Ophelia Deroy
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
How do we know when to trust what we see, hear, or feel? Many philosophers say that if our senses work reliably, that’s enough to justify our beliefs. But this raises an immediate question: how can we know when our senses are reliable?
This talk explores a new answer. Studies from psychology and neuroscience tend to show that our general ideas regarding the reliability of our senses or even their specific workings are often biased or simply wrong. Looking closer, I suggest that we have good reasons to think that we have access to a comparative reliability of our senses, which is sufficient to give an internalist flavour to reliabilism, but also a social one.
Time: September 3rd, 10:00 – 11:30
Location: E.002
SOPhiA 2026 