EXRE Colloquium

May 7

Simon Morand, “Two Objections from Kripke and Vogel to Nozick’s Thesis: Knowledge requires Sensitivity”

Samet Sulejmanoski Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium

A handout will be shared prior to the talk.

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Apr 9

Alex Moran, “Visual Illusion and Objective Looks”

Samet Sulejmanoski Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium

ABSTRACT:

In colour illusion, when a perceptible object sensibly appears to have some colour quality it lacks, it is tempting to say that one is nonetheless aware of an actual instance of the ‘illusorily’ presented colour (the one that the object appears to have). Traditionally in the perception literature, sense-datum …

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Mar 19

Sharon Casu, “Moral Value of Consciousness”

Samet Sulejmanoski Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium

ABSTRACT

Our lives are valuable partly because we are moral agents. We can lead a morally good life because we can act, morally, in the right way, towards others and towards the world. I will argue that moral agency requires the capacity for consciousness, and therefore that consciousness is valuable. First, …

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Mar 12

Jason Day, “Welcome to Hyperspace: A Phenomenology of the DMT Experience”

Samet Sulejmanoski Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium

ABSTRACT

N,N-DMT, or simply ‘DMT,’ is a psychedelic substance that, when vaporised as freebase or smoked in ‘changa’ blends, induces experiences of a deeply strange nature. This strangeness pertains not only to how radically different DMT experiences are to ordinary experience, but even to the already strange experiences induced by other …

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Nov, 2024 20

Will Moorfoot, “In Defence of Indeterministic Building”

Sharon Casu Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium

Abstract

In this paper, I set out a new argument for the coherence of indeterministic building and defend its premises. The argument hinges on the underexplored notion of indeterministic supervenience. First, I argue that the logical possibility of an indeterministic supervenience relation entails the coherence of indeterministic building. Second, I argue …

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Jun, 2024 24

Robert Hopkins (NYU) The Birth of an Icon

Gianfranco Soldati Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium
The Birth of an Icon
Pictures are semantically structured, but how? And how does that structure relate to their spatial structure? One answer to these questions is offered by the Parts Principle: where a picture P depicts some object or scene O, every spatial part of P depicts some spatial …

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