PRISME seminar - Ryan Doran (University of Barcelona/University of Cambridge) "True Beauty"

This Friday, January 26th, we welcome at the PRISME seminar (11h-12h30, salle de réunion) Ryan Doran (University of Barcelona/University of Cambridge) who will talk about True Beauty (abstract below). Everybody is welcome !
Ryan Doran (University of Barcelona/University of Cambridge)
"True Beauty"
Friday, January 26th, 11h-12h30, IJN meeting room
What is the nature of the concept BEAUTY ? Does it differ fundamentally from nearby concepts such as PRETTINESS ? It is argued that BEAUTY, but (...)

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In a recent book, Richard Moran (2018) fruitfully highlights the ways in which telling someone something is a social and interpersonal act in which both the speaker and interlocutor must play a part. A conclusion which seems to naturally follow from Moran’s ideas—but one about which he is sceptical—is that telling is a form of joint action. This is the conclusion drawn by John Greco (2020), (...)

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Perceptual processes rely on iconic representations in which objects and properties are represented in an intertwined manner. In recent years, there has been a debate as to whether or not perceptual processes must also rely on discursive representations. That debate has largely focused on the visual system’s capacities to construct bound representations of objects and to track multiple objects over (...)

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Salle de séminaire de l’Institut Jean Nicod
Perception is a fundamental source of information about the empirical world. But in what form is “the testimony of the senses” delivered ? In this talk, I show how we can answer this question in a systematic, empirically constrained, and philosophically illuminating way. As a case study, I draw on vision science research on how the bounding contours (...)

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