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.
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Organizers

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

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

Speakers

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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
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​Moral Cognition Reading Group
Spring 2020

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

​Organized by Maria Altepeter
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​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.​

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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
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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
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