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 2: Nyāya Arguments for Nyāya Realism
I identify two central Nyāya arguments in favour of their version of naïve realism, which I call the argument from selection and the argument from (amodal) completion. Of these the first serves to diffuse a Buddhist counter-argument in support of representationalism, while the second argues that naïve realism is the best explanation of our ability to perceive wholes.
Texts: Vaiśeṣika-sūtra 4.1.6–9 (Thakur 1985); Nyāya-sūtra 2.1.31-5 & commentaries (Thakur 1997). Readings: Matilal 2002c, Millar 2015, Briscoe 2018, Nanay 2010, Nanay 2022, Dunne 2020.
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
A reading list for the lectures is available here
Further information about the John Locke Lectures can be found on the John Locke Lectures page
