[MaFLa] invitation to a talk by Graham Priest on `It Was So Revolting I Couldn't Take my Eyes Off It` - Tuesday, 22 November, 5.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103

[Krisztina Biber]

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center)
on
It Was So Revolting I Couldn't Take my Eyes Off It

Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 5.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103


ABSTRACT

I argue that certain mental states realise dialetheias. There is a well known psychological phenomenon (noted, for example, by Plato in the Republic) in which something is so repulsive that one is compelled to look at it. One is attracted and repelled. Prima facie, that is a contradiction. I argue that that is exactly what it is. This contradiction captures the phenomenological content of one's experience, though this does not mean that the underlying brain states are themselves contradictory.


Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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