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<font face="Palatino">Rebecca Keller (F13) and Jonathan Westphal<br>
"Russell and the Conflict Between Physics and Experience"<br>
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Abstract: Science seems to conflict with everyday experience.
Science tells us about wavelengths, but we experience colors.
Science tells us about the energy of molecules, but we experience
heat. Bertrand Russell took the view that this conflict is to be
resolved in favour of science against everyday experience, and
that everyday experience contradicts itself. We will discuss this
argument in various forms. <br>
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'Naive realism leads to physics. Physics, if true, shows that
naive realism is false. Therefore naive realism if true is false.
Therefore it is false.' - Bertrand Russell<br>
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Biographical: <br>
Rebecca Keller (F13) is a second-semester Div II focusing on
cognitive philosophy. After declaring a major in cognitive science
at Case Western Reserve University, she transferred to Hampshire
where she became more interested in more philosophical queries
about the mind. Her interests include phenomenology, especially
the formation of the phenomenological self-model; and metaphysics,
especially logical formulations of the mind-body problem. Outside
of her academic studies, Rebecca enjoys petting dogs, riding her
bike, and petting more dogs.<br>
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Jonathan Westphal is a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at
Hampshire College, teaching philosophy in the School of Cognitive
Sciences. He has interests in the philosophy of language,
philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. His most recent
work has been on the philosophy of time and on freewill, and the
relation between the two, for example in his "Is There a Modal
Fallacy in Van Inwagen's "First Formal Argument"?' Analysis 72
(2012). He is currently teaching a class on the philosophy of
language and, together with other members of CS, a class on the
philosophy of color. <br>
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