You are invited to the next Colloquia in our Winter 2022 Series on January 7, 2022, with Assistant Professor Dominic Alford-Duguid from the University of British Columbia.
About the Event:
“Austere Modal Empiricism”
Lecture by Dominic Alford-Duguid, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
January 7, 2022
3:00-5:00 p.m, (via zoom)
Abstract:
Modal rationalists dominate modal epistemology. Broadly speaking, what unites modal rationalists is a conviction that perception itself does not play a substantive explanatory role in a right account of modal knowledge. By contrast, I defend a form of modal empiricism (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘modal anti-rationalism’). I begin with perception. I defend a thesis about sensory hallucination’s capacity to provide justification for beliefs about non-actual possibilities. I then show how this thesis might be developed into a more ambitious modal empiricism.
About Dominic Alfred-Duguid
Dominic Alfred-Duguid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Before being part of UBC he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2018-2021 and a Research Fellow at King’s College London from 2016-2018.
Much of Dominic’s research concerns the relationship between perception and thought. He has also a strong sideline in the philosophy of law. His forays into legal theory began with the foundations of general jurisprudence, but now also encompass questions about the relationship between privacy and control.
For zoom link information, RSVP by January 6th, 2022 to: phil.ugradengagement@ubc.ca
We are looking forward to welcoming you!
