Dear All, Maarten Steenhagen, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge, is our guest speaker this* Thursday 14 June,* 5-7pm, with a talk entitled: *Extending Perceptual Capacities: Software or Hardware Update?*
* The event will take place at the Alison Richard Building, Room SG2, 5-7pm. * The talk will address our theme of perception from a philosophical perspective, and ask the following questions: What happens when we try to extend our capacities to perceive? Can such extensions ever lead to genuinely new forms of perception, or do they at best present cunningly crafted illusions? This paper considers the case of virtual reality environments, and the way these can be said to extend visual and tactile experience. Maarten is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Bye-Fellow of Queens’ College. His research focuses on perception and the mind. In particular, he concentrates on the role of perceptual media—such as sounds, images, and optical technology. His articles have covered the experience of sounds, images, and mirror perception. He has also published on philosophical methodology. We hope to see you there! Digital Art Research Group — Dr Vid Simoniti Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow Churchill College, University of Cambridge Co-convenor, Digital Art Research Group, CRASSH http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/digital-art _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
