Hallucination on Crete

11 - 14 September 2008

Interdisciplinary Philosophy/Psychology Conference on Hallucination organised by:

• Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow
• Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, and Brain and Mind Graduate Programme, University of Crete.

Description

The traditional problem of hallucination in the philosophy of perception and epistemology has always attracted attention. However, over the last few years, neuroimaging techniques and scientific findings on the nature of delusion, together with the upsurge of interest in new theories of perception in philosophy, such as representationalism and disjunctivism, have brought the topic of hallucination to the forefront of philosophical thinking. The importance of the phenomenon of hallucination is such that it deserves extensive treatment; it has a direct impact on a wide range of issues in the philosophy of perception and epistemology, including:

• the question of whether we directly see the world
• the nature of perception and perceptual experience more generally
• the nature of our knowledge of our own mental states
• the nature of our knowledge of the external world
• questions about what we can learn about the mind, and the nature of hallucination, from empirical results in psychology and brain science.

The conference will bring together philosophers and psychologists to debate and discuss these topics.

Speakers

• Istvan Aranyosi  (Philosophy, Bilkent University)
  "Silencing the Argument from Hallucination"
• Richard P. Bentall (Psychology, Bangor University)
  "Trauma and Hallucinations"
• Alex Byrne (Philosophy, MIT)
  "Hallucination and Imagery"
• Paul Coates (Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire)
  "Hallucinations and the Intentional Directness of Perception: The Importance of Low-Level Conceptualization"
• Tim Crane (Philosophy, University College London)
  "Awareness of Properties"
• Fabian Dorsch (Philosophy, Universities of Fribourg and Geneva)
  "Hallucination and Phenomenal Error"
• Katalin Farkas (Philosophy, Central European University)
  "Philosophical Hallucinations and Real Hallucinations"
• C. P. Fernyhough (Psychology, Durham University)
  "Thinking Aloud About Mental Voices"
• Dominic H ffytche (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London)
  "The Hallucinating Brain"
• Benj Hellie (Philosophy, University of Toronto)
  "Consciousness and the Phenomenological"
• Matthew Kennedy (Philosophy, University of Nottingham)
  "Explanation Across and Within Good and Bad Experiential Cases"
• Ksenija Maravic (Psychology, Oxford Brookes University)
  "Neuropsychology of Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease"
• Peter Naish (Life Sciences, The Open University)
  "Hypnotic and Psychotic Hallucinations: The Temporal Connection"
• Matthew Nudds (Philosophy, University of Edinburgh)
  "Naïve Realism and Hallucinations"
• Costas Pagondiotis (Philosophy, University of Patras)
  "Mental Representation and the Argument from Hallucination"
• Ian Phillips (Philosophy, All Soul's College Oxford)
  "Hallucinating Silence"
• Howard Robinson (Philosophy, Central European University)
  "The Failure of Disjunctivism to deal with “Philosophers’ Hallucinations”"
• Susanna Schellenberg (Philosophy, Australian National University)
  "The Gappy Content of Hallucination"
• Brad Thompson (Philosophy, Southern Methodist University)
  "Perceptual Demonstratives and Hallucination"
• Alan Weir (Philosophy, University of Glasgow)
  "Hallucination as Collage"

During the conference, a special evening is organized with live Greek music and dinner and a half-day tour to the Minoan Knossos Palace and Heraklion Archaeological Museum.

The Hallucination on Crete finalised programme for the conference is now available.

 Information for Delegates

Details of how to register to attend the conference and further information for delegates, including information on the conference venue and travel to it, is now available here.

Sponsors

The conference is sponsored by

• The Scots Philosophical Club
  
• Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs, Greece
• Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow
• Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow
• Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, and Brain and Mind Graduate Programme, University of Crete.