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-7821@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T000346Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/Calendar/events/fall-2022/arts-a nd-pragmatism-.html DESCRIPTION:
Advance Registration Required\; RSVP details coming soon
\nLa Maison Française is pleased to host the second symposium of Arts a
nd Pragmatism. Join us for two days of fascinating talks and encounters at
the intersection of philosophy and artistic practice under the direction
of Sandra Laugier and Yann Toma.
\nwith the support of Panthéon Sorbo
nne University\, Politique scientifique program\, Global Works and Society
\, Liberal Studies\, and La Maison Française at New York University.
Full program details to follow.
\n*We are so excited to welcome t he general public back to most events at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Instr uctions for attending events in-person will be confirmed shortly before ea ch event. Please note that NYU requires all visitors to provide official p roof (in English) that they are fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID -19. Additional details to follow.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221026 GEO:+40.731147;-73.995378 LOCATION:La Maison Française NYU & Zoom @ 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, N Y 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Arts and Pragmatism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/arts-and-pragmatism/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,pragmatism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T000346Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/ DESCRIPTION:A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, or ganized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholar s in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the < a href='https://wp.nyu.edu/consciousness/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'> Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New York University.
\nThe conference will explore current issue s in AI research from a philosophical perspective\, with particular attent ion to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to brin g together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these system s in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limi tations\, and their relationship to human cognition.
\nThe conferenc e will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science ( rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:
\nA pre-conference debate o n Friday\, March 24th will tackle the question “Do large language models n eed sensory grounding for meaning and understanding ?”. Speakers include < a href='https://www.berggruen.org/people/jacob-browning/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Jacob Browning (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York U niversity)\, Yann LeCun (New York University)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI).
\nWe invite abstract submissions for a few short talk s and poster presentations related to the topic of the conference. Submiss ions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to p hildeeplearning@gmail.com by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).
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https://philevents.org/event/show/106406
\nTick ets: https://ww w.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-45392473 0087.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327 GEO:+40.729513;-73.996461 LOCATION:Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness @ New York\, NY 10012\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Deep Learning URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-philosophy-of-deep-l earning/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfa\,cognitive science\,conf erence\,language\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conf erence-tickets-453924730087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7993@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T000346Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Our friends from Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne retur n for a third installment of their symposium Arts & Pragmatism: From Or dinary Aesthetics to Post Creation.
\nThis day-long symposium w ill be chaired by Yann Toma and Sandra Laugier. From the organizers:
\nWe have noticed it during the two previous symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy and in particular Dewey defends the idea that ae sthetics must not only be considered as the search for truths about art an d its creations but also as what concerns the experience of the persons wi th an artwork (a sensitive and active experience). The reception would thu s be the dynamic experience of an incarnated observer\, acting\, feeling i n his senses and his affects what is the work and what it makes him feel.< br />\n
\nThe political stake of the pragmatist aesthetics is to make sure that the strong aesthetic experiences remain open and access ible to the largest public and become even a «matter of ordinary conversat ion». It is then a matter of thinking about shared experience as a transmi ssion of values\, an important phenomenon for the moral\, political\, “edu cational” reflection of adults» (Cavell 1979\, 1981\, Shusterman\, Laugier 2019\, 2023\, Gerrits 2020). Thus\, this question of pragmatism addresses societal issues that concern all audiences\, not just from a broadcast/tr ansmission perspective. By focusing on experience and agency\, this way of approaching pragmatism involves the cultural audience in a broad way to t he point where it engages mediums such as television and in general digita l cultures.
\nThe concept of Post-Creation\, insofar as it pl ays a form of exteriority to an original Creation\, has all its place in a world where the strong aesthetic experiences remain open and accessible t o a wider public. It is a question of placing the creation beyond what is biased\, in the heart of a form of Third State of the artistic act in char ge of a heuristic and critical potential\, towards a form extracted from t he zone of influence of the world of the art as such. The idea of Post-Cre ation tends towards the universal that would be the fact of conceiving the creation beyond any not institutionalized academism. We will see how a po ssible emulation between the ordinary aesthetic and the shared experience of the Post-Creation is articulated and played\, where the experience of t he creation produces knowledge and transforms what is out of the specific field of perception of the art in so many new acting and reflexive spaces. In that\, the influence of the artistic creation on whole sections of the society\, domains of perception until now inaccessible\, becomes a stake of opening which results from the transformation of a form of ordinary aes thetics in a Post-Creation freed from the aesthetic channels of the contem porary art.
\n\nProgram:
\n10:30AM : Ope ning Yann Toma\, Sandra Laugier and François Noudelmann
\n11: 00AM – 1:00PM : Panel I Pragmatism and the Project of an Ordinary Aestheti cs
\nChair : Yann Toma
\nAndrew Br andel (Penn State University) From the Aesthetics of the Everyday Life to Ordinary Aesthetics.
\nBarbara Formis (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Doings and redoings of the Identical.
\nSandra Laugie r (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Ordinary Creation and Shared Culture.
\nEmmanuel Kattan (Columbia University) What happens when nothing happe ns: Chantal Akerman\, Francis Ponge\, Marisa Merz and the emergence of tim e.
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1:00PM – 3:00PM : Lunch Break
\n\n< p>3:00PM – 6:00PM : Panel II Pragmatism\, Post-Creation\n
Chair : Sandra Laugier
\nYann Toma (Artist/ Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Post-Creation\, a new way of making creation
\nThe example of L’Or bleu.
\nJung Hee Choi (artist an d author of «Manifest Unmanifest») Dream House.
\nDan Thomas < /b>(United Nations Global Compact)\, The importance of Art and Perception in the Diplomatic Way.
\nWarren Neidich (Artist and Founding Director Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art) The Brain Without Organs and th e Ecocene.
\nThis event is organized with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, Politique scientifique program\, and La Maison Française at New York University
\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230404 GEO:+40.731169;-73.995381 LOCATION:La Maison Française @ 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post-Creation URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/arts-pragmatism-from-ord inary-aesthetics-to-post-creation/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,art\,pragmatism X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-pragmatism-from-ordinary-ae sthetics-to-post-creation-tickets-596140822247 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8089@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T000346Z 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\nYejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Profess or and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior direct or at AI2 overseeing the project Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fello w at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. Her resea rch investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge a nd reasoning\, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning\, and va rious other problems in NLP\, AI\, and Vision including neuro-symbolic int egration\, language grounding with vision and interactions\, and AI for so cial good. She is a co-recipient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021)\, 7 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023\, NAACL 2022\, ICML 2022\, NeurIPS 2021\, AAAI 2019\, and ICCV 2013)\, the Borg Early Car eer Award (BECA) in 2018\, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017\, a nd IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T173000 GEO:+40.728638;-73.993631 LOCATION:NYU room 801 @ 708 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/afternoon-talk-with-prof essor-yejin-choi/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8082@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T000346Z 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-8124@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T000346Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/events DESCRIPTION:Join u s for a special live taping of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral status of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global pr iorities research.
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About the speakers
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Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics\, Medical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program\, Director of the Mind\, Ethics\, and Po licy Program\, and Co-Director of the Wil d Animal Welfare Program at New York Univ ersity. He is the author of S aving Animals\, Saving Ourselves (2022) a nd co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (2018) and span>Food\, Animals\ , and the Environment (2018). He is also an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Anim al Protection\, a board member at Minding Animals International\, an advis ory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, a senior researc h fellow at the Legal Priorities Project\, and a mentor at Sentient Media.
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Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a focus on improving human well-being. He’s the founder of < span class='C9DxTc aw5Odc '>ClearerThinking.org\, which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisions and improve their lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Th inking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wave\, an organi zation that conducts psychology research and builds psychology-related pro ducts designed to help benefit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math f rom New York University\, with a specialty in machine learning\, and his w ork has been featured by numerous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Journal\, the Independent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and mor e.
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Thank you to Effective Altruism New York City for their generous s upport of this event.
\nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/ e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform. p> DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000 GEO:+40.730098;-73.995693 LOCATION:Jurow Hall\, Silver Center @ 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 1000 3\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Moral Status of Insects and AI Systems\, and Other Thorny Quest ions in Global Priorities Research. Jeff Sebo and Spencer Greenberg URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-moral-status-of-inse cts-and-ai-systems-and-other-thorny-questions-in-global-priorities-researc h-jeff-sebo-and-spencer-greenberg/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr 5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8140@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T000346Z 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?
\nTi ckets: https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara.
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 END:VCALENDAR