Closing Conference of the DFG Emmy-Noether Project “A Sensible World”
The Physical World and Its Perception: Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 18-19 June 2026
Program:
Thursday, 18 June
09:15-09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:30-10:45 Michelle Montague (UT Austin)
Presentational Phenomenology and Descriptive Metaphysics
11:00-12:15 Walter Hopp (Boston University)
Phenomenological Exceptionalism
13:45-15:00 Christian Beyer (Göttingen)
Husserl’s View of Perceptual Content and Justification
15:15-16:30 James Jardine (HU Berlin)
Revisiting Husserl’s Account of Colour Constancy
16:45-18:00 Galen Strawson (UT Austin)
Real Direct Realism: Charles Augustus Strong
Friday, 19 June
09:30-10:45 Bill Brewer (KCL)
What are the Primary Qualities?
11:00-12:15 Thomas Crowther (Warwick)
Events and the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction
13:45-15:00 Hamid Taieb (FU/HU Berlin)
Colours: Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
15:15-16:30 Louise Richardson (University of York)
Structural Features and Naïve Realism
16:45-18:00 Mark Eli Kalderon (UCL)
Perceptual Pragmatism and Objectivity
Venue: Room 2249a, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Attendance: Registration mandatory, please write to maria.staecker.1@hu-berlin.de„>maria.staecker.1@hu-berlin.de
Organiser: Hamid Taieb (hamid.taieb@hu-berlin.de„>hamid.taieb@hu-berlin.de)
For more information: www.a-sensible-world.net
