糖心TV

Every Tuesday, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, in R 3.25.

Description:

The group will convene weekly to read the book 'Disjunctivism' (2016) by Matthew Soteriou. Assessing key questions in the Philosophy of Perception, the book provides a defence of the disjunctivist theory of perception and a discussion of its opposing view, including representationalism and sense-datum theories.

Abstract:

There is still surprisingly little agreement about what exactly joint attention is. Part of the problem is that joint attention is not a single process, but rather it includes a cluster of different cognitive skills. First, Barbora Siposova outlines a typology of joint attention levels (from followed to common, mutual, and shared attention), along with corresponding levels of common knowledge. A key distinction she makes in all of this is second-personal vs. third-personal relations. She argues that it is useful to distinguish these levesl because they have different consequences in terms of what kinds of interactions they support.

Secondly, she introduces two empirical studies with children that investigated the role of sharing attention in promoting co-operation. During the decision-making phase, children's partners made either ostenstive, communicative eye contact or looked non-communicatively at them. In Study 1, the results showed that communicative looks produced an expectation of collaboration. In Study 2, children normatively protested when their partner did not co-operate, thus showing an understanding of the communicative looks as a commitment to co-operate. This is the first experimental evidence, in adults or children, that in the right context, communicative but not non-communicative looks can signal not only an expectation but also a commitment.

Speaker: Joseph Cohen (UCD). Title: "The 'Unthinkable' in Heidegger's History of Being: Judaism and the Black Notebook"