时间：1月4日 星期五晚上7:00-8:30

地点：励耘A102

题目：Three Philosophical Problems

演讲人：Dr. Matthew Conduct

Dr. Matthew Conduct comes from Durham in the UK, where he has spent the last decade or so studying philosophy. He obtained his PhD from Durham University under the supervision of E. J. Lowe, and was examined by Tim Crane and Sophie Gibb. He offered a defence of naïve realism, which is the view that the visual experiences that we enjoy when perceiving are immediately presentational of the world around us.

His research focuses upon debates in the philosophy of perception. He has been particularly concerned with the question of what the metaphysical nature of perceptual experience must be in order to satisfy certain requirements concerning phenomenology, the epistemic significance of perception, the preconditions for intentional thought, and ontological parsimony.

演讲内容简介:

In this lecture Dr. Matthew Conduct will present three problems that are discussed in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

Dualism

One of the most significant philosophers in the Western philosophical tradition is René Descartes. An important advocate of the new ‘mechanical philosophy’ of the sixteenth century he offered an account of the nature of mind and body that set the framework for all subsequent discussion of the subject.

The Argument from Illusion

How is it that we come to have access to the world through perception? The argument from illusion presents reasons for thinking that we are never directly aware of the world around us.

The Chinese Room Argument

John Searle produced a highly influential argument to the effect that minds cannot be produced by computational approaches alone. His ‘Chinese Room Argument’ presents a challenge to anyone who thinks that minds could be created by a computer system that runs the right kind of program.