BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7653@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T230703Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/robert-iliffe-thousan d-fictions-cultism-and-delusional-metaphysics-newton-leibniz-disputes DESCRIPTION:
The rich philosophical and mathematical disputes that took p lace between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz at the start of the eighte enth century have received more historical attention than any other exchan ge in the history of philosophy. Nevertheless\, in this talk\, Robert Ilif fe discusses a prominent but neglected aspect of their disagreement\, name ly the mutual claim that their opponents’ conceptual foundations were fict ional\, and were the product both of diseased thinking and of illegitimate ly organized intellectual structures. Newton assailed Leibniz’s allegedly debased metaphysics in various prominent places\, and mobilized allies suc h as Roger Cotes and John Keill to do the same. Nevertheless\, by far the most sophisticated critique of illicit philosophical assumptions was launc hed against Newton by Leibniz in his correspondence with Samuel Clarke. In the Fifth letter to Clarke\, Leibniz identified core Newtonian positions as infantile\, vulgar\, and profoundly irreligious\, asserting that they w ere dangerous fictions that were less plausible and much less edifying tha n the rational romances of writers in the previous century. Although Leibn iz saved his most potent intellectual weapons for his final letter to Clar ke\, Robert Iliffe suggests that his attack on the fictional status of New ton’s work was no mere codicil to his general critique of Newton’s philoso phy\, but instead lay at the heart of it. This famous debate\, while of co urse somewhat sui generis\, is indicative of more general and dynamic feat ures of intellectual debate.
\nRobert Iliffe\, Professor of the Hist ory of Science at the University of Oxford
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T193000 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Robert Iliffe – ‘A Thousand Fictions’: Cultism and Delusional Metap hysics in the Newton-Leibniz Disputes URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/robert-iliffe-a-thousand -fictions-cultism-anrobert-iliffe-a-thousand-fictions-cultism-and-delusion al-metaphysics-in-the-newton-leibniz-disputesd-delusional-me/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7709@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T230703Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/art-brain-beholder DESCRIPTION:What can science teach us about how we perc eive and understand art? How can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this event\, the Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains and the artistic world\, finding connections and parall els between art and science.
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\nF ree and open to the public\, registration is required by January 28\, 2022. This e vent will also be live-streamed. Please email zucker maninstitute@columbia.edu with any questions.
\nThis talk is par t of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hosted b y Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Beh avior Institute and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation< /a>.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T190000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Art in the Brain of the Beholder URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/art-in-the-brain-of-the- beholder/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,mind\,neuroscience\,science X-TICKETS-URL:https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKso LFSuOXr1-x3rGT5g END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7740@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T230703Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/elly-truitt-structure -scientific-progress-case-roger-bacon DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the importance of the me dieval period and nineteenth-century medievalism to the invention of moder n science by placing the work of thirteenth-century Franciscan\, polymath\ , and scholastic natural philosopher Roger Bacon (ca. 1214-1292) into conv ersation with later scholars\, especially William Whewell (1794-1866). Ell y Truitt argues that Bacon’s work and reputation became central to a narra tive about the development of science that insisted on Europe as the only possible place of origin. Furthermore\, Truitt argues that this narrative was constructed\, in part\, by ignoring large parts of Bacon’s corpus and erasing his deep engagement with medieval scholars working in the Arabic t radition\, and by relying instead on a narrative structure that emerged in the context of late antique and medieval Christianity.
\nElly Truitt\, Associate P rofessor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylv ania
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\nThe current pandemic has focused attention on the techniques used by epidemiologists and other non-experimental scientists to infer ca usal hypotheses from correlational data. I have previously argued* that we need to explain these techniques by reducing causal relationships to depe ndencies in systems of structural equations with probabilistically indepen dent exogenous variables. In this talk I shall aim to use this account to cast light on (a) single-case counterfactual dependence and actual causati on\, (b) the content and practical relevance of generic causal claims like “smoking causes cancer”\, (c) the temporal asymmetry of causation\, and ( d) the proper understanding of rational action under risk.
\n*In par ticular\, I’ve argued this in http:/ /weebly-file/1/8/5/5/18551740/stat_nat_csn_monist.pdf. I will also be giving a talk on it at the CUNY Logic and Metaphysics workshop on Monday 7 March 1615-1815.
\nThe talk will be on Zoom. All are welcome to att end!
\nThe zoom link will be distributed through the MAPS mailing li st. If you are not on the MAPS mailing list and would like to receive the Zoom link for the talk\, please email nyphilsci@gmail.com.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T183000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Causal Structure of Reality\, David Papineau (KCL) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-causal-structure-of- reality-david-papineau-kcl/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:causality\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7759@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T230703Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/department-calendar DESCRIPTION:LTF Event: Olivia Bransc
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Fairness\, Objectivity\, and Grading
Multimodal Assessments.”
The representational theory of measurement provides a collec tion of results that specify the conditions under which an attribute admit s of numerical representation. The original architects of the theory inter preted the formalism operationally and explicitly acknowledged that some a spects of their representations are conventional. There have been a number of recent efforts to reinterpret the formalism to arrive at a more metaph ysically robust account of physical quantities. In this paper we argue tha t the conventional elements of the representations afforded by the represe ntational theory of measurement require careful scrutiny as one moves towa rd such an interpretation. To illustrate why\, we show that there is a sen se in which the very number system in which one represents a physical quan tity such as mass or length is conventional. We argue that this result doe s not undermine the project of reinterpreting the representational theory of measurement for metaphysical purposes in general\, but it does undermin e a certain class of inferences about the nature of physical quantities th at some have been tempted to draw.
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