Normativity in Perception

Normativity in Perception: Phenomenological, Analytical and Psychopathological Perspectives

International Conference August 21st-23rd, 2013 McGill University, Montréal Thomson House Ballroom 3650 Rue McTavish

Abstract:

To have a perceptual experience is to be confronted with a possible way the world is. Perceptual experience raises by itself the question of whether things are as our experiences present them as being, and this constitutes the normative pretense of every perception. But can perception provide by itself the required norm for justifying its claim to truth? The speakers for this conference will address this question from three perspectives psychopathological, analytical, and phenomenological.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

12:30-13:00 Registration and Welcome

13:00 – 13:45 Nicolas De Warren (Leuven): The Normativity of Habits

13:45 – 14:30 Maxime Doyon (Montréal): Normativity and Self-Consciousness

15:00 – 15:45 Michael Madary (Mainz): Seeing Our World

15:45 – 16:30 Charles Siewert (Rice): On 'Getting a Good Look' at Things

17:00-19:00 Reception @ Martha Crago Lounge (in Thomson House)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

10:00 – 10:45 Søren Overgaard (Copenhagen): Perceptual Experience: a Husserlian Proposal

11:15 – 12:00 Matthew Ratcliffe (Durham): Delusional Atmosphere, Hallucination, and the Experience of Possibility

12:00 – 12:45 Virginie Palette (Paris/Freiburg): As-(If)-Structure: Perspectival Flexibility as Norm of Perception

14:30 – 15:15 Aude Bandini (UQAM / Montréal): Perceptual Presence: a Phenomenal Support for Epistemic Externalism 15:15 – 16:00 David Morris (Concordia) Delusions as Spandrels, and the Temporal Thickness of Perception

16:45 – 17:30 Alva Noë (Berkeley): TBA

Friday, August 23, 2013 10:00 – 10:45 Maren Wehrle (Leuven): Normativity and Normality

11:15 – 12:00 Philip Buckley (McGill) Phenomenology of Perception at the Border of Cultures

14:00 – 14:45 Laurence Kirmayer (McGill): How culture constructs normativity: Embodiment, enactment and the cultural neurophenomenology of delusional expérience

14:45 – 15:30 Thiemo Breyer (Heidelberg/Freiburg): Perspectivity as Structure of Perception and its Disturbance in Delusion

Conference organized by Maxime Doyon & Thiemo Breyer.