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-7950@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141959Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/conception-and-its-discontents DESCRIPTION:
A 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-7653@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141959Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/robert-iliffe-thousan d-fictions-cultism-and-delusional-metaphysics-newton-leibniz-disputes DESCRIPTION: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-7709@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141959Z 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-7740@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141959Z 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.
\nThe 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-7759@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141959Z 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.”
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-7963@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141959Z 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-7983@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141959Z 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