The Given

International conference at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Confirmed speakers

  • Elijah Chudnoff (Miami)
  • Laura Gow (Liverpool)
  • Mads Gram Henriksen (Copenhagen)
  • Neil McDonnell (Glasgow)
  • Umrao Sethi (Brandeis)
  • Mats Wahlberg (Umeå)

Perceptual experiences seem to present, make manifest, or ‘give’ the world to us. Such experiences have ‘presentational phenomenology’, or ‘presentational feel’; they seem to offer ‘scene immediacy’ or ‘givenness in-the-flesh’. And perhaps perceptual experiences are not unique in this regard: similar expressions have been used to articulate, for instance, mathematical intuitions and certain religious experiences. However, most attempts to characterise presentational phenomenology revolve around striking yet unexplained metaphors.

This conference aims to move beyond metaphor, exploring presentational phenomenology across a variety of contexts and perspectives, including epistemology, philosophy of perception, philosophy of religion, psychopathology, and VR research.

The event is in person and open to all.

Programme

 

Main venue: UCPH South Campus, Room 4A-0-68

08:45

Søren Overgaard (University of Copenhagen): Introduction

09:00

Laura Gow (University of Liverpool): Presentational Phenomenology: Purpose and Perils

Chair: Laura Oppi

10:00

Neil McDonnell (University of Glasgow): Valuable Fictions: Hiding in Plain Sight

Chair: Odysseus Stone

11:00

Break

11:15

Derek Brown (University of Glasgow): Perceptual Mediation and the Given

Chair: Søren Overgaard

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Lunch

13:15

Umrao Sethi (Brandeis University): Metaphysical Preemption and the Problem of Perception

Chair: Dan Zahavi

14:15

Fabiana Caserta (Umeå University): Derealization as a Loss of Immersion

Daniel Neumann (University of Graz): Phenomenology and High-Level Properties in Perception (Room 4A-1-68)

15:15

Break

15:30–16.30

Mats Wahlberg (Umeå University): Perceiving God and Other Minds

Chair: Søren Overgaard

 

 

Main venue: UCPH South Campus, Room 4A-0-68
09:00

Mads Gram Henriksen (University of Copenhagen): How Delusions Are Given and Why It Matters

Chair: Kasper Møller Nielsen

10:00

Christos Kalpakidis (University of Crete): Givenness Without Representation: Sartre on Perception and Imagination

Vera Hadzi-Pulja (UAC Skopje): Heading into the Vague: VR Experience, or Phantasy as Perception (Room 4A-1-68)

11:00

Break

11:15

Lucas Battich (Institut Jean Nicod): Disentangling Feelings of Reality, Presence and Veridicality in Perceptual Experience

Chair: Laura Oppi

12:15

Lunch

13:15

Sofia Sgarbi (IUSS Pavia): Absence Experience, Phenomenal Collapse, and the Feeling of Presence

Paweł Zięba (Jagiellonian University): Naïve Realism and Derealization (Room 4A-1-68)

14:15

Break

14:30

Elijah Chudnoff (Miami University): Inferential Acquaintance

Chair: Søren Overgaard

15:30–15:45

Closing Remarks

 

Funded by The Independent Research Fund Denmark, Grant no. 0.46540/3097-00039