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SUMMARY:Perceptual knowledge of nonactual possibilities
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LOCATION:Cambridge\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>Abstract:</p>\n<p>It is widely assumed that sense perception cannot deliver knowledge of nonactual (metaphysical) possibilities. We are not supposed to be able to know that a proposition <em>p </em>is necessary or that <em>p </em>is possible (if <em>p </em>is false) by sense perception. My aim in the talk will be to convince you that the role of sense perception is not so limited. I will argue that we can know lots of modal facts by perception. While the most straightforward examples concern possibility and contingency\, others concern necessity and impossibility. The possibility of a perceptual route to some modal knowledge is not as radical as it may at first sound. On the contrary\, acknowledging it has benefits.</p>\n<p>This is a joint event between the New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project and the Serious Metaphysics Group. <br> <br>http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG</p>
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