Second Porto Workshop on Hallucinations

Sala de Reuniões | 9 e 10 de março 2015

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

The purpose of this workshop is the presentation and discussion of contemporary theories on the nature of hallucinations. This subject is of great importance not only for philosophy (philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception), but also for psychology (psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience). This project “To see or not to see? Hallucinations in multidisciplinary perspective” is part of the ongoing research work done by the Mind, Language and Action Group in one of it´s most central areas os study, namely the Philosophy of Mind.

 

March 9, Monday

14h15 | Welcoming

14h30 | Renaud Jardri (Lille): Progress and pitfalls of functional brain imaging research of hallucinations

Chair: F. Larøi

16h00 | Coffee break

16h30 | Tommaso Piazza (Pavia): Counterfeiting perceptual experience. Scepticism, internalism, and epistemological disjunctivism

Chair: M. Riccardi

18h00 | End

 

March 10, Tuesday

 

11h00 | Iris Sommer (Utrecht): A closer look at voices

Chair: A. Pinheiro

12h30 | Lunch

14h30 | Mark Kalderon (UCL): Veridical hallucination and perceptual presentation

Chair: T. Piazza

16h00 | Coffee break

16h30 | Daniel Collerton (Newcastle): How can we see things that are not there?

Chair: S. Miguens

18h00 | End

20h30 | Dinner

 

Organized by:

Research project “To See or Not to See? Hallucinations in Multidisciplinary Perspective”, financed by Fundação BIAL

Research Group Mind Language and Action Group (MLAG)

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