Understanding the phenomenology of perceptual experience by Frank Jackson

Abstract:
Seeing something as green is different from seeing something as red. Seeing something as round is different from seeing something as square. These commonplaces remind us (not that we need reminding) that perceptual experiences have a phenomenology. What’s the best way to account for this?

Date: 11 December 2017, Monday
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm
Venue: AS7 Seminar Room B

About the Speaker:
Frank Jackson is Lim Chong Yah visiting professor at The National University of Singapore, and an Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University. His books include From Metaphysics to Ethics, and Language, Names, and Information.

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