Workshop: The Theory-Ladenness of Experience (March 10th - 11th, 2011)
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The aim of the conference is to bring together philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists whose work contributes to our understanding of the scope and limits of theory-ladenness phenomena, where these are broadly construed to include the domains of perception, scientific evidence and language. We hope that the resulting synergy will help provide novel and fruitful answers to questions like the following: Is perception cognitively penetrable and, if so, how? Does the choice of scientific theory affect how we select, interpret and assess the evidential worth of data from experiments? Under what circumstances can we doubt the veridicality of scientific instruments? Can we draw a sharp distinction between terms that are theoretical and those that are observational? We thus expect that the talks will deal with one or more of the following topics: the modularity of mind, nonconceptual content, the epistemology of evidence and the semantics of observational terms.
Date: March 10-11, 2011
Place: Faculty of Philosophy, Building: 23.21, Room: 00.46a
Organizer/s: Gerhard Schurz, Michela Tacca and Ioannis Votsis
Funding: This conference is financed by the DFG (German Research Association).
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