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Color Bit-by-Bit: The Puzzle of Color Development

A public lecture by Kathleen Akins, Burnaby Mountain Endowed Research Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Thursday, May 2, 2024
2:15pm – 3:45pm
Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Kathleen Akins is a James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellow in Philosophy of Science and a Burnaby Mountain Endowed Research Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Her primary research areas are neurophilosophy and philosophy of mind, and she is famous for three groundbreaking articles: “Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States” (1996), “A bat without qualities” (1993) and “What is it like to be boring and myopic” (1993). She is an important figure in empirically guided philosophy of color, and is currently working on issues related to synaesthesia, the development of color perception in children, and color phenomenology. 

Professor Akins’s personal website can be found here: http://www.sfu.ca/~kathleea/

The event is free and open to all.

For more information, contact:
Tiina Rosenqvist
tiina.c.rosenqvist@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=74017

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