The department of philosophy will be hosting a Commencement Party on 28 June, 2013 (evening) at the NUS Shaw Foundation Alumni House for students graduating this semester. More details to follow. In the meantime, mark your calendar…
Events
“Three Puzzles about Spatial Experience” by David Chalmers (6 May)
Is it possible that everything that seems to be on your left is actually on your right? Is it possible that everything in the world is twice as big as it seems to be? Is it possible that everything that seems square is actually an extended rectangle? Through reflection on these and related puzzles I [...]
“Intellectual Autonomy” by Allan Hazlett (18 Apr)
Is it good to be intellectually autonomous? If it is, in what way is it good? In this talk I defend the value of intellectual autonomy by appeal to the value of non-testimonial knowledge. I criticize some accounts of the value of non-testimonial belief (namely, those that reject the possibility of reliable belief, knowledge, certainty, [...]
“Seeing, Visualizing, and Believing” by John Zeimbekis (11 Apr)
I begin with an account of how visual processes construct the nonconceptual contents caused by picture perceptions, and then ask how those contents survive into doxastic, personal-level awareness. The account suggests that subjects have a degree of personal-level control over some of the visual processes that yield visual experiences, phenomenal characters, and nonconceptual contents as [...]
“Just Knowers: Towards a Virtue Epistemology in the Mahãbhãrata” by Vrinda Dalmiya (28 Mar)
Adopting the framework of Anglo Analytic Virtue Epistemology, I ask of the Sanskrit epic, the Mahābhārata, the question: What sort of character or intellectual virtues must a good knower have? Then, motivated by broadly feminist sensibilities, I raise the concern whether motivations for knowing the world can be associated with motivations to rectify injustices in [...]
