Presented by guest lecturer Robert Briscoe
Sensory engineering encompasses any case in which sensory information is altered or guided with the intention of introducing new veridical, illusory, or hallucinatory elements into perceptual experience. In this talk, I argue that reasons for thinking that virtual reality (VR) experience is a case of sensory engineering extend to photography, realistic painting, and other familiar types of pictures. I also show that approaching how pictures work from a sensory engineering perspective helps to make progress with debates concerning the relative priority of pictorial surface perception and pictorial space perception when theorizing about depiction.
Briscoe is Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University, where he has taught since 2008. He is the author of numerous publications in the philosophy and cognitive science of perception.
Open to all members of the Oberlin campus community
