Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary society championing the liberal arts, has chosen Truman as a participant in PBK’s 2012-2013 Visiting Scholars program.\u00a0 Truman joins just 88 other colleges and universities across the nation in hosting a two-day visit from a nationally recognized scholar.<\/p>\n
The scholar chosen to visit Truman is Tyler Burge, an internationally well-known and respected UCLA philosopher in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and metaphysics & epistemology.<\/p>\n
Dr. Burge will be on Truman’s campus March 21 and 22.\u00a0 In addition to visiting various classes, he will be giving the following two talks:<\/p>\n
Public address<\/strong> Talk abstract: I sketch two notions of representation.\u00a0 One applies to states of plants and bacteria as well as to psychological states.\u00a0 The other applies exclusively to distinctively psychological states.\u00a0 I hold that the latter type of representation marks one of the two primary marks of the mental.\u00a0 (The other mark is consciousness.)\u00a0 I argue that representation in a distinctively psychological sense emerges first in perception.\u00a0 I sketch some primary features of perception, with special reference to findings of the science of perceptual psychology.\u00a0 I maintain that empirical work indicates that perception, hence representational mind, first emerges in relatively simple animals\u00adarthropods.<\/p>\n
\n“Perception:\u00a0 Origins of Mind”<\/strong>
\nBaldwin Hall Little Theater<\/strong>
\nMarch 21, 7:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n