No philosophy seminar today; Yuri Cath will be presenting next week.
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Cohen, Daniel
May 23, 2017, 11:51:18 PM5/23/17
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Hi everyone,
Unfortunately, John Weckert is unable to present his paper today, as planned. We’ll be rescheduling some time in second session.
However, we will have a seminar next week as follows:
WEDNESDAY, 31 May 2017
CSU, Wagga Wagga. Building 29, Room 217, 4-6pm
Yuri Cath (Latrobe)
"Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony"
ABSTRACT: It is often said that 'what it is like'-knowledge cannot be acquired by consulting testimony or reading books [Lewis 1998; Paul 2014; 2015]. However, people also routinely consult books like What It Is Like to Go to War [Marlantes 2014], and countless 'what it is like' articles, blogs, and youtube videos, in the apparent hope of gaining knowledge about what it is like to have experiences they have not had themselves. This article examines this puzzle and tries to solve it by appealing to recent work in epistemology and the philosophy of mind on knowing-wh ascriptions. In closing I indicate the wider significance of these ideas by showing how they can help us to better evaluate prominent arguments by Paul [2014; 2015a] concerning transformative experiences.
Cheers,
Daniel
Daniel Cohen
Associate Head of School
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University
Tel: +61 2 6933 2565
Email: dco...@csu.edu.au
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Unfortunately, John Weckert is unable to present his paper today, as planned. We’ll be rescheduling some time in second session.
However, we will have a seminar next week as follows:
WEDNESDAY, 31 May 2017
CSU, Wagga Wagga. Building 29, Room 217, 4-6pm
Yuri Cath (Latrobe)
"Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony"
ABSTRACT: It is often said that 'what it is like'-knowledge cannot be acquired by consulting testimony or reading books [Lewis 1998; Paul 2014; 2015]. However, people also routinely consult books like What It Is Like to Go to War [Marlantes 2014], and countless 'what it is like' articles, blogs, and youtube videos, in the apparent hope of gaining knowledge about what it is like to have experiences they have not had themselves. This article examines this puzzle and tries to solve it by appealing to recent work in epistemology and the philosophy of mind on knowing-wh ascriptions. In closing I indicate the wider significance of these ideas by showing how they can help us to better evaluate prominent arguments by Paul [2014; 2015a] concerning transformative experiences.
Cheers,
Daniel
Daniel Cohen
Associate Head of School
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University
Tel: +61 2 6933 2565
Email: dco...@csu.edu.au
.
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