About this Event
The virtual and the imagined
Virtual worlds are commonly described as illusory, but much of what users experience in interaction with virtual worlds is through imaginative perception. Such imaginative perception is to be sharply contrasted with illusions variously conceived as cases of misleading appearance and cases of perceptual error. By removing the blanket term 'illusion' from our description of such cases, we can better see the underlying complex of cognitive processes they involve. Accounts of these processes that do not appeal to the imagination are either impoverished, overly intellectual, or merely terminological variants of the view defended.
Adrian Alsmith is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. He specialises in the Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. His current research interests include narrative explanation, bodily self-consciousness, multimodal perception and the imagination.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Old Fire Station, cafe, 40 George Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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