Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience

The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE) has now been in existence for twenty years! We are going to hold a celebratory 20th Anniversary Conference on 4 – 6th June 2025 in Glasgow. We would love for you to join us.

We will have a range of philosophy talks on all things sensory that have been core to the work at the CSPE, such as perception, illusion, hallucination, imagination, and the senses. We will particularly hear from those who have worked, visited, and contributed to, the CSPE and its projects and events over the years. We are excited to welcome the following speakers:

Dr Brandon Ashby (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Dr David Bain (Glasgow)

Dr Umut Baysan (Oxford)

Dr Andrea Blomkvist (Glasgow)

Prof Michael Brady (Glasgow)

Prof Robert Briscoe (Ohio)

Dr Derek Brown (Glasgow)

Dr Sam Clarke (Southern California)

Dr Jennifer Corns (Glasgow)

Dr Robert Cowan (Glasgow)

Prof Sascha Fink (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Prof EJ Green (Johns Hopkins)

Prof Jack Lyons (Glasgow)

Prof Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow)

Prof Neil McDonnell (Glasgow)

Prof Josefa Toribio (Barcelona)

Dr Keith Wilson (University College Dublin)

We will have lots of time for informal discussion, and to promote this, we will have a poster session and would encourage all attendees to exhibit a poster summarising a paper that you are working on. We are also offering a variety of sensory experiences for you to try, including experiencing the content for VR that we and others have created in our multi-person VR labs, and a talk about our work on VR by Prof Neil McDonnell. We hope that other experiences will be announced soon.

Attendance at the conference is free and includes tea, coffee, conference lunches, and food at the after party for free. Conference dinners are available to purchase when you register for the conference. The number of places at the conference are strictly limited so we would encourage those that wish to come to register for the conference as soon as possible on Eventbrite.

If you would like to attend you must register on Eventbrite, where there are further details of the conference. If you have any questions, please e-mail j.harber.1@research.gla.ac.uk.

We would like to thank the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Scots Philosophical Association, and the Department of Philosophy for its sponsorship of this event.

We very much hope that you will join us to celebrate the people and work of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience over the last twenty years.