Dr Eugen Fischer
Stretch your mind with these classic paradoxes of perception.
SERIES
Paradoxes of Perception
MEET YOUR LECTURER
Eugen Fischer
I taught at the universities of Oxford and Munich before coming to UEA. I have been a Heisenberg Research Reader, Golestan Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Central European Institute for Advanced Study / Collegium Budapest.
Episodes
EPISODE ONE
Argument from Illusion
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Dr Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) presents the ‘argument from illusion’. This argument appears to refute our common-sense conception of perception (seeing, hearing, etc.). Together with parallel arguments, it raises the problem of perception that has been a lynch-pin of Western philosophy, since the mid-18th century.
EPISODE TWO
Argument from Hallucination
Common sense takes for granted that we can typically just see physical objects without further hindrance. In this Wireless Philosophy video, Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) presents the ‘argument from hallucination’ that questions common sense. Together with parallel arguments, it appears to show that we are cut off from any physical objects around us by a veil of immaterial perceptions.
