The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience

Workshop – Ruhr-Universität Bochum – 01.-02. September 2022

Program
09:00 arrival and coffee
09:30 David Papineau (King’s College/CUNY): Problems for representationalism
10:45 coffee
11:00 Alex Byrne (MIT): Representationalism defended
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Umrao Sethi, online (Brandeis): Accounting for seeming presence
14:45 coffee
15:15 Albert Newen (RUB): The ALARM Theory of Consciousness
16.30 coffee
16.45 Laura Gow (Liverpool): Wannabe Representation
19.00 Dinner (Living Room, Bochum)

Friday September 2nd:
09:00 arrival and coffee
09:30 Stefanie Grüne (Berlin): Are representationalism and naïve realism compatible?
10:45 coffee
11:00 Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck): Against cosmic brains
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Katalin Farkas (CEU Vienna): Representation by sensory qualia is not arbitrary
14:45 coffee
15:15 Heather Logue (Leeds): Purpose and procedure in the metaphysics of perceptual experience
16.30 coffee
16.45 Tim Crane, online (CEU Vienna): Is perceptual consciousness essentially representational?