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This workshop focuses on the Epistemology of Attention and Salience. We will talk with Jessie Munton about her manuscript on this topic.
About
Jessie Munton is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She is the winner of a 2023 Leverhume Prize. She is currently working on a book that offers a normative framework for attention and salience (under contract with OUP). Her previous work is in the philosophy of perception and epistemology. Among other things, it discusses bias, prejudice, the relationship between social structure and perceptual skill, and how to see invisible objects.
Schedule
10:30-11:00 Jessie Munton: Overview of themes from ‘Priority and Prejudice’
11:00-12:30 Comments on Munton's Manuscript
- Salience Structures and Mental Attitudes (Ying Yao)
- The Structure of Salience Structures and How to Evaluate them (Sebastian Watzl)
- Epistemic and Other Normativity (Louise Clover)
- Salience-based Hinge Epistemology (Drew Johnson)
- The Cognitive Architecture of Prejudice (Austin Baker)
- Prejudice: Moral and Epistemic Evaluation (Katharine Browne)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Comments on Munton's Manuscript
* Structural Ignorance (Zsolt Kapelner)
* Search Engines and Prioritising Questions (Harish Pedaprolou)
14:00-16:30 Open Discussion
Note
This workshop concerns Jessie Munton's unpublished manuscript. The GoodAttention group had a reading group on it this semester. You are still welcome to join the workshop with that caveat in mind. For more information please contact Sebastian.