Dear Professor Kramer, I'm afraid I accidentally omitted the first two lines of the abstract (but have corrected this for the reminder which will go out on Monday).
The propositions are: (1) The plate looks circular, yet it also looks oval (2) The boat looks immense, yet it also looks small Best wishes, James -- Matt Dougherty, James Hutton, and Li Li Tan Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc On 26 April 2017 at 14:22, Moral Sciences Club <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > The Moral Sciences Club's first meeting of the new term will be held on > Tuesday 2nd May. We are delighted to be welcoming Professor Michael Martin > (UCL), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Variation and Change in > Appearances'. Here is the abstract: > > > (1) The plate looks circular, yet it also looks oval > > (2) The boat looks immense, yet it also looks small > > > ‘Is circular’ and ‘is oval’ appear to be contrary predications applied to > the same object; as do ‘is immense’ and ‘is small’. Yet (1) and (2) do not > appear to be contradictory statements. So, when do appearances conflict > with each other, and how can this be marked in our judgements about > appearance? In 1953, GE Moore argued that the possible truth of (2) shows > that there must be multiple sense of ‘looks’. Moore’s example prefigures by > thirty years a much-cited discussion by Christopher Peacocke about trees > and apparent size with which Peacocke illustrates a contrast between > sensational and representational properties of experience. > I argue that Moore’s argument for different senses of ‘looks’ is unsound. > And hence that we need a different explanation of how we mark the contrast > between appearances which conflict and those which do not. I close the > paper by sketching such an account. > > > As always, the meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara > White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. > > For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 > for students and £15 for others, or a one-off fee of £3 (£2 for students). > These can be purchased online at: http://onlinesales.admin.c > am.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87 > -- > Matt Dougherty, James Hutton, and Li Li Tan > Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club > Faculty of Philosophy > University of Cambridge > [email protected] > http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc > _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
