The Phenomenology of Synesthesia

There will be a workshop on "The Phenomenology of Synesthesia", sponsored by the NYU Consciousness Project, on Saturday November 20.   It will be held in the first floor lecture theatre at 5 Washington Place (between Broadway and Washington Square in New York City).

Synesthesia is the syndrome in which a stimulus in one sensory modality reliably yields an experience associated with a different sensory modality.  The focus of the workshop will be the question "What is it like to be a synesthete?".  There will be talks and discussion from philosophers, psychologists, and synesthetes.  All are welcome.  The program is below.

9:30              Coffee

10-11            Carol Steen (artist and synesthete)
                     "Do you see what I see?"

11:15-12:15  Lawrence Marks (Yale, Psychology)
                     Three (scientific) questions about synesthesia".

12:15-2         Lunch

2-3                Berit Brogaard (Missouri, Philosophy)
                     "Does color synesthesia differ phenomenally from visual imagery?"

3:15-5           Panel Discussion (led by Jon Simon, Philosophy, NYU)
                     Panel: Berit Brogaard, Patricia Lynn Duffy, Lawrence Marks, Maureen Seaberg, Carol Steen