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Departmental Colloquium, 2019/2020

Colloquia take place from 4.15pm to 6:00pm in OC1.07 (Oculus Building) unless otherwise indicated. For further information, please contact Naomi Eilan (N.Eilan@warwick.ac.uk) or Barnaby Walker (B.J.Walker@warwick.ac.uk). Details of previous years’ colloquia can be found here.

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Department Colloquium

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Location: S0.17

The talk be in room S0.17 from 4:15pm and there will be a small drinks reception after the event.

 Abstract:

In this talk I distinguish between ‘local’ and ‘global’ forms of ‘envatment’. I show that recent envatment arguments (the ‘local’ variety) work similarly to arguments from perceptual illusion and that neither of them are able, by themselves, to get us ‘global’ scepticism. Consequently, motivating the radical sceptical idea that all of our perceptual beliefs might be false is harder than it looks.

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