Philosophy Series: What can psychedelics tell us about perceptual processing?
October 4, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm CEST
Recent scientific findings indicate that psilocybin-induced visual distortions and impaired executive functioning originate in temporary disruptions of bottom-up and top-down attentional mechanisms. The speakers of this philosophy series, Prof. Dr. Dimitria Gatzia and Prof. Dr. Berit Brogaard, argue that the predictive processing account of psychedelic experiences lacks the resources to provide an adequate account of psychedelic experiences and propose an alternative theory of perceptual processing that can explain how the psilocybin-induced disruptions of attentional mechanisms may elicit psychedelic experiences.Â
THE EVENT SPEAKER(s):
Prof. Dr. Berit Brogaard
Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami
Brogaard is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. Her research focus in philosophy of perception, philosophy of emotions, and philosophy of language.
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Prof. Dr. Dimitria Gatzia
Professor at the University of Akron.
Dimitria Electra Gatzia is a professor at the University of Akron. She is the co-editor of The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence: Being of Two Minds (Routledge) and The Epistemology of Non-visual perception (Oxford University Press) and is the author of several scholarly articles on perception, cognitive penetration, and consciousness.
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