The Illusion of Sense | Hilary Lawson, Rupert Read, Ophelia Deroy

Philosophy For Our Times

English - March 07, 2017 10:54 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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From bats to beetles, animals sense the world differently in order to survive. Yet we think seeing and feeling tell us how things really are. Might our senses be radically limited? Are science and logic routes to escape our sensory limitations, or is feeling the rain on our skin the closest we get to truth?

Cognitive neuroscientist Ophelia Deroy, philosopher and author of Philosophy for Life Rupert Read, and closure theorist Hilary Lawson confront the limits of perception.

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