GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE
(http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/CSPE/gradconf/)
Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/CSPE)
October 8th, 2005
University of Glasgow: Seminar Room, Department of Psychology
Keynote speakers:
Professor Jose L. Bermudez (Washington University in St. Louis)
Professor Max Velmans (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
The issues of representation, binding problem, hemispatial neglect, blindsight, spatial attention are immediately related to the issues of perceptual experience and consciousness, which are of central interest to both Philosophy and Psychology. Over the last three decades, developing neuroimaging techniques and scientific findings have enabled psychologists and neuroscientists to apply philosophical concepts of perceptual experience, bringing the two disciplines and their respective idioms together, though not always in a consensus. This is a dialogue which we hope this conference will promote.
Postgraduate students from Philosophy and Psychology will have the opportunity to experience giving an academic paper to an interdisciplinary audience and engage in productive academic debate over the workshop discussion.
We invite abstracts from postgraduate students in Philosophy and Psychology on areas such as perceptual experience, representation and consciousness, or related areas. We are particularly interested in the relation of brain studies to individual experience. Abstracts should make for papers of a suitable length for a reading time of 40 minutes.
Abstracts should be submitted by email, preferably in Word or PDF format, to Maria Gardani ([log in to unmask]) or Dimitris Platchias ([log in to unmask]). All abstracts are blind peer-reviewed.
Submission deadline is September 7th.
We will be able to offer a substantial contribution towards travel and accommodation to those speakers not receiving support from their departments or other funding sources.
Authors of accepted abstracts may be invited to publish their talks in a prospective volume by Cambridge Scholar Press.
Attendance is free but if you expect to attend please email the organisers and indicate if you wish to apply for an attendance bursary. These bursaries will be provided for postgraduate attendees not in receipt of other subsidies and will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.
Conference organisers
Dimitris Platchias and Maria Gardani,
Department of Philosophy,
69 Oakfield Avenue,
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
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FAX: 0141 330 4112
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