BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260607T071157Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201218T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201218T113000 SUMMARY:The Puzzle of the Laws of Appearance UID:20260614T160737Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Oxford\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:

As the last event in our autumn seminar series [Dec. 18 (friday) 3:00-4:30 PM GMT/10:00-11:30 EST]\, we will host a talk by Adam Pautz (Brown):

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The Puzzle of the Laws of Appearance \;

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In this talk I will present a puzzle about visual appearance. I will first develop the puzzle as it arises for representationalists \;about experience. Many have discussed the question "what properties do we actually experiential represent?" My puzzle concerns a different question that has not been much discussed: "what properties *could* we experientially represent?" I will argue that there are certain metaphysically necessary restrictions here. Those restrictions cry out for explanation. But it is just very hard to see how representationalists might explain them. \;At the end\, I will explore the question of whether the puzzle equally arises for naive realists.

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My talk will be based on my recent paper "The Puzzle of the Laws of Appearance" \;(*Philosophical Issues* 2020) but I hope to add some new points.

ORGANIZER;CN=Dominic Alford-Duguid;CN=Ivan V. Ivanov;CN=Roberta Locatelli;CN=Keith A. Wilson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR