The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 6th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to be held in person at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s conference topic, \u201cAltered Sight, Altered Minds\u201d brings together doctoral students and scholars that work at the intersection of philosophy, literature, the arts, and media studies to interrogate theories of consciousness, perception, and what it means to \u201csee\u201d beyond the visual paradigm of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When<\/strong>: May 9th-10th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where<\/strong>: Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Description<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n William Blake writes in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell<\/em>, “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” First-person conscious experience presents a range of seemingly intractable problems, both epistemic and metaphysical. This year\u2019s conference invites participants to consider how the representation of atypical conscious experience in literature and the arts (mystical visions, dreams, madness, psychedelia, etc.) can shed light on a range of such philosophical issues. How can a work of literature or philosophy teach us to see, and what mode of perception are we talking about when we ask this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some contributions might address the following questions and lines of inquiry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n