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 3: Illusion as Mislocated Seeing
The two leading naïve realist accounts of illusion are disjunctivism and objective looks theory. I argue that Nyāya provides a third account of illusion, namely, that illusions result from feature-binding misfires involving relations of anomalous acquaintance
with absent features. Insights about feature-binding will be drawn from the psychology of synaesthetia.
Texts: Nyāya-sūtra 4.2.35-7 & commentaries (Thakur 1997). Readings: Vaidya 2013, Dasti 2012, Antony 2011, Kalderon 2011, Brewer 2011, Genone 2014.
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
