Conferences, workshops and seminars
The following events have taken place or are currently planned in conjunction with ongoing projects and collaborations at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. Details of local accommodation near the University may be found here.
2023
- Workshops for Royal Society of Edinburgh Augmented Reality Network - the last one being on 9 and 10 November 2023.
We also host the following conferences:
- Achievement and Happiness 4 & 5 May 2023
- New Perspectives on Dreaming 3 & 4 July 2023
Regular seminars and events
2022
This year we host the workshops for the Royal Society of Edinburgh Augmented Reality Network.
2020
- Philosophy of Perception: Colour and Epistemology Within14-15 January 2020
2019
- Perception: Epistemology and Mind
25-26 October 2019 - Autonomy and Immersive Technology Workshop
13 September 2019 - 2019 Glasgow Graduate Conference in Epistemology and Mind (GEM)
13-14 May 2019 - Dreams, Hallucinations and Imagination Conference
23-24 February 2019
2018
- Project Mobius Launched
October 2018 - September 2021 - Depiction, Pictorial Experience and Vision Science conference
15-17 November 2018 - Joint Epistemology and Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience Workshop
28 May 2018 - How Suffering Augments Autonomy
18 March 2018
2017
- The Particularity of Perception Workshop
15–16 September 2017 - Suffering and Autonomy at End of Life
4 August, 2017 - Philosophy of Virtual and Augmented Reality Workshop
26–27 June 2017 - Soluis VR Knowledge Exchange Workshop
30 May 2017 - Colour Primitivism Workshop
18–20 May 2017, Brandon University, Winnipeg, Manitoba - Sense-Data Workshop: Phenomenological, Ontological, and Philosophical Perspectives
27–28 April 2017 - Rethinking the Senses Spring School
3–8 April 2017, IUC, Dubrovnik - Suffering and Autonomy at End of Life
18 March 2017 - Mind Network Meeting
3 March 2017 - Rethinking the Senses workshop on Synchronising the Senses
17–18 February 2017
2016
- The Senses and Crossmodal Perception – Aristotelian and Contemporary Perspectives
28–30 October 2016, University of Berne - Rethinking the Senses workshop on Consciousness
14-17 September 2016, Centre l’Oubradou, Le Plan-de-la-Tour - Understanding the Senses: Past and Present – Second Network Meeting
6–8 July 2016 - Rethinking the Senses workshop on Attention
8–9 June 2016, Institute of Philosophy, London - The Eye's Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities conference
21–26 May 2016, University of East Anglia - Suffering and Phenomenal Consciousness workshop
11–13 May 2016 - Early Career Mind Network Research Forum
5–6 May 2016 - Rethinking the Senses workshop on Action and Awareness
17–19 March 2016, University of Warwick - The Feeling of Suffering workshop
18–19 February 2016, Macquarrie University
2015
- Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience Research Seminars
November 2015–June 2016 - The Role of Phenomenal Consciousness workshop
24 October 2015 - Perception and Cognition: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience workshop
8–9 September 2015 - Suffering’s Role and Value
4–6 July 2015 - Understanding the Senses: Past and Present – First Network Meeting
4 June 2015 - Emergence and Grounding Conference
25–26 May 2015 - Emotional and Physical Suffering: Roles and Values
16–17 April 2015, Ruhr University, Bochum - Suffering’s Valuable Functions
31 January 2015
2014
- Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience Research Seminars
October 2014–May 2015 - Suffering and Reason
4–6 July 2014 - Suffering and Cognition
25 April 2014, Maison de la Recherche - Suffering and Normativity
18 January 2014
2013
- Evaluative Perception: Aesthetic, Ethical, Normative
13–15 September 2013 - The British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Conference
24–27 June 2013 - The Pain Conference (part of the Pain Project)
18–20 June 2013 - Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Workshop
26–28 March 2013
2012
- Pain and Emotion Workshop (part of the Pain Project)
20 October 2012 - Graduate Conference - The Problems of Philosophy: Then and Now
29–30 June 2012 - Pain, Unpleasantness and Motivation Workshop (part of the Pain Project)
30 May 2012
2011
- The Normative Significance of Consciousness Conference
December 2011, University of Fribourg - Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination
6–9 September 2011 - Metaphysics of Mind Graduate Conference
24–25 June 2011 - Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision Workshop
26–27 March 2011
2010
- Emotion and Perception Conference
29–30 October 2010 - Graduate Conference: Mind, Science and Everything!
25–26 June 2010 - Conference: Phenomenal Presence: What is Phenomenally Given in Experience?
7–9 June 2010, University of Fribourg
2009
- Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Seminars
October 2009–May 2014 - Varieties of Experience Graduate Conference
7–8 July 2009
2008
- Visiting Speaker: David Wall (University of Edinburgh)
‘Self-Deception, Intentionalism, and Partitioning’
10 October 2008 - Conference: Hallucination on Crete
11–14 September 2008 - Summer Sounds Reading Group
Summer 2008
2007
- Perception and Introspection Workshop
16 November 2007 - Visiting Speaker: Matthew Soteriou (University of Warwick)
'The Epistemic Role of Episodic Recollection'
5 June 2007 - Conference: The Admissible Contents of Experience
20–22 March 2007
2004–2006
- Workshop: Art and the Senses (organised with Rob Hopkins)
7 October 2006, University of Sheffield - Graduate Conference: Philosophy of Perception
8 October 2005 - Reading Group: Action in Perception
Semester 2, 2004/05 - Conference: Disjunctivism - Perception, Action, Knowledge
4–5 June 2005 - Seminar Series: Disjunctivism
Semester 1, 2004/05 - Conference: Individuating the Senses
4–5 December 2004