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-7724@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/politicalconcepts10thanniversary DESCRIPTION:
A conference celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Politi cal Concepts Journal.
\nFriday\, February 4th
\n1:30 – Lay of the Land
\nAnn Stoler
\nJacques Lezra
\nJ.
M. Bernstein
\nMichael Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel I
\nEm
ily Apter – Ecosophy
\nAxelle Karera – Anthropocene
\nModerator:
J.M. Bernstein
4:30 – 6:30 – Panel II
\nJacques Lezra – Cop<
br />\nRocío Zambrana – Coloniality
\nModerator: Susan Buck-Morss
Saturday\, February 5th
\n11:00 – 1:00 – Panel
III
\nÉtienne Balibar – Communism
\nNeni Panourgiá – Dis-Contin
uities
\nModerator: Michael Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel IV
\nBarbara Nagel – Domestic Violence
\nAndreas Kalyvas – Oligarchy\nModerator: Emily Apter
4:30 – 6:30 – Panel V
\nAdi Ophi
r – Divine Violence
\nAbou Farman – Terminality
\nModerator: Ann
Stoler
Registered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.
\nPresented by the Philosophy Department and Anthropology Department at The New School for Social Research.
\nNYU/ Columbia Annual Graduate Conference
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220402 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220403 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:NYU/ Columbia Annual Graduate Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nyu-columbia-annual-grad uate-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7763@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:Since Plato\, western philosophy ha s been set down a path paved by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed ma terial bodies\, and delimited aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environments separated from the natural world. Such exclu sions have left philosophy ill-equipped to deal with the various environme ntal crises we currently face\, as economic rationality and utilitarian lo gic further de-animate the world and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environment” often\, and ironically\, brings with it im plicit anthropocentric assumptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separat ing\, the human as independent from the surrounding world and reinforcing the human/nature divide. As a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature” and “environment” may make us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than address\, climate change and other environmental catastrophes. To avoid a mbiguities and clarify our understanding\, we must ask: what role does Nat ure play within our theories and practices concerning so-called Environmen tal Philosophy? Furthermore\, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broaden our understanding of “environment” to includ e a more robust conceptualization of the natural world and how the human b eing ought to be contextualized within it?
\nThis conference asks ho w we might reorient the language and practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequately respond to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propose a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “n ature\,” and “environment\,” as well as the reciprocal relations that cons titute them. To recognize humans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the material\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play i n our attempts to construct\, understand\, and preserve our environment(s) . How should we make sense of our practices and our relations to those wit h whom we share our surroundings? How can we re-situate the human with/in the environment? Do we have the right tools to guide these investigations? How might philosophy look beyond itself—to literature\, architecture\, mu sic\, film\, design—to better bring Environment\, and thus the world\, int o view? In the spirit of this\, we invite paper as well as project submiss ions from current graduate students in any discipline.
\nPos sible Topics:
\n● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Consi dering Beauty + the Sublime
\n● Environmental Justice + Resto rative Justice + Transformative Justice
\n● Environmental Eth ics + Sustainable Practices
\n● Diversity + Biodiversity
\n● Capitalism and Climate
\n● Eco-phenomenology
\n● Eco-deconstruction
\n● Environmental Racism/Ra cist Environments
\n● Ecofeminist conceptions of nature
\n● Land Rights and Property Relations
\n● Posthumani sm + Object Ontologies
\n● Afrofuturism + Technological Utopi as
\n● Environmental Ethics In Narratives
\n● Ma stery of Nature in Philosophy
\n● Anarcho-primitivism
\n● Queer and Trans Ecologies
\n● Local and Global Ecol ogies
\n● Regionalisms and Globalisms in the Ecological Imagi nation
\n\n
Confirmed Conference Key notes:
\nSandra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York< /p>\n
Emanuele Coccia\, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EH ESS)\, Paris
\nDates and Location:
\nThis con ference will be held at the New School for Social Research in New York Cit y from Thursday\, April 14\, to Saturday\, April 16. While we (tentatively ) plan to hold the conference primarily in-person we would also like to pr ovide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to participate remotely. Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all participants and att endees are invited to participate in a conference hike in Cold Spring\, NY (about an hour and a half north of NYC and accessible by the Metro North commuter train).
\nCall for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\nPlease submit complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abs tract of 250 words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or PDF to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com. Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information from the body of the paper. In your email please include your name\, affiliation\, and paper t itle. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15.
\nPlease submit a project description (Word Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com\, as well as:
\nFor Visual Arts projects: submit 5 images of your work as .jpeg.
\nFor P erforming Arts projects: submit video/ audio of your work in .mp4 format p>\n
Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any ide ntifying information. In your email please include your name\, affiliation \, and project title. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 1 5.
\nIf you have any questions please email WithInEnvironments@gmail.com
\n\n\n
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Eva Bockenheimer . Frederica Gre goratto . Thimo Heisenberg . Axel Honneth . Rahel Jaeggi . Gal Katz . Frederick Neuhouser . Andreja Novak ovic . Angelica Nuzzo . Johanne s-Georg Schülein . Italo Testa
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220424 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:First Nature in Social Philosophy Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/first-nature-in-social-p hilosophy-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7707@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/2021-2022 DESCRIPTION:Eva Bockenheimer. Frederica Gregoratto. Thimo Heisenberg. Ax
el Honneth. Rahel Jaeggi. Gal Katz. Frederick Neuhouser. Andreja Novakovic
. Angelica Nuzzo. Johannes-Georg Schülein. Italo Testa.
\nApril 22-23
Time TBA
\n*In-person event
Keynote speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil\, Asso
ciate Professor of Philosophy\, University of Pittsburgh
\nLocation:
Zoom
\nOrganizers: Giovanni and Joe Han
\nPlease email questions
to columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com
*Link can be requested if you are not on the email list\, pl ease send an email to ap3097@columbia.edu
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220428 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Dewey Lectures: Elizabeth Anderson (U Michigan) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/dewey-lectures-elizabeth -anderson-u-michigan/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7873@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/politicsandmemory DESCRIPTION:11:00am: Cinzia Arruzza and James Dodd\, Greetings and Intro duction
\n\n
Part 1. Celebrating Ross Poole
\n\n
11:05-12:35am: Ben Nienass\, “The Force of Memory” and Basak Ertur\, “Lea rning to Live with Ghosts”
\n\n
12:35-12:40 pm: Coffee Break< /p>\n
\n
12:40-1:30 pm: Roundtable Discussion
\n\n
P articipants:
\nOmri Boehm\, Lynne Segal and Mick Taussig
\np>\n
1:30-3:30 pm: Lunch Break
\n\n
Part 2. Celebrating Ber nard Flynn
\n\n
3:30-6:00pm: Roundtable Discussion on the Wor k of Bernard Flynn
\n\n
Participants:
\nPeg Birmingham\ , James Dodd\, Frank Chouraqui\, and Simon Critchley
\n\n
Ext ernal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors .
\n\n
Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 va ccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/ politicsandmemory#rsvp.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221008 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Politics and Memory. Celebrating Bernard Flynn and Ross Poole URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/politics-and-memory-cele brating-bernard-flynn-and-ross-poole/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/politicsandmemory#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7874@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought DESCRIPTION:9:30am EST OPENING REMARKS
\n< strong>Scott Shushan\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy \, Sarah Lawrence College
\nDr. Renée T. White\, Pr ovost and Professor of Sociology\, The New School
\nAlice Cr ary\, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research
\n9:45-11:15 PHILOSOPHY AS PE DAGOGY
\nKaren Ng (moderator)\, Assoc
iate Professor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt University
\nRoy Be
n-Shai\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence Colle
ge
\nMegan Craig\, Associate Professor of Philosophy
\, Stony Brook University
\nJudith Friedlander\, Pro
fessor Emerita of Anthropology\, Hunter College\, and former Dean of The N
ew School for Social Research
11:30-1:00 PHILOSOPHY AN D THE PUBLIC GOOD
\nSimona Forti (mod
erator)\, Professor of Political Philosophy\, Scuola Normale Superiore\, P
isa\, Italy
\nAxel Honneth\, Jack C. Weinstein Profe
ssor for the Humanities\, Columbia University
\nPhilip Kitche
r\, John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy\, Columbia Univer
sity
\nJoel Whitebook\, Professor\, Columbia Univers
ity Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
1: 00–2:00pm Lunch Break
\n2:00 REFLECTION
\nCinzia Arruzza\, Associate P rofessor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research
\nDavi
d Clinton Wills (moderator)\, Professor\, New York University-Gal
latin
\nMaría Pía Lara\, Professor and Researcher\,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
\nChiara Bottici\
, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Gender and Sexuality S
tudies\,The New School for Social Research
\nLucius Outlaw\, Jr.\, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt Univers
ity
\nCharles Taylor\, Professor Emeritus of Philoso
phy\, McGill University
4:05-5:35 DEMOCRACY AS A TASK BEFO RE US
\nDmitri Nikulin (moderator)\, Profe
ssor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research
\nSey
la Benhabib\, Eugene Meyer Professor of Philosophy and Political
Science. Emerita\, Yale University and Senior Research Fellow\, Columbia L
aw School and Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Theory
\n
\nNancy Fraser\
, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science\, The
New School for Social Research
Organized by Marcia Mo rgan and Scott Shushan in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/alifei nthought#rsvp.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221015 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall @ 63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A LIFE IN THOUGHT: A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS IN CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-life-in-thought-a-seri es-of-conversations-in-celebration-of-the-life-and-work-of-richard-j-berns tein/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7899@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/faculty-conferences-worksho ps DESCRIPTION:Kitcherfest In honor of John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Phi losophy Philip Kitcher
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221116 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Faculty Room\, Lowe Library @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Kitcherfest In honor of John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Philip Kitcher URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/kitcherfest-in-honor-of- john-dewey-professor-emeritus-of-philosophy-philip-kitcher/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7893@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/104578 DESCRIPTION:Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisci plinary\, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focuse d on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meani ng in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept\, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated.
\nFrom this forum for engaged scholarship\ , a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversa tion and constructive debate\, including last year’s Political Concepts Gr aduate Conference. Organized by students of the Departments of Anthropolog y\, Philosophy\, and Politics at the New School for Social Research\, Poli tical Concepts invites graduate students from all fields of study to parti cipate in our upcoming graduate student conference in Spring 2023. Held at NSSR over March 24-5\, the conference will serve as a workshop of ideas o n the multiplicity of powers\, structures\, problems\, and orientations th at shape our collective life.
\nBecause Political Concepts does not predetermine what does or does not count as political\, the conference wel comes essays that fashion new political concepts or demonstrate how concep ts deserve to be taken as politically significant. Papers should be dedica ted to a single political concept\, like an encyclopedia entry\, but the a nalysis of the concept does not have to abide to traditional approaches. S ome of the concepts contended with in last year’s vibrant conference inclu ded abolition\, survival\, statistics\, solitude\, resentment\, statistics \, dependence\, imaginary\, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published papers on thePolitical Concepts website.
\nThe confer ence will take the format of a series of panels across two days. Panels wi ll contain two presenters whose papers are thematically and theoretically related — creating a space for critical engagement between the authors\, a s well as with other attendees. Each presenter will have 25 minutes to pre sent their paper\, along with 40 minutes for discussion at the end. This y ear\, there will be a faculty roundtable with NSSR professors serving on t he Political Concepts editorial board\, namely\, Ann Laura Stoler\, Jay M. Bernstein\, and Andreas Kalyvas.
\nAbstracts should be no longer th an 750 words in a pdf format\, and prepared for blind review\, so please e nsure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Ab stracts must be submitted through this google form by December 15\, 2022 E ST. Any inquiries can be sent to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.
\nApplicants must be advanced graduate students and their concept must be a central part of a longer-term project in order to be accepted. Results wil l be informed in January.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230326 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:New School tbd @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Political Concepts Graduate Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/political-concepts-gradu ate-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7974@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/visualphicon/ DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosoph y and the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of humanities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wide variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines\, including paintin g\, photography\, and literature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion . Rather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study\, this co nference will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philos ophy and art\, exploring how each can become the object of the other and h ow the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpene d or blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the “visual” and “move ment” element in art of\, and in everyday life and theorize it – both phil osophically and critically.
\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for Social Research and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; U niversity Student Senate and Graduate Faculty Student Senate
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New York City.
\nOn March 24th\, we will meet i n room B500 at 65 W 11 Street.
\nOn March 25th\, we will meet in Sta rr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).
\nF ollowing is the schedule for both days\, (please see the website for detai ls on panels and speakers):
\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker presentations .
\n12:00 pm Panel 1 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n1:15 pm Lu nch break.
\n2:15 pm Panel 2 Speaker presentations.
\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n4:30 pm Evening reception wit h free food and drinks for attendees!
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230325 GEO:+40.735247;-73.997488 LOCATION:B500 @ The New School for Liberal Arts\, 65 W 11th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Visual Philosophy Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/visual-philosophy-confer ence/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,art\,literature END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7975@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/visualphicon/ DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosoph y and the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of humanities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wide variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines\, including paintin g\, photography\, and literature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion . Rather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study\, this co nference will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philos ophy and art\, exploring how each can become the object of the other and h ow the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpene d or blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the “visual” and “move ment” element in art of\, and in everyday life and theorize it – both phil osophically and critically.
\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for Social Research and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; U niversity Student Senate and Graduate Faculty Student Senate
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New York City.
\nOn March 24th\, we will meet i n room B500 at 65 W 11 Street.
\nOn March 25th\, we will meet in Sta rr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).
\nF ollowing is the schedule for both days\, (please see the website for detai ls on panels and speakers):
\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker presentations .
\n12:00 pm Panel 1 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n1:15 pm Lu nch break.
\n2:15 pm Panel 2 Speaker presentations.
\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n4:30 pm Evening reception wit h free food and drinks for attendees!
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230326 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center @ 63 5th Ave\, Ne w York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Visual Philosophy Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/visual-philosophy-confer ence-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,art\,literature END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7877@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/103578 DESCRIPTION:The New School for Social Research Philosophy Department is hosting our annual Graduate Student Conference Ap ril 13-15th 2023 in person in New York City.
\nThis year’s topic is Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries\, Narratives\, and the Poss ibility of Politics.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nMaría Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
\nFanny Söderbäck (Södertörn University)
\nEva Von R edecker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
\nIt has become co mmon for political theorists and philosophers to insist on the necessity o f new imaginaries and narratives. Crises of authority\, financial meltdown s\, and environmental disasters compel us to look for alternative framewor ks and practices. While the urgency of this claim is undeniable\, the conc eptual ground for the creation of new imaginaries and narratives is still unclear. How do we define imaginaries and narratives in relation to our po litical and social life? How can they become normative and generate concep tual and practical shifts? And who is in a position to shape\, direct\, an d take ownership of these emergent conceptions?
\nThis conference fo cuses on the current debate on political imaginaries and narratives to inv estigate some of these questions. As a starting point\, we propose to chal lenge standard Marxist or epistemological approaches to the topic that eit her interpret imaginaries and narratives as ideological projections (a pro duct of false consciousness) or merely as individual\, cognitive faculties . Rather\, we suggest thinking about imaginaries and narratives as larger sensuous and embodied practices that re-orient material structures of domi nation and allow for a reflective rearticulation of collective demands. In particular\, we set out to clarify: the meaning of “imaginaries” and/or “ narratives” as forms of sense-making\; their ability to shift existing dis courses and power relations\; the way in which they foster different ways of feeling\, seeing\, acting-in\, and experiencing the world in a time of crisis\; the way in which they are embedded in artistic and literary pract ices\; and the way in which they address—or fail to address—marginalized s ubjects.
\nWe invite papers that focus on the concepts of “social im aginary” and “narrative\,” as well as on the connection between the two\, and on their political and ethical implications. It is our conviction that a critical understanding of these concepts can only emerge from attending to how they are practically embodied and situated in our practices. In th is spirit\, we welcome\, in addition to papers aimed at conceptual clarifi cation\, papers that provide specific accounts of alternative forms of pra xis\, including (but not limited to) leftist\, feminist\, anti-racist\, de colonial\, abolitionist\, indigenous\, environmentalist\, and utopian imag inaries and narratives.
\nWe are accepting submissions of up to
Please contact socialimaginarynarrative@gmail.com with any queries or subm issions.
\nThe deadline is January 3rd\, 2023
\nA conference hosted by the Motherhood and Technology Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference on the theme of “Conception and Its Discontents.”
\nMedical technologies have radically transformed the biological and social experience of motherhood. Advances in genomic an d reproductive care\, the circulation of novel kinship structures\, the en trenchment of existing global networks of power and privilege\, and the po litics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation.
\nTechnological advancements have in particular impacted not just the under standing of conception\, but the very process by which a human embryo is c reated\, implanted\, and matured. Egg freezing\, embryo storage\, IVF\, an d surrogacy afford women new freedoms in choosing when and how to become m others\, while also raising troubling questions about the pressures of cap italism and the extension of worklife\, as well as the global inequalities present in the experience of motherhood. In addition\, technologies have arisen allowing for unprecedented control over not just who becomes a moth er\, but what kind of embryo is allowed to be implanted and to grow. Techn ologies such as CRISPR and NIPT have re-introduced the question of eugenic s\, radically shifting the very epistemology of motherhood and what it mea ns to be “expecting.” And contemporary abortion debates draw on technology in order to make arguments both for and against access\, with imaging tec hnologies being instrumentalized in the building of a sympathetic case for the unborn\, and the very notion of a “heartbeat bill” reliant on the mis reading of technologies for measuring fetal activity.
\nWhile these problems are urgent today\, questions of conception and technology are by no means recent developments. The 18th century saw a flourishing of philos ophical and scientific theories regarding the start of human life and its formation within the womb. Such theories relied on modern technologies\, s uch as autopsy\, to atomize and visualize the body. In the 19th and 20th c enturies\, eugenic medical science produced theories of reproductive diffe rence between differing racial and social groups\, leading to forced steri lization laws in both the US and in Germany. This long history of racializ ing the rhetoric of fertility and motherhood continues to influence politi cal debates on immigration and demographic changes in the present.
\nFull conference details and schedule to come.
\nPleas
e email disability@columbia.edu
a> to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to ar
range for some accessibility needs
\n
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-8048@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a series of keynote presentations as part of the 2023 Institute for Philosophy and New Humanities: Mind-Dependent Artifact s: Artifact-Dependent Minds.
\nArtifacts are a primary object of stu dy in the humanities. They are products and\, thus\, manifestations of hum an thought\, action\, and self-determination without which they cannot be understood. At the same time\, human mindedness depends on artifacts\, and as well as other objects – a dependence that is manifest in the form of a rtifacts. Human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are therefore inte rtwined in complex ways.
\nOur Fall institute meeting 2023 Institute will consider ways in which human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are dialectically intertwined. Of special interest will be automatically or mechanically produced artifacts\, and AI systems as artifacts that are neither inert causal models of human thinking nor independently minded ent ities. The ontology of such products thus needs to be calibrated in light of their contribution to the deep diversity of the mutual dependence of mi ndedness and artifacts. Some questions our seminar will address include: H ow do AI-research and AI-systems structure and restructure the historical\ , diverse articulation of human mindedness? How does our understanding of these and other artifacts shape our self-conception at the most fundamenta l level?
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We will explore these issues in the ontology\, epistemology\, and humanistic study of AI and other artifacts together wit h distinguished keynote speakers:
\nMonday\, September 11\, 4pm
\nHans Ulrich Gumbrecht: UNFOLDING A FUZZY FUTURE? Dimensions for
Thinking about “Singularity”
Tuesday\, Septembe
r 12\, 10am
\nCameron Buckner: Understanding Progress in AI U
sing Empiricist Philosophy of Mind
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Wednesday\, Se
ptember 13\, 3pm
\nKanta Dihal
Wednesday\, S
eptember 13\, 5pm
\nDavid Chalmers: Forum Hu
manum Lecture
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Thursday\, September 14\, 4pm
\nNandi Theunissen: Rethinking Regress Arguments for the Value of
Humanity
Friday\, September 15\, 4pm
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Tickets: https://event.newsc hool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230911 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230916 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall (UL102) @ 63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mind-dependent-artifacts -artifact-dependent-minds/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8039@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/113918 DESCRIPTION:Tickets: https://forms.gle/rzEaVneRo3ohK5nu9.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230923 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230925 GEO:+40.806777;-73.960523 LOCATION:Columbia Law School @ 435 W 116th St\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Twin Conferences in Tribute to The Philosophy of Joseph Raz URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/twin-conferences-in-trib ute-to-the-philosophy-of-joseph-raz/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,legal\,value X-TICKETS-URL:https://forms.gle/rzEaVneRo3ohK5nu9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8024@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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
How does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape objectivity?
\nWelcome to “Unmasking Object ivity: A Critical Examination of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structures\,” a conference that plunges into the intric ate relationship between knowledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemological standpoints intersect with systems of coercio n\, marginalization\, and oppression. Our topic extends to alternative vis ions of knowledge\, truth\, and learning\, offering the potential for shar ed beliefs while addressing the adverse impacts of entrenched power struct ures.
\nHow have claims to absolute\, objective\, or scientific trut h driven oppression through ideologies like religious absolutism\, colonia lism\, technocracy\, and scientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debate s further emphasize the significance of this intersection.
\nOur dis course will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether univer salist epistemologies privilege specific knowledge systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on social and political issues o verlooked by dominant knowledge frameworks through inclusive dialogues. Th is conference fosters critical exploration and inclusive discourse\, drawi ng on interdisciplinary studies in philosophy\, sociology\, and political theory.
\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical implications of our epistemological practices and explore pathways to creating more equitable systems of knowledge and social learning. Join us at “Unmasking Objectivit y” as we navigate the intricate web of knowledge and power\, aiming for a just and inclusive future where the notion of objectivity is both scrutini zed and harnessed for social transformation.
\n\n\n\nPolitical Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisci plinary\, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focuse d on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meani ng in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept\, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated.
\nFrom this forum for engaged scholarship\ , a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversa tion and constructive debate\, including its Graduate Conference at the Ne w School for Social Research organized by students of the Departments of A nthropology\, Economics\, Philosophy\, Politics\, and Sociology. Political Concepts invites graduate students from all fields of study to participat e in our upcoming conference in Spring 2024. Held at NSSR over March 29-30 \, the conference will serve as a workshop of ideas on the multiplicity of powers\, structures\, problems\, and orientations that shape our collecti ve life.
\nBecause Political Concepts does not predetermine what doe s or does not count as political\, the conference welcomes essays that fas hion new political concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be take n as politically significant. Papers should be dedicated to a single polit ical concept\, like an encyclopedia entry\, but the analysis of the concep t does not have to abide to traditional approaches. Some of the concepts c ontended with in previous years’ vibrant conferences included abolition\, survival\, catastrophe\, resentment\, money\, dependence\, trans\, imagina ry\, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published papers o n the Political Concepts website.
\nAbstracts should be no longer th an 750 words in a pdf format\, and prepared for blind review\, so please e nsure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Pl ease title your abstract with your concept. Abstracts must be submitted th rough this google form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyVC0H0L SpcyJ3QpcbAvZjEkcUYoS-TCp0kPc6ObTg4YFSiQ/viewform) by December 7\, 2023 ES T. Any inquiries can be sent to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.
\nA pplicants must be advanced graduate students and their concept must be a c entral part of a longer term project in order to be accepted. Results will be informed in January.
\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240331 GEO:+40.736024;-73.993635 LOCATION:New School tbd @ 5th Ave & E 14th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Political Concepts Graduate Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/political-concepts-gradu ate-conference-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8101@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/117209 DESCRIPTION:The graduate students and faculty o f Columbia University and New York University invite graduate students* to submit papers to present at the 24th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Confere nce in Philosophy\, to be held March 30th\, 2024!
\nThe keynote speaker for this event will be Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh).
\nThe conference will take place
This conference is a generalist conference. Any topic suitable for presentation for a general philosophical audience is welcome!
\nRequirements for submis sion. Papers submitted should be:
\n(1) 3\,000 to 5 \,000 words in length\, suitable for a presentation of 30 to 40 m inutes.
\n(2) Prepared for blind review\, in
(3) Accompanied with a separate cov er sheet with the author’s name\, home institution\, contact info rmation\, topic area(s) of the paper\, and an abstract of approximately 30 0 words.
\nSubmissions should be sent to forms.gle/tVo3jhHUY2Lyye UD7. The deadline is 01/15/2024. Dec isions will be sent out by 02/12/2024.
\nFor any further information or inquiries\, please contact columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com .
\n*Submissions from graduate students at NYU and Columbia will not be considered for acceptance.
\n\nPlease RSVP to either Sabina Bremner (sbremner@upenn.edu) or Francey Russell (frussell@barnard. edu)
\nThe New York German Idealism Workshop is pleased to announce the first talk of the semester. Alison Stone (Lancaster University ) will be giving a talk entitled\, “Bettina von Arnim’s Romantic Philosoph y in Die Günderode” on September 17 from 10am-12pm EST. Giulia Valpione (Università degli Studi di Padova) will be provi ding comments.
\nJoin Zoom Meeting https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/93096095303?pwd=Z jVWaTdLZ0VlNTlPUHFuWmJDVE9DZz09
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\nPlease email nygermanidealism@
gmail.com to request the paper (and join our listserv)\, which has already
been distributed (as of 9/8/21).
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
\nThis event is free and open to the public\; Registration required. Please contact scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any quest ions.
\nThis event is part of the New Yo rk History of Science Lecture Series.
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-7639@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/661707153200103426/101521-elisa-magr DESCRIPTION:The second talk of the semester will be by Elisa Magrì b>(Boston College)\, who will be giving a talk entitled\, “Sedimentation a nd Ethical Memory in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit.” The talk will take pla ce on October 15 from 4:30-6:30pm EST.
\nA Zoom link w ill be provided in advance. Please stay tuned for a poster containing all the events for the fall semester.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T183000 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Elisa Magrì @ The New York German Idealism Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/elisa-magri-the-new-york -german-idealism-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7681@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:Pr ofessor Rupert Read (Personal Website link) will be joining us on the 22nd of October from 1-3 PM EDT on Zoom in presenting the introduction fro m his book\, Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Ph ilosophical Investigations\, in which he argues that “the key to understan ding Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purpo rt.”
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T150000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy\, Rupert Read URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/wittgensteins-liberatory -philosophy-rupert-read/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7682@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: The Shenzi Fragments\, numbering a mere 3\,000 or so characters in length\, is all that remains of a work attribut ed to Shen Dao (ca. 350-275 BCE). While perhaps best known for his appeara nce in the Han Feizi as an advocate for positional power (勢 shi)\, he also makes an appearance in the Xunzi as one who is blinded by his focus on 法 fa (models\, standards\, laws). We will examine the fragments that discus s fa in an attempt to come to a deeper understanding of the role that thes e fragments see for the fa\, how they are to be determined\, and why Shen Dao took them to be central to a strong\, stable\, and flourishing state. The fragments\, in classical Chinese with English translations (Harris 201 6)\, are included here as a PDF attachment.
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DA TE: October 22\, 2021
\nTIME: 7:00-8:30 pm
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This seminar will take place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. T he attached file is an instruction manual to help you familiarize yourself with the program. In addition to familiarizing yourself with the program’ s basic functions\, there are two things we ask you to do before the meeti ng can start. First\, you will need to sign in by typing your name in the chat. Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the m eeting. The privacy policy provided by the Columbia University Seminars Of fice will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will raise your virtual Zoom hand in the Participants panel. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your hand.
\nLead Presenter: Eirik Lang Harris
\nDiscussan ts: Alejandro Bárcenas (Texas State University)\, Yutang Jin (Princeton University)\, Mercedes Valmisa < /a>(Gettysburg College)
\nNote Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secu re online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T203000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Discussion of Fa (法) in the Shenzi: Eirik Lang Harris URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-discussion-of-fa-%e6%b 3%95-in-the-shenzi-eirik-lang-harris/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7650@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-series-2021-2022 DESCRIPTION:Title “TBA”
\nZoom Link sent in advance
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T180000 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Bachir Diagne (Columbia University) @ Columbia Colloquium URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/bachir-diagne-columbia-u niversity-columbia-colloquium/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7709@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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:20240328T151129Z 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-7701@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/2021-2022 DESCRIPTION:Presented by NY German Idealism Workshop
\nWith respon se from Karen Ng (Vanderbilt)
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T120000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Thomas Khurana (U Potsdam) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/thomas-khurana-u-potsdam / X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7740@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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
\nThis event is free and open to th e public\; Registration required . Please contact sciencean dsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.
\nThis event is part o f the New York History of Science Lecture Seri es.
\nSponsoring Organizations:
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reason able effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require d isability accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\ , please contact us at sci enceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 days in adva nce of the event. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
\nPresented by NY German Idealism Workshop
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T183000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Allegra de Laurentiis (Stony Brook University) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/allegra-de-laurentiis-st ony-brook-university/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7703@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/2021-2022 DESCRIPTION:
Presented by NY German Idealism Workshop
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T183000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Thomas Meyer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Columbia) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/thomas-meyer-humboldt-un iversitat-zu-berlin-columbia/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7745@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nyphilsci.wordpress.com/2022/02/15/upcoming-maps-talks-spri ng-2022/ DESCRIPTION:
The 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-7720@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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:20220310T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220310T180000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Quayshawn Spencer (U Pennsylvania) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/quayshawn-spencer-u-penn sylvania/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7759@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/department-calendar DESCRIPTION:LTF Event: Olivia Bransc
um\,
“
Fairness\, Objectivity\, and Grading
Multimodal Assessments.”
Please join Cornel West\, 2021-2022 Presidential Visiting Scholar at The New School\, for a publ ic in-person lecture\, “Philosophy in Our Time of Imperial Decay.”
\nWelcome by Dwight A. McBride\, New School President
\nModerated by Simon Critchley\, H
ans Jonas Professor of Philosophy
PLEASE NOTE: Proof of va ccination and a booster are required for campus access\; no exceptions wil l be granted. You must remain masked during the event. You will receive ad ditional information about this closer to the event date.
\nDr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Sem inary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer\, as well as c ourses in Philosophy of Religion\, African American Critical Thought\, and a wide range of subjects — including but by no means limited to\, the cla ssics\, philosophy\, politics\, cultural theory\, literature\, and music.< /p>\n
Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philoso phy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics\, Race Matters and Democracy Matters\, and for his memoir\, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book\, Black Prophetic Fire \, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century Afr ican American leaders and their visionary legacies.
\nDr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show\, CNN\, C-Span and Democracy Now. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to kee p alive the legacy of Martin Luther King\, Jr. – a legacy of telling the t ruth and bearing witness to love and justice.
\nPresented by NY German Idealism Workshop
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T183000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:POSTPONED Heikki Ikäheimo (U New South Wales) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/heikki-ikaheimo-u-new-so uth-wales/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7750@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:
THE COLUMBIA SOCI ETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
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< b>Presents: Li Zehou on the ‘Deep Str uctures of Confucianism’
\nLead Presenter: Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\ , CUNY)
\nDiscussa nts: Robert A. Carleo III (East China Normal University)\, Emma Bucht el (Hong Kong Education University)
\nABSTRACT: Contemporary Chinese intellectual Li Zeh ou’s cross-cultural methodology blends traditional Confucian thought with thinkers such as Kant and Marx. This seminar addresses the question of cul ture and its role in Li’s thought. Li has made several claims about how a settled cultural tradition influences the subjects within it. One such cla im concerns the existence of ‘deep structures’ of Confucianism\, as outlin ed in this preparatory reading . The idea is that culture\, history\, and social practice (col lectively\, a tradition) shape human psychology (including the formation o f concepts\, emotions\, and values) in ways not always apparent to the sub ject. Within the Chinese tradition\, Confucianism constitutes such a deep structure\, and its effects cannot be captured by textual studies alone\, nor studies of material culture. Rather\, the deep structure is articulate d in terms of an emergent shared subjectivity. Such traditions can evolve and ultimately dissolve\; nevertheless\, their effects are deep-rooted. Th is seminar meeting will aim to identify the parameters of Li’s ambitious t heoretical framework and its plausibility\, and to explore connections wit h current work in related fields\, such as cultural and empirical psycholo gy.
\nDATE: Ma rch 25\, 2022
\nTI ME: 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST
\nThis seminar will take place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. Here is an instruction manual to help you familiarize yourself with the program. In addition to fam iliarizing yourself with the program’s basic functions\, there are two thi ngs we ask you to do before the meeting can start. First\, you will need t o sign in by typing your name in the chat. Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the meeting. The privacy policy provided b y the Columbia University Seminars Office will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will raise your virtual Zoom hand in the Participants panel. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your hand.
\nNote Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form \, Giving to Columbia.
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Accessibility Statement: Columbia University encourages p ersons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. Th e University Seminars participants with dis- abilities who anticipate need ing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.85 4.2388 or disability@columbia.edu. Disabili ty accommodations\, including sign-language interpreters\, are available o n request. Requests for accommodations must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public S afety Officer if they need assistance accessing campus.
\nPLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/co mparative-philosophy/
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T200000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Li Zehou. Deep Structures of Confucianism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/li-zehou-deep-structures -of-confucianism/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative\,Confucianism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7748@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/678729153780072448/the-third-workshop -of-the-semester-will-take-place DESCRIPTION:
The third workshop of the semester will take place virtually
over Zoom on Friday\, April 1st from 4:30-6:30pm EST. The Zoom link can b
e found on our website (link in bio). Please also note that Heikki Ikäheim
o and Simon Lumsden’s talks have been postponed.
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LTF Event: Devin Morse
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:LTF Event: Devin Morse URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/ltf-event-devin-morse/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7705@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/2021-2022 DESCRIPTION:Presented by NY German Idealism Workshop
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220408T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220408T183000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:POSTPONED Simon Lumsden (U New South Wales) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/simon-lumsden-u-new-sout h-wales/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7706@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/2021-2022 DESCRIPTION:
Presented by NY German Idealism Workshop
\nResponse by Giulia Battistoni (Università di Verona)
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T183000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Klaus Vieweg (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/klaus-vieweg-friedrich-s chiller-universitat-jena/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7774@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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-7836@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumarruzza DESCRIPTION:
Socrates’ close association of madness and philosophy from the Phaedrus’ Palinode has puzzled interpreter s. How can philosophy be equated to irrationality? In this paper I argue a gainst interpretations that either deny that the association of madness an d philosophy ought to be taken seriously or downplay this association by c onsidering madness as akin to the unreflective inspiration characterizing only the first stages of philosophizing but subsequently overcome by the mature philosopher. I show that the association of madness and philosophy is an integral part of Socrates’ polemics against what he calls “human mod eration”\, characterized by a cold calculation of costs and benefits. And\ , moreover\, that madness is an ongoing feature of philosophy and of the p hilosopher\, who is never fully in possession of all his rational and cogn itive processes but has to constantly work on them in an effort of self-cl arification.
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External visitors must comply with the univ ersity’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19 /campus-access/?open=visitors.
\nAudience members must s how proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible)\ , ID\, and remain masked at all times.
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Tickets: https:/ /event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumarruzza.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Madness of Philosophy & the Limitations of Human Moderation in Plato’s Phaedrus”. Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-madness-of-philosoph y-the-limitations-of-human-moderation-in-platos-phaedrus-cinzia-arruzza-ns sr/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Plato\,rationality X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumarruzza END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7820@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.org/free-market-the-history-of-an-idea DESCRIPTION:After two g overnment bailouts of the U.S. economy in less than twenty years\, free ma rket ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market: the Hist ory of an Idea\, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis \, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of fre e market thought. Contrary to popular narratives\, early market theorists believed that states had an important role in building and maintaining fre e markets. But in the eighteenth century\, thinkers insisted on free marke ts without state intervention\, leading to a tradition of ideological brit tleness. That tradition only calcified in the centuries that followed. Tra cing the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton F riedman\, Soll argues that we need to go back to the origins of free marke t ideology in order to truly understand it—and to develop new economic con cepts to face today’s challenges.
\nJacob Soll is p rofessor of history and accounting at the University of Southern Californi a. He has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes including two NEH Fello wships\, the Jacques Barzun Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and\, in 201 1\, the MacArthur Fellowship. He also advises political and financial lead ers across the globe to promote accounting standards and financial transpa rency.
\nJoining Jacob Soll to discuss his book will be: <
strong>Pierre Force\, Professor of French and History at Columbia
\; John Shovlin\, Professor of History at NYU\; and
This event is co-spon sored by the Maison Française and the Department of History.
\nTicke ts: https://www.eve ntbrite.com/e/free-market-the-history-of-an-idea-tickets-409932919397.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T003000 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:Free Market: The History of an Idea URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/free-market-the-history- of-an-idea/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:economics X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-market-the-history-of-an-id ea-tickets-409932919397 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7834@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarchafeminism DESCRIPTION:Book Panel with:
\nChiara Bottici (NSSR a nd Lang College)\, Judith Butler (UC Berkeley and NSSR) and Romy Opperman (NSSR a nd Lang College).
\nAbstract:
\nHow can we b e sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we en visage a feminism that doesn’t turn into yet another tool for oppression? By arguing that there is no single arche explaining the oppression of wome n and LGBTQI+ people\, Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist p hilosophy inspired by two major claims: that there is something specific t o the oppression of ‘the second sexes’\, and that\, in order to fight that \, we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentr ism they inhabit. On the basis of a Spinozist philosophy of transindividua lity\, Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimperial attitude and for a renewed awareness of the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In this revolutionary vision\, feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few\, but liberation of the planet from both capitalist exploitation and an anthropocentric politics of domination . Either the entire planet\, or none of us will be free.
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External visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outli ned here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors< /a>.
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Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nSponsored by the NSSR Philosophy Department & The Gende r and Sexualities Studies Institute (GSSI)
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarch afeminism.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Book Panel: Chiara Bottici\, Anarchafeminism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/book-panel-chiara-bottic i-anarchafeminism/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,gender\,political\,sexuality X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarchafemini sm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7855@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/694606637032423424/92322-robert-stern DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce that the first workshop of the se mester will take place in person on Friday\, September 23rd from *4-6pm* (please note the change in the usual time). Robert Stern (University of Sheffield) will be giving a talk entitled\, “Foun d or Sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues.” Please note that the talk will take place at The New School\, Room M104 (The Bark Room)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (The Sheila C. Johnson Design Cen ter is on the southwest corner of 5th ave and 13th street)
\nTo atte nd the talk in person you will need to be up-to-date with vaccinations and boosters and set up a CLEAR Health Pass account in advance. Direct ions for visitor access are below.
\nThe event has been organized by the Wittgenstein Workshop.
\nAbstract: This paper dra ws a contrast between Hegel and MacIntyre\, treating both as post-Kantian perfectionists. The claim is that while Hegel treats the good life as some thing found\, and to be implemented in the rational state\, MacIntyre trea ts it as something to be sought. This difference\, it is argued\, is refle cted in their respective accounts of the virtues: for Hegel\, the key virt ue becomes rectitude\, whereas for MacIntyre a wider range of virtues is r equired\, to make this quest for the good achievable. Using the characters of Walt and Travis from Paris\, Texas to illustrate the argument\, it is suggested that the MacIntyrean option is to be preferred.
\nGuests and visito rs must be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations\, including a boost er when eligible.
\nBeginning Monday\, August 15\, T he New School will use CLEAR’S Health Pass \, an online tool that safely and simply verifies proof of COVID-1 9 vaccination\, to issue guest passes. The CLEAR Health Pass replaces o n-site manual vaccination checking and physical guest passes. CLEAR ac counts should be set up in advance of arrival on campus and will remain ac tive for a month\, requiring only a selfie to reactivate. Details and inst ructions about creating and setting up a CLEAR account can be found on our website.
\nThe Welcome Center Visitors Desk will remain open in a limited capacity to support the guests who ma y not be able to use CLEAR.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T180000 GEO:+40.735274;-73.994553 LOCATION:New School M104 (The Bark Room)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center @ 66 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Found or Sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtue s. Robert Stern (U Sheffield) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/found-or-sought-hegel-vs -macintyre-on-the-good-life-and-the-virtues-robert-stern-u-sheffield/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7863@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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-7858@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/697193214374985728/10422-johannes-geo rg-schlein DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NY German Idealism Workshop.
\nRespon se by Georg Spoo
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T183000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy dept 716 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The State is a Machine: Schelling on Second Nature & Social Freedom . Johannes-Georg Schullein (RU Bochum) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-state-is-a-machine-s chelling-on-second-nature-social-freedom-johannes-georg-schullein-ru-bochu m/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7872@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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-7875@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher DESCRIPTION:Abstract:
\nAs a specific form of rig hts insecurity the revocability of reproductive rights manifests contradic tory understandings (privative and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.
\nI ask how and why we should understand reproductive rig hts as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and suggesting a conjoined vocabulary that includes conditionality\, exceptio nality\, and disqualifying qualification.
\nI ask: what kind of gram mar might help us understand more specifically how the concurrent action o f conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, se curity\, necropower\, and neoliberal expectation) coordinate together in r elation to reproductive rights-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combination s of power also produce a mutual disruptiveness\, even auto-critique\, man ifesting as conflictual embodiment.
\nExternal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschoo l.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.
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Audienc e members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and boost er if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophy colloquiumpennydeutscher#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Revokable Rights and their Grammar of Power: Post Roe\, Post Foucau lt. Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern U) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/revokable-rights-and-the ir-grammar-of-power-post-roe-post-foucault-penelope-deutscher-northwestern -u/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,language\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutsche r#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7823@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/how-ai-changing-artis tic-creation DESCRIPTION:Generative art made with algorithms has existed since the ea rly days of computing in the 1960s. In recent years\, a new strand of gene rative art has emerged: AI-generated art\, which leverages the recent prog ress of artificial intelligence to create artworks. Unlike old-fashioned g enerative art\, AI-generated art is not produced with an explicit set of p rogramming instructions provided by human artists\; instead\, it involves training an algorithm on a dataset so that it can later produce artworks ( images\, music\, or video clips) using its own internal parameters that ha ve not been explicitly defined by a human. This process raises fascinating questions at the intersection of computer science\, art history\, and the philosophy of art. At a superficial level of analysis\, AI-generated art seems to offload much of the creative impetus of art production to the mac hine\, requiring minimal intervention from the artist. On closer inspectio n\, however\, it involves a novel process of curation at two key stages: u pstream in the selection of the dataset on which the algorithm is trained\ , and downstream in the selection of the outputs that should qualify as ar tworks. Instead of replacing human artists with computers\, AI-generated a rt can be understood as a new kind of collaboration between mind and machi ne\, both of which contribute to the aesthetic value of the final artwork.
\nThis seminar will bring together AI artists and philosophers to e xplore the significance of this new mode of art production. It will discus s the implications of AI-generated art for the definition of art\, the nat ure of the relationship between artists and tools\, the process of digital curation\, and whether AI systems can be as creative as humans.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required via Eventbrite. Re gistered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the seminar b egins.
\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scho lars in Society and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability ac commodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please con tact us at scienceandsocie ty@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 days in advance of the e vent. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai- is-changing-artistic-creation-tickets-404716165947.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T153000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Online @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How AI Is Changing Artistic Creation URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-ai-is-changing-artis tic-creation/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,computation\,technology X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai-is-changing-artistic-crea tion-tickets-404716165947 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7880@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/news/celebrating-recent-work-michel e-m-moody-adams DESCRIPTION:
\nby Michele M Moody-Adams
From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today\, pr ogressive social movements have been at the forefront of social change. Ye t it is seldom recognized that such movements have not only engaged in pol itical action but also posed crucial philosophical questions about the mea ning of justice and about how the demands of justice can be met.
\nM ichele Moody-Adams argues that anyone who is concerned with the theory or the practice of justice—or both—must ask what can be learned from social m ovements. Drawing on a range of compelling examples\, she explores what th ey have shown about the nature of justice as well as what it takes to crea te space for justice in the world. Moody-Adams considers progressive socia l movements as wellsprings of moral inquiry and as agents of social change \, drawing out key philosophical and practical principles. Social justice demands humane regard for others\, combining compassionate concern and rob ust respect. Successful movements have drawn on the transformative power o f imagination\, strengthening the motivation to pursue justice and to crea te the political institutions and social policies that can sustain it by i nspiring political hope.
\nMaking Space for Justice contend s that the insights arising from social movements are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be tr ansformative for political thought as well as for political activism.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T191500 GEO:+40.807325;-73.958831 LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd floor common room @ 74 Morningside Dr\, New Yo rk\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Celebrating Recent Work by Michele Moody-Adams URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/celebrating-recent-work- by-michele-moody-adams/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7831@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Naked Statistical Evidence and Verdictive Justice
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Naked Statistical Evidence and Verdictive Justice. Sherri Roush (UC LA) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/sherri-roush-ucla/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:legal\,statistics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7833@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/SusanneSreedhar DESCRIPTION:Even on a close reading of Hobbes’s corpus\, it is difficult to extract a clear picture of his views on gender.
\nIn the history of philosophy\, most of the ‘great’ philosophers engaged with questions a bout women’s ‘nature’ and the appropriate role for women in the family\, s ociety\, and state.
\nHobbes\, however\, seems to have far less to s ay on the subject than most\, and what he does say is often ambiguous or p aradoxical.
\nIt is a fundamental tenet of Hobbes’s political theory that all people are equal in the state of nature\, women included\; yet h e makes reference to the general superiority of men as regards physical st rength\, courage\, wit\, and suitability for rule.
\nHobbes denies t he naturalness\, inevitability\, and godliness of patriarchy\, and he even argues for natural maternal right\; however\, he describes families in ci vil societies in terms of fathers ruling over their servants and children— leaving women out of the picture altogether.
\nHis texts are p eppered with various offhand comments\, allusions\, and intimations about women and sexuality more generally\, many of which are provocative and und eveloped.
\nOne of the most intriguing parts of his an alysis is his repeated appeal to the example of the ancient Amazonian warr ior women who engaged in procreative contracts with men from neighboring t ribes.
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In this paper\, the speaker uses Ho bbes’s discussion of the Amazons to examine his views about gender and\, t hereby\, his place in the history of philosophy as seen from a feminist pe rspective.
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External visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here:
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Audience memb ers must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Hobbes on Sex. Susanne Sreedhar (BU) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/hobbes-on-sex-susanne-sr eedhar-bu/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,gender\,sexuality X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/SusanneSreedhar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7859@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/694621478841450496 DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NY German Idealism Workshop.
\nRespon se by Patricia Kitcher
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T183000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U\, Philosophy 716 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Kant on the Rational Ideal of Harmony: The Quest for Self-Integrati on and Moral Agency. Katherine Kraus (U Notre Dame) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/katherine-kraus-u-notre- dame/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7896@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar DESCRIPTION:Book panel: Anat Matar\, The Pover ty of Ethics (Verso books 2022)
\nParticipants:
\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)
\nSimon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philo sophy at NSSR)
\nRaef Zreik (Visiting Fellow at Yal e Law School\, and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic Co llege)
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Abstract:
\nIt is a common assumption that ethics must serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abs tract moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of at rocities\; ethical sensitivity and compassion have been expressed towards particular kinds of victims\, while totally ignoring others.
\nThe l iberal West\, in particular\, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western oppressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to the ir Western equivalents.
\nThe gratification of holding the moral hig h ground consistently serves as a political instrument in the hands of tho se seeking to shore up the existing order.
\nIn The Poverty of Ethic s\, philosopher and activist Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political forc e which stands for equality\, justice and democracy – the Left – can provi de the coordinates for an ethical life under conditions of global injustic e.
\nAppealing to philosophical ideas on the essence of language\, M atar shows how the ethos of the Left\, as it has evolved over years\, unde rlies and gradually forms the basis for ethics.
\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, colonization and militarization\, protests against expl oitation and the capitalist order\, the feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all these are primarily motivated by a deep understa nding of Left heritage rather than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moral it
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.ed u/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium Book panel: Anat Matar “The Poverty of Ethics ” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-bo ok-panel-anat-matar-the-poverty-of-ethics/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ethics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7832@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Title “TBA”
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Marko Malink (New York University) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/marko-malink-new-york-un iversity/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7897@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar DESCRIPTION:What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to R oss’s question.
\nWhen W.D. Ross poses the question\, “what makes right acts right?” (The Right and the Good ch. 2)\, he is aski ng a question that is prior to the deliberative question\, “how do I deter mine the right thing to do?” The Stoics recognize this: in De Officiis 1.7 \, Cicero says that every inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoreti cal part concerned with the end of goods and evils\, which addresses such matters as whether all duties are perfect\, whether some are more importan t than others\, and what are the kinds of duties\, and (2) a practical par t which sets out rules (praecepta) by which our conduct can be made to con form with the end. This paper focuses on (1) and in particular asks Ross’ s question about Stoic right actions (kathêkonta).
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The endpoint of Stoic deliberation is determining what token action is the rig ht action. The paper begins with the Stoic distinction between a thing’s choiceworthiness\, its intrinsic disposition to elicit a choice response i n a suitable subject\, and its possession being to-be-chosen. The determin ation of what is to-be-done is made by weighing against each other all the values of the relevant action types specified by their content (the so-ca lled ‘intermediate actions’) that are in accordance with nature\, as Stoic value theory says that according with nature is an objective reason to do an action. What constitutes the rightness of the token right action\, an d is given in its reasonable defense\, is the same as what constitutes the rightness of a perfect (katorthôma) action. The Stoic distinction betw een right and perfect action depends on the action’s moral goodness—not ri ghtness—which is due to its causal origin.
\nPresented by Professor< a href='https://philosophy.cornell.edu/rachana-kamtekar'> Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University)
\nTickets: http s://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rachana Kamtekar: What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ro ss’s question URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rachana-kamtekar-what-ma kes-right-acts-right-a-stoic-answer-to-rosss-question/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7898@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophyfilmclubscreeningsfa DESCRIPTION:General Description:
\nThis semester\ , the Philosophy Film Club at The New School is hosting a series of films to consider the notion of founding myths — the inspiring\, frightening\, a nd defining speculative fictions that ground our sense of belonging to pla ce\, community\, and a way of life. Each screening will begin and conclude with a discussion facilitated by a member of the NSSR Philosophy Departme nt. In the spirit of community\, all are welcome!
\nPhilosop
hy Film Club hosts a screening of the post-
\napocalyptic dr
ama Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller. Join us
for a screening and post-film discussion of this style-redefining vision
of a future “in which men have become the pawns of insane leaders and wome
n hold fiercely onto [while fighting fiercely for] the last vestiges of ho
pe.”
Location: Bark Room (M104)\, Sheila C. Johns on Design Center (ground floor)\, 2 W. 13th Street at Fifth Avenue
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For more information or to be added to the mailing list\, email : veronica@newschool.edu
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philo sophyfilmclubscreeningsfa.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T210000 GEO:+40.735225;-73.994325 LOCATION:New School M104 (The Bark Room)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center @ 2 W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:PHILOSOPHY FILM CLUB SCREENINGS: Mad Max: Fury Road URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-film-club-scr eenings-mad-max-fury-road/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:film X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophyfilmclubscreeningsfa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7861@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/694621478841450496 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Eric-John Russell (Unive rsität Potsdam)\, who will present chapters from his recently published bo ok\, Why Everything is as it Seems: Hegel and Debord. Jacob McNu lty (University College London) will provide a response followed by a Q&A with our audience.
\nGuy Debord has been called many things: pse udo-philosopher\, nihilist\, filmmaker\, megalomaniac\, strategist\, third -rate Mephistopheles. His book The Society of the Spectacle (1967) has fallen into a similarly motley reception\, frequently enveloped within the discourses of postmodernism\, media and cultural studies\, and avant- garde art history. My research however\, dispenses with such narratives an d instead offers a sustained examination of the concept of the society of the spectacle through the two pillars upon which Debord understood his own work as a critical theory of society: Marx’s critique of political econom y and Hegel’s speculative philosophy. It is the latter that will be the fo cus of my paper\, first by offering some introductory remarks on Debord’s theory of the spectacle but then arguing that it precisely the specula tive dimension of Hegel’s dialectic that remains central for Debord’s diagnosis of twentieth century capitalism\, with emphasis placed on the im portance of Hegel’s Wesenslogik. I will conclude with the historica l significance of Debord’s “heretical Hegelianism\,” specifically as an in tervention within the atmosphere of the French Hegelianism of the interwar and postwar period.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221216T190000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, rm 716 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Why Everything is as it Seems: Hegel & Debord. Eric-John Russell URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/why-everything-is-as-it- seems-hegel-debord-eric-john-russell/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,Hegel\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/cynthia-bennett-disab ility-accessibility-and-fairness-artificial-intelligence DESCRIPTION:
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to automate and scale solutions to perennial accessibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image d escriptions for blind users). However\, research shows that AI-bias dispro portionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gen der\, or disabilities\, raising questions about potential impacts in addit ion to AI’s promise. In this talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad co ncerns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She wil l then share details about one project in this research space that led to guidance on human and AI-generated image descriptions that account for sub jective and potentially sensitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and d isability of people in images.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T140000 GEO:+40.841243;-73.940971 LOCATION:Presbyterian Hospital Building (Room PH20-200) @ 622 W 168th St\, New York\, NY 10032\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cynthia Bennett – Disability Accessibility and Fairness in Artifici al Intelligence URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cynthia-bennett-disabili ty-accessibility-and-fairness-in-artificial-intelligence/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7936@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumtolstoyasp DESCRIPTION:In better times\, this talk may have been given as a detaile d account of the practices and side stories that had been part of the just published anthology titled Tolstoy as Philosopher (2022)\, a res ult of a quarter-century work on Tolstoy’s manuscripts and research at int ernational archives. The finished book can be abstracted as follows.
\nBeginning with Tolstoy’s first extant records of his written œuvre\, th e anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts that cover more than seven decades of his life\, from 1835 to 1910. It constitutes the most co mplete single-volume edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s phil osophical output: apothegmatic sayings\, visions\, intimate sketchbook and day notes\, book reviews\, open letters\, dialogues\, pedagogic talks\, p ublic lectures\, programs and rules for personal behavior\, fictions\, and reminiscences.
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It was the insolvable\, the “scandalous\ ,” problems of philosophy that never gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will\, religious tolerance\, gender inequality\, the tonal shape of music \, the value of healthy life habits\, the responsibilities of teaching\, f orms of social protest\, cognitive development\, science in society\, the relation between body and mind\, charity and labor\, human dignity and pub lic service\, sexual psychology\, national war doctrines\, suicide\, indiv idual sacrifice\, the purposes of making art. And always: What are the so urces of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why do we need govern ments? How can one practice non-violence? What is the meaning of our irrep ressible desire to seek and find meaning? Why can’t we live without loving ? The typeset proofs of his final insights were brought to Tolstoy for app roval when he was already on his deathbed. No matter their brevity or the occasion on which they were written\, these works exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually absorbing thinker.
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Most of the newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have neve r been available in English. Among the notable archival restorations is t he text titled “Tolstoy on Venezuela\,” an authentic first publication in English of “Patriotism\, or Peace?” (1896) that had been personal ly checked by Tolstoy and deemed lost. In the inaugural piece\, a seven-ye ar-old Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and non-violence that a hungry wolf te aches a hungry boy during their conversation when both are on their way to lunch.
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The anthology was being copyedited when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24\, 2022. After having provided the n ecessary grounding for Tolstoy’s place within the Russian philosophical tr adition and explaining his overall reception and standing\, the speaker wi ll comment on the implications of this unfolding historic tragedy for the current moment and the future\, in order to then open the floor for genera l discussion.
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About the speaker:
\n< p>Inessa Medzhibovskaya has taught at The New School sinc e 2004. She is an intellectual historian\, philologist\, specialist in in ternational education\, and a literary scholar by training and is currentl y Professor of Liberal Studies and Literature at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. Her publications include numerous essay s and chapters that focus on Russia\, Central and Eastern Europe\, as well as nine previously published books: Tolstoy’s On Life (from the Archival History of Russian Philosophy)\, 2019 and Tolstoy and the Rel igious Culture of His Time (paperback 2009)\; and an online bibliogra phy of Tolstoy’s publications and Tolstoy criticism in the Oxford Universi ty Press Bibliographies series (2021). She is the editor of the critical e dition of Tolstoy’s On Life\, co-translated with Michael Denner (2018)\, a nd editor of two more volumes: Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from th e Twenty-First Century (2018)\, and A Critical Guide to Tolstoy’s On Life: Interpretive Essays (2019). She also served as the academic advisor for volumes 267 and 289AC of Short Story Criticism from Gale/Ceng age (2019\, 2020). Her Tolstoy as Philosopher was released on October 25\, 2022. She is currently completing a long book project solicited by Princ eton University Press.\nFor further information\, see this li nk.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Tolstoy as Philosopher: Reflections during the Darkest of Times URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/tolstoy-as-philosopher-r eflections-during-the-darkest-of-times/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:literature END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7937@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/bookpanelafeministmythology DESCRIPTION:A Feminist Mythology\, Bloomsbury\, 2022 em>
\nA book panel with Christen Clifford (The New
School)\, Jean-Michel Rabate’ (University of Pennsylvania
)\, Rose Rejouis (The New School) and a response by
A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity\, testing t hem from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an objec t\, but rather a process\, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of “womanhood” through first- and third-per son prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each oth er\, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal or ders. In this metamorphic world\, story-telling is not just a mix of narra tive\, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a curren t that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so\, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writin g style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from t he pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid’s Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.
\n\nThis event will feature a thought-provoking panel discussion with sexual and reproductive justice experts on the value of the sexual a nd reproductive justice framework and how it can be applied to diverse sta keholders\, settings\, and contexts. Panelists will also highlight example s from around the world of momentum towards sexual and reproductive justic e.
\nFree and open to the public\; regis tration is required for both in-person and < a class='external' href='https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sexual-reproductive- justice-vehicle-for-global-progress-online-tickets-525885948027' target='_ blank' rel='noopener'>online attendance. For additional information\, please visit the event webpage. Please em ail Malia Maier at mm5352@cumc.c olumbia.edu with any questions. All in-person attendees must follow Co lumbia’s COVID-19 policies.
\nHosted by the Global Health Justice and Governance Program at Columbia University.
\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T110000 GEO:+40.816253;-73.958389 LOCATION:Forum\, Columbia University @ 601 W 125th St\, New York\, NY 10027 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Sexual and Reproductive Justice: Vehicle for Global Progress URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/sexual-and-reproductive- justice-vehicle-for-global-progress/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:justice\,medical\,reproductive\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sexual-reproductive-justice-vehi cle-for-global-progress-in-person-tickets-523893077297 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7946@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.org/naturally-universal-how-aristotle-expla ins-the-success-of-medieval-french-song DESCRIPTION:Poets and singers in a number of medieval vernacul ar languages reached non-native audiences and inspired speakers of other l anguages to compose in theirs\; and many imagined their compositions enjoy ing a universality similar to that of cosmopolitan languages like Latin an d Arabic. An interesting rationalization of these aspirations can be disce rned in a short verse narrative of a well-known episode in the youth of Al exander the Great\, conqueror of India\, together with his tutor\, the phi losopher Aristotle. Not only does it involve Greeks and Indians singing Fr ench songs and cosplaying French lovers\, but the philosopher is induced t o pretend to be a horse and then justifies his behavior as “natural\,” wit h far-reaching implications which this talk will explore.
\nSarah Kay is Professor Emerita in the Department of Fre nch Literature\, Thought and Culture at New York University and Life Fello w at Girton College\, University of Cambridge. In Spring 2023\, she is Dis tinguished Visiting Scholar in the Columbia Society of Senior Scholars.
\nThi s talk is presented by the Columbia Maison Française\, Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities\, The Society of Senior Scholars\, th e Department of Music\, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
\n< p>Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naturally-universal-a-lecture-by-sarah-kay-ti ckets-516765338037. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T193000 GEO:+40.807717;-73.961428 LOCATION:Maison Française East Gallery @ Buell Hall\, 515 W 116th St\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Naturally Universal: How Aristotle Explains the Success of Medieval French Song. Sarah Kay URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/naturally-universal-how- aristotle-explains-the-success-of-medieval-french-song-sarah-kay/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,Aristotle X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naturally-universal-a-lecture-by -sarah-kay-tickets-516765338037 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7964@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U\,New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/708636328395472896/21523-james-kreine s DESCRIPTION:15 Feb\, 4pm:
\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)
\nFrom Shapeless Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously
\n@ The New School\, Room L502\, at 2 W 13th Stre et
\nGuests and visitors policies at the New School can be accessed via this website. You will have to download CLEAR an d upload proof of vaccination or the results of a rapid test. Please try t o arrive 15 minutes earlier so we can help you in case of complications. p>\n
Feb 24:
\nGeorg Spoo (Freiburg)
\nGrounds and L imits of Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel\, Marx
\n@ Columbia
\nMar 3:
\nHeikki Ikaheimo
\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Soc ial Critique
\n@ Zoom
\nMar 24:
\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)
\nKant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum p>\n
@ Columbia
\nApr 11:
\nKarin de Boer
\nDo es Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason Amount to an A Priori History of Rationa l Cosmology?
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 15\, 4pm:
\nEva von Redecker
\nCo-sponsored by the New School Graduate Student Confe rence
\n@ The New School
\nApr 21:
\nGiulia Batt istoni
\nNAture\, Life\, Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Cla ssical German Philosophy in Jonas’ Philosophical Biology
\n@ The New School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T180000 GEO:+40.735225;-73.994325 LOCATION:The New School L502 @ 2 W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Shapeless Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously. James Kreines (Claremont McKenna) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/german-idealism-workshop -3/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,Hegel\,idealism\,Spinoza END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7928@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:
Kant and Spinoza on Prophecy\, Enlightenment and Revolution< /p>\n
Presented by Columbia University Dept. of Philosophy
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U\, Philosophy 716 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Kant and Spinoza on Prophecy\, Enlightenment and Revolution. Omri B oehm (New School) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/omri-boehm-new-school/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Kant\,Spinoza END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7860@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/694621478841450496 DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NY German Idealism Workshop.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T183000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U\, tba @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Grounds & Limits of Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel Marx. Georg Spo o URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/grounds-limits-of-immane nt-critique-kant-hegel-marx-georg-spoo/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7938@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/gwengrewal DESCRIPTION:
Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking A bout Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)
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Speakers:
\nGwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR)
\nCinzia A
rruzza (NSSR)
\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)
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Thinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialo gues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philo sophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-heade d sophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are t he ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate bet ween choral ode and rhapsody\, as Plato vacillates between referring to th em in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close readi ng explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-fort h arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersi ve remove from reality\, thinking simulates death even as it cannot concei ve of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme \, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of bei ng disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s t enuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito’s implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the At henian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades . Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thi nking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’ s sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader’s access to the dialogue’s myste ries.
\n15 Feb\, 4pm:
\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)
\nFrom Shapeless Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously
\n@ The New School
\nFeb 24:
\n< p>Georg Spoo (Freiburg)\nGrounds and Limits of Immanent Critique: K ant\, Hegel\, Marx
\n@ Columbia
\nMar 3:
\nHeikk i Ikaheimo
\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique
\n@ Zoom p>\n
Mar 24:
\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)
\nKant’s L ate Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 11:
\nKarin de Boer
\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Re ason Amount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?
\n@ Columb ia
\nApr 15\, 4pm:
\nEva von Redecker
\nCo-spons ored by the New School Graduate Student Conference
\n@ The New Schoo l
\nApr 21:
\nGiulia Battistoni
\nNAture\, Life\ , Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in J onas’ Philosophical Biology
\n@ The New School
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T183000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T163000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:New School/Columbia @ New York\, NY\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T163000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:German Idealism Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/german-idealism-workshop -2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7963@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ 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-7939@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/benjaminmorgan DESCRIPTION:
In 1931\, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplina ry research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures functi on and might function better. He imagined an institute “in which philosoph ers\, sociologists\, economists\, historians\, and psychologists are broug ht together in permanent collaboration” (Horkheimer 1993\, 9). The institu te would not work with a single theory but would let data lead to new hypo theses (Horkheimer 1993\, 10). But the work of Horkheimer and colleagues r arely lived up to the 1931 vision of an interdisciplinary\, empirically gr ounded approach to culture. To understand why\, my paper will juxtapose Ho rkheimer’s and Adorno’s history of humanity\, as it is set out in Dialecti c of Enlightenment\, with current research on the development of early hum an cultures by Richard Wrangham\, Sarah Blaffer Hardy\, Kim Sterelny\, Jos eph Henrich and Cecilia Heyes. The comparison with recent research in anth ropology\, sociology\, philosophy\, and cognitive science reveals some of the deep conceptual commitments that limit Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s focus on instrumental reason and conceptual violence. By contrast\, current app roaches jointly suggest that human subjectivity is scaffolded and embedded \; that cooperation is the necessary default for cultural transmission\; t hat learning occurs in context through imitation\; and that customs and in stitutions develop contingently and by accident through processes of coope ration and collaboration. These new insights invite a radical re-thinking of the phenomena Horkheimer and Adorno grouped together as ‘mimesis.’ The resulting picture of environmentally embedded process of cultural evolutio n is a first step towards revitalizing the interdisciplinary potential of the early Frankfurt School\, and suggesting new\, practical\, productive\, and sustainable routes such critique can take in the 21st century.
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Bio:
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Benjamin Mor gan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford\, and a Fellow of Worcester College. In 2019\, and 2020/21 he was also Visiting Associate Professor of German at Harvard University. He is a uthor of On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western S elf (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, and numerous articles on modernist literature\, film\, and philosophy. He edited\, with Carolin Duttlinger and Anthony Phe lan\, Walter Benjamins Anthropologisches Denken (Rombach\, 2012)\, and wit h Sowon Park and Ellen Spolsky a Special Issue of Poetics Today on “Situat ed Cognition and the Study of Culture” (2017).
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultu ral Evolution. Benjamin Morgan URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rethinking-critique-dial ectic-of-enlightenment-and-models-of-cultural-evolution-benjamin-morgan/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7982@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://www.cruzdavis.com/method-theory-reality/upcoming-events DESCRIPTION:Well-being\, also known as prudential value\, refers to what ever makes a life non-instrumentally good for the person living it. Well-b eing is the object of immense practical\, philosophical\, and scientific c oncern. Assessments of well-being help to guide our decisions in everyday life\, from relationships\, to health decisions\, to education and career choices. Well-being is increasingly the object of governmental and institu tional policy\, and even policies that are not aimed directly at promoting it can be evaluated in terms of their impacts on well-being. Colleges and universities routinely offer programs designed to help students maintain their well-being in the face of academic and personal stress. However\, de bates over the nature of well-being have raged since the beginning of phil osophical inquiry\, leaving us in a bad position when it comes to making h eadway on addressing those practical and scientific concerns. The goal of this talk is to show how the application of naturalistic methodology can h elp us to resolve the philosophical stalemate and thus to make progress in our practical and scientific projects relating to well-being.
\nTalk link — Email cruzdavis
Conceptual misalignment is a pervasive phenomenon in the stu dies of Non-Western philosophy and the History of Philosophy (NW&HP). Howe ver\, conceptual misalignment is often undetected\, unsuspected\, or seen as a hurdle that NW&HP materials need to overcome to contribute to contemp orary discussions. Specifically\, conceptual misalignment refers to the fo llowing: In the process of crystalizing NW&HP materials\, a linguistic coo rdination of concepts is formed between the speaker\, i.e.\, NW&HP\, and i ts context of contemporary anglophone philosophy. However\, in philosophic ally meaningful ways\, the original NW&HP concept and its anglophone count erpart misalign. This misalignment is particularly intricate and hard to d etect when it comes to emotion concepts\, as they are thought to involve p henomenal and/or intentional features. Through investigating the concept o f emotion in Chinese philosophy\, I propose a refocusing on conceptual mis alignment as a method of cross-cultural comparative and history of philoso phy. Moreover\, I argue that conceptual misalignment is an important resou rce for contemporary conceptual engineering and amelioration projects.
\nWith responses from Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\, CUNY)
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for fu rther information.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T193000 GEO:+40.807527;-73.960864 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Columbia @ 1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10 027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Conceptual Misalignment to Conceptual Engineering: A Case Stud y on Emotion from Chinese Philosophy. Wenqing Zhao (Whitman) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-conceptual-misalign ment-to-conceptual-engineering-a-case-study-on-emotion-from-chinese-philos ophy-wenqing-zhao-whitman/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative\,emotion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7983@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://www.cruzdavis.com/method-theory-reality/upcoming-events DESCRIPTION:
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.
\nTALK LINK — Email for the passcode cruzdavis
The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about o ur place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another\, how we v itally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air\, share the surfaces of the earth\, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to l ive in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from\, and about\, this common bind?
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Exposing and opposing forms of injustice t hat deny the essential interrelationship of living creatures\, Butler argu es for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that se ek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared w orld.
\nSpeaker
\nJudith Butler is a Distinguished Professor in th e Graduate School at the University of California\, Berkeley. They are the author of several books\, most recently The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020). Butler’s previous Columbia University P ress books include Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionis m (2012)\, Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000)\, and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Cen tury France (1987).
\nRespondents
\nMia Florin-Seft on is a Ph.D. candidate and University Writing Instructor in the English & Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University\, w here she specializes in 20th and 21st-century transatlantic anglophone lit eratures and culture. She is also working on a project that looks at the h istory of sex glands and early history of hormone replacement therapy in t he context of theories of racial degeneration and eugenics post-World War I.
\nProfessor Goyal is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia Unive rsity Medical Center and founding director of the major in Medical Humanit ies. Professor Goyal completed his residency in Emergency Medicine as Chie f Resident while finishing his PhD in English and Comparative Literature. His research interests include the health humanities\, the study of the no vel\, and medical epistemology. His writing has appeared in The Living Handbook of Narratology\, Aktuel Forskning\, Litteratur\, Kultur og Medier\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books\, among oth er places. He is a Co-Founding Editor of the online journal\, Synapsis: A Health Hum anities Journal
\nMa rianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor Emeri ta of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Profes sor in the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. She is a membe r of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former President of t he Modern Language Association of America. Along with a group of local sch olars\, artists and activists\, Hirsch is currently co-directing the Zip Code Memory Project\, an initiative that seeks to find art and community-ba sed ways to repair the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus p andemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upp er New York City neighborhoods.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T173000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Jerome Greene Hall (Law School) Rm 101 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared Wor ld URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-afternoon-with-judith -butler-on-the-pandemic-and-our-shared-world/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:medical\,phenomenology\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7978@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will t ake place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu< /a> for further information.
\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-7945@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.org/the-paris-school-of-jewish-thought-an-i ntellectual-philosophical-and-spiritual-r DESCRIPTION:
Title “TBA”
\nPresented by Columbia University Dept. o f Philosophy
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U\, Philosophy 716 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:What is Logical Monism? Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia U) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/justin-clarke-doane-colu mbia-u/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7941@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/jocelynbenoist DESCRIPTION:Western metaphysics is based on the opposition between reali
ty and appearance. This construction essentially rests on a visual model\,
or more exactly on some staging of what visual experience is.
\nI am
going to question the basis of this metaphysics\, by taking into account
the reality of appearances and reflecting on their various uses\, in parti
cular artistic ones. This path will be taken in the first place by shiftin
g the focus of philosophical analysis from visual to acoustic models. Thus
\, I will envisage a realism of echoes\, as opposed to the metaphysics of
shadows.
Biography:
\nJocelyn Beno ist\, born in 1968\, is Professor at the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbo nne\, where he teaches Contemporary Philosophy\, and currently a member of the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’. He has dedicated his early work t o phenomenology and the bridges between phenomenology and early Analytic p hilosophy. For some time he was the Director of the Husserl Archive of Par is at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Then\, he developed a personal investi gation into the meaning of realism in philosophy. He has published many bo oks\, including recently: Toward a Contextual Realism\, H.U.P.\, 2021\, and Von der Phänomenologie zum Realismus\, Mohr Siebeck\, 2022.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Echoes. Beyond the opposition between appearance and reality. Jocel yn Benoist URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/echoes-beyond-the-opposi tion-between-appearance-and-reality-jocelyn-benoist/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7988@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:The NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents:
\nMarch 31st — Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting on Wittgenstein and Care Ethics
\nApril 14th — Camila Lobo (PhD cand idate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon and visiting scholar) wil l be presenting on Wittgenstein and hermeneutical justice in connection wi th the so-called “problem of the new.”
\nApril 21st — Harmut von Sas s (Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting scholar) will be presenting o n gratitude.
\nApril 28th — Janna van Grunsven (Delft University of Technology) will be presenting on How Social Media Platforms Disrupt the F ield of Social Affordances and Threaten Human Flourishing.
\nWith th e exception of our last talk (which will take place over Zoom)\, workshops will be in person from 4 to 6 pm EST\, followed by a reception. As always \, snacks and drinks will be provided.
\nLook out for an email close r to each event with more details regarding the location and materials the speaker would like to circulate.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School D1001 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein and Care Ethics. Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Pa nthéon Sorbonne) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/wittgenstein-and-care-et hics-sandra-laugier-universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ethics\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7930@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:
Title “TBA”
\nPresented by Columbia University Dept. o f Philosophy
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U\, Philosophy 716 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Lara Buchak (Berkeley) – Nagel Lecture URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/lara-buchak-berkeley-nag el-lecture/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7984@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://www.cruzdavis.com/method-theory-reality/upcoming-events DESCRIPTION:abstract forthcoming
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T173000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia [ZOOM] @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Allison Aitken (Columbia) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/allison-aitken-columbia/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7992@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U\,New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/712945936965517312/41123-karin-de-boe r DESCRIPTION:15 Feb\, 4pm:
\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)
\nFrom Shapeless Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously
\n@ The New School
\nFeb 24:
\n< p>Georg Spoo (Freiburg)\nGrounds and Limits of Immanent Critique: K ant\, Hegel\, Marx
\n@ Columbia
\nMar 3:
\nHeikk i Ikaheimo
\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique
\n@ Zoom p>\n
Mar 24:
\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)
\nKant’s L ate Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 11:
\nKarin de Boer
\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Re ason Amount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?
\n@ Columb ia
\nApr 15\, 4pm:
\nEva von Redecker
\nCo-spons ored by the New School Graduate Student Conference
\n@ The New Schoo l
\nApr 21:
\nGiulia Battistoni
\nNAture\, Life\ , Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in J onas’ Philosophical Biology
\n@ The New School
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T183000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U Hamilton 602 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Does Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason Amount to an A Priori History o f Rational Cosmology? Karin de Boer (KU Leuven) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/does-kants-antinomy-of-p ure-reason-amount-to-an-a-priori-history-of-rational-cosmology-karin-de-bo er-ku-leuven/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7931@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:The Avoidance of Intimacy: A Reorientation in the Moral Phil osophy of Love
\nPresented by Columbia University Dept. of Philosoph y
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U\, Philosophy 716 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Avoidance of Intimacy: A Reorientation in the Moral Philosophy of Love. Vida Yao (Rice University) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/vida-yao-rice-university / X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:love END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7998@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumfeminismas DESCRIPTION:The speaker will explain the meaning of concepts of movement s such as communism\, liberalism\, and republicanism. Then she will argue how these concepts were used as guides to praxis by focusing first on repu blicanism and Kant. Finally\, she will articulate her concept of feminist imaginaries focusing on how the sediments of historical time have enabled different struggles for emancipation.
\n“Feminism as a Concept of Movement: the Sediments of the Historical Reorganization of F eminist Imaginaries” presented by Mari a Pia Lara
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Feminism as a Concept of Movement: the Sediments of the Historical Reorganization of Feminist Imaginaries. Maria Pia Lara URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/feminism-as-a-concept-of -movement-the-sediments-of-the-historical-reorganization-of-feminist-imagi naries-maria-pia-lara/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7994@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:
The NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents:
\nMarch 31st — Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting on Wittgenstein and Care Ethics
\nApril 14th — Camila Lobo (PhD cand idate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon and visiting scholar) wil l be presenting on Wittgenstein and hermeneutical justice in connection wi th the so-called “problem of the new.” (11am-1pm EDT)
\nApril 21st — Harmut von Sass (Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting scholar) will be presenting on gratitude.
\nApril 28th — Janna van Grunsven (Delft University of Technology) will be presenting on How Social Media Platform s Disrupt the Field of Social Affordances and Threaten Human Flourishing.< /p>\n
With the exception of our last talk (which will take place over Zo om)\, workshops will be in person from 4 to 6 pm EST\, followed by a recep tion. As always\, snacks and drinks will be provided.
\nLook out for an email closer to each event with more details regarding the location an d materials the speaker would like to circulate.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T130000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School D1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Child and the Foreigner: Wittgenstein on Understanding the New. Camila Lobo (Nova University of Lisbon) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-child-and-the-foreig ner-wittgenstein-on-understanding-the-new-camila-lobo-nova-university-of-l isbon/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7962@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:
The NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents:
\nMarch 31st — Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting on Wittgenstein and Care Ethics
\nApril 14th — Camila Lobo (PhD cand idate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon and visiting scholar) wil l be presenting on Wittgenstein and hermeneutical justice in connection wi th the so-called “problem of the new.”
\nApril 21st — Harmut von Sas s (Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting scholar) will be presenting o n gratitude.
\nApril 28th — Janna van Grunsven (Delft University of Technology) will be presenting on How Social Media Platforms Disrupt the F ield of Social Affordances and Threaten Human Flourishing.
\nWith th e exception of our last talk (which will take place over Zoom)\, workshops will be in person from 4 to 6 pm EST\, followed by a reception. As always \, snacks and drinks will be provided.
\nLook out for an email close r to each event with more details regarding the location and materials the speaker would like to circulate.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T180000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T160000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School tbd @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T160000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:NYC Wittgenstein Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nyc-wittgenstein-worksho p-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7985@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://www.cruzdavis.com/method-theory-reality/upcoming-events DESCRIPTION:
abstract forthcoming
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T150000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia [ZOOM] @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Ezra Rubenstein (Berkeley) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/ezra-rubenstein-berkeley / X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7999@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/thebansheesofinisherin DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy Film Club at The New School is hosting a scre ening of ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (dir. Martin McDonagh)\, with pre- an d post-film discussion facilitated by James Trybendins\, PhD Student in Ph ilosophy.
\nIn the spirit of community\, all are invited to the Spri ng 2023 film screening series hosted by the Philosophy Film Club at The Ne w School. Everyone — whether seasoned in philosophy or without any prior p hilosophical training — with an interest in philosophy\, film\, and/or con versation about the meaning of what we experience is welcome! Each screeni ng will begin and conclude with a discussion facilitated by a member of th e NSSR Philosophy Department. Snacks and beverages also provided.
\nFor more information or to be added to the mailing list\, email: veronica@newschool.edu
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T210000 GEO:+40.735225;-73.994325 LOCATION:Bark Room (M104)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center @ 2 W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Film Club Screening: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-film-club-scr eening-the-banshees-of-inisherin/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8003@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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-8046@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, I explore the role that metaphor plays in th e development of new scientific models. My goal is to illustrate metaphor’ s fecundity in this regard\, the way in which it extends our understanding in surprisingly diverse ways. As Mary Hesse put this point\, “it is preci sely in its extension that the fruitfulness of the model may lie” (1980\, 114).
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The particular focus of my paper is on the history of what John Haugeland called mind design: the use of mechanical models t o reverse-engineer how minds work (1997\, 1). My history focuses on two su ch models: the clockwork model and the computer model. In each case\, I sh ow how a metaphorical understanding of the model led to conceptual innovat ion in two distinct ways. First\, it provided an interpretive frame that g uided new research by offering an abstract\, hypothesized structure to be later filled in by empirical research (Camp 2020). Second\, it provided a concrete exemplar to contrast with human minds (Daston 1994). For instance \, while on the one hand Descartes invoked the clockwork model to explain how color vision works (Adams 2015)\, he also invoked it as a vivid illust ration of how human reasoning does not work (Riskin 2016).
\n\n
It is this second source of conceptual innovation that is the real core of the paper\; it reveals what I call the dialectic of mind design. This dialectic is especially evident in our tendency to redefine what it is to be human in response to new technological developments. For instance\, it is evident when we take something that was previously assumed to be paradi gmatic of mental acuity\, such as the ability to play chess\, and redefine it as something merely mechanical (Ensmenger 2012). But it is equally wel l evident when we take something that was previously taken to be mechanica l—such as color vision—and redefine it as paradigmatically mental (Chalmer s 1997\; cf. Adams and Browning 2020). The concept of mindedness is\, in t his sense\, a constantly moving goalpost that is perennially being redefin ed in response to new technological developments.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign# rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: The Dialectic of Mind Design. Zed Adams (NSS R) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-th e-dialectic-of-mind-design-zed-adams-nssr/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind\,science X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8050@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/stefanomicali DESCRIPTION:When is anxiety justified? When does anxiety cease to functi on as an effective and reasonable signal preventing imminent threats\, and when does it become an invasive projection of our own ghosts? My talk is divided into three sections. First\, I will emphasize the anthropological relevance of anxiety: in various theoretical frameworks\, the difference b etween free-floating anxiety and fear directed at a specific danger even s erves as a criterion for distinguishing human beings from animals. Second\ , I will conduct a phenomenological analysis of anxiety focusing in partic ular on the altered relationship between perception and imagination. Third \, I will address a specific form of anxiety which is particularly dominan t in the context of our post-disciplinary societies: the feeling of being left behind. My talk presents a philosophical inquiry into the affective p henomenon that can both protect us from danger and be a danger in itself.< /p>\n
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Bio:
\nStefano Micali is a Profes sor at the KU Leuven and the Coordinator of the Husserl-Archives: Centre f or Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy. He has published over 60 arti cles in different languages (English\, German\, Italian\, French\, and Dut ch) in various areas of research ranging from psychopathology to religion\ , from political philosophy to aesthetics. He is the author of four monogr aphic books: Überschüsse der Erfahrung (2008)\, Esperienze te mporali (2008)\, Tra l’altro e se stessi (2020) and Phen omenology of Anxiety (2022). Together with Thomas Fuchs\, he has edit ed several volumes focusing on the relation between psychopathology and ph ilosophy. He is also co-editor of the DGAP (German Society for a Phenomeno logical Anthropology) series and the Phaenomenologica series (Springer). p>\n
Tickets: https://event.newschool.edu/stefanomicali #rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Anxiety: A Phenomenological Investigation. Stefano Micali (K U Leuv en) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/anxiety-a-phenomenologic al-investigation-stefano-micali-k-u-leuven/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:phenomenology X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/stefanomicali#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8044@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:What is an appropriate response to humiliating treatm ents such as insults? This question is not only relevant to today’s discou rse but has also piqued the curiosity of thinkers in classical Chinese phi losophy. The Warring States period debate regarding whether one’s inner se nse of shame can shield one from insulting situations and from experiencin g shame is frequently presented as a one-sided narrative that focuses on t he Confucian texts. Meanwhile\, the views of their rival thinkers\, such a s the Daoist\, legalist\, or much-neglected Songzi (3rd century BCE)\, are rarely the focus of attention. This paper brings Songzi\, a key player in the debate of emotions as responses to external triggers\, into the pictu re and restores the historical intellectual discourse over the topic of wh at constitutes an appropriate response to humiliating situations such as i nsults. More importantly\, I point out the philosophical significance of t his debate\, namely how Songzi prompts Xunzi to respond to an ambiguity wi thin the Confucian doctrine: The early Confucians appear to think that an individual’s internal virtues can isolate and shield one from hostile exte rnal stimuli while also maintaining that the external environment impacts one’s moral cultivation and moral life in significant ways. Xunzi’s strate gic move\, I argue\, is to give credit to both an inner sense of shame and the function of external stimuli in inducing negative emotions\, thus mak ing an important philosophical concession compared to Confucius and Menciu s.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n< p>With responses from Nalei Chen (New York University)\n\n
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.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com /e/designing-space-tickets-681760884157.
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-8056@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:Presented by the New York German Idealism Workshop
\nP erfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. W ith response from Francey Russell. @Columbia 22 September
\nHegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel . @New School 6 October
\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork . Pauline Kleingeld. With response by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 Octob er
\nNathan DuFord tbd. With response by Chris O’Kane. @New School 1 0 November
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T183000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia University tbd @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Perfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Eng strom URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/perfection-and-morality- kants-critique-of-the-stoics-stephen-engstrom/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8049@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/daniellecelermajeralicecrary DESCRIPTION:The violence already systematically inflicted on other earth beings (animals and the environment)\, and intensifying today intensified through ecological collapse and climate change\, is ‘in plain sight’. Yet entrenched epistemic and institutional barriers impede its being register ed in ways proportionate to its gravity. While in recent years\, philosoph ers and social theorists have done a good job at explaining why\, to use t wo familiar example\, glass walls to abattoirs don’t stop people eating me at\, and data on climate change does not catalyse mass mobilization\, we h ave been less adept at delivering our analysis in ways that both illuminat e and transform the many sites of dangerous inertia.
\nThrough the e xperience of living through the Black Summer wildfires\, Danielle Celermajer decided to philosophize the impact of climate catastro phe on animals and the environment through the genre of creative non-ficti on. The result was Summertime\; Reflections on a Vanishing Future \, a book that grounds arguments about what ethics and responsibility to o ther earth beings means in the era of climate catastrophe in the immediate experiences of the members of the multispecies community with whom she li ves. In this conversation\, Celermajer and Professor Alice Crary strong> will take Summertime as their starting point to reflect on questio ns of ethics\, language\, and the responsibility of theorists in the midst of ecological collapse.
\nBios:
\nDa nielle Celermajer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney\, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and leads the Multispecies Justice project. Her books include Sins of the Nation an d the Ritual of Apology and The Prevention of Torture\, A Cultura l History of Law in the Modern Age\, The Subject of Human Rights< /em>\, and Institutional Transformations. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires with a multispecies community \, she began writing about a new crime of our age\, Omnicide. Her book Sum mertime\; Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin Random House\, 2021) considers the more-than-human experience of climate catastrophe.
\nT ickets: https://event.newschool.edu/daniel lecelermajeralicecrary#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Writing Other Earth Beings into Ethics in the Age of Climate Catast rophe. Danielle Celermajer URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/writing-other-earth-bein gs-into-ethics-in-the-age-of-climate-catastrophe-danielle-celermajer/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:environmental X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/daniellecelermajeralicecrary#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8067@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:still scheduled\, but zoom link for those who can’t travel: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/8479688193
\nThroughout the 21st century \, philosophers of language have increasingly concerned themselves with th e hateful\, coercive\, dehumanizing\, and deadly. In particular\, ‘non-ide al’ philosophers of language question whether received conceptual toolkits from philosophy of language manage to make contact with our non-ideal wor ld at all. This paper takes up that methodological interest from a Wittgen steinian perspective. Drawing on critical interventions by Nancy Bauer\, A vner Baz\, Alice Crary\, Cora Diamond\, and Toril Moi\, I argue that non-i deal philosophers of language neutralize their ideology-critical bite when they presume an authoritative force for their words by virtue of a normat ively neutral conception of reason. This neutralization is driven and sust ained by an idle picture of language that isolates our words from the acti vities into which they are woven. To make discursive phenomena available i n their political import\, we philosophers of language must acknowledge ou r own non-neutral involvement in the very discursive practices we’re theor izing – and this will require us to relinquish the entitlement to impose a uthoritative requirements on language through theories of meaning.
\nTo illustrate the need for normatively non-neutral methods in philosophic
al practice\, I focus on cases where philosophers’ curious gaze treats tra
ns people
\nas fascinating objects of knowledge\, as opposed to ackno
wledging us as interlocutors and recognizing the political stakes of our d
iscursive practices. What inhibits the cultivation of acknowledgement\, of
normatively resonant modes of attention\, is a picture of philosophical t
heorizing that forbids us from articulating our political solidarities thr
ough our work (and thus obfuscates what we ourselves are doing with words
when theorizing). The non-ideal philosopher’s critical concept of idealiza
tion\, seen aright in a normatively non-neutral light\, exemplifies the so
rt of theoretical resource that is mobilized by members of marginalized gr
oups to invite such modes of attention – to shape not only our epistemic r
esources\, but also our senses of what matters.
The Philosophy Film Club at The New School is hostin g a screening of ‘Millennium Actress’ (dir. Satoshi Kon).
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You are invited to join us in squaring this gorgeously animated
circle\, as we explore questions of memory\, perspective\, and narrative.
Pre- and post-film discussion will be facilitated by none other than
This semester\, an inter national lineup will take us on cosmic\, labyrinthine\, miraculous journey s\; if that sounds hyperbolic\, just wait. Those compelled by form will fi nd ample meta-cinematic gristle\, while those wishing to dive into content will meet oceans for us to navigate.
\nEveryone — whether seasoned in philosophy or without any prior philosophical training — with an intere st in philosophy\, film\, and/or conversation about the meaning of what we experience is welcome! Each screening will begin and conclude with a disc ussion facilitated by a member of the NSSR Philosophy Department. Snacks a nd beverages always provided.
\nFuture Screenings:< /p>\n
La Flor’ Part 3 (dir. Mariano Llinás)\, with guest facilitator Dr. Miguel Paley (Fordham University)\, on Friday\, October 20\, 2023
\n‘Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)\, with guest facilitator Olga Knizhnik ( PhD Candidate\, Philosophy) on Friday\, November 12\, 2023
\nLocation:
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Bark Room (M104)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (ground floor)\, 68 5 Ave (2 W. 13th Street at Fifth Avenue entrance)
\nFor more information or to be added to the mailing list \, email: veronica@newschool.edu a>
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philfilmc lub1#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T210000 GEO:+40.735217;-73.994429 LOCATION:M104/The Bark Room @ 68 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Film Club Screening: ‘Millennium Actress’ URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-film-club-scr eening-millennium-actress/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:film X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philfilmclub1#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8054@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:cantt897@newschool.edu\; https://event.newschool.edu/theworldaccord ingtokant DESCRIPTION:Anja Jauernig’s recently published The World Acc ording to Kant (Oxford\, 2021) defends an interpretation of Kant’s cr itical idealism as an ontological position\, according to which Kant can b e considered a genuine idealist about empirical objects\, empirical minds\ , and space time. Yet in contrast to other intentional objects\, appearanc es genuinely exist\, which is why Kant can also be considered a genuine re alist about empirical objects\, empirical minds\, and space and time. This book spells out Kant’s case for critical idealism thus understood and cla rifies Kant’s conception of appearances and things in themselves in relati on to Kant’s Leibniz-Wolffian predecessors.
\nAnja Jauernig (NYU)
\nBio:
\nAnja Jauerni g is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. She obtained her Ph.D . from Princeton University\, and held academic positions at the philosoph y departments of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Pittsb urgh before coming to NYU. Her research interests include Kant\, Early Mod ern Philosophy\, 19th and early 20th century German Philosophy\, Aesthetic s\, and Animal Ethics.
\nPatricia Kitcher (Columbia)
\nBio:
\nPatricia Kitcher is Roberta and W illiam Campbell Professor Emerita of Humanities and Professor Emerita of P hilosophy at Columbia. She has written two books on Kant’s theory of cogn ition and the self and is editor of the Oxford Philosophical Concepts volu me on The Self.
\nAndrew Chignell (Princeton)
\nBio:
\nAndrew Chignell is Laurence S. Rockefelle r Professor in Religion\, Philosophy\, and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. Prior to that he was a Professor of Philosophy at P enn and Associate and Assistant Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell. His research interests are in early modern philosophy (espec ially Kant) and in philosophy of religion\, moral psychology\, epistemolog y\, and food ethics. From 2020-2023 he served as President of the North A merican Kant Society.
\nDesmond Hogan (Princeton) p>\n
Bio:
\nDesmond Hogan is Professor of Philoso phy at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. H is research interests include metaphysics\, philosophy of science\, ethics \, and aesthetics\, with a focus on the modern period and nineteenth centu ry.
\nPresented by the New York German Idealism Workshop
\nP erfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. W ith response from Francey Russell. @Columbia 22 September
\nHegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel . @New School 6 October
\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork . Pauline Kleingeld. With response by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 Octob er
\nNathan DuFord tbd. With response by Chris O’Kane. @New School 1 0 November
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T183000 GEO:+40.736998;-73.992251 LOCATION:New School tbd @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Hegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/hegels-theory-of-absolut e-spirit-markus-grante/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8030@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202 4 DESCRIPTION:Samantha Matherne has written the first recent book in Engli sh on the philosophy of Cassirer\, covering the full range of his thought. Her research also explores the reciprocal relationship between perception and aesthetics. She approaches these issues largely through a historical lens\, as they are taken up by Kant and developed in Post-Kantian traditio ns in the 19th and 20th centuries\, especially Phenomenology and Neo-Kanti anism.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Samantha Matherene (Harvard) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/samantha-matherene-harva rd/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism\,Kant\,phenomenology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8074@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:The virtually ubiquitous view of seeing-as experiences in Wi ttgenstein scholarship interprets them as conceptually-laden (with some ex ceptions\, e.g. Travis 2016). The claim is that we can see the same image differently due to switching the conceptual filters\, as it were\, through which we experience the image (e.g. Schroeder 2010\; Mulhall 2001). In th is paper I focus on a specific kind of a seeing-as experience for which Wi ttgenstein’s example of suddenly noticing the similarity between faces is the paradigm. I argue that it is possible to have no concepts involved in this experience\, and propose an understanding of what I call “the imagist ic seeing-as” as a similarity association\, of the kind that grounds poeti c means of expression\, such as metaphors. The associative nature of this imagistic seeing-as experience may also contribute to the understanding of biases – both personal (e.g. displaced offence) and social (e.g. sexism).
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:An Imagistic Seeing-As: from Faces to Metaphors and Biases. Talia M orag (U Wollongong) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-imagistic-seeing-as-f rom-faces-to-metaphors-and-biases-talia-morag-u-wollongong/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:language\,phenomenology\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8078@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z 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.
\nThe Philosophy Film Club at The New School is hosting a screening of Part 3 of ‘La Flor’ (dir. Mariano Llinás).
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By way of introduction\, a few words from our guest facilitator Dr. Miguel Paley (Fordham University): p>\n
“Hello all! For my session I’ve chosen to talk about the movie La F lor\, a personal favorite! This amazing movie is a bit unusual though\, it has 6 standalone parts which altogether end up totaling just over 14 hour s (insane I know!). Since we obviously can’t watch it all together\, I enc ourage everyone to watch the movie little by little a month or a few weeks before we meet. The movie is great and you won’t regret it!
\n(The movie is available to watch here and you can get some i nfo about it here.
\nLookin g forward to seeing everyone! -Miguel”
\n———–
\n\n
This semester\, an international lineup will take us on cosmic\, labyrinthine\ , miraculous journeys\; if that sounds hyperbolic\, just wait. Those compe lled by form will find ample meta-cinematic gristle\, while those wishing to dive into content will meet oceans for us to navigate.
\n\n< p>Everyone — whether seasoned in philosophy or without any prior philosoph ical training — with an interest in philosophy\, film\, and/or conversatio n about the meaning of what we experience is welcome! Each screening will begin and conclude with a discussion facilitated by a member of the NSSR P hilosophy Department. Snacks and beverages always provided.\n
\n
Future Screening:
\n‘Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarko
vsky)\, with guest facilitator Olga Knizhnik (PhD Candidate\, Philosophy)
on Friday\, November 12\, 2023
Bark Room (M104)\, Sheila C. Johnso n Design Center (ground floor)\, 68 5 Ave (2 W. 13th Street at Fifth Avenu e entrance)
\n\n
For more information or to be added to the m ailing list\, email: veronica@news chool.edu
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/filmclublaflorpt3#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T210000 GEO:+40.735217;-73.994429 LOCATION:M104/The Bark Room @ 68 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Film Club Screening: ‘La Flor’ Part 3 URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-film-club-scr eening-la-flor-part-3/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:film X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/filmclublaflorpt3#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8058@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:Presented by the New York German Idealism Workshop
\nP erfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. W ith response from Francey Russell. @Columbia 22 September
\nHegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel . @New School 6 October
\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork . Pauline Kleingeld. With response by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 Octob er
\nNathan DuFord tbd. With response by Chris O’Kane. @New School 1 0 November
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T183000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia University tbd @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Argument of Kant’s Groundwork. Pauline Kleingeld URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-argument-of-kants-gr oundwork-pauline-kleingeld/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8082@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:The importance of incorporating value pluralism into a theor y of justice is recognized in many conceptualizations of justice. This plu ralism is often seen as a reason to attend to a range of perspectives\, pe rspectives which can function as a source of information in determining wh ich principles should guide justice. However\, philosophy’s ability to pro perly attend to different perspectives has received extensive attention in the criticisms of various non-ideal theorists\, who argue that ideal-theo retical philosophy runs the risk of excluding important aspects of actual social problems. Taking these criticisms on board\, this paper builds on n on-ideal theory by arguing for a Wittgensteinian family resemblance approa ch to justice. I will explain how this linguistic practice-embedded unders tanding of justice can be a helpful tool for non-ideal theory\, as it can give us insight into why\, in various similar but different cases\, the no tion of justice is seen as applicable. In light of this approach\, I will suggest a reorientation of the pluralist demand towards an empirical start ing point.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Non-Idea Justice: A Family Resemblance Approach. Nadia ben Hassine (Cambridge) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/non-idea-justice-a-famil y-resemblance-approach-nadia-ben-hassine-cambridge/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:justice\,social\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8059@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:Presented by the New York German Idealism Workshop
\nP erfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. W ith response from Francey Russell. @Columbia 22 September
\nHegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel . @New School 6 October
\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork . Pauline Kleingeld. With response by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 Octob er
\nNathan DuFord tbd. With response by Chris O’Kane. @New School 1 0 November
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T183000 GEO:+40.736998;-73.992251 LOCATION:New School tbd @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nathan DuFord URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nathan-duford/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8071@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/filmclubstalker DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy Film Club at The New School is hosting a screening of ‘Stalker’ (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky).
\n\n< p>You are warmly invited to join us for a screening + discussion of “the m ovie we need right now” (per Salon)\, an immersion into “undistracted cont emplation” that “abounds with moments of baffling beauty and philosophical heft within its vast finitude.” Our esteemed colleague Olga Knizh nik (PhD Candidate in Philosophy) will help facilitate our pre- a nd post-film discussion.\n
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This semester\ , an international lineup will take us on cosmic\, labyrinthine\, miraculo us journeys\; if that sounds hyperbolic\, just wait. Those compelled by fo rm will find ample meta-cinematic gristle\, while those wishing to dive in to content will meet oceans for us to navigate.
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Everyone — whether seasoned in philosophy or without any prior philosophical train ing — with an interest in philosophy\, film\, and/or conversation about th e meaning of what we experience is welcome! Each screening will begin and conclude with a discussion facilitated by a member of the NSSR Philosophy Department. Snacks and beverages always provided.
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Bark Room (M104)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (ground floor)\, 68 5 Ave (2 W. 13th Street at Fifth Avenue entranc e)
\nFor more information or to be added to the mailing list\, email : veronica@newschool.edu
\nTickets: https://event.newsc hool.edu/filmclubstalker#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T210000 GEO:+40.735217;-73.994429 LOCATION:M104/The Bark Room @ 68 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Film Club Screening: ‘Stalker’ URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-film-club-scr eening-stalker/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:film X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/filmclubstalker#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8051@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/rachanakamtekar DESCRIPTION:When W.D. Ross poses the question “what makes right acts rig ht?” (The Right and the Good\, ch. 2)\, he is asking a question t hat is prior to\, and has a bearing on\, the practical question “how do I determine the right thing to do?” The Stoics recognize this. Cicero (D e Officio\, where he is referring to Panaetius’ work Peri Kathêk ontos) tells us that every inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a th eoretical part concerned with the end of good and evil deeds\, which addre sses such matters as whether all duties are perfect (omniane official perfecta sint)\, whether some are more important than others\, and wh at the kinds of duties are\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (praecepta) by which our conduct can be made to conform with the end (De Officiis\, 1.7). While Cicero himself focuses on the se cond\, this paper seeks the answer to the first part.
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Ra chana Kamtekar is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell Univer sity and has written on many topics in ancient philosophy and contemporary moral psychology. Her monograph\, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellect ualism\, the Divided Soul and the Desire for Good\, was published in 2017. She is currently working on the relationship between action and cha racter in ancient Greek ethics.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Chrysippus on What Makes Right Acts Right. Rachana Kamtekar (Cornel l) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/chrysippus-on-what-makes -right-acts-right-rachana-kamtekar-cornell/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8052@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega DESCRIPTION:
María Lugones theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of the notion of “trespassing\,” through which “active subjectivity” has the possibility of problematizing normative practices and redrawing maps of p ower. In this presentation\, I highlight the importance of the aesthesic o r the perceptual in Lugones’s view of resistance as developed before her t urn to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which t his account of resistance is dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by the work of Gloria Anzaldúa. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic trespassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses th e intimacy between the perceiver and the perceived.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Intimacies of Perception and Aesthetic Trespassing. Mariana Ort ega (PSU) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-intimacies-of-percep tion-and-aesthetic-trespassing-mariana-ortega-psu/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8031@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202 4 DESCRIPTION:Matthew 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-8099@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith responses from Katja Vogt (C olumbia University)
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SPECIAL NOTE FOR DINNER ON 12/1: For this event\, the Neo-Confucian Seminar and our Comparative Philosophy Seminar w ill be going to dinner together. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information. RSVPs are limited for this event.
\nNeo Con fucian Studies seminar: I hope this email finds you well! Our next session of the seminar will convene on Friday 12/1 from 3:30-5:30 pm in the Heyma n Center on Campus. The Heyman Center is also a dormitory. The guards at i ts entrance will have a list of all our attendees and will let you in base d on that list\, no Green Pass required. (Green Passes are Columbia’s syst em for proving that you’re up-to-date on your vaccinations and boosters.) Our guest speaker will be Professor Dongxian Jiang of Fordham University. Professor Jiang will present his draft “Political Thinking in a Classless Society” attached. Please ask Dongxian Jiang directly before you cite or s hare his draft. To be on the list\, please RSVP to me at wk2363@columbia.edu before 11/27 .
\nThe 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.
\nNOTE REGARDING DONATIONS: Due to COVID-19\, dona tions are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Di nner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@colum bia.edu for further information.
\nComparative Philosophy Semina r:
\nAnalyzing the Mexican case of collectives of women currently looking for their disappeared relatives due to an escalation of violence related to the so-called War against Drugs that former president Felipe Ca lderón (2006–2012) started\, this essay develops a new conception of poli tics grounded not only on rational thought but also on affect. These colle ctives put forward a materialistic\, feminist\, and performative mode of p olitics. Publicly lamenting their losses and literally digging bodies out of Mexican land\, these women perform and recover the citizenship that the Mexican state has de facto disavowed of them. I propose conceptualizing t hem as “bad victims” since their taking action does not take away their pa in\; rather\, the public exposure of their lament actually turns them into political agents.
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Bio:
\nRosaura Martínez Ruiz is Full Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a member of the National System of Researc hers\, level III. She was coordinator of the research projects “Philosophe rs after Freud” and “Philosophy and Psychoanalysis as Critical Borders of the Political.” She is the author of Freud y Derrida: escritura y psiq ue (2013) and Eros: Más allá de la pulsión de muerte (2017). This last book has been translated into English and published by Fordham University Press (2021). She has coordinated several collective books and published articles on the intersection between psychoanalysis and philosop hy and on the field of the psychopolitical. In 2017 she was awarded the Re search Prize in Humanities by the Mexican Academy of Sciences\; in 2019 sh e was a Fulbright Scholar\; in 2021 she received the Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz UNAM recognition\; and during the Fall 2023 she was the Tinker Visiti ng Professor at Columbia University. She is part of the advisory board of the “International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs” coordinated by Judith Butler.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/ rosauramartinez.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T190000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mexican Antigones: In Search of a Stolen Mourning\, presented by Ro saura Martinez URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mexican-antigones-in-sea rch-of-a-stolen-mourning-presented-by-rosaura-martinez/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Latin\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/rosauramartinez END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8146@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:How 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.
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\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
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to P hilosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you d o not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing ou tside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone w alking nearby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please o nly contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
\nNOTE REGARDING DONATIONS: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu fo r further information.
\nACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT: Columbia Un iversity encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its progra ms and activities. The University Seminars’ participants with dis- abiliti es who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physi cal access may contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.854.2388 o r disability@columbia.edu. Disability accommodations\, including sign-la nguage interpreters\, are available on request. Requests for accommodation s must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public Safety Officer if they need assistanc e accessing campus.
\nPLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar s/comparative-philosophy/
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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-8145@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/nietzscheandmusic 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\nNietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the few philosophers who have a n intimate connection to music. This connection has much to do with his ea rly music education. His contemporaries testify that he was a good pianist . His musical ambition\, or his musical daimon\, urged him to compose musi c\, although he had no training in this area. Most of his compositions are from his late teens\; his earliest inspirations are Beethoven\, Mozart\, Haydn\, Schubert\, Schumann and Wagner. His compositions were gathered tog ether and published by Curt Paul Janz in Friedrich Nietzsche\, Der musikal ische Nachlass. Nietzsche’s music is available in several productions. How ever\, Nietzsche did not follow a musical path and decided to become a phi lologist and dedicated his life to writing and philosophy.
\nNietzsc he’s background in music\, on the other hand\, influenced his way of think ing and writing. All of these interesting areas between music\, literature \, and philosophy and Nietzsche’s relationship to music understood on a br oad spectrum have been explored by many Nietzsche scholars including Georg es Liébert\, Graham Parkes\, Francois Noudelmann\, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner a nd others and in the anthology\, An Anthology on Nietzsche and Music: Phil osophical Thoughts and Musical Experiments\, edited by the presenters of t oday’s event. This event is dedicated to the exploration of this relations hip between Nietzsche and music.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/nietzscheandmusic.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T203000 GEO:+40.736551;-73.996616 LOCATION:Arnold Hall rm i400 @ Arnhold Hall\, 55 W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nietzsche and Music URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nietzsche-and-music/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:music\,Nietzsche X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/nietzscheandmusic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8032@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202 4 DESCRIPTION:Verity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy\, with pa rticular research interests in ancient metaphysics\, epistemology and psyc hology\, especially of Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure\, and is the edito r of several important books on ancient philosophy.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Verity Harte (Yale) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/verity-harte-yale/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8138@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 DESCRIPTION:Serving as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal filled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French C ommunist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of u niversal emancipation. To do so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is an example of a universal and cultural project. Recalling Césaire’s words in “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that ser ves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familia r with the play of the world.” To this end\, I develop a conception of cul ture that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of what it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by read ing culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.
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Elisa beth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Univ ersity at Buffalo\, SUNY. Her book\, titled Universal Emancipation: Ra ce beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020)\, engages Fre nch political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Hait ian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation . Currently\, she is working on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during the summer.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1< /a>.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Culture & Freedom: Thinking Universality with Aimé Césaire and Sylv ia Wynter presented by Elisabeth Paquette URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/culture-freedom-thinking -universality-with-aime-cesaire-and-sylvia-wynter-presented-by-elisabeth-p aquette/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:culture\,freedom X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8107@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age DESCRIPTION:\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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nandi Theunissen (University of Pittsburgh) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nandi-theunissen-univers ity-of-pittsburgh/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8139@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/critiqueofcriticalreason DESCRIPTION:What is critique? According to the Kantian tradition\, it is an investigation of the transcendental conditions for the possibility of thinking and experience. While later critics shifted the focus to material conditions\, core metaphysical commitments and procedures of critique rem ained unchanged. Critique of Critique (Stanford UP\, 2023)\, the subject o f this talk\, probes critique as an orientation of thought through its his torical manifestations from Plato to the Frankfurt school and present-day critical theory. In the process\, it asks us to consider what critical thi nking is and whether it can assume orientations other than critique.
\nBio: Roy Ben-Shai\, a New School graduate\, is an Assi stant Professor of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. His recently publ ished book\, Critique of Critique (Stanford University Press\, 20 23)\, is the first volume in a trilogy on the concept of “orientation” in critical thought. He is currently working on the second volume\, Emanc ipatory Thinking\, or the Art of Thinking Otherwise.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/critiqueofcriticalreas on.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Critique of Critical Reason presented by Roy Ben-Shai URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/critique-of-critical-rea son-presented-by-roy-ben-shai/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:critical theory X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/critiqueofcriticalreason END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8140@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara DESCRIPTION:This talk reads contemporary debates about structural racism and US history from the perspective of philosophical questions about iden tity and difference. While many people have argued that America needs to c ome to terms with or “work through” the racism in its history that has sha ped and continues to shape its present structures\, it remains difficult t o explain what connects this past and the present. Are we talking about on e racism with many different past and present forms? Or are there multiple racisms that only share some similar features? In this talk\, I draw atte ntion to how these divisions play out particularly in contemporary Black S tudies and argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resour ces for thinking about these questions through his discussions of repetiti on. I argue that understanding our conversations about structural racism a nd history as conversations about a racism that repeats\, can help us to b etter understand why racism seems to reappear\, how to think its disparate forms together\, and what presuppositions operate in many attempts to “wo rk through” the past.
\nBio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and re search explores the relationships between 20th Century Continental Philoso phy\, Critical Philosophy of Race\, and Queer Theory. His work has appear ed in Theory and Event\, Puncta\, Philosophy Today\, Critical Philosophy o f Race\, Political Theology\, and other venues. His current research proje ct is particularly interested in engaging work in Continental Philosophy\, Queer Theory\, and Black Studies to address questions of identity and dif ference amongst concepts of race\, forms of racism\, and forms of anti-rac ism. How can we better account for the relations between at times radicall y disparate concepts\, structures\, and practices such that they can all s pecifically and recognizably be called racial? What might our account of t hese relations say about our ability to address racism’s harms?
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Strange Returns: Racism\, Repetition and Working Through the Past presented by Eyo Ewara URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/strange-returns-racism-r epetition-and-working-through-the-past-presented-by-eyo-ewara/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:history\,race X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8154@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYC Wittgenstein Workshop
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\nRoom 1101\, 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003 p> DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T180000 GEO:+40.736924;-73.992688 LOCATION:Room 1101 @ Albert and Vera List Academic Center\, New York\, NY 1 0003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Television with Cavell in Mind: the Ethics and Politics of Popular Series. Sandra Laugier URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/television-with-cavell-i n-mind-the-ethics-and-politics-of-popular-series-sandra-laugier/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8144@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/robertpippinbresson DESCRIPTION:
The Philosophy Film Club and Liberal Studies present a scree ning of Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959) and discussion led by Robert Pippin (U Chicago).
\nGenerally considered one of Bresson’s g reatest works\, Pickpocket tells an “incomparable story of crime and redemption … A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and p rofoundly spiritual of filmmakers\, Pickpocket is an elegantly cr afted\, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and gra ce\, the work of a director at the height of his powers” (Criterion Collec tion).
\nRobert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought\, the Department of Philosophy\, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the autho r of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philos ophy\, including Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form (Unive rsity of Chicago Press\, 2020)\, Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee’ s Jesus Fictions (Oxford University Press\, 2021)\, Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts (Univ ersity of Chicago Press\, 2021)\, and most recently\, The Culmination: Heidegger\, German Idealism\, and the Fate of Philosophy (Chicago: U niversity of Chicago Press\, 2024).
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T210000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussio n) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/robert-pippin-discusses- bressons-pickpocket-screening-discussion/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:film X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/robertpippinbresson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8141@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons DESCRIPTION:In the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Han nah Arendt turns to the danger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveries and evolutions that are constitutive of modernity (globaliz ation\, Protestantism\, the invention of the telescope)\, modern man has a dopted an Archimedean\, external position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt\, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experie nce of a shared world\, endangering the foundation of all meaning-giving a ctivities.
\nMy talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessim istic account of modern ‘world-alienation’. It builds on the idea that som e of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger \, Georg Lukács\, Ernst Bloch\, Theodor Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, Aby Wa rburg\, Sigmund Freud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Rather\, the conceptual framework of a substantial part o f early twentieth century German philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposition\, negation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of these thinkers\, the world’s ‘durability’ (Arendt) is not simply a source of shared meaning since it can be experienced as the mark of its indifference to change and renewal.
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Stéphane Symons is Full Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven\, Belgium. His research is focused on interwar German thought (Frankfurt School) and postwar French philosop hy (structuralism and post-structuralism).
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Concept of World-Alienation in Twentieth Century German Thought – presented by Stéphane Symons URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-concept-of-world-ali enation-in-twentieth-century-german-thought-presented-by-stephane-symons/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:existentialism\,German X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8156@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:Comparative philosophy is gaining traction in professional a cademic philosophy\, with specialist journals\, organizations\, books\, an d public campaigns. These inroads have been made in canonical areas of phi losophy\, including epistemology\, metaphysics\, logic\, and value theory. Yet comparative philosophy still plays little role in practical applied e thics\, an interdisciplinary research area in which work with practice and policy implications are dominated by the anglophone world. In this articl e\, I explain why comparative work might be especially difficult in this t ype of applied ethics\, and I suggest how comparative philosophers might o vercome these challenges to connect their theoretical work with contempora ry practical issues.
\nWith responses from Wenqing Zhao (CUNY Baruch)
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosoph y Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not ha ve this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside un til the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking n earby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only cont act Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
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Comparative Philosophy Se minar:
\nWhat does it mean to be\, appear\, and act in public? These questions are rarely asked when it comes to the often-diagnosed “structura l transformation” (Habermas) of the public sphere. Yet people have a wide variety of “public experiences” every day: from the simple experience of l eaving the house and moving on the street to highly networked and technolo gically mediated public communication and concerted action. In the project I would like to present in its outlines\, I try to shed light on the qual ity and structure of such “public experiences” using a phenomenological ap proach. In this way\, I want to reclaim public space as an experiential sp ace and argue that experiences matter for the constitution of different ki nds of public spheres and public spaces.
\nHow\, for example\, do ph enomena like visibility\, attention\, relevance\, reality\, trust\, or the ir opposites emerge in public contexts? And how can our individual and col lective experiences of the public retain its high democratic ideals while facing the constant threat of superficial entertainment and self-commercia lization? In contrast to theories that view the public sphere primarily as a system of information\, coordination\, or discourse\, a phenomenologica l approach aims to reveal the ways in which experiences constitute spaces of meaning. Such a disclosure of the world-building function of experience is crucial if we are to understand how people can relate to their public existence and a public world\, how they can integrate into it or fall away from it\, gain or lose trust\, and how a shared world is either built or destroyed.
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\nSophie Loidolt is Professor of philosophy and Chair of Practical Philosophy at the Techn ical University of Darmstadt\, Germany. She is a recurrent visiting profes sor at Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen and the president of the German Society for Phenomenological Research. Most of her education t ook place at the University of Vienna. Research stays brought her to the H usserl-Archives in Leuven\, St. Denis University in Paris\, and the New Sc hool of Social Research in New York.
\nHer work centers on issues in the fields of phenomenology\, political and legal philosophy\, and ethics \, as well as transcendental philosophy and philosophy of mind. Her book < em>Phenomenology of Plurality. Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivit y (Routledge 2017) won the Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in 2018. Other books include: Anspruch und Rechtfertigung. Eine Theorie des re chtlichen Denkens im Anschluss an die Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls (Springer 2009)\, Einführung in die Rechtsphänomenologie (Mohr Si ebeck 2010\; Japanese translation will appear in 2024).
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:On Being\, Appearing\, and Acting in Public. Towards a Phenomenolog ical Theory of the Public Realm – presented by Sophie Loidolt URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/on-being-appearing-and-a cting-in-public-towards-a-phenomenological-theory-of-the-public-realm-pres ented-by-sophie-loidolt/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:phenomenology\,public X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/sophieloidolt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8106@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T151129Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:Comparative Philosophy Seminar:
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