Jonathan Mitchell
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Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Mind; Phenomenology; Perception; Emotions Also: bread, beer, and Bob Dylan!
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"Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. In order to write... the first essential condition is that reality should no longer be taken for granted; only then can one both perceive it and make others do so."

~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life / La Force de l'age
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I’m fully biased as one of the organisers, but EPSSE is a wonderful space for nerding out about emotions! AND we get to go to Paris this year ✨

CFP open until 7 January - send us your feels 😌😉😒😣🤬😱🤭🫠😶

#philosophy #philsky
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The next EPSSE conference will be in Paris, on 13th to 15th June 2025—locally organised by a great team at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The call for abstracts (individual papers, panels, symposia) is open until 7th January. More information here ⬇️ #philsky #philosophy www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts | EPSSE
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3-year postdoc on the philosophy of multisensory perception with Błażej Skrzypulec at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, project 'Ontology of multisensory unification'.
Details of the position and project description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (post-doc), Faculty of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science in the field of philosophy
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Employment duration: 36 monthsProject title: Ontology of multisensory unification
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jonathanwebber.bsky.social
I thoroughly enjoyed discussing the philosophical ideas of James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre at How The Light Gets In a couple of months ago.

And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production.

#philsky

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Sartre vs Baldwin: The unknown other
We take it for granted that through language and communication we can learn about the experience of others. But it remains unknown whether we can fully know what it is like to be another human being. ...
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mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social
That strikes me as right: there is also a big influence from the Gestalt psychologists one would assume.
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Hope that helps! I've probably put it better in the article I posted :)
mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social
This is not equivalent to the underdetermination of perceptual content relative to the non-conscious information that is registered by way of proximal stimulations of retinal receptors in the form of 2-dimensional (sensory) light arrays.
mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social
The problem of perceptual presence is couched firmly at the phenomenological level at the supposed 'inadequecy' of what is explicitly give in perception to the overall sense of the perception
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'[A] major part of this problem is to explain the transformation of the registration of light intensities on retinal receptors – a two-dimensional array – into perceptual representation of, and as of, entities in three-dimensional space.'
mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social
Tyler Burge summarises the undermination problem nicely: '...to explain how information contained in the registration of light arrays is converted into perception of, and as of, entities in the distal environment...
mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social
That's interesting. I'll be sure to take a look over this material again (since I'm writing a book on it!). I do think there is a difference though between what's usually called the 'underdetermination problem' in perceptual psychology and the 'problem of perceptual presence' in philosophy.
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For sure: I'm not sure that perception occuring over time gets us all that much as a solution to how we perceive 3-dimensional objects as complete things with occluded parts. Talks of 'changing arrays' to my ear also sounds a little bit more like visual system talk, but that might just be me!