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Rutgers Annual Lectures presents Prof. Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
Monday, September 19, 2022, 04:30pm - 06:30pm
Lecture One: Heuristics [9/19]
Human cognition, from sense perception to abstract reflection, frequently employs heuristics, quick, easy, efficient, and imperfectly reliable ways of solving problems. To a neglected extent, philosophical problems and paradoxes from reliance on the outputs of fallible heuristics. This will be illustrated with examples involving vagueness, conditionals, belief ascription, truth and falsity, and reasons aggregation. Potential lessons for philosophical method will be discussed.
Location Academic Building RM 2400 East Wing, CAC
