): 'Personal Identity in the Wild'

Anita Avramides (Oxford): 'Knowing and Acknowledging Others'

Victor Verdejo (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain): 'On how to know what I am doing'

Catharine Abell: 'Art and Medium'

Professor Josh Shepherd (Universität Autonoma de Barcelona): 'Spontaneity, Knowledge, and Control'

Natalia Waights-Hickman: 'Virtues and the taxonomy of knowledge'

Michael Martin (Oxford): 'Illumination Fading'

CANCELLED: Bill Brewer (KCL), 'The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Conscious Perception'

Rory Madden (UCL): 'If there’s no self, how come you exist?'

Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside): 'The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; the Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness' (with Jeremy Pober)

Kevin Lande | Antwerp/York | TBC 

Thomas Raleigh (University of Luxembourg): 'On being debased'

Paul Skokowski (Stanford University): 'Detecting Qualia'

Maja Spener (Birmingham): 'Introspective Kinds'

Alex Kerr | Antwerp/Princeton | 'Following your heart'

Milena Bartholain: 'The Discrimination Definition of the Internalism/Externalism Debate about Mind'

Howard Robinson | CEU/Blackfriars | ‘Why There Cannot be a Materialist Theory of Thought’

Andrew Lee (Toronto): 'Subjectivity vs. Phenomenal Character'

Susanna Siegel | Harvard | Are there norms of attention?

Guy Longworth | Warwick | John Cook Wilson on the Indefinability of Knowledge

John Morrison | Columbia | 'Perceptual Structuralism: Toads and Bees'

Justin D’Ambrosio | ANU | Perceptual Consciousness and Intensional Transitive Verbs

Naomi Eilan | Warwick | Other I's, Communication, and the Second Person

Rachel Goodman | Illinois | Singularism vs. Descriptivism?

Henry Taylor | Birmingham | Naïve realism without disjunctivism: kinds, polymorphism and the argument from hallucination

Ori Beck | Cambridge | TBC

Roberta Locatelli | Tübingen | Naïve Realism and the Relationality of Phenomenal Character

Alfredo Vernazzani | Bochum

Frédérique de Vignemont | Institut Jean-Nicod | Can we see the future?

Paul Snowdon | UCL | Theories of belief; some sceptical reflections

Alexander Geddes | Southampton | Personal Identity and the Preservation of Mind

Umrao Sethi | CUNY-Lehman | 'Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception' 

David Suarez | Toronto | Disjunctivism and Self-Awareness in Martin and Merleau-Ponty

Antonia Peacocke | Stanford | Practical Concepts and Practical Knowledge

Matt Soteriou | KCL | Perspectives in Memory, Imagination and Dream

Craig French | Nottingham | Naïve Realism, Perspective, and Size Perception

Helen Steward | Leeds | 'Free Will and External Reality'

Hanna Pickard | Johns Hopkins | CANCELLED

Ian Phillips | Johns Hopkins | Are We All Animals? Animalism, Conjoined Twins and the Diversity of Human Life

Christopher Peacocke | Columbia University | Thursday 30th April 2020

Ali Boyle | Cambridge | Classification in Comparative Cognitive Science

Mike Martin | The Lure of Illusion

Joulia Smortchkova | Oxford | 'First impressions and mind misreading'

Jake Quilty-Dunn | Oxford | Unconscious Rationalization, or: How (Not) to Think about Awfulness and Death

Lucy Campbell | Warwick | Perception, Perceptual Knowledge, and Perceptual Self-Knowledge

Alex Moran | Grounding Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument

Marc Artiga | Valencia | Radical Liberal Representationalism

Umut Baysan | The causal argument for Russellian panpsychism

Nicholas Shea | Computationally Useful Processing Organisation

Alex Moran | Oxford | TBC

Dominic Alford-Duguid | Oxford | 'On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure'

Umut Baysan | Oxford | 'The non-mental life of some groups'

Will Davies | Oxford | A Relational Theory of Colour Constancy

Patrick Butlin | Model-based Reinforcement Learning and Action for Reasons

Buki Fatona | An Anachronistic Analysis of St. Augustine’s Asymmetric Conception of Time Perception

Dominic Alford-Duguid | Whence come properties before the mind?

Alex Moran | Knowing the Qualitative (rescheduled)

Anne Jacobson | ‘Reading and the Clark-Chalmers extended mind’ 

Joulia Smortchkova | ‘Representational Kinds’

Anil Gomes & Matthew Parrott | Oxford | On Being Internally the Same

Ben Sorgiovanni | Oxford | ‘Past-Tense Self-Knowledge’

NO MEETING

Federico Bongiorno | Delusions, Explanations, and the Predictive Mind

Will Davies | Seen the Light?

Maya Krishnan | A Kantian criticism of modal rationalism 

Mike Martin | Oxford | 'Embedded Information'

Matthew Parrott | Birmingham | ‘Delusional Predictions and Explanations’

Nicholas Shea | Oxford | 'The Role of Non-Conceptual Metacognition in Reasoning'

POSTPONED

Nicholas Shea | Oxford | Drawing on the Meaning of a Concept

Alex Moran | CANCELLED

Alex Moran | Oxford | 'Causative Disjunctivism'

Laurenz Casser | Texas | 'Pain is modular'

Dominic Alford-Duguid | Oxford | 'Whence come properties before the mind?' - POSTPONED until further notice

Jake Quilty-Dunn, ‘Is iconic memory iconic?’

Sam Clarke | 'Perception is Analogue: the common format hypothesis revisited'

Mark Walton | Oxford | 'Risk Taking and The Brain'