Has perception evolved to trick us? Donald Hoffman, Maria Baghramian and Hilary Lawson debate whether seeing really is believing. Watch the full debate for free at https://iai.tv/video/the-reality-illusion
Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. His forthcoming book, 'The Case Against Reality', argues that perception doesn’t present things as they are but instead acts like a desktop interface enabling us to interact with the world.
Professor Maria Baghramian is head of University College Dublin's philosophy department. She is an expert on metaphysical relativism writing Relativism for the Problems of Philosophy series.
Hilary Lawson is a post-postmodern philosophy who calls for the post-Derridian return to metaphysics. He is author of 'Closure: A Story of Everything' and is the director of the Institute of Art and Ideas.
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