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-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/curiosity-creativity- and-complexity DESCRIPTION:
How does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make deci sions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?
\nThe conference showcases cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscience and Psychology (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exp loration\, decision-making\, information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artificial intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic moti vation) and Economics (decision making and information demand). Alongside formal presentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions am ong faculty\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poste r presentations.
\nSubmissions for poster presentations and travel a wards are due February 15\, 2023. Please visit the call for submissions for complete requirements.
\nFree and open to the public. Registratio n is required and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow C olumbia’s COVID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to p rovide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email events@zi.colu mbia.edu with any questions.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230526 GEO:+40.816847;-73.957958 LOCATION:Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) @ 3227 Br oadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Curiosity\, Creativity and Complexity Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/curiosity-creativity-and -complexity-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,decision theory\,mind\,psych ology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7986@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2023/index.html DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) serie s has established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Bra in Informatics\, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplin ary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuros cience\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main pro blems that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatic s research.
\nThe 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) provides a premier international forum to bring together research ers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original res earch results\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and pr actical development experiences on brain Informatics research\, brain-insp ired technologies and brain/mental health applications.
\nThe key th eme of the conference is “Brain Science meets Artificial Intellige nce“.
\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research a nd application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
\nKeynote Speakers
\nMIT\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, USA
\nProfile: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at M assachusetts General Hospital (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience\, the Associate Director of t he Institute for Medical Engineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of on ly 19 individuals who has been elected to all three branches of the Nation al Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the fir st African American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all th ree National Academies.
\nProfessor Bin He
\nCarnegie Mellon University\, USA
\nProfile: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor of the Neur oscience Institute\, and Professor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. He has made significant res earch and education contributions to the field of neuroengineering and bio medical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noninvasive br ain-computer interface (BCI)\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pionee ring research has helped transforming electroencephalography from a 1-dime nsional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality. His la b demonstrated for the first time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinking about it using a noninvasive BCI. He is an el ected Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineerin g (IAMBE)\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMB E)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He served as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, t he Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering from 201 3-2018\, the Chair of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAIN Initiati ve Multi-Council Working Group from 2014-2019.
\nProfessor J ohn Ngai
\nNIH BRAIN Initiative\, USA
\nProfile
Professor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile
Professor Vinod Goel
\nYork Un iversity\, Canada
\nProfile: Vinod Goel is a profes sor of cognitive neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He co mpleted his PhD in cognitive science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoc toral training in neuroscience at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Departm ent of Cognitive Neurology\, Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has mad e significant empirical contributions to our understanding of the roles of prefrontal cortex in real-world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispher ic asymmetry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodologies of fMRI and lesion studies. He has most recently completed a book reconstructing the role of rationality in human behavior entitled “R eason and Less: Pursuing Food\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022) . His current project is to explore the implications of this work on our u nderstanding of reason and legal responsibility.
\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski
\nCornell University\, USA
\nProfile: Amy Kuceyeski is an Associate Professor of Mathematics an
d Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computationa
l Biology Department at Cornell University. She is the director of the Com
putational Connectomics (CoCo) Laboratory and the Machine Learning in Medi
cine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been working to un
derstand the human brain using quantitative modeling approaches\, includin
g machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological characteristics t
o behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains r
ecover from injury so we can devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive
neuromodulation\, to support natural recovery processes. She also perform
s research at the intersection of biological and artificial neural network
s that aims to understand how human brains process incoming visual informa
tion.
Professor Patrick Purdon
\nHarvard Me dical School\, USA
\nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, P h.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioen gineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College in 1996\, his M.S. in Electr ical Engineering from MIT in 1998\, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineerin g from MIT in 2005. Dr. Purdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthesia\, Alzheimer’s disease and brain health\, ane sthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the deve lopment of novel technologies for brain monitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications\, is an inventor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineer ing. Dr. Purdon has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious Natio nal Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award.
\nI mportant Dates
\nPaper Submission and Publ ications
\nFull Paper (Regular):
\n1. 9-12 pages are
strongly encouraged for the regular papers including figures and reference
s in Springer LNCS Proceedings format(https://www.springer.com/us/computer
-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Over length papers will
be charged for 100$ per page.
\n2. All papers will be peer-reviewed a
nd accepted based on originality\, significance of contribution\, technica
l merit\, and presentation quality.
\n3. All papers accepted (and all
workshop & special sessions’ full-length papers) will be published by Spr
inger as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Serie
s(https://link.springer.com/conference/brain).
Abstract (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions):
\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the ti tle of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.
\nJournal Opportunities:
\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-track review and publication at the Brain Inf ormatics Journal\, (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/) an interna tional\, peer-reviewed\, interdisciplinary Open Access journal published b y Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference paper authors.
\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:
\nWorkshop/special session organizers and BI confere nce session chairs may consider and can be invited to prepare a book propo sal of special topics for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/1 5148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal.
\n1. Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision .
\n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for aut hors of Brain Informatics conference (https://braininformatics.springerope n.com/).
\n3. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are i nvited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/spec ial session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Inf ormatics and Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
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https:/ /philevents.org/event/show/109301
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804 GEO:+40.744623;-74.025399 LOCATION:Stevens Institute of Technology @ 1 Castle Point Terrace\, Hoboken \, NJ 07030\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c onference-on-brain-informatics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfp\,cognitive science\,comm unication\,conference\,information\,mind\,neuroscience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8024@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/beyond-polarization-epistemic-distorti on-and-criticism DESCRIPTION:Individuals support forms of domination with varying levels of understanding that they are doing so. In many cases\, those very struct ures of domination distort our conceptions of them through mechanisms such as motivated reasoning\, implicit bias\, affected ignorance\, false consc iousness\, and belief polarization. These various epistemic distortions\, in turn\, cause social conflict\, notably by promoting political polarizat ion. Those worried by social conflict have spent a great deal of energy de crying the increasingly polarized contexts in which we live. However\, epi stemic distortions in our sociopolitical beliefs also misrepresent\, maint ain systems of domination and prevent human needs from being met.
\nThis workshop aims to go beyond pronouncements such as ‘we are polarized’ or that ‘partisanship is on the rise\,’ and begin to think through epistem ic distortions at the individual and intersubjective levels\, the role of criticism and critique in facilitating belief and social change\, and the idea of reconciliation\, by asking questions such as:
\nConvenors
\nEge Yumuşak is a philosopher\, specializing in epistemolo gy\, the philosophy of mind\, and social & political philosophy. She recei ved a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2022. Her research exam ines political disagreement—its material foundations\, psychological and s ocial manifestations\, and epistemic properties. She is currently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of clashes of perspect ive in social life.
\nNicolas Côté is a postdoctoral res earcher at the University of Toronto. His research is mainly in normative ethics and social choice theory\, but they also dabble in applied ethics a nd issues of practical rationality. Côté’s doctoral dissertation work focu ses on the measurement of freedom\, especially on axiomatic approaches to the measurement question\, and on how deontic concerns for protecting indi vidual rights interact with welfarist concerns for improving the general w elfare. Côté’s current research focuses on the ethics of decision-making u nder radical uncertainty.
\nInvited speakers:
\nSabina Vaccarino Bremner\; Daniela Dover\; Cain Shelley
\nInvited commentators
\nTBA
A number of authors have pointed out that the standard argum ents for perception’s having nonconceptual content tell us nothing about t he content of a state per se\, but only instead about the sorts of capacit ies a subject must have in order to be in some state (i.e.\, whether the s ubject need or need not possess the specifying concepts in order to be in some state). Others have argued in response that the only reason for two s tates to require different conceptual capacities of the subject is precise ly because they have different sorts of contents\, and so there is no subs tantive difference between a ‘content’ view and a ‘state’ view. Here\, I p resent evidence for states that do\, in fact\, share the same content but differ in the required conceptual capacities: exogenous perceptual states\ , and endogenous\, voluntarily produced perceptual states. I argue that th is functional difference—voluntary versus involuntary production—constitut es the difference in concept-dependence. I then look to three possibilitie s for how this claim could affect our understanding of the relationship be tween cognition and perception.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T180000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rebecca Keller – (Endogenous) Perceptual States are Conceptual @ Po PRocks URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rebecca-keller-endogenou s-perceptual-states-are-conceptual-poprocks/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:psychology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7709@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z 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.
\nPlease visit the event w ebpage to view the speaker list.
\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>.
\nTickets: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist er/WN_-TjKsoLFSuOXr1-x3rGT5g.
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-7719@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2021-20 22 DESCRIPTION:*Zoom link can be requested if you are not on the email list \, please send an email to ap3097@columbia.edu
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T180000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Jonathan Gilmore (CUNY & Baruch College): Feelings Fit for Fiction s and Imaginings URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/jonathan-gilmore-cuny-ba ruch-college-feelings-fit-for-fictions-and-imaginings/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7751@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/philosophy-library-virtual-20 220322 DESCRIPTION:How can we know what it’s like to be someone else? Cl assical Indian philosophers found the answer in theater\, arguing that it’ s not just a form of entertainment\, but a source of knowledge of other mi nds. In this talk\, I’ll explore how this theme is developed in Śrī Śaṅkuk a (c. 850 CE) and examine the reasons his views were rejected in the later tradition. I’ll argue that those reasons are unsound\, and that we can se e why by turning to contemporary studies of the relationship between knowl edge and luck.
\nJonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. M atilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical tradit ions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind\, metaphysics an d epistemology. His books include Attention\, Not Self (2017)\, a study of early Buddhist theories of attention\; The Concealed Art of the Soul (2012)\, an analysis of the idea of a search for one’s true self\; Virtual Subjects\, Fugitive Selves (2020)\, an analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s philosophy of self\; and Inwardness: An Outsiders’ Guide (2021)\, a review of the concept of inwardness in literature\, film\, poetry\, and philosophy across cultures. He joined the Fellowship o f the British Academy in 2015\, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanitie s the same year\, the only philosopher to do so.
\nThis series is cur ated and co-presented by Brooklyn Public Philosophers\, aka Ian Olasov.
\nBrooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience\, hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of t he best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions that matter to them.
\nIf you’re interested in finding out more\, or if you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian Olasov at his first and last name at gmail.com.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T204500 GEO:+40.672511;-73.9682 LOCATION:Info Commons Lab\, Brookly Public Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Justin Garson: On biological function and mental illness URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/justin-garson-on-biologi cal-function-and-mental-illness/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:biology\,mind\,psychology\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7774@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:THE COLUMBIA SOCI ETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
\nWelcomes you to an IN-PERSON meeting:
\n< p class='gmail-p2'>Allison Aitken (Columbia University)\n« A Case against Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology »< /p>\n
With responses from Ale xander Englert (Princeton University)
\nABSTRACT: There’s a c ommon line of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of consci ous experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary\ , Mādhyamika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh-eighth century) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus meta physically impossible. Lacking any unifying principle\, the phenomenal uni ty of conscious experience is instead an ungrounded illusion. In this talk \, I will present an analysis of Śrīgupta’s “neither-one-nor-many argument ” against mental simples and show how his line of reasoning is driven by a set of implicit questions concerning the nature of and relation between c onsciousness and its intentional object. These questions not only set the agenda for centuries of intra-Buddhist debate on the topic\, but they are also questions to which any defender of unified consciousness or a simple subject of experience arguably owes responses.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Case against Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology. All ison Aitken\, Columbia URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-case-against-simple-mi ndedness-srigupta-on-mental-mereology-allison-aitken-columbia/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7780@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.facebook.com/events/367424652118347 DESCRIPTION:
We have a fun (and free\, as always) event tonight a t 7:00 PM at Black Spring Books in Williamsburg! It’s a discussion of the life of the mi nd in fiction and philosophy with the philosopher Skye Cl eary (How to Be Authentic)\, the novelist Christ ine Smallwood (The Life of the Mind)\, and the novelist- physician-neurologist Melodie Winawer (Anticipation em>). If you’re interested in what intellectual life means\, the drama of ideas\, and the relationship between philosophy and literature\, this one’ s for you. If you can’t make it in person\, it will also be livestreamed < a href='https://tumblr.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=018703e0a02ad870 a2c15a5bf&id=c6c69769c4&e=098e9e90c8'>here.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T200000 GEO:+40.714442;-73.959471 LOCATION:Black Spring Books @ 672 Driggs Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11211\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The life of the mind in fiction and philosophy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-life-of-the-mind-in- fiction-and-philosophy/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:literature\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7863@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 29th\, 2022
\nChristina Van Dyke (
Barnard College)
\nTitle “I feel it in my fingers\, I feel it in my t
oes: Imaginative Meditation and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplati
ve Philosophy”
\n4:10-6:00 PM
\n716 Philosophy Hall
With responses from Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)
\nABSTRACT: Budd hist philosophers often draw a distinction between two different kinds of truth: conventional truth (saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-sa tya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinct ion in terms of an ontological distinction between two different kinds of entities: ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally rea l entities (saṃvṛti-sat). Similar to contemporary philosophical discussion s about ordinary objects\, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological st atus of conventional entities and the semantics of discourse concerning th em. Mark Siderits (2015\, 2021\, 2022) has influentially argued for an eli minitivist position he calls “Buddhist reductionism” that interprets the A bhidharma position as one that denies conventional entities exist but that retains discourse involving apparent reference to them. However\, in a re cent article Kris McDaniel (2019)\, a prominent defender of ontological pl uralism\, challenges that view by proposing that the Abhidharma Buddhist d istinction between conventional truth and ultimate truth be “defined up” f rom a more basic distinction between two different ways an entity can exis t: conventionally or ultimately. In this paper I argue that Saṃghabhadra’s account of conventional reality and truth does lends itself well to McDan iel’s proposal but I will also argue that the account of conventional and ultimate truth that results differs in important ways from the models he o ffers. I will end by offering a modification of McDaniel’s account of conv entional truth that is derived from Saṃghabhadra’s pluralist ontology. Tha t view will\, unlike the views suggested by both Siderits and McDaniel\, a llow for there to be ultimate truths about what is conventionally true.
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Dinner will be kindly offered by the Columbia University Seminars.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requirements at lm3335@columb ia.edu.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Gue rrero (William & Mary) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/buddhist-conventional-tr uth-and-ontological-pluralism-laura-p-guerrero-william-mary/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,metaphysics\,truth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7872@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:With responses from Timothy Connolly (East Stroudsburg University)
\nABSTRACT: Recent philosophical discussions on compassion focus on the value and the
nature of compassion as an emotion. Ancient Asian philosophical tradition
s such as Confucianism and Buddhism\, however\, emphasize compassion as a
character trait that should be nurtured. This paper examines the insights
drawn from these traditions to help inform the nurturing of compassion. Fo
r example\, is empathy a necessary tool? What is the role of love and car
e? Does self-reflection contribute to the process?
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Dinner will be kindly o ffered by the Columbia University Seminars.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requ irements at lm3335@columbia.edu.< span class='gmail-Apple-converted-space'>
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How to nurture compassion? Some lessons from Asian philosophical tr aditions. Sin Yee Chan (U Vermont) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-to-nurture-compassio n-some-lessons-from-asian-philosophical-traditions-sin-yee-chan-u-vermont/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,Confucianism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7888@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://events.nyas.org/event/aeb22abd-112e-4973-b86d-8a4a73b0c618/ websitePage:9772d97b-6260-4e47-bbfb-cbb109517975 DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic is said to be a once-in-a-century incident\, and it brought to us a sense of crisis at v arious levels. What is a crisis\, though? Can any unnerving moment or peri od be called a crisis\, or are there different dimensions of a crisis to w hich we need to be attentive? Is solidarity possible after experiencing a crisis like Covid-19? Can Buddhism make any contribution to facilitating s olidarity? This presentation explores the meaning and nature of a crisis a nd our responses to it by drawing on modern Korean political thinker Pak C h’iu’s (1909–1949) analysis of crisis and feminist-Buddhist thinker Kim Ir yŏp’s (1896–1971) Buddhist philosophy. By doing so\, this presentation con siders what social\, political\, existential\, and even religious meaning we can draw from our experience of crises\, and what questions these insig hts present to us.
\nWith responses from Karsten Struhl (John Jay College of Criminal Ju stice\, CUNY)
\nPresented by THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
\nRSVP is required for dinne r. If you would like to participate in our dinner\, a $30 fee is requi red. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for further information.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Crisis and a Question of Solidarity. Jin Y. Park (Ame rican) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-of-crisis-and -a-question-of-solidarity-jin-y-park-american/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,existentialism\,Korean\,politi cal\,religion\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7978@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:
In Sanskrit epistemology\, philosoph ers are preoccupied with the notion of pramā. A pramā\, roughly\, is a men tal event of learning or knowledge-acquisition. Call any such mental event a knowledge-event. In A Confection of Refutation (Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya)\, the 12th century philosopher and poet Śrīharṣa argued that knowledge-even ts are indefinable. Any satisfactory (and therefore non-circular) definiti on of knowledge-events will have to include an anti-luck condition that do esn’t appeal back to the notion of learning or knowledge-acquisition itsel f. But there is no such anti-luck condition. What is novel about Śrīharṣa’ s argument is that it is motivated by his commitment to a certain “knowled ge first” approach to epistemology: the view that knowledge-events are epi stemically prior to other non-factive mental states and events. On this vi ew\, when we are trying to determine whether an agent has undergone a know ledge-event\, we don’t initially ascribe to them some other non-factive me ntal event\, and then check if that event meets some further conditions (l ike truth or reliability) necessary for it to count as a knowledge-event\; rather\, we treat certain mental events by default as knowledge-events un til a defeater comes along. Surprisingly\, Śrīharṣa argues that this kind of “knowledge first” epi stemology should give us reason to doubt whether our ordinary attributions of knowledge-events are reliably tracking any sui generis psychological k ind. In this talk\, I reconstruct Śrīharṣa’s position.
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\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 10027 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Śrīharṣa on the Indefinability of Knowledge. Nilanjan Das (U Toront o) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/srihar%e1%b9%a3a-on-the- indefinability-of-knowledge-nilanjan-das-u-toronto/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative\,epistemology\,Indian END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8003@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:
When someone is in a conscious state\, must they be aware of that state? The Buddhist philosopher Dignāga offers a brilliant route to answering this question by leveraging the role awareness might play as a constraint on memory. I begin by clarifying his strategy and what conclus ions it might be used to establish. Here I examine different candidate di rections of explanation between consciousness and inner awareness. I inte rpret the metaphor of consciousness as a lamp that lights itself\, and use the metaphor to distinguish between his view and contemporary higher-orde r theories of consciousness. I then turn to explain why the memory argume nt fails. The first main problem is that\, contrary to Dignāga’s contempo rary defenders\, there is no good way to use the argument to reach a concl usion about all conscious states. The second main problem is that the pro posed awareness constraint on memory is highly problematic\, in tension bo th with ancient objections as well as current psychology.
\nWith res ponses from Lu Teng (NYU Shanghai)
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Speak\, Memory: Dignāga\, Consciousness\, and Awareness. Nicholas S ilins (Cornell) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/speak-memory-dignaga-con sciousness-and-awareness-nicholas-silins-cornell/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative\,consciousness\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8025@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/designing-space DESCRIPTION:How do we experience space? And what does this mean for the spaces we design? We explore these questions by bringing together speakers from Architecture\, Neuroscience\, and Virtual Reality\, with two specifi c aims: First\, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn from each other\, as two distinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spatial experience has long been a central question of Architecture\, Virt ual Reality is only beginning to grapple with these questions\, as technol ogy transitions from 2D screens to 3D spatial interfaces. Second\, we expl ore the nature of spatial experience itself\, with two approaches to under standing the human mind. Whilst contemporary Architecture is influenced by Philosophy (specifically the “Phenomenological” tradition)\, the tools of Neuroscience are increasingly being applied to questions of Architecture as well. Through this multidisciplinary exchange we hope to deepen our und erstanding of spatial experience\, and how it informs the physical and vir tual spaces we design.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required via Eventbrite. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link from Eventbrite. Please email presidentialscholars@columbia.edu with any questions.
\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series . Co-sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advance d Studies in America and the Zuckerman Instit ute at Columbia University.
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilitie s. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at le ast 10 days in advance of the event. For more information\, please visit t he campus accessibility webpage.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T200000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Havemeyer Hall (Room 309) & Online @ 116th and Broadway\, New York \, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Designing Space URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/designing-space/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind\,neuroscience\,phenomenology X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-space-tickets-68176088 4157 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8078@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Yogācāra Buddhists articulated in the 3-5th c. CE India an explicit model of how we collectively\, yet mostly unconsciously\, constru ct our shared social realities\, our cultures. These “worlds” are supporte d by cognitive processes informed by cultural influences occurring outside our conscious awareness\, in the “store-house consciousness” (ālaya-vijñā na). Through development and socialization\, we come to identify with thes e cultural norms\, thinking “I am this” and “this is mine.” Moreover\, and in agreement with cognitive scientists\, Yogācārins argue that humans hav e developed to be “innate essentialists\,” so that we imagine that our con structed social and cultural identities have their own essential\, intrins ic characteristics\, set apart from all others\, generating the “us/them” dichotomies that underlie conflicts between groups. We can counteract thes e harmful patterns\, Yogācārins say\, by analyzing how our social and cult ural “realities” are collectively constructed\, and by showing how—through logical\, psychological\, and contemplative exercises—we may weaken our u nreflective\, knee-jerk reaction to different peoples and cultures\, and t hereby foster more tolerance\, empathy and understanding for all beings. I n sum\, Yogācāra Buddhism offers a rigorous and nuanced analysis of the or igins of our prejudices and a set of methods to overcome them\, rooted in ancient traditions yet relevant to contemporary issues.
\nWith re sponses from Jonathan Gold (Princeton University)
\nDA TE: October 13th\, 2023
\nTIME: 5:30 pm EST
\nLO CATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, Columbia University
\n1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUM BIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early wher e someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in or contact Cole a t cf27 98@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as no t to interrupt the talk.
\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nMatthew Boyle works on topics in the philosophy of mind and on some issues in the history of philosophy. In the former area\, he has b een especially concerned with the question of how we know our own minds an d with debates about the scope and limits of such knowledge. He is present ly at work on a book called The Significance of Self-Consciousness (under contract with Oxford University Press) on the distinction between rational and nonrational minds\, the connection between rationality and t he capacity for first-person awareness of one’s own cognitive activity\, a nd the continuing relevance of these topics to contemporary debates in phi losophy and psychology.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/matthew-boyle-university -of-chicago/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8105@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:The first section of the talk will give an account of the Hi ndu-Buddhist debate about the existence of selves. The particular Hindu / Brāhmaṇical tradition concentrated on is Nyāya\, and ‘Buddhism’ is used t o refer specifically to Dharmakīrtian Buddhism with its doctrine of moment ariness. The second section looks at a Nyāya argument against Buddhism. I will argue that it is not difficult for the Buddhist to come up with a s atisfactory response. The third section will introduce the view of Rāmaka ṇṭha (950–1000 CE) and look at three of his arguments against the Buddhist view. These I view as more difficult for the Buddhist to respond to. Th e fourth section introduces the view of Galen Strawson\, relates it to the Buddhist view\, and considers the extent to which it is susceptible to Rā makaṇṭha’s arguments.
\nWith responses from Martin Lin (Ru tgers University)
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: b>The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you ca n ask someone walking nearby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.ed u. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
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\nComparative Philosophy Semina r:
\nHow doe s the imagination change us? Why should picturing ourselves a certain way have any real effect on what we are? These questions are central to debate s in Buddhist tantric literature regarding the generation stage (utpatt ikrama)\, wherein practitioners visualize themselves as buddhas enscon sed in magnificent mandala-palaces. For some\, this practice is what sets Buddhist tantra apart: through this “yoga of the imagination\,” as David S hulman puts it\, a practitioner can achieve buddhahood in a single lifetim e. And yet\, as the Buddhist tantric author Indrabhūti (8th century) argue s\, a pauper who imagines himself to be a king does not thereby become one —so\, in the same way\, practitioners who visualize themselves as buddhas will not thereby become buddhas. The mental imagery (ākāra) involve d in this practice is just so much unreal fabrication. Why should it have real transformative effects? I’ll consider here how these debates played o ut in Sanskrit Buddhist tantric texts from the 10th–11th centuries. I’ll f ocus on early authors in the Kālacakra tradition\, who upheld Indrabhūti’s critique of the generation stage\, and authors like Ratnākaraśānti\, Vāgī śvarakīrti\, and Advayavajra (aka Maitrīpa)\, who each in their own way cr itiqued mental imagery yet defended the importance and effectiveness of ge neration-stage practice. In the first part of the paper\, I’ll consider ar guments against mental imagery as these appear in generation-stage practic e texts and the early Kālacakra tradition. In the second part\, I’ll turn to why we might think unreal mental imagery can nevertheless have real tra nsformative effects\, paying special attention to the ways Buddhist tantri c authors writing in Sanskrit take up ideas from the tradition of dramatic theory (nāṭyaśastra) and Sanskrit culture more broadly.
\n\n\n\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T193000 GEO:+40.807717;-73.961428 LOCATION:East Gallery\, Maison Française @ Buell Hall\, 515 W 116th St\, Ne w York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machin es from Descartes to the Digital Age URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-artificial-history-of -natural-intelligence-thinking-with-machines-from-descartes-to-the-digital -age/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:agency\,mind\,technology X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-artificial-history-of-natural -intelligence-david-bates-tickets-794696587887?aff=oddtdtcreator END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR\n\n\n\n\nW ith responses from Thomas Yarnall (Columbia University)
\n div>\nDATE: February 2nd\, 2024 p>\n
TIME: 5:30 pm EST
\nLOCATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, Columbia University
\n1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T193000 GEO:+40.811099;-73.962729 LOCATION:Columbia Religion @ 80 Claremont Ave\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mental Imagery\, Tantric Practice\, and the Drama of the Imaginatio n. Davey K. Tomlinson (Villanova) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mental-imagery-tantric-p ractice-and-the-drama-of-the-imagination-davey-k-tomlinson-villanova/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,imagination END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8107@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T012357Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age DESCRIPTION:- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n- February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova Univ ersity)
\n- April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham University)
\n- M ay 3 – Daniel Stephens (University at Buffalo)
\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n David Bates\, in conversation with Stefanos Geroulano and Joanna Stalnaker
\nWe imagine that w e are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet a utomatic. This entanglement\, according to David W. Bates\, emerged in the seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing\, Bates reveals how time and time again technological developments offered new wa ys to imagine how the body’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s auto nomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought\, David Bates discusses his new book\, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence\, which offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on tec hnology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural\, outside origin.
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\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rheto ric at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the history of legal and political ideas\, and the relationship between techno logy\, science\, and the history of human cognition.Stefa nos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Prof essor of European Intellectual History at NYU. He usually writes about con cepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and science s of human origins since 1770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as Th e Invention of Prehistory: Empire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Huma n Origins in 2024.
\nJoanna Stalnaker< /strong> is Professor of French at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment ph ilosophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the E nlightenment. Her new book\, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philos ophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in t he Walpole series.
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