WashU Mind Group

WashU Mind and Perception Group

We’re a group of philosophers at Washington University in St. Louis who are interested in the philosophy of mind and perception. The Mind and Perception Group organizes a speaker series, workshops, and reading groups on mind and perception.

The group has been generously funded by the Philosophy Department at Washington University in St. Louis and the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.

Organizers

Current Organizers: Judith Carlisle, Auke Montessori, Andrew Ramirez, Gabriel Siegel

(Past Organizers: James Gulledge, Ben Henke, Emily Prychitko)

Speakers

Spring 2022

Michael Barkasi - Jan. 28th, 10-11am Central
Gloria Andrada (UCLA) - Feb. 11th, 10-11am Central
Matthew Fulkerson (UCSD) - Feb. 18th, 10-11am Central
Grace Helton (Princeton) - Feb. 25th, 10-11am Central
Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod) - March 11th, 10-11am Central
Charles Siewert (Rice) - March 25th, 10-11am Central
Daniel Drucker (Texas, Austin) - April 22nd, 10-11am Central
Joshua Shepherd (Carleton) - April 29th, 10-11am Central

Fall 2021

Maria Waggoner (Washington University in St. Louis) - Sept. 10th, 10-11am Central
Alison Springle (Tubingen) - Sept. 17th, 10-11am Central
Madeleine Ransom (British Columbia, Okanagan) - Sept. 21st, 11:30-12:30pm Central
Tim Bayne (Monash), Ani Patel (Tufts), Iwan Williams (Monash), Oct. 7th, 4-5pm Central
Gabe Siegel (Washington University in St. Louis) - Oct. 22nd, 10am Central
Adam Pautz (Brown), Nov. 19th, 10-11am Central
Auke Montessori (Washington University in St. Louis) - Dec. 3rd, 10-11am Central
Lana Kuhle (Illinois State) - Dec. 10th, 10-11am Central

Spring 2021

E.J. Green (MIT) - Feb. 5, 10-11am CST
Keota Fields (UMass Dartmouth) - Feb. 26, 10-11am CST
Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow) - March 12, 10-11am CST
Heather Logue (Leeds) - March 26, 10:30-11:30am CST
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna) - April 16, 10-11am CST
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) - April 30, 10-11am CST

Fall 2020

Jake Quilty-Dunn (Washington University in St. Louis) - Sept. 11, 10-11am CST
Becko Copenhaver (Washington University in St. Louis) and Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College) - Sept. 25, 10-11am CST
James Gulledge (Washington University in St. Louis) - Oct. 2, 10-11am CST
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (Stockholm) - Oct. 16, 10-11am CST
Boyd Millar (Washington University in St. Louis) - Oct. 23, 10-11am CST
Mohan Matthen (Toronto) - Oct. 30, 10-11am CST
Zoe Drayson (Davis) - Nov. 13, 10-11am CST
Bence Nanay (Antwerp) - Dec. 11, 10-11am CST

Spring 2020

Julia Haas (Rhodes College)
Rob Rupert (Colorado-Boulder)
Chandra Sripada (Michigan)
Fiery Cushman (Harvard)
Hongbo Yu (UC Santa Barbara)
Bill Ramsey (Nevada-Las Vegas)
Zoe Jenkin (Harvard)
Umrao Setthi (Brandeis)

Fall 2019

Rob Rupert (Colorado-Boulder)
Jonna Vance (Northern Arizona University)
Jeff Speaks (Notre Dame)
Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas)
Ben Phillips (Arizona State University)

Spring 2019

Keith Wilson (University of Oslo)
Megan Feeney (Rutgers University)
Thor Grünbaum (Copenhagen)
Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
Tim Crane (Central European University)

Fall 2018

Dan Burnston (Tulane University)
Will Fleisher (Washington University in St. Louis)
Austin Andrews (Washington University in St. Louis)
Jake Beck (York University in Toronto)
Daniel Stoljar (Australian National University)
Guy Dove (University of Louisville)
Frances Egan (Rutgers University)
Megan Feeney (Rutgers University)
Lisa Miracchi (University of Pennsylvania)

Spring 2018

Lisa Miracchi (University of Pennsylvania)
Julia Haas (Rhodes College)
Colin Klein (Australian National University)
Casey O'Callaghan (Washington University in St. Louis)
Preston Werner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon)
Charlie Kurth (Washington University in St. Louis)
Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)

Workshops and Reading Groups

Memory Work Group
Fall 2020

The group focuses on topics in the philosophy of memory.

Organized by André Sant'Anna

Moral Cognition Reading Group
Spring 2020

The reading group focuses on questions of top-down control of moral behavior.

Organized by Maria Altepeter

Cognitive Ontology Workshop
October 26-27, 2018

The workshop aims to foster collaboration between philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and computer scientists interested in cognitive ontology.

Website

Psychological Taxonomy Reading Group
Spring 2018

This reading group focused on a plurality of recent approaches to addressing psychological taxonomic questions.

Organized by Benjamin Henke

Perceptual Capacities Reading Group
Spring 2018

This reading group focuses on recent accounts of perceptual capacities and their importance for answering epistemic and semantic questions about experience.

Organized by James Gulledge

Predictive Coding Reading Group
Fall 2017

This reading group focuses on the recent history of predictive coding approaches in neuroscience and philosophy.

Organized by Benjamin Henke