John Locke Lectures (Wednesday - Week 4, TT24)

The Faculty is most delighted to welcome Professor Jonardon Ganeri as the John Locke lecturer of 2024. Jonardon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and will give a series of lectures in Trinity Term 2024.

The lectures will take place at 5pm on Wednesdays in weeks 1 to 5 of Trinity Term 2024 (24 April and 1, 8, 15, 22, May), at The HB Allen Centre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford.

Lecture 4: Seeing Absence

What is the nature of our experience of absence? I draw on the work of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, and provide a new explication of his concept of negative attention. I reprise Wollheim's "two perceptual projects" hypothesis, between seeing face-to-face
and seeingin, but reconfigure it in terms of a distinction between what is presented-as-present and what is presented-as-absent. Aniconic representation affords an example.

Text: Bhattacharyya 1930, ch.4. Readings: Farennikova 2013, Cavedon-Taylor 2017, Martin & Dokic 2013, Wollheim 1980.

Lectures:

Lecture 1: Seeing Face-to-Face: Nyāya Realism

Lecture 2: Nyāya Arguments for Nyāya Realism

Lecture 3: Illusion as Mislocated Seeing

Lecture 4: Seeing Absence

Lecture 5: Seeing in the Theatre

A reading list for the lectures is available here

Further information about the John Locke Lectures can be found on the John Locke Lectures page