The Seminars of Philosophy of Perception, Mind, and Language
The Seminars of Perception, Mind, and Language (former Seminars of Philosophy of Language and Mind) take place every year since 2001 at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan. The meetings aim at being an opportunity for people working in analytic philosophy to debate the latest directions of research.
The meetings are structured as a 45-50 minutes presentation, followed by an extensive discussion time. They are open to anyone interested in the topic, especially undergraduate and Ph.D. students. The language of the talks is either Italian or English.
Alessandra Buccella (University of Milano)
March 3 MON — 12.30-14.30
Sala Riunioni — Direzione del Dipartimento (Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milano)
Illusions, meta-perception and disjunctivism
Abstract: When it comes to deal with perceptual illusions, the disjunctivist theory of perception faces some problems, mainly because of its close relationship with naive realism, that is, roughly speaking, with the idea that only in veridical cases the subject is genuinely in perceptual contact with the objects of the world and their features. In my presentation, I will argue that a new notion of phenomenal character based on what Dokic and Martin called meta-perceptual feelings and affective phenomenology can help to specify and integrate the original insight of naive realism in order to make Disjunctivism more rigorous in accounting for similarities and differences between veridical perceptions and illusions.