Virtual and Augmented Realities: Epistemological and Metaphysical Issues

International symposium on virtual and augmented reality, organized by Professor Claudine Tiercelin and Alexandre Declos.

Virtual Reality technology affords its users a strongly immersive and interactive experience of computer-generated environments, through a dedicated headset. With Augmented Reality devices, 3D computer-generated imagery is projected onto physical space, thereby "augmenting" the user's surroundings with an overlay of virtual entities. These "Extended Reality" (XR) technologies are likely to become a part of our everyday life in the near future. They also raise a host of fascinating issues, which have increasingly been discussed in the recent philosophical literature. This international conference will investigate the metaphysical and epistemological questions raised by XR technologies.

The colloquium will be entirely in English and will take place on June 5 and 6 at the Collège de France :

• June 5   : Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs
• June 6 - morning : Salle Glowinski (room 4)
• June 6 - afternoon: Salle 2

Confirmed speakers

• Alexandre Billon, University of Lille
• Philip Brey, University of Twente
• Guillaume Bucchioni, Aix-Marseille University
• David Chalmers, NYU
• Alexandre Declos, Collège de France
• Katalin Farkas, Central European University, Vienna
• Alexander Fisher, University of Cambridge
• Benoit Gaultier, University of Zurich
• Pawel Grabarczyk, IT University of Copenhagen
• Neil McDonnell, University of Glasgow
• Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp
• Manuel Rebuschi, AHP-PReST, University of Lorraine
• Nathan Wildman, Tilburg University