Colloque « Virtual and Augmented Realities: Epistemological and Metaphysical Issues »

Colloque international organisé par la professeure Claudine Tiercelin et Alexandre Declos, les 5 et 6 juin 2023 au Collège de France (site Marcelin Berthelot).

Virtual and Augmented Realities: Epistemological and Metaphysical Issue

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.