Call for Papers
Point of View in Memory & Imagery: Philosophical & psychological perspectives on perspective
Macquarie University, Friday-Saturday, 10-11 May 2013
Abstracts due Feb 15
Enquiries to John Sutton, john.sutton@mq.edu.au
Overview
This workshop will address perspective-taking in remembering and imagining. We welcome offers of papers from philosophers and psychologists, and from related disciplines. We are particularly interested in proposals which discuss relations between visual or visuospatial perspective and other kinds of perspective, or which address interactions between internal and external perspectives on one’s past, future, or possible actions and experiences.
Background
When I remember my past experiences, I may see the remembered scene from my original point of view. Alternatively I may see myself in that remembered scene, as from an observer’s perspective. Likewise, when I visualize and imagine my future or possible actions, I may adopt either an internal or ‘own eyes’ perspective, or an external or ‘see-oneself’ perspective on those imagined events.… read more. “Call: Point of View in Memory & Imagery: Philosophical & Psychological Perspectives on Perspective”