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 4: Seeing Absence
What is the nature of our experience of absence? I draw on the work of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, and provide a new explication of his concept of negative attention. I reprise Wollheim’s “two perceptual projects” hypothesis, between seeing face-to-face
and seeingin, but reconfigure it in terms of a distinction between what is presented-as-present and what is presented-as-absent. Aniconic representation affords an example.
Text: Bhattacharyya 1930, ch.4. Readings: Farennikova 2013, Cavedon-Taylor 2017, Martin & Dokic 2013, Wollheim 1980.
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
