Conference on the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception

这是一个跨学科的会议，旨在促进思想交流，希望在心理学和哲学的年轻研究人员之间开展合作。会议的主题是感知的认知渗透;也就是说，与会者将讨论感知是否主要是输入驱动的，或者认知状态，如信念，情绪，恐惧，期望，情感，欲望，是否可以影响感知的内容或性质。知觉在实验心理学中被广泛研究，在心灵哲学中被广泛讨论，并且是我们日常经验的一部分。智力MeritThe会议的主要目的是汇集关于知觉理论化的上述不同观点，并解决更普遍的认识论和知觉理论的认知渗透主题上的不同理论立场的影响。关于认知渗透和相关心理现象的认识影响的理论化在最近几年才开始站稳脚跟，并且可以从越来越多的跨学科讨论中受益匪浅，这些讨论有助于将心理学研究与心灵哲学的理论化结合起来。更广泛的影响与认知渗透有关的心理学和认识论问题最近在哲学中占据了重要地位，研究生和年轻研究人员开展了大量新工作。这次会议将有助于加深对这个问题的讨论，并扩大哲学家分析实验的范围。它还可能鼓励学术学科之间的界限的溶解，并探索这种研究和理论化对理解我们的世界经验的影响。该会议向所有人开放，预计将吸引多个学术领域的与会者，包括哲学、心理学、神经科学和文学;从而拓宽对有关思维如何运作的基本问题的思考。

Project OverviewThis is an interdisciplinary conference to promote an exchange of ideas with the hope of initiating collaborative efforts between young researchers in psychology and philosophy. The topic of the conference is cognitive penetration of perception; that is to say, participants will discuss whether perception is primarily input-driven, or whether cognitive states such as beliefs, moods, fears, expectations, emotions, desires, can influence the content or character of perception. Perception is widely researched in experimental psychology, widely discussed in philosophy of mind, and a constant part of our everyday experience. Intellectual MeritThe primary aim of the conference is to bring together the different perspectives indicated above on theorizing about perception, and to address the implications of different theoretical positions on the topic of cognitive penetration for epistemology and theories of perception more generally. Theorizing about the epistemic impacts of cognitive penetration and related psychological phenomena has only begun to take hold in recent years, and could benefit immensely from increased interdisciplinary discussion that serves to integrate psychological research with theorizing in philosophy of mind. Broader ImpactsBoth the psychological and the epistemological issues related to cognitive penetration have recently taken a strong hold in philosophy, with a host of new work by graduate students and young researchers. This conference will serve to deepen discussion of the issue, and to widen the range of experiments analyzed by philosophers. It may also encourage the dissolution of the boundaries between academic disciplines, and explore the impact that this line of research and theorizing has for understanding our experience of the world. The conference is open to all, and is expected to draw attendance from across a number of academic areas, including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and literature; it will thereby broaden thinking on fundamental questions about how the mind works.