John Locke Lectures (Wednesday - Week 3, TT24)

Jonardon Ganeri

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