The Faculty is most delighted to welcome Professor Jonardon Ganeri as the John Locke lecturer of 2024. Jonardon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and will give a series of lectures in Trinity Term 2024.
The lectures will take place at 5pm on Wednesdays in weeks 1 to 5 of Trinity Term 2024 (24 April and 1, 8, 15, 22, May), at The HB Allen Centre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford.
Lecture 1: Seeing Face-to-Face: Nyāya Realism
In the first lecture I reflect on Bimal Matilal’s brilliant reconstruction of Nyāya philosophy of perception as a version of naïve realism, and I offer a new interpretation of a foundational statement in the philosophy of perception in classical India: Nyāya-sūtra 1.1.4.
Texts: Nyāya-sūtra 1.1.4 & commentaries (Thakur 1997); Matilal 1986. Readings: Genone 2016, Steenhagen 2019, Logue 2012, Campbell 2014, Chadha 2024.
Lectures:
Lecture 1: Seeing Face-to-Face: Nyāya Realism
Lecture 2: Nyāya Arguments for Nyāya Realism
Lecture 3: Illusion as Mislocated Seeing
Lecture 4: Seeing Absence
Lecture 5: Seeing in the Theatre
Further information about the John Locke Lectures can be found on the John Locke Lectures page
