Past Lectures Does conscious perception have representational content? Or are the representations involved in perception all sub-personal underpinnings of perception rather than partly constitutive of perception itself? Is “unconscious perception” really perception? Is seeing always seeing-as? The 2013 John Locke Lecture series were held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in weeks 2 to 7 of Trinity Term 2013. Brentano made aboutness the defining feature of the mental. And yet the notion plays no serious role in philosophical semantics. I will be asking, first, how we might go about making subject matter a separate factor in sentence meaning/content, and second, what “directed contents” can do for us in other parts of philosophy. The 2012 John Locke Lecture series was held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in weeks 2 to 6 of Trinity Term 2012. Trinity Term 2011 John Cooper, (Princeton) 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life' Abstract Lecture 1 (4th May): 'Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life' [Handout] [MP3]
Ned Block, Department of Philosophy NED BLOCK (Ph.D., Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of perception and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science and is currently writing a book on the perception/cognition border, A Joint in Nature between Cognition and Perception. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, a Sloan Foundation Fellow, a faculty member at two National Endowment for the HumanitiesSummer Institutes and two Summer Seminars, the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Science Foundation; and a recipient of the Robert A. Named Lectures: 2003 Petrus Hispanus Lectures, University of Lisbon 2006 Francis W. On-line videos
General Philosophy - Download free content from Oxford University The nature of persons - Philosophy: The nature of persons This unit asks what it is to be a person. You will see that there are several philosophical questions around the nature of personhood. Here we explore what it is that defines the concept. As you work through the unit, you will notice that this area of enquiry has developed its own semi-technical vocabulary. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course Postgraduate foundation module in philosophy (A850). 20 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab.