Episode 39, 'The Philosophy of Perception' with Bence Nanay

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Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp and Research Associate in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Nanay is also the principal investigator of the European Research Council project, Seeing Things You Don’t See: Unifying the Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience of Multimodal Mental Imagery.

As well as publishing more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, Nanay is the author of Between Perception and Action (2013) and Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception (2016).

It will, therefore, come as no surprise that our focus today will be Nanay’s work in the field of ‘philosophy of perception’. In a rare intersection between psychology, neuroscience and philosophy, ‘the philosophy of perception’ is concerned with the status of perceptual data, the nature of perceptual experience, and how this data and these experiences relate to beliefs about, or knowledge of, the world.

This interview is produced ‘in association with The Institute of Art and Ideas and the Philosophy for Our Times podcast’. A very special thank you to everybody at the Institute of Art and Ideas for making this interview possible.

To celebrate the release of this interview, we’re giving away three signed copies of Nanay’s Between Perception and Action– to be in with a chance of winning, just head over to our Twitter page.

*We apologise for the length and audio quality of this episode. We recorded the interview in-between Bence’s talks at How the Light Gets In Festival, where it was tipping it down with rain.

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0:00.0	Ben-say-Nane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp and research associates in philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
0:15.0	Nane is also the principal investigator of the European Research Council project, seeing things you
0:21.9	don't see, unifying the philosophy, psychology and neuroscience of mortal modal mental imagery.
0:28.9	As well as publishing more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, Nane is the author of Between Perception
0:34.3	and Action and Aesthet aesthetics as philosophy of perception.
0:38.3	It will therefore come as no surprise that our focus today will be Nane's work in the field of philosophy of perception.
0:45.3	To celebrate the release of this interview, we're giving away three signed copies of Nannay's book Between Perception and Action.
0:53.3	To be in with the chance of winning, just head over to our Twitter page at the Pansai cast.
0:59.1	Links to Nanae's work can be found on our website along with anything else that you might need.
1:04.0	This episode is produced in association with the Institute of Art and Ideas and the Philosophy for our Times podcast. A very special thank you to everybody at the Institute of Art and Ideas and the Philosophy for Our Times podcast.
1:11.5	A very special thank you to everybody at the Institute of Art and Ideas for making this interview possible.
1:17.3	Check out the Philosophy of Our Times podcast by clicking the link in our iTunes description.
1:22.7	We apologize for the length and audio quality of this episode in advance.
1:27.2	We recorded the interview in between Bentsay's talks at How the Light Gets in Festival,
1:32.4	where it was absolutely tipping it down with rain.
1:35.4	Me, Greg, Olli and Andy were drenched, wet through,
1:39.8	and we were recording this in a tent at the festival,
1:42.4	so we apologize for the quality of the episode.
1:45.2	In part one, we're looking at Bensei Nane, the philosophy of perception and action, and in part
1:50.9	two, we'll be engaging in again by the fragmented Mr. Gregory Miller. Hello. The imaginative Mr. Andrew Horton. Hello. The emotional Mr. Oli-Mali. Hello. And our very special guest, Professor of Philosophy, Vente Nene. Hi, it's great to be here. So, this is the first question we ask all of our guests. What is philosophy? I don't know what philosophy is.
2:35.3	I'm doing philosophy in order to find out.
2:38.6	All right, a little more seriously.
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