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:20240328T184107Z 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-7831@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Naked Statistical Evidence and Verdictive Justice
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Naked Statistical Evidence and Verdictive Justice. Sherri Roush (UC LA) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/sherri-roush-ucla/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:legal\,statistics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7897@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z 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-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/cynthia-bennett-disab ility-accessibility-and-fairness-artificial-intelligence DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to automate and scale solutions to perennial accessibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image d escriptions for blind users). However\, research shows that AI-bias dispro portionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gen der\, or disabilities\, raising questions about potential impacts in addit ion to AI’s promise. In this talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad co ncerns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She wil l then share details about one project in this research space that led to guidance on human and AI-generated image descriptions that account for sub jective and potentially sensitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and d isability of people in images.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T140000 GEO:+40.841243;-73.940971 LOCATION:Presbyterian Hospital Building (Room PH20-200) @ 622 W 168th St\, New York\, NY 10032\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cynthia Bennett – Disability Accessibility and Fairness in Artifici al Intelligence URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cynthia-bennett-disabili ty-accessibility-and-fairness-in-artificial-intelligence/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7938@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/gwengrewal DESCRIPTION:Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking A bout Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)
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Speakers:
\nGwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR)
\nCinzia A
rruzza (NSSR)
\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)
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Thinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialo gues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philo sophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-heade d sophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are t he ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate bet ween choral ode and rhapsody\, as Plato vacillates between referring to th em in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close readi ng explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-fort h arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersi ve remove from reality\, thinking simulates death even as it cannot concei ve of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme \, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of bei ng disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s t enuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito’s implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the At henian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades . Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thi nking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’ s sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader’s access to the dialogue’s myste ries.
\nThe 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-8051@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/rachanakamtekar DESCRIPTION:
When W.D. Ross poses the question “what makes right acts rig ht?” (The Right and the Good\, ch. 2)\, he is asking a question t hat is prior to\, and has a bearing on\, the practical question “how do I determine the right thing to do?” The Stoics recognize this. Cicero (D e Officio\, where he is referring to Panaetius’ work Peri Kathêk ontos) tells us that every inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a th eoretical part concerned with the end of good and evil deeds\, which addre sses such matters as whether all duties are perfect (omniane official perfecta sint)\, whether some are more important than others\, and wh at the kinds of duties are\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (praecepta) by which our conduct can be made to conform with the end (De Officiis\, 1.7). While Cicero himself focuses on the se cond\, this paper seeks the answer to the first part.
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Ra chana Kamtekar is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell Univer sity and has written on many topics in ancient philosophy and contemporary moral psychology. Her monograph\, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellect ualism\, the Divided Soul and the Desire for Good\, was published in 2017. She is currently working on the relationship between action and cha racter in ancient Greek ethics.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Chrysippus on What Makes Right Acts Right. Rachana Kamtekar (Cornel l) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/chrysippus-on-what-makes -right-acts-right-rachana-kamtekar-cornell/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8032@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202 4 DESCRIPTION:
Verity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy\, with pa rticular research interests in ancient metaphysics\, epistemology and psyc hology\, especially of Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure\, and is the edito r of several important books on ancient philosophy.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Verity Harte (Yale) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/verity-harte-yale/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8140@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z 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 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8141@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184107Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons DESCRIPTION:In the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Han nah Arendt turns to the danger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveries and evolutions that are constitutive of modernity (globaliz ation\, Protestantism\, the invention of the telescope)\, modern man has a dopted an Archimedean\, external position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt\, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experie nce of a shared world\, endangering the foundation of all meaning-giving a ctivities.
\nMy talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessim istic account of modern ‘world-alienation’. It builds on the idea that som e of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger \, Georg Lukács\, Ernst Bloch\, Theodor Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, Aby Wa rburg\, Sigmund Freud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Rather\, the conceptual framework of a substantial part o f early twentieth century German philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposition\, negation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of these thinkers\, the world’s ‘durability’ (Arendt) is not simply a source of shared meaning since it can be experienced as the mark of its indifference to change and renewal.
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Stéphane Symons is Full Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven\, Belgium. His research is focused on interwar German thought (Frankfurt School) and postwar French philosop hy (structuralism and post-structuralism).
\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Concept of World-Alienation in Twentieth Century German Thought – presented by Stéphane Symons URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-concept-of-world-ali enation-in-twentieth-century-german-thought-presented-by-stephane-symons/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:existentialism\,German X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR