Dear all, Just a reminder that Craig French will be speaking on "The Argument from Illusion" at the Moral Sciences Club tomorrow (Tuesday 21st October). (Abstract below)
Please note the change in time from last week - we will begin at *2.15pm* rather than 2pm as advertised on the website. The meeting is in *Sidgwick Hall* in Newnham College (a map can be found at http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.newnham.local/uploads/files/About-Newnham/college_map_08.pdf ). After the meeting finishes at 4pm, we will return to the philosophy faculty for tea and coffee, and there will be an opportunity for graduate students to meet and talk to the speaker in an informal setting. We warmly invite and encourage all graduate students to make use of this new opportunity which we haven't had in previous years. For those who did not attend or pay their subscriptions last week, there is a charge of £7.50 for a year's membership for junior members (undergraduates and graduate students), or £15 for a year's membership for others. For those who do not join there is a £2 charge for one-off attendance at individual meetings for junior members and £3 for others. For more information, including details about our 2014-2015 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes, Mat Simpson and Ali Boyle Craig French - *The Argument From Illusion*: "The argument from illusion attempts to establish a bold claim: that we are never aware of ordinary material objects in perceptual experience. I consider the canonical form of the argument as present in contemporary expositions. Drawing on joint work I've done with Lee Walters, I'll try to do two things: First, I'll try to show that the argument as typically formulated is logically invalid. Second, I'll try to identify what extra premise is needed to make the argument valid, but argue that various versions of this extra premise are all problematic in one way or another. If these arguments are successful, there is even more reason to reject the argument from illusion than is currently acknowledged." -- Ali Boyle and Matthew Simpson Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
