Abstract
Heuristics are “cheap and dirty” or “fast and frugal” ways of answering questions, reliable enough to be useful but not perfectly reliable. They are recognized as playing a major role in human cognition. I will discuss some general heuristics on which we unconsciously rely in philosophy, which may be responsible for philosophical paradoxes and errors in something like the way that heuristics built into our visual systems are responsible for visual illusions.
Lunch (sandwiches, fruit and pastries) will be provided from 12:00. The talk starts at 12:15.
All welcome!