This seminar will concern Oxford reflection on perception in the first half of the twentieth century. Special emphasis will be on how Oxford realism interacts with alien (Cantibrigian and Viennese) influences on theorizing about perception.

Tuesday 10:30-12:30am UCL Seminar Room

Schedule

1. Introduction
2. G.F. Stout Primary and Secondary Qualities; John Cook Wilson Letter to Stout on Primary and Secondary Qualities
3. H.A. Prichard chapter 4, Phenomena and Things in Themselves, of Kant’s Theory of Knowledge
4. H.A. Prichard The Sense Datum Fallacy
5. Gilbert Rye, chapter 7, Sensation and Observation, of The Concept of Mind
6. G.A. Paul Is There a Problem about Sense Data?
7. A.J. Ayer chapter 1The Argument from Illusion, chapter 2 The Characterization of Sense Data of The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
8. J.L. Austin Lecture IX, Lecture X of Sense and Sensibilia
9. H.P. Grice The Causal Theory of Perception

Background Reading

1. M.G.F. Martin Sensible Appearances
2. M.G.F. Martin Austin’s Sense and Sensibilia Revisited
3. Mathieu Marion Oxford Realism: Knowledge and Perception I, Oxford Realism: Knowledge and Perception II
4. Charles Travis A Sense of Occasion

Handouts

1. Syllabus
2. Cook Wilson on Stout
3. Cook Wilson on Stout
4. Prichard on The Sense Datum Fallacy
5. Paul on Sense Datum