What: The Trinity College Philosophy Department presents Alternative Conceptual Schemes: Thinking in Fundamentally Different Ways, a lecture by Dr. Beth Krancberg, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. 
Some people think in ways that are so radically different from us that they are incapable of understanding concepts with which we are familiar, marking them as operating in “partially alternative conceptual schemes.”  Dr. Krancberg will discuss the basic assumptions that provide the building blocks for her theory of conceptual schemes, focusing, in particular, on partially alternative conceptual schemes generated by cognitive differences in phenomenal consciousness.  Come share your thoughts about the general constraints on our thinking and the limits of human understanding.

When: April 27, 2009 ~ 4:15 p.m.

Where: McCook, Room 303, on the campus of Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, Conn., 06106

Background: Dr. Krancberg received her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2006 and has been at Trinity since 2008.  Her lecture will also address such questions as: “can Frank Jackson’s Mary, a hypothetical super-scientist who is confined to a black and white environment, yet has a complete scientific understanding of color, know what it is like to see red?”— and “is Thomas Nagel correct in assuming that humans cannot know everything there is to know in the universe?”
 
This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Marjorie Harter at 860-297-2472, or by email at Marjorie.Harter@trincoll.edu.

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