EVENT
Annual Cottingham Lecture
Date 27 October 2022
Time 18:00 - 19:30
Location Room 109, Palmer Building, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus
Event Information
How can we know the minds of other people? To what extent are they ‘opaque’ to our attempts to understand them, and them to us?
This in-person only event will feature Dr Peter Hacker, Emeritus Research Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, speaking on: ‘Other Minds, Other People, and Human Opacity’.
Dr Hacker’s work explores the extent to which opacity is a matter of language and the way we communicate with each other. Much human conflict stems from misunderstanding, therefore getting into another person’s mind is a potentially powerful method of avoiding or managing disagreement.
This in-person only event will feature Dr Peter Hacker, Emeritus Research Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, speaking on: ‘Other Minds, Other People, and Human Opacity’.
Dr Hacker’s work explores the extent to which opacity is a matter of language and the way we communicate with each other. Much human conflict stems from misunderstanding, therefore getting into another person’s mind is a potentially powerful method of avoiding or managing disagreement.
Full details including booking information is at https://bit.ly/3w2BbIQ.
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