Berkeley and Collier hold in common a view about perception, Pre-Kantian Innocence, which has certain attractive features, namely that it makes the perceiving of something sufficient for the real existence of that thing and thus avoids any sceptical concerns about our contact with the world. But both then faced a challenge in giving an account of imagination. Collier sacrificed plausibility on the altar of consistency. Berkeley, in contrast, gave an account which, subject to several details being filled out, both his contemporaries and many of ours would find quite plausible. Unfortunately, however, it undermined the attractiveness of the account of perception as a response to the sceptic. I offer an initial, dogmatic sketch of one such account.
Period
8 May 2018
Held at
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico