Perception-Based Mindreading

Corso di Dottorato in Filosofia, Epistemologia, Scienze Umane

Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia

Titolo del corso:“Perception-Based Mindreading”

N. ore: 2

Docenti: Filippo Contesi (Cagliari), filippo.contesi@unica.it, Joulia Smortchkova (Grenoble), Visiting Professor/Scientist UniCA 2026/27

Breve bio/bibliografia: Joulia Smortchkova holds a “Chaire de Professeur Junior” at the Université Grenoble Alpes. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the Jean Nicod Institute (CNRS, ENS, EHESS) in Paris as well as an “Agrégation” in Philosophy. She studied both philosophy and cognitive science at Master’s level (MA and MSc) and she is an alumna of the “Sélection Internationale” of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and of the Collegio Superiore of the Università di Bologna. Before her current position, Joulia worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum and then as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College and Oxford University.

Modalità di erogazione: in presenza e online

Calendario degli incontri: 17 febbraio 2026, 15 – 17

Aula e/o Link: Loi (Sa Duchessa, Corpo Centrale), Seminario Dottorandi Smortchkova | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams

Lingua: inglese

Conoscenze preliminari richieste: nessuna

Breve descrizione del corso: the seminar focuses on a set of under-explored phenomena, at the crossroads between philosophy of mind and aesthetics, that often straddle the perception/cognition divide: these include appearances, looks, seemings, mirages, illusions and impressions. Such phenomena have a real impact on many aspects of our lives and deserve much more philosophical scrutiny than they have received. Even though (Western) philosophy has traditionally opposed appearance to reality, the project aims to show that the phenomena in question are best studied not as a negative counterpart of reality, but as aspects of reality in their own right.

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Altre informazioni utili: di interesse potenziale per filosofi, psicologi e pedagogisti, data la natura interdisciplinare del lavoro dei docenti