Prof John McDowell: "Are the senses silent?"

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"Are the senses silent?" - second lecture delivered by Professor John H. McDowell at the 2013 Agnes Cuming Lectures and Seminar, hosted by the UCD School of Philosophy, 23--25 April.
Full story: www.ucd.ie/news/2013/05MAY13/0...
Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy in the Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences, John H. McDowell has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected in 1983), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected in 1992), and a recipient of the Andrew Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2010).
Before taking up his current post at the University of Pittsburgh in 1986, Professor McDowell taught at University College Oxford.
His book, Mind and World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994), originally delivered as John Locke Lectures at Oxford, is seen by many philosophers as one of the finest philosophical works of the past-half century.

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@fr.hughmackenzie5900 3 жыл бұрын

So experience is for knowledge. Experience is of our environment. Therefore we must take a stand on its truth, so we can act. All experience has meaning.

@doclime4792 9 ай бұрын

I command YOU spirit! Go out into the world!

@eclecticism1019 2 жыл бұрын

is he reading from one of his papers?

@dubbelkastrull Жыл бұрын

12:29 bookmark

@bobbyrne9697 2 жыл бұрын

I must say if you're giving a LECTURE, you should SPEAK UP. But beyond that annoyance -- good arguing.

@DarkMoonDroid 9 жыл бұрын

Y'know what I _don't_ understand? Why is this not psychology?

@3rron3ous3rror 8 жыл бұрын

Psychology is just applied philosophy of mind

@gerhitchman 5 жыл бұрын

@@3rron3ous3rror Nah, psychology asks questions that have at least in principle empirical answers. Philosophical concerns by definition can't be addressed empirically.

@dionysianapollomarx 4 жыл бұрын

@@gerhitchman yet

@bozom2868 4 жыл бұрын

@@dionysianapollomarx "It may appear to some people that Science, particularly Physiology, can answer these questions for us. But it should already be clear that this is a mistake. Thus if it be said that when a man sees something, e.g. a tomato, light rays emanating from the object impinge upon his retina and this stimulates the optic nerve, which in turn causes a change in the optic centres in his brain, which causes a change in his mind: there are two comments to be made. 1. No doubt this is in fact a perfectly true account, but what are the grounds for believing it? Obviously they are derived from observation ... Thus the Physiologist has not explained in the least how visual observation justifies a man in holding a certain belief about a tomato, e.g. that it is spherical. All he has done is to put forward certain other beliefs concerning a retina and a brain. Those other beliefs have themselves to be justified in exactly the same way as the first belief, and we are as far as ever from knowing what way that is. ... 2. In any case, Science only professes to tell us what are the causes of seeing and touching. But we want to know what seeing and touching themselves are. This question lies outside the sphere of Science altogether." H.H. Price, Perception, Chapter 1

@dionysianapollomarx 3 жыл бұрын

@@bozom2868 ever heard of experimental philosophy. It's so good recently that it's making decent waves within cognitive psychology and cognitive philosophy circles. So much so that some "esoteric" sciences, e.g. Jung, Goethe, and Steiner, get better credibility because of new interpretations.