BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/curiosity-creativity- and-complexity DESCRIPTION:
How does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make deci sions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?
\nThe conference showcases cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscience and Psychology (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exp loration\, decision-making\, information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artificial intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic moti vation) and Economics (decision making and information demand). Alongside formal presentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions am ong faculty\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poste r presentations.
\nSubmissions for poster presentations and travel a wards are due February 15\, 2023. Please visit the call for submissions for complete requirements.
\nFree and open to the public. Registratio n is required and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow C olumbia’s COVID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to p rovide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email events@zi.colu mbia.edu with any questions.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230526 GEO:+40.816847;-73.957958 LOCATION:Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) @ 3227 Br oadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Curiosity\, Creativity and Complexity Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/curiosity-creativity-and -complexity-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,decision theory\,mind\,psych ology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8048@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z 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:20240329T104403Z 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-7709@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z 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:20240329T104403Z 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-7774@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z 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-7863@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z 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
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
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:20240329T104403Z 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).
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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-8025@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/designing-space DESCRIPTION:How do we experience space? And what does this mean for the spaces we design? We explore these questions by bringing together speakers from Architecture\, Neuroscience\, and Virtual Reality\, with two specifi c aims: First\, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn from each other\, as two distinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spatial experience has long been a central question of Architecture\, Virt ual Reality is only beginning to grapple with these questions\, as technol ogy transitions from 2D screens to 3D spatial interfaces. Second\, we expl ore the nature of spatial experience itself\, with two approaches to under standing the human mind. Whilst contemporary Architecture is influenced by Philosophy (specifically the “Phenomenological” tradition)\, the tools of Neuroscience are increasingly being applied to questions of Architecture as well. Through this multidisciplinary exchange we hope to deepen our und erstanding of spatial experience\, and how it informs the physical and vir tual spaces we design.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required via Eventbrite. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link from Eventbrite. Please email presidentialscholars@columbia.edu with any questions.
\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series . Co-sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advance d Studies in America and the Zuckerman Instit ute at Columbia University.
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilitie s. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at le ast 10 days in advance of the event. For more information\, please visit t he campus accessibility webpage.
\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-8031@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z 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-8107@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T104403Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age DESCRIPTION: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.
\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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