Assaf Weksler

I am an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion.

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My work lies primarily at the intersection of the metaphysics and epistemology of conscious sensory experience and the empirical study of perception. I connect the philosophy of perception with a range of topics in cognitive science, including Weber’s Law and signal detection theory (psychophysics), predictive processing, visual search, attention, visual working memory, visual segmentation, and mental rotation. I also contribute to psychological experiments that test philosophical claims about perception.

Aside from perception, I am interested in broader philosophy of mind/cognitive science topics, such as the nature of mental represenations and the mind body problem.

 

​​​I previously held an ISF grant to study the iconicity of perception, theoretically and experimentally.  

I currently hold a DFG grant titled "Naive Realism under Pressure" (with Ori Beck and Eva Schmidt). The project will run from August 2024 till July 2027.

 

Before moving to the Technion, I was a researcher in philosophy at BGU, working with Ori Beck (as part of a program of the Planning & Budgeting Committee of the Council of Higher Education to support hiring excellent researchers in the status of ‘researcher’). ​

I was also a faculty member in philosophy at the Open University of Israel, with the rank of 'course coordinator' (a type of job unique to the Open University). I coordinated advanced courses on epistemology, virtue ethics, and mental representations, and an introduction to philosophy course based on the book "just the arguments".

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