• Overview
• Programme 2009-10
• Programme 2008-09

Overview

Inquiries about this research group should be directed to Jonas Christensen or Andy McKinley. This research group usually meets fortnightly on Thursdays in the Dugald Stewart Building at 4-5.30pm. See also the interdisciplinary PPIG research group in Mind & Cognition.

Mind & Cognition is one of the main research clusters in Philosophy at Edinburgh, and as such hosts a number of research activities including this regular reserach group. See also the Epistemology research cluster here at Edinburgh.

Programme 2009-10

For the first part of the autumn semester we will be reading Michael Tye's Consciousness Revisited, (MIT Press 2009), This is in preparation for a workshop on Friday 6th November at which Tye will be present. Meetings will take place at the usual time (4pm on Thursday) and be held in room 2.37, 7 George Square. If you have any questions about this group contact Dr. Jesper Kallestrup.

• 10th September: Phenomenal Consciousness
• 17th September: Why Consciousness Cannot Be Physical and Why It Must Be
• 24th September: Physicalism and the Appeal to Phenomenal Concepts
• 1st October: The Admissible Contents of Visual Experience
• 8th October: Consciousness, Seeing, and Knowing
• 15th October: Solving the Puzzles
• 22nd October: Change Blindness and the Refrigerator Light Illusion
• 29th October: Privileged Access, Phenomenal Character, and Externalism

 

Programme 2008-09

• April 2nd 2009: Julian Kiverstein (Edinburgh)

'Sensorimotor Knowledge and the Contents of Experience' (pdf)

• April 30th 2009: Matteo Colombo (Edinburgh)

'Objective Perception', by John Haugeland (pdf)

• 14th May 2009: Mog Stapleton (Edinburgh)

'The Myth of the Turing Machine', by Chris Eliasmith (link)

• 4th June 2009: Evan Butts (Edinburgh)

'Do We See with Microscopes?', by Elisabeth Pacherie (pdf)

• 25th June 2009: Diego Zucca (Edinburgh)

'Experience as Representation', by Fred Dretske (pdf)

 

Last updated: September 22nd 2009 by Duncan Pritchard.