Harmen Ghijsen
Radboud University
Visit(s):
May 2018
Host(s):
Harmen Ghijsen is a philosopher working within the Cognition, Culture, and Language research group
at Radboud University. He obtained his PhD in philosophy in 2014 at KU Leuven and is currently
working on the NWO-funded (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) project “Should we
trust our own eyes? Challenges from cognitive penetration and implicit bias”. His area of expertise is
philosophy of perception, and he has worked and published on topics related to epistemology,
philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. His key publications include his monograph “The
Puzzle of Perceptual Justification” (2016, Springer) and research articles “The Real Epistemic Problem
of Cognitive Penetration” (2016, Philosophical Studies) and “Predictive Processing and
Foundationalism about Perception” (2018, Synthese). From April to May he will be working on topics
related to perception and unconscious inference with the Emmy Noether Research Group From
Perception To Belief and Back Again headed by Peter Brössel.