Naive Realism 2.0 – Workshop
The workshop „Naive Realism 2.0“ will take place at TU Dortmund from 18–20 February 2026 over two and a half days. It is hosted at Emil-Figge-Straße 50, Dortmund, and is part of the international research project Naive Realism under Pressure.
The workshop brings together invited speakers and members of the Naive Realism under Pressure project to discuss the nature of perceptual experience. We will focus on naive realist and relationalist theories of perception, their challenges, and their relation to competing theories of perception.
Speakers
• Bill Brewer (King’s College London)
• 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)
• Farid Masrour (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Giulia Martina (University of Nottingham)
• David Papineau (King’s College London)
• Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick)
• Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University)
• Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund)
• Ayoob Shahmoradi (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Assaf Weksler (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Registration
The workshop is open to all interested participants and free of charge. To register, please contact Rebecca Sadowski, subject line „Registration Naive Realism 2.0“, before 2 February, 2026.
rebecca.sadowski@tu-dortmund.de
Organization
Ori Beck, Quentin Coudray, Daniel Kim, Eva Schmidt, Alfredo Vernazzani, and Assaf Weksler.
The project „Naive Realism under Pressure“ is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It investigates how naive realism can respond to a range of important contemporary challenges. In particular, the project examines issues arising from variability in perceptual responses, the distinctive epistemic role of perceptual experience, and the contribution of perceptual capacities to how we perceive the world. Its central aim is to investigate how naive realism can develop and adapt in light of these challenges while remaining a distinctive and compelling theory of perception. For further information about the workshop and the research project, please visit the project website: Naive Realism under Pressure.