Philosophy Program and Dean of the College Present
"Two Grounds for Sensible Qualities"
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Hegeman 106
4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
Umrao Sethi
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Most agree that sensible qualities depend, for their instantiation, on substances. But there has been much debate in the history of philosophy over whether these qualities depend on ordinary material substances like tomatoes, tables and chairs, or on conscious minds. I argue that we ought to take a permissive view and allow for sensible qualities to have both material and mind-dependent instances. While sensible qualities depend on material substances in virtue of inhering in such substances, they depend on minds in virtue of being the proper objects of conscious awareness. Having argued for two distinct kinds of sensible instantiation, I consider some striking consequences for accounts of perceptual experience.
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Time: 4:45 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Hegeman 106