Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) is credited with the traditional classification of the five sense organs: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. As far back as the 1760's, the famous philosopher Immanuel Kant proposed that our knowledge of the outside world depends on our modes of perception.
Introduction to Senses.
14th May 2014
Speaker: Prof Fiona Macpherson
Gathering together.
Experimental sensory evaluation system in action.
Talk in progress.
Gathering together.
Pecha Kucha:
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Angela Macarther (Masters candidate University of Kent) "Vipassana and Sensation"
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Harriet Gifford (Masters candidate University of Kent) "This is My Skin"
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James Geary (Phd candidate University of Kent) "Experimental Psychology and Visual art"
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Funded by University of Kent Graduate School Experience Awards.
Prof Fiona Macpherson
My research concerns the nature of consciousness, perception, introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind. Topics that I have worked on include: cognitive penetration, the nature and individuation of the senses, cross-modal intersensory phenomena, sensory substitution and augmentation, hallucination, illusion, delusion, novel colours, inverted spectra, ambiguous and impossible figures, synaesthesia, the admissible contents of experience, disjunctivism and representational theories of phenomenal character.
© 2014 Harriet Gifford.
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