Travel wrap-up

I've recently returned from five weeks of philosophy travel: Seoul (for the World Congress of Philosophy), Beijing (a couple of lectures and some Olympics), Kirchberg (the Wittgenstein conference on Reduction on Elimination), Syracuse (the SPAWN conference on perception), Krakow (the European Congress of Analytic Philosophy), and Dubrovnik (a workshop on Consciousness and Thought).  I've put photos from the five conferences online: Seoul, Kirchberg, Syracuse, Krakow, Dubrovnik.  I've also put online photos from three July events in Australia: the AAP in Melbourne, a workshop on the representational and relational character of perceptual experience here at ANU, and the Jack Smart lecture by Brian Skyrms.

In addition, I've put online Powerpoint for the wrap-up talks I gave at the ANU and Dubrovnik conferences, R&R and The Critique of Pure Thought, and for the commentary I gave at Syracuse (on Jesse Prinz on attention): Is There Consciousness Outside Attention?  Some of these may turn into papers at some point, but for now the Powerpoint will do.

Comments

[CERL]

Your link to the AAP photos is broken. You omitted the ':' after 'http'.

[djc]

Thanks -- it's fixed now.

[Eric Schwitzgebel]

Interesting PowerPoint, Dave! Of course the advocates of a thin view have an excellent "error theory" that would explain the better coherence of the thick view with our pre-theoretical opinions -- the refrigerator light error.

Also, it's not clear that the thick view *is* the ordinary person's pre-theoretical opinion. In my 2007 JCS study I found people split about 50/50 between relatively thin and relatively thick views. (Admittedly, it was a weird sample, about half philosophy grad students.)

So I'm inclined to think it's still about a tie. I think we both agree that the methodological problems here are daunting. As I expressed in my Tucson talk in April, I'm concerned they might even be insuperable.