Colloquium " Virtual and Augmented Realities: Epistemological and Metaphysical Issues "

International symposium organized by Professor Claudine Tiercelin and Alexandre Declos, June 5-6 2023 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site).

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.