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Perception/s
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Venue Name: Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines de Tunis
Country: Tunisia
City: Tunis
Number of Attendees: Unknown
Webinar or Virtual Event: No
Start Date of Conference:: 12-03-2009
End Date of Conference: 12-04-2009
Description of Conference: Third International English Department Conference on “Perception/s”
The concept of perception is open to endless speculation and debate. The way individuals and societies come to operate within a coherent and presumably unchanging reality, the way language and ideology name, validate, and reinforce ostensibly immutable worldviews, are subjects that command considerable interest and research in the human sciences. With the advent of globalization - the implosion of borders between national communities, co-incident with the strengthening of micro-nationalisms and revival of local allegiances - the assumption that reality and perception are relative, fluid and particular, threateningly hidebound and bigoted, seems to be the order of the day. However, while in current philosophy reality openly sloughs off universality and timelessness, in international politics, however, certain worldviews are waging fierce battles against particularism and change.
The English Department at the 'Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines de Tunis' invites papers on perception, especially the way it has been re-thought in the modern era. If perception refers to the process of acquiring sensory information and stimulating the mind to organize and interpret that information, then can we assume that our perception of things is context-free? If perception necessarily has an empirical basis, is it capable of reaching total objectivity and uniformity? Is there a gap between the phenomenal and the noumenal, as Kant argues, and is there such a thing as ‘intrinsic reality’, the unattainable ‘things-in-themselves’? Or do we operate in the realm of perception – constructed realities and self-contained linguistic and ideological universes - as Hegel would rather argue? What is the role of apperception in creating and organizing our understanding of the world?
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