jonna vance

articles

​Moral perception and the 'looks objection': An empirical approach. (w/ Preston J. Werner) Mind.

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Attentional moral perception. (w/ Preston J. Werner) Journal of Moral Philosophy. 19(5), 501-525.

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Precision and perceptual clarity. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 99(2): 379-395.

 

Noise, uncertainty, and interest: Predictive coding and cognitive penetration. (w/ Dustin Stokes) Consciousness and Cognition. 47: 86-98.

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Cognitive penetration and the tribunal of experience. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6(4): 641-663.    

 

Review of Jakob Hohwy - The Predictive Mind. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

 

Emotion and the new epistemic challenge from cognitive penetrability. Philosophical Studies. 169(2): 257-283.

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chapters​

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Uncertainty in blurry vision. In R. French and B. Brogaard (Eds.) The Roles of Representations in Visual Perception. Springer.

 

Perceptual uncertainty, clarity, and attention. In T. Cheng, R. Sato, & J. Hohwy (Eds.) Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World. Routledge.

 

Phenomenal commitments: A puzzle for experiential theories of emotion. In H. Naar & F. Teroni (Eds.) The Ontology of Emotions (pp. 90-109). Cambridge University Press

 

Action prevents error - Predictive processing without active inference. In T. Metzinger & W. Wiese (Eds.). Philosophy and Predictive Processing. Frankfurt am Main: MIND Group. 

 

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recent and upcoming talks

 

Seeing value and the hallmarks of perception.

     Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Santiago, Chile. March 2026.

Perceiving value.

      University of California San Diego. February 2026. 

Affective social perception. 

      Cornell University. NEH Institute on Moral Psychology. June 2024.

      University of Barcelona. June 2024.

      University of Arizona. March 2024. 

Uncertain experiences.

      University of Barcelona. June 2022

Attentional moral perception (with Preston Werner)

      Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. April 2022.

Attentional moral perception and sensibility theory (with Preston Werner)

      University of Haifa. March 2021

Salience in moral perception

      Harvard University. May 2020. 

Moral knowledge by abstraction

      University of Montreal. March 2020. 

Foundationalism and deep learning

      University of Pennsylvania. November 2019. 

Vague perception

      Cambridge University. August 2019

      York University (Toronto). June 2019

Hierarchical evaluative perception

      Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 2019

Predictive processing: Overview and challenges.

      University of Geneva. June 2018.

Implicit phenomenal commitments.

      University of Geneva. May 2018

Precision and perceptual uncertainty.

      Ruhr-University Bochum. May 2018

Perceptual uncertainty and precision.

      University of Geneva. March 2018

Bayes intentionalism and perceptual uncertainty.

      University of Antwerp. February 2018

Perceptual uncertainty.

      University of Arizona. October 2017

Action prevents error: Predictive processing without active inference.

      Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich). August 2017

Phenomenal commitments: A puzzle for experiential theories of emotion.

      University of Geneva. June 2017

      Bled Philosophical Conference. June 2017

Perceptual confidence and precision estimates.

      UC Berkeley. March 2017