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10.23: Could we be brains in a vat? On Putnam and Ockham

Source： Date：2023-10-20

 

 

主讲人：Christian Wenzel (文哲)

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Prof. Wenzel (文哲) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at National Taiwan University. He is the Director of the Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (https://tsmntu.org). He holds doctoral degrees in both philosophy and mathematics. He is a former Alexander von Humboldt Scholar, and has held visiting appointments in the past at at L'École Normale Supérieure Paris, Harvard University, Boston University, Duke Univeristy, and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, amongst others. His research areas include Kant, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, Chinese philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics.

 

主持人：Sebastian Sunday Grève（王小塞）

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Sebastian SUNDAY GRÈVE （王小塞）is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. He is a Fellow of the Chinese Institute of Foreign Philosophy and a former Berggruen China Fellow. He joined Peking University in 2019. Previously, he taught philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he gained his doctorate in 2018. Prof. Sunday works broadly in philosophy, on both practical and theoretical issues. Recent research articles include ‘Artificial Forms of Life’ and ‘Intuitive Skill’. Recent popular pieces include ‘AI’s First Philosopher’, ‘Can Machines Be Conscious?’, and ‘Nietzsche and the Machines’.

 

讲座信息

题目：Could we be brains in a vat? On Putnam and Ockham

时间：2023.10.23   19:00—21:00

地点：李兆基人文学苑3号楼109室

讲座简介

Putnam famously argued that we cannot be brains in a vat. I do not quite find his arguments convincing. Ockham argued against the assumption of "species," thinking that they would make direct perception impossible. I will show that Putnam's and Ockham's arguments are similar in a number of important respects.

 

 

 

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