February 18-20, 2026: Naive Realism Under Pressure - First project workshop

According to naive realism, sensory perception is fundamentally a relation of awareness or acquaintance between the perceiver and the mind-independent world. This international workshop brings together invited speakers and members of the Naive Realism under Pressure project to discuss the nature of perceptual experience, with a particular focus on naive realist and relationalist theories of perception. The aim of the workshop is to foster in-depth discussion of how perceptual experience should be understood within contemporary philosophy of mind and epistemology.

Further information: https://nrunderpressure.wixsite.com/project/events

All interested participants are warmly invited to attend both the workshop and the conference dinner.

We are happy to welcome the following speakers:

Ori Beck (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Quentin Coudray (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

Laura Gow (University of Liverpool)

Daniel Kim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Fiona MacPherson (University of Glasgow)

Giulia Martina (University of Nottingham)

Farid Masrour (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

David Papineau (King’s College London)

Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick)

Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University)

Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund)

Ayoob Shahmoradi (Ruhr University Bochum)

Alfredo Vernazzani (TU Dortmund / Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg)

Assaf Weksler (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

The workshop is open to all interested participants and free of charge. For registration or any questions, please contact Rebecca Sadowski [rebecca.sadowskitu-dortmundde] by 2 February 2026.

Organizers of the Conference: Eva Schmidt, Alfredo Vernazzani

Project Team: Eva Schmidt, Assaf Weksler, Ori Beck, Quentin Coudray, Daniel Kim, Alfredo Vernazzani  We are grateful to the DFG (German Research Foundation) for their support of the project.