Ways of Being Wrong in our Present (Digital) Day and Age

Talk and follow-up discussion. Lucy O'Brien and Markus Gabriel discuss illusion, delusion and hallucination and their epistemological value in the digitized present.

Traditionally, epistemology and philosophy of mind have focused on central notions of epistemic, conceptual, and alethic achievements, such as knowledge, truth, justification, perception. In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in negative phenomena of being wrong. Our first International Summer School in Contemporary Philosophy will focus on three types of negative epistemological and mental phenomena: Illusion, delusion, and hallucination. Are they mere failures or do they have a positive core? Could negative epistemological phenomena be constitutive for episodes of knowledge, perception and justification? What can we learn about the nature of knowledge, perception, self-consciousness and mind from the inevitable presence of distorting factors in the social reality of knowledge claims?

Prof. Lucy O'Brien (University College London) is a Humboldt Research Award winner and works on the philosophy of mind with a focus on theories of self-consciousness. She is the author of books, such as "Self-Knowing Agents".

Reception afterwards.