Dear All, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 30th January. We are delighted to welcome former Club Secretary Li Li Tan (Cambridge), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Against high-level features of visual phenomenology'. The abstract is below:
There is an extensive debate on whether the phenomenal character of visual experience can include more than just “low-level” features like shapes and colours. Many philosophers have argued that various "high-level" features can also be part of visual phenomenology. These include natural kind features (e.g. *being a cat*), action properties (e.g. *being graspable*), and causal properties (e.g. *being the cause of the window breaking*). That is, objects do not just visually appear to be coloured and shaped – they can also appear to be a cat, to be graspable, and so on. This talk presents a new challenge to the claim that visual phenomenology includes high-level features. Many of the strategies and examples offered by high-level theorists in defence of their view suggest that high-level features supervene on low-level features. I argue that if high-level features do supervene on low-level ones, then there is no difference that high-level features can make to visual phenomenology that low-level features do not already make. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with Li Li in the evening following his talk at the Moral Sciences Club, please email the Club Secretaries ( [email protected]) by midday on Tuesday 30th January. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and it will take place at around 7pm at a location to be determined (those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details by email closer to the time). -- Karamvir Chadha and Cathy Mason 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.
