Events

Naive Realism 2.0 - Workshop

Our first project workshop will bring together invited speakers and members of the Naive Realism under Pressure project to discuss the nature of perceptual experience, with a particular focus on naive realist and relationalist theories of perception.

Speakers​

• Quentin Coudray (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

• Laura Gow (University of Liverpool)

• Daniel Kim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

• Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow)

• Giulia Martina (University of Nottingham)

• Farid Masrour (Wisconsin-Madison)

• David Papineau (King's College London)

• Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick)

• Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University) 

• Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund)

• Ayoob Shahmoradi (Ruhr University Bochum)

• Alfredo Vernazzani (TU Dortmund/Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg)

• Assaf Weksler (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Program
 

18.02.2026

8:45-9:00 Welcome and Registration

9:00 - 10:20 David Papineau "Kinds of Sensory State"

10:20 - 11:40 Eva Schmidt "Against Fine-Grained Perceptual Reasons"

11:40-12:00 Coffee break

12:00 - 13:20 Johannes Roessler "The Status of Naive Realism"

13:20 - 14:45 Lunch break

14:45 - 16:05 Assaf Weksler & Quentin Coudray "High-Level Perceptual Experience Is Not Diaphanous: An Empirical Case rom Object Segmentation"

16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:50 Farid Masrour "The Terminator: A New Epistemic Argument for Relationalism"

19:30 Conference Dinner

19.02.2026

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8:45-9:00 Welcome and Registration

9:00 - 10:20 Giulia Martina "Seeing Features"

10:20 - 11:40 Susanna Schellenberg "Perspectives and Schemas"

11:40-12:00 Coffee break

12:00 - 13:20 Laura Gow "Physicalism Entails Non-Relationalism"

13:20 - 14:45 Lunch break

14:45 - 16:05 Daniel Kim "Diaphaneity and the Phenomenological Method"

16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:50 Fiona Macpherson "Naïve Realism and Colour Illusion"

20.02.2026

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8:45-9:00 Welcome and Registration

9:00 - 10:20 Alfredo M. Vernazzani "The Compresent Properties View of Object Perception" 

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 - 12:10 Ayoob Shahmoradi "Seeing, Seeing-As, and Visual Discrimination" 

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When:

18–20 February 2026 (two and a half days)

Where:

TU Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Straße 50

Regristration

The worshop is open to all interested participants and free of charge. To register, please contact Rebecca Sadowski, subject line "Registration Naive Realism 2.0", before 2 February, 2026. 

The workshop is organized by the project team of Naive Realism under Pressure with support from Rebecca Sadowski. We are grateful to the DFG (German Research Foundation) for their support of the project.

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PhilEvent: 
https://philevents.org/event/show/144602