Making Inferential Commitments Explicit

4 Dec 25 @ 18:00 – 20:00 – Abstract: Reflection principles are principles intended to express the soundness of a given theory. By Gödel’s theorems, these are logically independent of the corresponding theories. Still, they appear to enjoy a special epistemological status. The idea relates to the fact that there seems to be something wrong with accepting a theory without somehow acknowledging its soundness. […]

Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk

4 Dec 25 @ All Day – Organization: Marta Jorba and Víctor Verdejo Speakers: Anna Drożdżowicz, Guy Longworth, Andrew Peet, Sofiia Rappe, Martina Wiltschko This is a hybrid free event. To register please contact: victor.verdejo@upf.edu More information HERE.

Another Kind of Overflow: The Two Visual Streams Hypothesis, Consciousness, and Qualitative Character

4 Dec 25 @ 11:00 – 13:00 – Abstract: Many people consider the dorsal visual stream to be a ‘zombie’: ‘merely computational’ in nature, something akin to a ‘robot’ system which the conscious mind or visual system assigns tasks (reaching, grasping) to solve, but which is utterly different in kind and content to the conscious, qualitative ventral steam – what we use to survey […]