The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience is pleased to announce the Philosophy of Virtual and Augmented Reality Workshop to be held at the University of Glasgow 26th & 27th June.

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) devices are rapidly becoming part of our everyday lives. This emerging technology lets users experience wholly virtual environments (like distant places, times, or even fantasy worlds) in VR, or virtual objects in the real world (Pokemon in your garden, a virtual engine in the lecture hall) in AR. This workshop will explore some of the philosophical questions that this technology raises. Talks will address questions concerning what implications AR/VR has for what we consider to be real, what this technology might mean for the trust we put in perception, and how it might disrupt our preferences and decision-making processes. A secondary goal of the workshop is to consider whether the topic of AR/VR is philosophically novel, or whether it is just a new way to engage with familiar issues.

*Confirmed Speakers*

J. Adam Carter (Glasgow)

David Chalmers (ANU/NYU) by Skype

Ben Colburn (Glasgow)

Neil McDonnell (Glasgow)

Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow)

L.A. Paul (UNC Chapel Hill)

Nathan Wildman (Glasgow)