Instructions for drafting part b of the proposal

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PEOPLE

MARIE CURIE ACTIONS
Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIG)

Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG

PART B

PROPOSAL

“TMVP”

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Publishable summary (500 words)
The theme of the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant is to re-frame the discussion of social cognition: the study of our engagement with other people. My aim is to argue that the emphasis on attribution of beliefs and desires to others, the co-called ‘theory of mind’, is unlikely to be the holy grail of the study of social cognition. Social cognition is not a monolithic category and ‘theory of mind’ is only one, relatively complex form of making sense of others. It does not help us if we want to understand the origins (phylogenetic or ontogenetic), and some more rudimentary forms, of social cognition. I argue that empirical findings from developmental psychology and primatology point to a possible alternative, vicarious perception, which is a simple, perceptual (or quasi-perceptual) way of keeping track of what features of the other agent’s environment are relevant to her action.
I outlined a general theory of vicarious perception in my first monograph that was published in 2013 (Bence Nanay: Between Perception and Action, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). It also plays an important role in the arguments of my second monograph, which is under contract with the same publisher.
I published 57 articles and book chapters and gave 56 conference talks and public lectures on themes related to the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant proposal. I also organized a number of events at the University of Antwerp where I hold this grant:

1. 
   An annual public lecture series, the Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture Series, in memory of one of the pioneers of the study of social cognition, Marc Jeannerod, who, while a psychologist, had very strong philosophical interests.
   
2. 
   A bi-annual masterclass with a leading researchers in the topic of social cognition. The first event was with Micheal Bratman (Stanford University, USA). These masterclasses provide a great opportunity for young researchers (mainly on the post-doc level, but also in some cases for PhD students) to discuss the work of one of the experts in this field and also to present their own work and get feedback from this expert. These masterclasses are open to any early career researcher from Europe making it a nice example for the Marie Curie initiative…
   
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   A number of conferences, workshops and public lectures connected to the themes of the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, which brought altogether 137 speakers, from 23 countries and four continents to the University of Antwerp
   

Project objectives (500 words)

Basis for the review: the summery of project objectives as deffined in Annex I (description of work)

The ability to attribute mental states – beliefs, desires, etc – to others is universally taken to be the central concept in understanding social cognition. Some of the most influential questions in cognitive science are about this ability, which is usually referred to as ‘theory of mind’:

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   Do non-human animals have ‘theory of mind’?
   
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   How does ‘theory of mind’ develop in ontogeny?
   
3. 
   What mental processes make ‘theory of mind’ possible in humans?
   

My aim is to point out that the emphasis on ‘theory of mind’ is a methodological mistake. Social cognition is not a monolithic category and ‘theory of mind’ is only one, relatively complex form of making sense of others. It does not help us if we want to understand the origins (phylogenetic or ontogenetic), and some more rudimentary forms, of social cognition. I argue that empirical findings from developmental psychology and primatology point to a possible alternative, vicarious perception.

We very often experience objects as affording actions to us: we experience an apple as edible or as affording eating. Importantly, sometimes, we experience objects as affording actions not for ourselves, but for someone else. Sometimes we see an apple as edible not for myself but for you. This is the phenomenon I call ‘vicarious perception’. Vicarious perception is a simpler, and more basic, way of engaging with others cognitively than ‘theory of mind’.

I argue that while questions (i) – (iii) are difficult to tackle as long as they are about ‘theory of mind’, if we take them to be about vicarious perception, we get straightforward and nontrivial answers. More specifically, all experiments that are supposed to show that non-human primates have ‘theory of mind’ in fact demonstrate that they are capable of vicarious perception. The same goes for the experiments about the ‘theory of mind’ of less than 12 month old infants. If we shift the emphasis from ‘theory of mind’ to vicarious perception, we can make real advances in understanding the origins of social cognition.

Acheivements (2000 words)

Research progress

Research progressed as foreseen. I published my first book Between Perception and Action (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), where I outline the account of vicarious perception at the greatest detail.

advancement beyond the state of the art

As outlined in the project proposal, the account of social cognition in terms of vicarious perception has various important ways of moving forward debates about social cognition – in philosophy, psychology, primatology, cognitive ethology. I was mainly focusing on the philosophical end of these debates and already there serious progress has been made in terms of moving beyond the state of the art in the following respects:

(a)in terms of moving beyond the binary opposition of simulation and theory-theory (as means of understanding others) by pointing out that there is a third alternative, namely, vicarious perception.

(b)in terms of understanding our most basic social emotions as variants on vicarious perception

(c)in terms of clarifying the theoretical framework researchers in ethology, primatoilogy, psychology and neuroscience use when talking about social cognition.

All of these are outlined in the book just published that I would be happy to send excerpts of (because of the significant size of the ‘Transfer of Knowledge’ section below, I can’t do this here because of the word limit).

impact

The impact of this new framework for thinking about social cognition is difficult to overstate. In my book, I outlined how this new way of framing the question has an immediate impact on debates in primatology (about whether chimpanzees are capable of social cognition and if so, of what kind), in cognitive ethology (about what mental processes we need to posit in order to explain some remarkably complex behavior in corvids), in developmental psychology (about the exact age at which (various versions of) social cognitive abilities appear) and experimental psychology (about the theoretical postulates for understanding joint action and the Social Simon Effect). Again, I would be happy to send excerpts of (because of the significant size of the ‘Transfer of Knowledge’ section below, I can’t do this here because of the word limit).

transfer of knowledge

The key elements in the transfer of knowledge are the following:

I established an annual lecture series, called the Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture Series at the University of Antwerp, in memory of one of the pioneers of the study of social cognition, Marc Jeannerod, who, while a psychologist, had very strong philosophical interests. These lectures are given by philosophers who explicitly aim to bring in empirical results in their study of the mind in general and of social cognition in particular. After the tenure of the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, I will continue to fund this Lecture Series from another grant.

Here are the first four Marc Jeannerod Lecturers (the fourth one will be funded by other grants as the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant will run out by then)

2012: Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France) – Marc Jeannerod’s long-time collaborator

2013: Tyler Burge (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

2014: Catherine Wilson (University of York, UK)

2015: Ned Block (New York University, USA)

2016: Stephen Stich (Rutgers University, USA)

These lectures have been very well attended with the audience coming from all varieties of disciplines as well as from the general public.

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The other key achievement was to establish a bi-yearly masterclass with some of the leading researchers in the topic of social cognition. The first event was with Micheal Bratman (Stanford University, USA) and the theme of the masterclass was Shared Agency, Joint Action and Social Cognition. These masterclasses provide a great opportunity for young researchers (mainly on the post-doc level, but also in some cases for PhD students) to discuss the work of one of the experts in this field and also to present their own work and get feedback from this expert. These masterclasses are open to any early career researcher from Europe (not only to people affiliated with the University of Antwerp). The next masterclass is still under negotiation, but the hope is that we can have either Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany) or Jose-Luis Bermudez (Texas A & M University, USA).

Speakers (all early career) at the first masterclass included:

Chiara Brozzo (University of Milan, Italy and University of Warwick, UK)

Olle Blomberg (University of Edinburgh, UK and University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Nicolas Lindner (University of Dusseldorf, Germany)
Aurelien Darbellay, University of Barcelona, Spain)
Oier Imaz (Vrie Universiteit Brussel and UPV-EGU, Belgium)
Eylem Ozaltun (Harvard University, USA and Bilkent University, Turkey)
Siwing Tsoi (University of Texas Austin, USA)
Marko Meyer (University of Oxford, UK)
Marianna Ginocchietti (University of Trieste, Italy)
Tom Poljansek (University of Stuttgart)

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I organized a number of workshops and conferences on various aspects of the theme of the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. Here is the list of these events, with details about the speakers:

Workshop on Mind, Action and Responsibility: Empirical and non-empirical perspectives (co-organized with the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values at the University of Antwerp)

Speakers:

Pamela Hieronymi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),
Joshua Knobe (Yale University, USA),
Brian Leiter (University of Chicago, USA),
Thomas Pink (King’s College, London, UK),
Jesse Prinz (City University of New York, Graduate Centre),
Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California and Yale University, USA)

 

Workshop on mental imagery and pretense

Speakers:

Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham and University of York, UK),

Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College, USA),
Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University, USA),
Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University, USA)

Conference on Olfaction

speakers:

Clare Batty (University of Kentucky, USA),
Kati Farkas (Central European University, Hungary),
Bill Lycan (University of North Carolina, USA),
Louise Richardson (University of York, UK),
David Rosenthal (City University of New York, Graduate Center),
Barry Smith (Birkbeck College, London and Institute of Philosophy, London),
Benjamin Young (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

 

Workshop on Color and Content

Speakers:

Keith Allen (University of York, UK),

Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh, USA),
Will Davies (University of Antwerp, Belgium),
Mark Kalderon (University College London, UK),
John Morrison (Columbia University, USA)

 

Philosophy of Perception and Aesthetics Conference,

 speakers:

Jerome Dokic (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France),

Richard Gray (University of Cardiff, UK)
Jenny Judge (Cambridge University, UK and Rice University, USA)
John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College, USA)
Clare Mac Cumhill (University of Geneva, Switzerland and University of Durham, UK)
Heather Logue (University of Leeds, UK)
Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto, Canada)
Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds, UK),
Diana Raffman (University of Toronto, Canada),
William Seeley (Bates College, USA)
Nico Sillins (Cornell University, USA and the National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin, Italy)

  

Conference on perceptual attention

Speakers:

Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri, Saint Louis, USA) ,

John Campbell (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
David Chalmers (Australian National University, Australia and New York University, USA),
Tim Crane (Cambridge University, UK),
Carolyn Dicey Jennings (University of Antwerp, Belgium),
Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto, Canada),
Katalin Farkas (Central European University, Hungary),
Christopher Mole (University of British Columbia, Canada),
Casey O’Callaghan (Rice University, USA),
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University, USA),
Ian Phillips (University College London and Oxford University, UK),
Jesse Prinz (City University of New York, Graduate Centre)
Susanna Siegel, (Harvard University)
Barry Smith, (Birkbeck College, London and Institute of Philosophy, London, UK)
James Stazicker, (New York University, USA and University of Reading, UK)
Michael Tye, (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
Sebastian Watzl, (Harvard University, USA and University of Oslo, Norway)
Wayne Wu, (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Workshop on Action Phenomenology

speakers:

Tim Bayne (University of Manchester, UK),
Jacob Berger (University of Antwerp, Belgium),
Thor Grunbaum (Copenhagen, Denmark),
Myrto Mylopoulos (Fordham University, USA),
Hong Yu Wong (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Conference on the representationalism vs. relationalism debate,

speakers:

Bill Brewer (King's College, London, UK),
Craig French (Cambridge University, UK),
Kathrin Gluer (University of Stockholm, Sweden),
Heather Logue (University of Leeds, UK),
M. G. F. Martin (University College London, UK and University of California Berkeley, USA),
Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University, USA),
Adam Pautz (University of Texas, Austin, USA),
Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University, USA),
Matthew Soteriou (University of Warwick, UK)

  

Conference on non-propositional representations

speakers:

Liz Camp (Rutgers University, USA),

Tim Crane (Cambridge University, UK),
Austin Clark (University of Connecticut, USA),
Dominic Gregory (University of Sheffield, UK),
John Kulvicki (Dartmouth University, USA),
Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto, Canada),
Michael Rescorla (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Workshop on the perception of time

 

Speakers:

 

Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)

Geoffrey Lee (University of California, Berkeley)

L. A. Paul (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Ian Phillips (Oxford University)

Nick Young (University of Antwerp)

 

Conference on intentions, distal and proximal

 

Speakers:

Al Mele (Florida State University)

Elisabeth Pacherie (Jean Nicod Institute, Paris)

Neil Sinhababu (University of Singapore)

Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon University)

Avery Archer (Tennessee)

Chiara Brozzo (Antwerp)

Silvia Felletti and Fabio Paglieri (Rome)

Jens Gillessen (Halle)

Frank Hindriks (Groningen)

Gregor Hochstetter (Tubingen)

Zachary Irving (Toronto)

Angelica Kaufmann (Antwerp)

Philippe Lusson (NYU)
Workshop on perceptual and nonperceptual phenomenology
Speakers:

 

Laura Gow (University of Antwerp)

Farid Masrour (University of Wisconsin)

Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin)

David Papineau (King's College London and CUNY Graduate Center)

David Pitt (Cal State LA)

Workshop on the multimodality of perception

 

Speakers:

 

Robert Briscoe (Ohio University)

Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto)

Matthew Nudds (University of Warwick)
Workshop on recent work by Ned Block

 

Speakers:

Ned Block (NYU)

Tony Cheng (UCL)

Sascha Fink (Osnabruck)

Peter Fazekas (Aarhus)

James Stazicker (Reading)

Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State/Antwerp)

Workshop on absence perception

 

Speakers: 

 

Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod)

Dan Cavedon-Taylor (University of Antwerp)

Jerome Dokic (Institut Jean Nicod)

Anya Farennikova (University of Bristol)

Roy Sorensen (Wahington University, St Louis)

Workshop on imagination and mental imagery

 

Speakers:

 

Margherita Arcangeli (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

Robert Hopkins (NYU)

Peter Langland-Hassan (University of Cincinnati)

Sam Liao (University of Leeds)

Albert Newen (Ruhr Universitat Bochum)

Paul Noordhof (University of York)

Margot Strohminger (University of Antwerp)

Daniela Tagliafico (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

Uku Tooming (University of Tartu)

Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University and University of Antwerp)
Conference on Desire and Action 

 

Speakers:

 

Stephen Butterfill (Warwick)

Agnes Moors (Leuven)

Peter Railton (Michigan

Tim Schroeder (Ohio State)

Joshua Shepard (Oxford)

Neil Sinhababu (Singapore) 
Workshop on Analog content and magnitudes. 

 

Speakers: 

Christopher Peacocke  (Columbia University)

Jacob Beck (York University)

Johanna Wolff (Hong Kong University)

Brian Ball (Oxford)

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I also organized individual public lectures that were not part of workshops or conferences. Every semester had a loose theme (perception and action, animal cognition, social cognition, shared intentions, etc). Here is a list of some of the speakers - some psychologists, some primatologists, some philosophers:

Josef Perner (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Joelle Proust (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France)
Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan, Italy)
Stephen Butterfill (University of Warwick, UK)
David Papineau (King’s College London, UK and City University of New York Graduate Center, USA)
Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France)
Juan-Carlos Gómez (University of St Andrews, UK)
Alan Thomas (University of Tilburg, The Netherland)
Gabriel Greenberg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Casey O’Callaghan (Rice University, USA)
Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Catharine Abell (University of Manchester, UK)
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University, USA)
Rob Hopkins (University of Sheffield, UK and New York University, USA)
Dom Lopes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Alva Noë (City University of New York Graduate Centre and University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati, USA)

Axel Cleeremans (Brussels)

Julien Deonna (University of Geneva)

Galen Strawson (University of Texas at Austin)

Ian Philips (University of Oxford)

Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)

Ophelia Deroy (University of London)

Ned Block (New York University)

Altogether, we had 137 speakers, from 23 countries and four continents

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Dissemination (max 800 words)

Publications

The following publications grew out of the project (some with stronger, some with weaker links to the topic of the Career Integration Grant:

The most important among these is my first monograph, which has one of its most important chapters on vicarious perception, the topic of the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. The idea of vicarious perception is also much discussed in the monograph that is under contract with Oxford University Press:

Monographs:

Bence Nanay: Between Perception and Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013

Bence Nanay: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, under contract, to be published in 2016.
Journal articles and book chapters
Forthcoming

1. The role of imagination in decision-making. Mind & Language, forthcoming.

2. Action without attention. Analysis (with Carolyn Jennings), forthcoming.

3. Hallucination as mental imagery. Journal of Consciousness Studies. Forthcoming.

4. Perceptual learning, the mere exposure effect and aesthetic antirealism. Leonardo (forthcoming in 2016)

5. Imagination and perception. In: Amy Kind (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination. London: Routledge.

6. Expectations in music. In: N. Nielsen, J. Levinson and T. McAuley (eds.): Oxford Handbook of Music and Philosophy, forthcoming

7. Perception and the Arts. In: Christy Mag Uidhir (ed.): Art and Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2017.

8. Philosophy of perception – Introduction. In: Bence Nanay (eds.): Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception. London: Routledge, forthcoming in 2017.

9. Danto’s modularism. In L. Goehr and J. Gilmore (eds.): Blackwell Companion to Arthur Danto. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming in 2017.

2015

10. Perceptual content and the content of mental imagery. Philosophical Studies 172: 1723-1736.

11. There is no such thing as patriotic art: Clive Bell on art and war. Ethics 105: 530-532.

12. Cognitive penetration and the gallery of indiscernibles. Frontiers in Psychology 5: 1527 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01527

13. Aesthetic attention. Journal of Consciousness Studies 22 (5-6): 96-118.

14. The representationalism versus relationalism debate: Explanatory contextualism about perception. European Journal of Philosophy 23: 321-336.

15. The history of vision. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73: 259-271.

16. Trompe l’oeil and the dorsal/ventral account of picture perception. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6: 181-197.

17. Two-dimensional versus three-dimensional pictorial organization. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73: 149-157.

18. Experimental philosophy and naturalism. In: E. Fischer and J. Collins (eds.): Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism and Naturalism. Rethinking Philosophical Method. London: Routledge, pp. 222-239.

19. Perceptual Content. In: Mohan Matthen (ed.) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 153-167.

2014

20. Teleosemantics without etiology. Philosophy of Science 81: 798-810.

21. Natural properties and bottomless determination. American Philosophical Quarterly 51: 215-226.

22. Empirical problems with anti-representationalism. In: B. Brogaard (ed.): Does Perception have Content? New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 39-50.

23. The dethroning of ideocracy: Robert Musil as a philosopher. The Monist 87: 3-11.

24. An experiential account of creativity. In: Elliot Paul and Scott Barry Kaufman (eds.): The Philosophy of Creativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 17-35.

25. Naturalizing action theory. In: M. Sprevak and J. Kallestrup (eds.): New Waves in the Philosophy of Mind. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 226-241.

26. Philosophy of perception as a guide to aesthetics. In: G. Currie, M. Kieran, A. Meskin and J. Robson (eds.): Aesthetics and the Sciences of the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 101-120.

27. Cultural replication and microbial evolution. In: Cs. Pleh, G. Csibra and P. Richerson (eds.): Naturalistic Approaches to Culture. Budapest: Akademiai, pp. 122-135.

28. Simulation versus theory-theory. A plea for an epistemological turn. In: Anne Reboul (ed.) Mind, Value and Metaphysics: Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Kevin Mulligan. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 219-312. (with Julien Deonna)

29. Unconscious goals: specific or unspecific? The potential harm of the goal/gene analogy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37: 152-153.

30. Robert Musil. In: Michael Kelly (ed.): Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 447-450..

2013

31. Success semantics: The sequel. Philosophical Studies 165: 151-165.

32. Singularist semirealism. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64: 371-394.

33. From philosophy of science to philosophy of literature (and back) via philosophy of mind. Philip Kitcher’s philosophical pendulum. Theoria 77: 257-266.

34. Artifact categorization and the modal theory of artifact function. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4: 515-526.

35. Philosophy versus literature: Against the Discontinuity Thesis. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71: 349-360.

36. Pointing and representing: Three options (with Nick Young and Angelica Kaufmann) Humana.Mente 24: 99-123.

37. Unconscious goals: specific or unspecific? The potential harm of the goal/gene analogy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36: xxx.

38. Is action-guiding vision cognitively impenetrable? In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 1055-1060.

39. Disjunctive theories of perception. In: Hal Pashler (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, pp. 255-256.

40. Experiential approaches to creativity. In: E. G. Carayannis (ed.): Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. New York: Springer.
2012

41. Function attribution depends on the explanatory context. Journal of Philosophy 109: 623-627.

42. Perceptual phenomenology. Philosophical Perspectives 26: 235-246.

43. Perceiving tropes. Erkenntnis 77: 1-14.

44. Action-oriented perception. European Journal of Philosophy 20: 430-446.

45. The philosophical implications of the Perky experiments. Analysis 72: 439-443.

46. Musical twofoldness. The Monist 95: 607-624.

47. The multimodal experience of art. British Journal of Aesthetics 52: 353-363.

48. The macro and the micro: Andreas Gursky’s aesthetics. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70: 91-100.

49. Anti-pornography: André Kertész’s Distortions. In: Hans Maes and Jerrold Levinson (eds.): Art and Pornography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 191-205.

50. Bayes or determinable? What does the bidirectional hierarchical model of brain functions tell us about the nature of perceptual representation? Frontiers in Psychology 3: 500. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00500.
2011

51. Do we see apples as edible? Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92: 305-322.

52. What if reality has no architecture? The Monist 94: 181-197.

53. Do we sense modalities with our sense modalities? Ratio 24: 299-310.

54. Perceiving pictures. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 10: 461-480.

55. Ambiguous pictures, attention and perceptual content. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 10: 557-561.

The support from Marie Curie CIG is gratefully acknowledged in all of these publications.

I presented 56 talks and invited lectures, including public lectures. You can see the list of these (because of the word limit for this section) at the project website, which is: http://uahost.uantwerpen.be/bence.nanay

Project management (800 words)

Research group

My research group has grown considerably during my tenure of the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. I have had 12 postdoctoral researchers:

Maja Spener (2012-2013) – now permanent position at the University of Birmingham

Carolyn Dicey Jenning (2012-2013) – now permanent position at the University of California, Merced

Craig French (2012-2013) – now Junior Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambirdge University

Will Davies (2013-2014) – now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Oxford University

Jacob Berger (2013-2014) – now permanent position at the Idaho State University

Dan Cavedon-Taylor (2014-2015) – now lecturer at Brasenose College, Oxford and Fellow of Institute of Philosophy, London

Peter Fazekas (2013-ongoing)

Margot Strohminger (2014-ongoing)

Chiara Brozzo (2014-ongoing)

Laura Gow (2014-ongoing)

Maarten Steenhagen (2015-ongoing)

Grace Helton (2015-ongoing)
I also have a Marie Curie Individual Researcher: Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University)

I also have had four PhD students:

Angelica Kaufmann (PhD, University of Antwerp, 2015, now postdoc at Columbia University and the University of Gottingen)

Nick Young (PhD, ongoing, University of Antwerp)

Kris Goffin (PhD, ongoing, University of Antwerp)

Gabriele Ferretti (PhD, ongoing, University of Antwerp)

permanent position

My position has become permanent in 2015.

independence and support from host institution

I receive some institutional support from the university (office space, for example), but no administrative support (this is the University’s policy, alas)

additional grants

I acquired the following grants during the tenure of my Marie Curie Career Integration Grant:

FWO Odysseus Grant 2011-2016 (987,100 Euros)

University of Antwerp BOF LP Grant 2011-2015 (190,000 Euros)

University of Antwerp BOF Bridge Grant 2012-2013 (43,500 Euros)

FWO postdoctoral grant 2013-2016 (244,000 Euros)

FWO predoctoral grant 2013-2017 (169,000 Euros)

FWO action coordination grant 2014-2017 (300,000 Euros)

BSA Connections Conference grant 2015 (12,000 GBP = 15,350 Euros)

Horizon 2020 Marie Curie IR Grant 2015-2016 (93,500 Euros)

Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 2015-2017 (20,000 Euros)
Collaborations

I have been collaborating with the following people and institutions:

Julien Deonna (University of Geneva, Switzerland) – co-writing articles

Carolyn Jenkins (University of California, Merced, USA) – co-writing articles

Craig French (Cambridge University, UK) – co-writing articles

Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University, USA) – co-writing articles

Christoph Teufel (University of Cardiff, UK) – co-writing articles

James Stazicker (University of Reading, UK) – co-writing articles

Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent, Belgium) – co-organizing conferences

Bart Vandenabeele (University of Ghent, Belgium) – co-organizing conferences

Mattia Riccardi (University of Porto, Portugal) – institutional research cooperation

Jan Koenderink, (University of Leuven, Belgium) – institutional research cooperation

Filip Mattens (University of Leuven, Belgium) – institutional research cooperation

Helena De Preester (University of Ghent, Belgium) – institutional research cooperation

Axel Cleeremans (Free University, Brussels, Belgium) – institutional research cooperation

Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto, Canada) – institutional research cooperation

Alan Kingstone (University of British Columbia, Canada) – institutional research cooperation

Susanna Siegel (Harvard University, USA) – institutional research cooperation

Alex Byrne (MIT, USA) – institutional research cooperation

Casey O'Callaghan (Rice University, USA) – institutional research cooperation

Jonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego, USA) – institutional research cooperation

Tim Crane (Cambridge University, UK) – institutional research cooperation

Colin Blakemore (Oxford University, UK) – institutional research cooperation

Salvador Sotoferaco (University of Barcelona, Spain) – institutional research cooperation

Suncica Zrdravkovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) – institutional research cooperation

Athanassios Raftopoulos (University of Cyprus) – institutional research cooperation

Barry Smith (University of London, UK) – institutional research cooperation

Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow, UK) – institutional research cooperation

Matthew Nudds (University of Warwick, UK) – institutional research cooperation

Jerome Dokic (Ecole Normale Superiore, Paris) – institutional research cooperation

(Hong Yu Wong (University of Tubingen, Germany) – institutional research cooperation

Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan, Italy) – institutional research cooperation

Fiona Newell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) – institutional research cooperation

Rob van Lier (University of Nijmegen, Holland) – institutional research cooperation

Olivier Massin (University of Geneva, Switzerland) – institutional research cooperation

Andreas Roepstorff (University of Aarhus, Denmark) – institutional research cooperation

Kathrin Gluer-Pagin (University of Stockholm, Sweden) – institutional research cooperation