Dear all, This is to remind you that the next meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will take place today (Wednesday, November 20th) at 4:30-6pm in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room. Tom McClelland (Cambridge) will give a talk entitled "Attention and Attendabilia”, see below for an abstract.
Hope to see many of you there! Abstract: When we look at a visual scene some items are more salient to us than others. Salience is part of how things visually seem to us and it guides our attention around a visual scene. But what (if anything) does salience perception represent? And how (if at all) does salience perception direct our attention? I argue that salience perception represents possibilities for attention - we perceptually experience items as available for attention. Moreover, when we perceive an item as attendable a shift of attention towards it gets automatically prepared. The more strongly prepared this shift of attention, the more salient the item. I show how this view accommodates empirical findings regarding attention and explain how it fits into a general picture of how action is guided by the perception of ‘affordances’. All the best, Benjamin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
