Dear all,
This Thursday (Nov 10) at the Serious Metaphysics Group, Ori Beck will be presenting a talk entitled 'Rethinking Naive Realism' (abstract below). The seminar will be at 1.00-2.30pm, at the Philosophy faculty board room. Feel free to bring lunch along. For the rest of the Michaelmas term card, have a look here: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG [1] Best wishes, Li Li -- ABSTRACT A common accusation against Naive Realism (NR) is that it fails to account for cases of psychophysical phenomenal variation, in which subjects have phenomenally distinct experiences because they are in distinct psychophysical states. In response, I develop a version of NR that assigns perceptual standpoints a new "foundational" role, and that has some similarities with the qualia view. In virtue of these features, my version of NR both accommodates the problem cases, and respects the fact that perception is simultaneously external (i.e., presents us with reality) and internal (i.e., intra-dermally phenomenally modulated). I argue that alternative versions of NR fail to have these advantages. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College Links: ------ [1] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG _____________________________________________________ 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.
