{"id":6497,"date":"2019-06-03T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:57:17","slug":"molyneuxs-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/molyneuxs-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Molyneux\u2019s Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">Marjolein Degenaar\/ Barry Ginley\/ Brian Glenney<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the recording <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_events\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20190603_1830_molyneuxsProblemForumForPhilosophy.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sWeUyWggfTI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">William Molyneux posed the following question: Consider a person who has been born blind and who has learnt to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch. If this person could suddenly see, would they be able to distinguish these objects by sight alone? This seventeenth-century thought experiment, known as \u2018Molyneux\u2019s problem\u2019, received attention from some of philosophy\u2019s greatest minds. We discuss how thinkers like Locke and Leibniz, as well as artists with visual impairments, responded to Molyneux\u2019s challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/mjldegenaar.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marjolein Degenaar<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Author, <em>Molyneux\u2019s Problem: Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Form<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry Ginley<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Equality and Access Adviser, Victoria &amp; Albert Museum<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brianglenney.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Glenney<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Norwich University<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Chair<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/clare-moriarty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clare Moriarty<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy and Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, UCD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In association with the<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bshp.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Society for the History of Philosophy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjolein Degenaar\/ Barry Ginley\/ Brian Glenney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":6108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[58,40,89,41],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-aesthetics","tag-epistemology","tag-historyofphilosophy","tag-philosophy-of-mind"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2019\/03\/6-Molyneuxs-Problem-plain-1-e1568488721970.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1GN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15958,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions\/15958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}