\n
\n\n
Tickets: https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7.
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NY 10016\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:50 Years of Naming and Necessity
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/50-years-of-naming-and-n
ecessity/
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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.
\n
About
\n
The 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.
\n
The 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:
\n
\n- What cognitive capacities\, if any\, do current de
ep learning systems possess?
\n- What cognitive capacities might fut
ure deep learning systems possess?
\n- What kind of representations
can we ascribe to artificial neural networks?
\n- Could a large lang
uage model genuinely understand language?
\n- What do deep learning
systems tell us about human cognition\, and vice versa?
\n- How can
we develop a theoretical understanding of deep learning systems?
\n- How do deep learning systems bear on philosophical debates such as ration
alism vs empiricism and classical vs. nonclassical views of cognition.
\n- What are the key obstacles on the path from current deep learning s
ystems to human-level cognition?
\n
\n
A 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).
\n
Conference speakers
\n
\n
Call
for abstracts
\n
We 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).
\n
\n
https://philevents.org/event/show/106406
\n
Tick
ets: https://ww
w.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-45392473
0087.
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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/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://saulkripkecenter.org/index.php/2023/02/02/saul-kripke-memor
ial-conference/
DESCRIPTION:
Lectures:
\n
Romina Birman\, Paul Boghossian\, Michael
Devitt\, Hartry Field\, Melvin Fitting\, Daniel Isaacson\, Carl Posy\, Rob
ert Stalnaker
\n
Reminiscences:
\n
James Burgess\, David Chalmer
s\, Mircea Dumitru\, Margaret Gilbert\, Antonella Mallozzi\, Oliver Marsha
ll\, Yiannis Moschovakis\, Stephen Neale\, Gary Ostertag\, David Papineau\
, Graham Priest\, Teresa Robertson Ishii\, Nathan Salmon\, Larry Tribe\, l
akovos Vasiliou\, Timothy Williamson
\n
For more information contact
kripkecenter@gc.cuny.edu
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230510
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:Elebash Recital Hall\, CUNY Grad Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\,
NY 10016\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Saul Kripke Memorial Conference
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/saul-kripke-memorial-con
ference/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent
CONTACT:https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/phlip/phlip-8/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
Philosophical Linguistics and L
inguistical Philosophy (PhLiP) 8 will take place November 9-12\, 2023 at
the Tarrytown Estate in
Westchester\, NY.
\n
\n
\n
Program Committee
\nKai von Fintel\, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
\nChris Kennedy\, University of Chicago
\nKaren Lewis\, Barnard College/Columbia Univer
sity
\nUna Stojnić\, Prince
ton University
\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231113
GEO:+41.050281;-73.858263
LOCATION:Tarrytown Estate @ 49 E Sunnyside Ln\, Tarrytown\, NY 10591\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy (PhLiP) 8
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophical-linguistic
s-and-linguistical-philosophy-phlip-8/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:
We’re a community of philosophers of lang
uage centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a spe
aker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of lang
uage.\n
During Spring 2020\, we’ll meet online on Mondays from 3pm u
ntil 5pm (Eastern Time). Details and zoom links will be posted on this sit
e. Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome!
\n
\n
\n
September 20th (special time: 4:3
0–6pm)
\nDiego Feinmann
(ENS\, Jean Nicod\, Paris)
\n
September 27th
\nTBD
\n
Octob
er 4th
\nNajoung Kim (Jonh
s Hopkins)
\n
October 18th
\nCian Dorr (NYU)
\n
October 25th
\nZoltán Szabó (Yale)
\n
November 1st
(special time: 4:30–6pm)
\nRichard M
oore (Warwick)
\n
November 8th
\nYimei Xiang (Rutgers)
\n
November 15th
\nTBD
\n
November 22nd
\nRyan
Nefdt (Cape Town)
\n
November 29th
\nTBD
\n
December 6t
h
\nTBD
\n
December 13th
\nKit Fine (NYU)
\n
\n
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The New York Philosophy of Language Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-new-york-philosophy-
of-language-workshop/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://saulkripkecenter.org/index.php/2022/01/20/kripkean-necessit
ies-imaginative-kripke-puzzles-and-semantic-transparency/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
The Saul Kripke Center is pleas
ed to announce that James Shaw (Associate Professor\, Philosophy\, Univers
ity of Pittsburgh) will deliver a talk on Thursday\, February 17th\, 2022\
, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (NY time) via Zoom. The talk is free and open to al
l\, but those interested in attending should email the Saul Kripke Center
in advance to register if they are not part of the CUNY Graduate
Center’s Philosophy Program or are not on the Saul Kripke Center’s mailing
list.
\n
Title: Kripkean Necessities\, Imaginative
Kripke Puzzles\, and Semantic Transparency
\n
Abstract: Kripke (1980) famously argued that some a posteriori statements are ne
cessary when true. I begin by exploring an unusual technique to try to lea
rn these necessities merely through imagination that I call “Semantic Imag
inative Transfer”. I explore an idealized instance of this technique which
I suggest leads to an imaginative variant of Kripke’s (1979) puzzle about
belief. I note that on some widespread assumptions (including that propos
itional idiom can be maintained in the face of Kripke puzzles)\, the ideal
ized example restricts the space for accommodating Kripkean necessities to
two families of views: familiar\, broadly Guise-Theoretic approaches to p
ropositional attitudes\, and unconventional and largely unexplored views e
mbracing semantic transparency principles. I briefly review some of the hi
story of transparency principles\, make some conjectures as to why they we
nt out of fashion following the work of semantic externalists (including K
ripke)\, and make a plea for exploring the consequences of their adoption.
Along the way I note the significance of doing so: the transparency princ
iples render Kripkean necessities a priori.
\n
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LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Kripkean Necessities\, Imaginative Kripke Puzzles\, and Semantic Tr
ansparency. James Shaw (U Pittsburgh)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/kripkean-necessities-ima
ginative-kripke-puzzles-and-semantic-transparency-james-shaw-u-pittsburgh/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:
During Fall 2022\, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7
:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Philosophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Our
schedule of speakers is below.
\n
RSVP Requirement: If you do
not have an NYU ID\, you will have to RSVP at least a week before the firs
t workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for u
ploading your proof of vaccination. We have made a single RSVP form where you c
an RSVP for all of the semester’s workshops at once\, or for as many as yo
u think you might attend. (Hopefully you will also only have to upload you
r proof of vaccination once\, but we’re not sure.) So\, if you don’t have
an NYU ID\, you can RSVP now!
\n
Fall 2022 Speakers
\n
Se
ptember 19
\nTal Lin
zen (NYU)
\n
October 3
\nNatasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
\n
Octobe
r 10
\nCraige Roberts (OSU)
\n
October 17
\nJustin Khoo (MIT)
\n
Octob
er 24
\nJosh Knobe (Yale)
\n
November 7
\nSadhwi Srinivas (William & Mar
y)
\n
November 14
\nElmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
\n
November 21
\nRobert Stalnaker (MIT)
\n
November 28
\nJonathan Phillips<
/a> (Dartmouth)
\n
December 5
\nAndrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbo
n Nova)
\n
December 12
\nGretchen Ellefson (Southern Utah)
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Language Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-of-language-w
orkshop-12/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:
DESCRIPTION:
The NYU Mind\, Ethics\, and P
olicy Program is thrilled to be hosting a talk by David Chalmers on whethe
r large language models can be sentient.
\n
About the talk
\nArtificial intelligence systems—especially large language mo
dels\, giant neural networks trained to predict text from the internet—hav
e recently shown remarkable abilities. There has been widespread discussio
n of whether some of these language models might be sentient. Should we ta
ke this idea seriously? David Chalmers will discuss the underlying issue a
nd try to break down the strongest reasons for and against.
\n
The talk\, which is free and open to the public\,
will take place on October 13 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm ET. The in-person loc
ation will be Jurow Lecture Hall (inside the Silver Center at 32 Waverly P
lace)\, and the virtual location will be Zoom (you can sign up to receive
a link by clicking “Register here” below). There will also be a light rece
ption from 6:30-7:30pm in the Silverstein Lounge (immediately outside of t
he Jurow Lecture Hall).
\n
– If you pl
an to attend in person\, please be prepared to show proof of full vaccinat
ion.
\n– If you plan to attend virtually\, please check your email fo
r a link in advance of the event.
\n
About the speaker
\nDavid Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural
Science and co-director of the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness
at NYU. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (1996)\, Constructing the
World (2010)\, and Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
(2022). He co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Conscio
usness and the PhilPapers Foundation. He is known for formulating the “har
d problem” of consciousness\, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard
Problem\, and for the idea of the “extended mind\,” which says that the to
ols we use can become parts of our minds.
\n
Thank you to our co-sponsors for your generous support of this
event:
\n
\n- \n
NYU Center for Bioethi
cs
\n \n- \n
NYU Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousnes
s
\n \n- \n
NYU Minds\, Brains\, and Machines Initiative
\n \n
\n
Tickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
e/1FAIpQLSdKX7ETjulX7mLhH0D9rxHFHVM29ug-mDWdfgVbhzJBQICFCA/viewform?usp=sf
_link.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T183000
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LOCATION:Jurow Lecture Hall\, Silver Center NYU @ 32 Waverly Pl\, New York\
, NY 10003\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Are Large Language Models Sentient? David Chalmers
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/are-large-language-model
s-sentient-david-chalmers/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher
DESCRIPTION:
Abstract:
\n
As a specific form of rig
hts insecurity the revocability of reproductive rights manifests contradic
tory understandings (privative and productive) of the political status of
pregnancy.
\n
I ask how and why we should understand reproductive rig
hts as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and
suggesting a conjoined vocabulary that includes conditionality\, exceptio
nality\, and disqualifying qualification.
\n
I ask: what kind of gram
mar might help us understand more specifically how the concurrent action o
f conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, se
curity\, necropower\, and neoliberal expectation) coordinate together in r
elation to reproductive rights-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combination
s of power also produce a mutual disruptiveness\, even auto-critique\, man
ifesting as conflictual embodiment.
\n
External visitors must comply
with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschoo
l.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.
\n
\n
Audienc
e members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and boost
er if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\n
Tickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophy
colloquiumpennydeutscher#rsvp.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T200000
GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\,
USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Revokable Rights and their Grammar of Power: Post Roe\, Post Foucau
lt. Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern U)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/revokable-rights-and-the
ir-grammar-of-power-post-roe-post-foucault-penelope-deutscher-northwestern
-u/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
We’re a community of philosophers of
language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which
a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of
language.
\n
During Spring 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 6-8pm in
room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Anyone w
ith an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.
\n
\n
\n
\n
February 6
\nAilís Cournane (NYU)
\n
February 13
\nBianca Cepollar
o (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
\n
February 27
\nJanek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod\, ENS)
\n
March 6
\nDan Hoek (Virginia Tech)
\n
March 20
\nMatt Moss (Vassar)
\n
March
27
\nWill Merrill (NYU)
\n
April 3
\nDevin Morse (Columbia)
\n
April 10
\nFlorian Schwarz (Penn)
\n
April 1
7
\nAndrea Iacona (Tu
rin)
\n
April 24
\nTyler Kno
wlton (Penn)
\n
May 1
\nA
ndy Egan (Rutgers)
\n
May 8
\nPrerna Nadathur (OSU)
\n
RSVP: If you don’t have a
n NYU ID\, and if you haven’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academ
ic year\, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailin
g your name\, email address\, and phone number to Jac
k Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu no lat
er than 10am on the morning of the talk. This is required by NYU in order
to access the building. When you arrive\, please be prepared to show proof
of vaccination and boosters at the request of the security guard.
\n
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DESCRIPTION:
\n
Our speaker on Monday\, February 13t
h will be Bianca Cepollaro\, who is a Research Fellow at the
Faculty of Philosophy in University Vita-Salute San Raffaele. Bianca will
give a talk called ‘(Not Necessarily Credible) Deniability’:
\n
Dinges and Zakkou’s 2022 analyze deniability as an epistemic notion
. For them\, a speaker has deniability with respect to the proposition tha
t they meant something just in case their audience does not know what they
meant\, possibly thanks to their denial. In this paper\, we illustrate tw
o kinds of cases that challenge their account\, in order to argue that den
iability cannot be so understood. The first kind of scenario shows how the
ir epistemic understanding of deniability does not provide sufficient cond
itions for deniability\; the second one suggests that their conditions are
not necessary either. Our goal here is entirely negative: we aim to do a
ground-clearing job\, providing reasons why deniability cannot be understo
od in certain ways\, and leave the articulation of an alternative proposal
for future work.
\nWe’re a community of philosophers o
f language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which
a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy o
f language.
\nDuring Spring 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 6-8pm i
n room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Anyone
with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.
\n\n
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T080000
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USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Bianca Cepollaro “(Not Necessarily Credible) Deniability”
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/bianca-cepollaro-not-nec
essarily-credible-deniability/
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CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:
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We’re a community of philosophers of
language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which
a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of
language.
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During Fall 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 5:00–7:00p
m in room 103 of the NYU Linguistics Building (10 Washington Place). Anyon
e with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.
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S
eptember 11
\nKate Ritchie (UC
Irvine)
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September 18
\n(no workshop)
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September 25
\n(no workshop)
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October 2
\nGiorgio Sbardol
ini (ILLC\, Amsterdam)
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October 9
\nSoeren Knudstorp (ILLC\, Amsterdam)
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October 16
\nMaria Aloni (ILLC\, Amster
dam)
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October 23
\nPaula Rubio Fernandez (Max Planck Institut
e for Psycholinguistics\, Nijmegen)
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October 30
\nDanny Fox (MIT)
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November 6
\nSimon Charlow (Rutger
s)
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November 13
\nKev
in Richardson (Duke)
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November 20
\nLilia Rissman (Rochester)
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November 27
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Karen Lewis (Columbia)
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December 4
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Guillermo Del Pinal (UMass Amherst)
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December 11
\nHenry Schiller (Sheffield/Pitt)
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Language Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-of-language-w
orkshop-14/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
still scheduled\, but zoom link for those who can’t travel:
https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/8479688193
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Throughout the 21st century
\, philosophers of language have increasingly concerned themselves with th
e hateful\, coercive\, dehumanizing\, and deadly. In particular\, ‘non-ide
al’ philosophers of language question whether received conceptual toolkits
from philosophy of language manage to make contact with our non-ideal wor
ld at all. This paper takes up that methodological interest from a Wittgen
steinian perspective. Drawing on critical interventions by Nancy Bauer\, A
vner Baz\, Alice Crary\, Cora Diamond\, and Toril Moi\, I argue that non-i
deal philosophers of language neutralize their ideology-critical bite when
they presume an authoritative force for their words by virtue of a normat
ively neutral conception of reason. This neutralization is driven and sust
ained by an idle picture of language that isolates our words from the acti
vities into which they are woven. To make discursive phenomena available i
n their political import\, we philosophers of language must acknowledge ou
r own non-neutral involvement in the very discursive practices we’re theor
izing – and this will require us to relinquish the entitlement to impose a
uthoritative requirements on language through theories of meaning.
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To illustrate the need for normatively non-neutral methods in philosophic
al practice\, I focus on cases where philosophers’ curious gaze treats tra
ns people
\nas fascinating objects of knowledge\, as opposed to ackno
wledging us as interlocutors and recognizing the political stakes of our d
iscursive practices. What inhibits the cultivation of acknowledgement\, of
normatively resonant modes of attention\, is a picture of philosophical t
heorizing that forbids us from articulating our political solidarities thr
ough our work (and thus obfuscates what we ourselves are doing with words
when theorizing). The non-ideal philosopher’s critical concept of idealiza
tion\, seen aright in a normatively non-neutral light\, exemplifies the so
rt of theoretical resource that is mobilized by members of marginalized gr
oups to invite such modes of attention – to shape not only our epistemic r
esources\, but also our senses of what matters.
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SUMMARY:The Availability of the Non-Ideal: to an Engaged Philosophy of Lang
uage. Nikki Ernst (U Pittsburgh)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-availability-of-the-
non-ideal-to-an-engaged-philosophy-of-language-nikki-ernst-u-pittsburgh/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
The virtually ubiquitous view of seeing-as experiences in Wi
ttgenstein scholarship interprets them as conceptually-laden (with some ex
ceptions\, e.g. Travis 2016). The claim is that we can see the same image
differently due to switching the conceptual filters\, as it were\, through
which we experience the image (e.g. Schroeder 2010\; Mulhall 2001). In th
is paper I focus on a specific kind of a seeing-as experience for which Wi
ttgenstein’s example of suddenly noticing the similarity between faces is
the paradigm. I argue that it is possible to have no concepts involved in
this experience\, and propose an understanding of what I call “the imagist
ic seeing-as” as a similarity association\, of the kind that grounds poeti
c means of expression\, such as metaphors. The associative nature of this
imagistic seeing-as experience may also contribute to the understanding of
biases – both personal (e.g. displaced offence) and social (e.g. sexism).
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SUMMARY:An Imagistic Seeing-As: from Faces to Metaphors and Biases. Talia M
orag (U Wollongong)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-imagistic-seeing-as-f
rom-faces-to-metaphors-and-biases-talia-morag-u-wollongong/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:
We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in Ne
w York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a pie
ce of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.
\n
Durin
g Spring 2024\, we will meet on Mondays\, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the N
YU Philosophy Building (5 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in ph
ilosophy of language is welcome.
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RSVP: If you don’t have an
NYU ID\, and if you haven’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academi
c year\, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing
your name\, email address\, and phone number to Jack
Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is requ
ired by NYU in order to access the building. When you arrive\, please be p
repared to show government ID to the security guard.
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January 22nd<
br />\nRose Ryan Flinn (NYU)
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January 29th
\nZeynep Soysal (Rochester)<
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February 5th
\nKar
en Lewis (Barnard/Columbia)
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February 12th
\nWillow Starr (Cornell)
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February 19th
\n(No workshop)
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February 26th
\nJeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)
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Mar
ch 4th
\nJulian Jara-Ettinger (Yale)
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March 11th
\nJames Walsh (NYU)
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Marc
h 18th
\n(no workshop)
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March 25th
\nCal Howland (Rutgers)
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April 1st
\n(no workshop)
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April 8th
\nSam Cumming (UCLA)
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April 15th
\nEno Agolli (Rut
gers)
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April 22md
\n(no workshop)
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April 2
9th
\nViola Sc
hmitt (Humbolt University Berlin/MIT)
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May 6th
\nBob Beddor (Florida)
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Language Workshop
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orkshop-15/
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