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-7763@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z 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
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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
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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-8006@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/111406 DESCRIPTION:Ideas about “identity” and “difference” proliferate in the n ews media\, in higher education\, in political disputations\, and in criti cal theories of society. Claims about “identity” and “difference” can rea dily be found at work in a wide variety of typologies\, including those of race\, class\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, religion\, nationality\, political affiliation\, ability and disability\, animality and humanity\, etc. But what exactly do we mean when we speak of “identity” or “differen ce”? And if we achieve greater clarity about the metaphysical presupposit ions and implications of “identity” and “difference\,” what difference wou ld that make?
\nA serious metaphysical examination of “identity” and “difference” will expectedly generate a wide variety of questions. Is di scourse about what is “identical” reducible to discourse about what is “th e same”? Is discourse about what is “different” reducible to discourse ab out what is “other”? Can something be “the same” without being “identical \,” and can something be “other” without being “different”? When we speak about “being\,” does our speaking about it have many different senses (is it spoken of analogically)\, or instead does our speaking about being alw ays have the same sense (is it spoken of univocally)? Does the “identity” of a thing depend mainly on the thing’s status as an individual\, or does it depend instead on the thing’s membership in a general kind? Does an u nderstanding of identity depend on some reference to what is different? O r does an understanding of difference depend on some reference to identity ? What is the relation of knowing to being: is it one of identity\, or di fference\, or some combination of both? Is it possible for a knower to di scern real differences between things without discerning intelligible diff erences\, or does the indiscernibility of intelligible differences imply t hat there are no real differences at all but rather an identity? Does dif ference depend on negation\, or can one assert that there is difference wi thout having to assert that something is “not”? Does it make sense to spe ak of an ontological difference\, i.e.\, a difference between Being and be ings\, or is it senseless – maybe even useless – to speak of a difference between Being and beings? Is “being” different from “nothing\,” or is it possible for differences to exist only among beings (in which case there apparently cannot be a difference between “being” and “nothing”)?
\nIn spite of the virtual ubiquity of discourses about identity and differen ce\, there is a dearth of discourse about the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of “identity and difference.” With its choice of confer ence theme for 2024 (“Identity\, Difference\, and the Difference that Meta physics Makes”)\, the Metaphysical Society of America wishes to provoke de eper thinking about the metaphysics of identity and difference\, with the hope that such deeper thinking will make a meaningful difference in both t heory and practice.
\nProposals for papers on the conference theme a re especially encouraged\, but papers on other metaphysical topics are als o welcome. Please note: when selecting which submissions to accept for th is conference\, the Program Committee will regard “relevance to theme” as one important criterion among others.
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\nGuidelines for the Submission of Abstracts\, and for Aristotle and Plato Prize Candidates
\nAbstracts of approximately 500 words should be submitted electronically by September 3 0\, 2023\, to: secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.
\nAristotle Pri ze: Those wishing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize of the Meta physical Society should submit full papers along with their abstracts. El igibility for the Aristotle Prize extends only to persons who have not yet earned a Ph.D.. Those wishing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize s hould express this wish clearly in the email note that accompanies their s ubmission. Papers submitted for the Aristotle Prize are subject to a 3\,7 50 word limit\; this word limit applies to the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not to footnotes or other supporting material. The Aristotle Prize carries a cash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the costs associated with attending the meeting. To b e considered for the Aristotle Prize\, full papers and abstracts must be s ubmitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.
\nPlato Prize: Those wishing to be considered for the Plato Priz e of the Metaphysical Society should submit full papers along with their a bstracts. Eligibility for the Plato Prize extends only to persons who rec eived a Ph.D. degree within six years of the conference submission date (i .e.\, persons who hold a Ph.D. degree which was conferred after September 30\, 2017). Those wishing to be considered for the Plato Prize should exp ress this wish clearly in the email note that accompanies their submission . Papers submitted for the Plato Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit \; this word limit applies to the body of the text to be read at the meeti ng\, and not to footnotes or other supporting material. The Plato Prize c arries a cash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance wi th the costs associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Plato Prize\, full papers and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.
\nTravel Grants< /u>: Thanks to the generous support of past presidents of the MSA and a gr ant from the Hocking-Cabot Fund for Systematic Philosophy\, the Metaphysic al Society is pleased to be able to offer reimbursements for travel expens es up to $350 to graduate students whose papers are selected for the confe rence program (those wishing to receive such reimbursements must provide t he Metaphysical Society with all relevant expense-receipts).
\nThose who submit abstracts\, and those who submit full papers plus abstracts fo r the Aristotle Prize or Plato Prize\, will receive notice of the Program Committee’s decision on their submission no later than December 1\, 2023.< /p>\n
\n< p>Tickets: https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org /2024/2024_meeting.htm. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240311 GEO:+40.77103;-73.985096 LOCATION:Lowenstein Building\, Fordham University\, Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Metaphysical Society of America Conference: Identity\, Difference\, and the Difference that Metaphysics Makes URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/metaphysical-society-of- america-conference-identity-difference-and-the-difference-that-metaphysics -makes/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,identity\,metaphysics X-COST:$70-120 X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/2024_meeting.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8089@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/unmasking-objectivity/home DESCRIPTION: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\nPresented by Metro Area Philosophers of Science
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T183000 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Plaza View Room\, 12th Flr @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th S t\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Indefinite Causal Ordering. Elise Crull (CUNY) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/indefinite-causal-orderi ng-elise-crull-cuny/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:causality\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7896@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z 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-7897@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z 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-7903@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Seen from a distance\, competing views of laws of nature att
end to different aspects of their target concept. The Best System Analysis
(‘BSA’) focuses on the role of laws in systematizing our thoughts about p
articular facts\, while non-Humean (‘realist’) views focus on whatever it
is – N-relations among universals\, powers – that pushes the universe from
one state to another. Nothing stops us from combining these views: with t
he BSA\, we can restrict the laws of science to summarizing particulars\,
while at the same time\, with our preferred realism\, positing a ‘driver’
that makes those particulars as they are.
\nSo far\, there have been
only a few attempts to hybridize the BSA with some form of realism\, and t
hen only with the powers view. I argue that there is a deep assumption wov
en into the fabric of realism from Descartes’s time on: that the laws of a
science report on facts\, which in turn either are or involve the realist
’s chosen driver. I argue that the best-known attempt to hybridize the BSA
with a power’s view – Heather Demarest’s potency-BSA – still makes this C
artesian assumption\, and faces significant objections as a result. The le
sson is that anyone attempting to create hybrids should abandon that assum
ption entirely. After formulating what I take to be a more defensible powe
rs-BSA hybrid\, I go on to show how one might cross-breed the BSA with pri
mitivism and with the universals view. By abandoning the Cartesian assumpt
ion\, we can create hybrids that are considerably more defensible than the
ir realist parents.
Location: Plaza View Room\, 1 2th Floor\, Lowenstein Building of Fordham Lincoln Center (113 W 60th St).
\nDirections: Enter at the corner of 60th and Colu mbus\, and have a university ID ready. Please tell the security that you a re attending an event hosted by the philosophy department. To get the Plaz a View Room\, take the escalators one floor up to find the elevators. Only some elevators go up to the 12th floor\; for those that only go to the 11 th floor\, go to 11 and turn to the center of the main hallway to see a st airway to 12. Upon arriving at the 12th floor\, take a right and walk all the way to the end through the doors. Please email Peter Tan (ptan8@fordham.edu) for any issues.
\nDue to technical limitations\, the talk will be in-person only.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T183000 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Plaza View Room\, 12th Floor\, @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60 th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How to Breed Hybrid Accounts of Laws of Nature. Walter Ott (UVA) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-to-breed-hybrid-acco unts-of-laws-of-nature-walter-ott-uva/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7941@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z 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:20240328T224045Z 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-8046@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z 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.
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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-8051@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T224045Z 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.
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