Wednesday
21
February 2024
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM IST
Location
Room 318, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
Ahmedabad University
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Experience of Absence as a Present Fact: K.C. Bhattacharyya’s The Subject As Freedom
Rasila and Chandrakant Endowed Professorship Series: Thinking about Perception: A Return to Nyāya
Jonardon Ganeri
Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Speaker
In the final seminar, Professor Ganeri will consider a variety of perceptual experience which the Nyāya model is hard-pressed to explain. Drawing on the work of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Professor Ganeri will argue that the best account of absence experience is imagery-based and not naïve realist.
Speaker
Jonardon Ganeri
Professor Jonardon Ganeri is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. He advocates an expanded role for cross-cultural methodologies in philosophical research, together with enhanced cultural diversity in the philosophical curriculum. His research interests are in consciousness, self, attention, the epistemology of inquiry, the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literature. He works too on the history of ideas in early modern South Asia, intellectual affinities between India and Greece, and Buddhist philosophy of mind. He joined the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2015, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities the same year, the only philosopher to do so. He is visiting Ahmedabad University on the Rasila and Chandrakant Kadia Endowed Visiting Professorship.
