Philosophical Perspectives on Spatial Perception; organized by Farid Masrour in Harvard University

Philosophical Perspectives

on Spatial Perception

October 30-31, 2010

All talks will take place in the Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall.

Please do not cite or reference any of the available papers without the express

permission of the author.

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

9:30-11:15           Speaker: Farid Masrour (Harvard University)

“Perceptual Geometry and the Nature of Perceptual Experience”

                Commentator: Michael Tye (University of Texas at Austin)

11:25-1:10           Speaker: James Van Cleve (University of Southern California)

"Berkeley and Reid on Perception of Depth"

You may read an abstract of this paper here.

The following handouts are recommended reading before the talk:

Primary handout:

* "Berkeley and Reid on Perception of Depth"

Auxiliary handouts:

* "Pitcher on Berkeley on Immediacy"

* "French's Argument"

* "Reid's Geometry of Visibles"

An earlier handout, "Reid v. Berkeley on Three Puzzles of Vision,"

while no longer being referenced in this talk, may still be of interest.

                Commentator: Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania)

2:10-3:55              Speaker: David Bennett (Brown University)

“Seeing Shape”

Professor Bennett's paper, "How The World is Measured Up in Size Experience," is recommended as a companion reading to this talk.

                Commentator: Brad Thompson (Southern Methodist University)

4:05-5:50              Speaker: Robin Jeshion (University of Southern Caifornia)

“Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”

                Commentator: David Chalmers (Australian National University, NYU)

7:00        Dinner: Location TBA

Sunday October 31st, 2010

9:30-11:15           Speaker: Jérôme Dokic (Jean Nicod Institute)

"Perception without representation: The case of spatial relations"

                Commentator: Sebastian Watzl (Harvard University)

11:25-1:10           Speaker: Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard University)

"TBA"

                Commentator: Ned Block (NYU)

2:10-4:00              Roundtable Discussion:

Gordon Belot (University of Pittsburgh)

Sean Kelly (Harvard University)

Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto)

Alison Simmons (Harvard University)

Maja Spener (Oxford University)

Organizers: Farid Masrour, Susanna Siegel