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:20240329T015644Z 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-7974@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/visualphicon/ DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosoph y and the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of humanities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wide variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines\, including paintin g\, photography\, and literature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion . Rather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study\, this co nference will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philos ophy and art\, exploring how each can become the object of the other and h ow the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpene d or blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the “visual” and “move ment” element in art of\, and in everyday life and theorize it – both phil osophically and critically.
\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for Social Research and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; U niversity Student Senate and Graduate Faculty Student Senate
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New York City.
\nOn March 24th\, we will meet i n room B500 at 65 W 11 Street.
\nOn March 25th\, we will meet in Sta rr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).
\nF ollowing is the schedule for both days\, (please see the website for detai ls on panels and speakers):
\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker presentations .
\n12:00 pm Panel 1 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n1:15 pm Lu nch break.
\n2:15 pm Panel 2 Speaker presentations.
\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n4:30 pm Evening reception wit h free food and drinks for attendees!
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230325 GEO:+40.735247;-73.997488 LOCATION:B500 @ The New School for Liberal Arts\, 65 W 11th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Visual Philosophy Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/visual-philosophy-confer ence/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,art\,literature END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z 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-7975@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/visualphicon/ DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosoph y and the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of humanities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wide variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines\, including paintin g\, photography\, and literature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion . Rather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study\, this co nference will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philos ophy and art\, exploring how each can become the object of the other and h ow the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpene d or blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the “visual” and “move ment” element in art of\, and in everyday life and theorize it – both phil osophically and critically.
\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for Social Research and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; U niversity Student Senate and Graduate Faculty Student Senate
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New York City.
\nOn March 24th\, we will meet i n room B500 at 65 W 11 Street.
\nOn March 25th\, we will meet in Sta rr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).
\nF ollowing is the schedule for both days\, (please see the website for detai ls on panels and speakers):
\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker presentations .
\n12:00 pm Panel 1 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n1:15 pm Lu nch break.
\n2:15 pm Panel 2 Speaker presentations.
\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n4:30 pm Evening reception wit h free food and drinks for attendees!
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230326 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center @ 63 5th Ave\, Ne w York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Visual Philosophy Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/visual-philosophy-confer ence-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,art\,literature END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7993@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z 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-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z 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-7986@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2023/index.html DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) serie s has established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Bra in Informatics\, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplin ary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuros cience\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main pro blems that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatic s research.
\nThe 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) provides a premier international forum to bring together research ers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original res earch results\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and pr actical development experiences on brain Informatics research\, brain-insp ired technologies and brain/mental health applications.
\nThe key th eme of the conference is “Brain Science meets Artificial Intellige nce“.
\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research a nd application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
\nKeynote Speakers
\nMIT\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, USA
\nProfile: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at M assachusetts General Hospital (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience\, the Associate Director of t he Institute for Medical Engineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of on ly 19 individuals who has been elected to all three branches of the Nation al Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the fir st African American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all th ree National Academies.
\nProfessor Bin He
\nCarnegie Mellon University\, USA
\nProfile: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor of the Neur oscience Institute\, and Professor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. He has made significant res earch and education contributions to the field of neuroengineering and bio medical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noninvasive br ain-computer interface (BCI)\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pionee ring research has helped transforming electroencephalography from a 1-dime nsional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality. His la b demonstrated for the first time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinking about it using a noninvasive BCI. He is an el ected Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineerin g (IAMBE)\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMB E)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He served as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, t he Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering from 201 3-2018\, the Chair of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAIN Initiati ve Multi-Council Working Group from 2014-2019.
\nProfessor J ohn Ngai
\nNIH BRAIN Initiative\, USA
\nProfile
Professor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile
Professor Vinod Goel
\nYork Un iversity\, Canada
\nProfile: Vinod Goel is a profes sor of cognitive neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He co mpleted his PhD in cognitive science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoc toral training in neuroscience at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Departm ent of Cognitive Neurology\, Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has mad e significant empirical contributions to our understanding of the roles of prefrontal cortex in real-world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispher ic asymmetry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodologies of fMRI and lesion studies. He has most recently completed a book reconstructing the role of rationality in human behavior entitled “R eason and Less: Pursuing Food\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022) . His current project is to explore the implications of this work on our u nderstanding of reason and legal responsibility.
\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski
\nCornell University\, USA
\nProfile: Amy Kuceyeski is an Associate Professor of Mathematics an
d Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computationa
l Biology Department at Cornell University. She is the director of the Com
putational Connectomics (CoCo) Laboratory and the Machine Learning in Medi
cine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been working to un
derstand the human brain using quantitative modeling approaches\, includin
g machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological characteristics t
o behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains r
ecover from injury so we can devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive
neuromodulation\, to support natural recovery processes. She also perform
s research at the intersection of biological and artificial neural network
s that aims to understand how human brains process incoming visual informa
tion.
Professor Patrick Purdon
\nHarvard Me dical School\, USA
\nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, P h.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioen gineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College in 1996\, his M.S. in Electr ical Engineering from MIT in 1998\, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineerin g from MIT in 2005. Dr. Purdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthesia\, Alzheimer’s disease and brain health\, ane sthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the deve lopment of novel technologies for brain monitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications\, is an inventor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineer ing. Dr. Purdon has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious Natio nal Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award.
\nI mportant Dates
\nPaper Submission and Publ ications
\nFull Paper (Regular):
\n1. 9-12 pages are
strongly encouraged for the regular papers including figures and reference
s in Springer LNCS Proceedings format(https://www.springer.com/us/computer
-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Over length papers will
be charged for 100$ per page.
\n2. All papers will be peer-reviewed a
nd accepted based on originality\, significance of contribution\, technica
l merit\, and presentation quality.
\n3. All papers accepted (and all
workshop & special sessions’ full-length papers) will be published by Spr
inger as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Serie
s(https://link.springer.com/conference/brain).
Abstract (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions):
\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the ti tle of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.
\nJournal Opportunities:
\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-track review and publication at the Brain Inf ormatics Journal\, (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/) an interna tional\, peer-reviewed\, interdisciplinary Open Access journal published b y Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference paper authors.
\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:
\nWorkshop/special session organizers and BI confere nce session chairs may consider and can be invited to prepare a book propo sal of special topics for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/1 5148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal.
\n1. Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision .
\n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for aut hors of Brain Informatics conference (https://braininformatics.springerope n.com/).
\n3. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are i nvited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/spec ial session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Inf ormatics and Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804 GEO:+40.744623;-74.025399 LOCATION:Stevens Institute of Technology @ 1 Castle Point Terrace\, Hoboken \, NJ 07030\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c onference-on-brain-informatics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfp\,cognitive science\,comm unication\,conference\,information\,mind\,neuroscience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8000@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/110241 DESCRIPTION:Richard J. Bernstein first encountered John Dewey’s pragmati st naturalism as a graduate student at Yale University\, where “Dewey’s n aturalistic vision of the relation of experience and nature—how human bein gs as natural creatures are related to the rest of nature—spoke deeply to me.” This early enthusiasm for Dewey’s naturalistic vision never left him. During the final years of his long life\, Bernstein finished two books th at return to issues of pragmatist naturalism.
\n· His Prag matic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy (2020)\, traces differin g versions of Deweyan naturalism in the works of contemporary philosophers \, including Robert Brandom\, John McDowell\, Richard Rorty\, Wilfrid Sell ars\, Peter Godfrey-Smith\, Philip Kitcher\, Bjorn Ramberg\, David Macarth ur\, Steven Levine\, Mark Johnson\, Robert Sinclair\, Huw Price\, and Jose ph Rouse.
\n· In his final book\, The Vicissitudes of Natu re (2022)\, Bernstein clarifies his own pragmatist naturalis m in relation to the thinking of earlier modern philosophers: Spinoza\, Hu me\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, and Freud.
\nThis conference will critically assess and expand the legacy of Bernstein’s final pragmati c naturalism as expressed in these two books. Accepted papers will be coll ected for publication.
\nThe New York Pragmatist Forum
\nPaper topics may include:
\n● Ber nstein’s discussion of Dewey’s thinking in relation to contemporary philos ophers’ formulations of naturalism in Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey ’s Living Legacy.
\n● Bernstein’s interpretation of an ear lier thinker’s understanding of naturalism or nature in The Vicissitud es of Nature (Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, or F reud).
\n● A larger theme or problem that brings one of these B ernstein’s texts into conversation with philosophical naturalism\, either particular expressions or conceptual issues.
\n● The consequenc es of one or both of these texts for questions of naturalism in relation t o wider social and political questions\, e.g.\, democracy\, praxis\, criti que.
\nAbstracts: Please submit an abstract of no m ore than 500 words to tara@newschool.edu.
\nSubmission Deadline: May 22\, 2023
\nNYPF Conferen ce Committee:
\nSergio Gallegos\, John Jay College of Criminal Justi ce
\nJudith Green\, Fordham University
\nBrendan Hogan\, New Yo
rk University
Tara Mastrelli\, New School for Social Research
\nDavid Woods\, New York University
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham University at Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 11 3 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nature’s Vicissitudes: Richard J. Bernstein’s final pragmatic natur alism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/natures-vicissitudes-ric hard-j-bernsteins-final-pragmatic-naturalism/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,naturalism\,pragmatism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7682@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: The Shenzi Fragments\, numbering a mere 3\,000 or so characters in length\, is all that remains of a work attribut ed to Shen Dao (ca. 350-275 BCE). While perhaps best known for his appeara nce in the Han Feizi as an advocate for positional power (勢 shi)\, he also makes an appearance in the Xunzi as one who is blinded by his focus on 法 fa (models\, standards\, laws). We will examine the fragments that discus s fa in an attempt to come to a deeper understanding of the role that thes e fragments see for the fa\, how they are to be determined\, and why Shen Dao took them to be central to a strong\, stable\, and flourishing state. The fragments\, in classical Chinese with English translations (Harris 201 6)\, are included here as a PDF attachment.
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DA TE: October 22\, 2021
\nTIME: 7:00-8:30 pm
\n\n
This seminar will take place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. T he attached file is an instruction manual to help you familiarize yourself with the program. In addition to familiarizing yourself with the program’ s basic functions\, there are two things we ask you to do before the meeti ng can start. First\, you will need to sign in by typing your name in the chat. Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the m eeting. The privacy policy provided by the Columbia University Seminars Of fice will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will raise your virtual Zoom hand in the Participants panel. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your hand.
\nLead Presenter: Eirik Lang Harris
\nDiscussan ts: Alejandro Bárcenas (Texas State University)\, Yutang Jin (Princeton University)\, Mercedes Valmisa < /a>(Gettysburg College)
\nNote Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secu re online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T203000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Discussion of Fa (法) in the Shenzi: Eirik Lang Harris URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-discussion-of-fa-%e6%b 3%95-in-the-shenzi-eirik-lang-harris/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7699@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://swip-nyc.org/swip-nyc-colloquium/ DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The Noble Lie proposed by Plato for the J ust City in Republic III has been much misunderstood. Its agenda is twofol d: to get the citizens of the City to see their society as a natural entit y\, with themselves as all ‘family’ and akin\; and to get the Guardians in particular to make class mobility\, on which the justice of the City depe nds\, a top priority. Since the second is taken to depend on the first\, t he Lie passage amounts to an argument (1) that the survival of a just comm unity depends on the existence of social solidarity between elite and mass \, which allows for full class mobility and genuine meritocracy\; (2) that this solidarity in turn depends on an ideology of natural unity\; and (3) that such ideologies are always false. So the Lie really is a lie\, but a necessary one\; as such it poses an awkward ethical problem for Plato and \, if he is right\, for our own societies as well.
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Prese nted by SWIP-NYC
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T173000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rachel Barney (U Toronto)\, “The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Nob le Lie” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rachel-barney-u-toronto- the-ethics-and-politics-of-platos-noble-lie/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7751@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/philosophy-library-virtual-20 220322 DESCRIPTION:How can we know what it’s like to be someone else? Cl assical Indian philosophers found the answer in theater\, arguing that it’ s not just a form of entertainment\, but a source of knowledge of other mi nds. In this talk\, I’ll explore how this theme is developed in Śrī Śaṅkuk a (c. 850 CE) and examine the reasons his views were rejected in the later tradition. I’ll argue that those reasons are unsound\, and that we can se e why by turning to contemporary studies of the relationship between knowl edge and luck.
\nJonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. M atilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical tradit ions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind\, metaphysics an d epistemology. His books include Attention\, Not Self (2017)\, a study of early Buddhist theories of attention\; The Concealed Art of the Soul (2012)\, an analysis of the idea of a search for one’s true self\; Virtual Subjects\, Fugitive Selves (2020)\, an analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s philosophy of self\; and Inwardness: An Outsiders’ Guide (2021)\, a review of the concept of inwardness in literature\, film\, poetry\, and philosophy across cultures. He joined the Fellowship o f the British Academy in 2015\, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanitie s the same year\, the only philosopher to do so.
\nThis series is cur ated and co-presented by Brooklyn Public Philosophers\, aka Ian Olasov.
\nTHE COLUMBIA SOCI ETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
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< b>Presents: Li Zehou on the ‘Deep Str uctures of Confucianism’
\nLead Presenter: Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\ , CUNY)
\nDiscussa nts: Robert A. Carleo III (East China Normal University)\, Emma Bucht el (Hong Kong Education University)
\nABSTRACT: Contemporary Chinese intellectual Li Zeh ou’s cross-cultural methodology blends traditional Confucian thought with thinkers such as Kant and Marx. This seminar addresses the question of cul ture and its role in Li’s thought. Li has made several claims about how a settled cultural tradition influences the subjects within it. One such cla im concerns the existence of ‘deep structures’ of Confucianism\, as outlin ed in this preparatory reading . The idea is that culture\, history\, and social practice (col lectively\, a tradition) shape human psychology (including the formation o f concepts\, emotions\, and values) in ways not always apparent to the sub ject. Within the Chinese tradition\, Confucianism constitutes such a deep structure\, and its effects cannot be captured by textual studies alone\, nor studies of material culture. Rather\, the deep structure is articulate d in terms of an emergent shared subjectivity. Such traditions can evolve and ultimately dissolve\; nevertheless\, their effects are deep-rooted. Th is seminar meeting will aim to identify the parameters of Li’s ambitious t heoretical framework and its plausibility\, and to explore connections wit h current work in related fields\, such as cultural and empirical psycholo gy.
\nDATE: Ma rch 25\, 2022
\nTI ME: 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST
\nThis seminar will take place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. Here is an instruction manual to help you familiarize yourself with the program. In addition to fam iliarizing yourself with the program’s basic functions\, there are two thi ngs we ask you to do before the meeting can start. First\, you will need t o sign in by typing your name in the chat. Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the meeting. The privacy policy provided b y the Columbia University Seminars Office will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will raise your virtual Zoom hand in the Participants panel. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your hand.
\nNote Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form \, Giving to Columbia.
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Accessibility Statement: Columbia University encourages p ersons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. Th e University Seminars participants with dis- abilities who anticipate need ing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.85 4.2388 or disability@columbia.edu. Disabili ty accommodations\, including sign-language interpreters\, are available o n request. Requests for accommodations must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public S afety Officer if they need assistance accessing campus.
\nPLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/co mparative-philosophy/
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T200000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Li Zehou. Deep Structures of Confucianism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/li-zehou-deep-structures -of-confucianism/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative\,Confucianism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7758@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2022/4/20/brown-bag-talk-de lio-lauren-kopajtic DESCRIPTION:
“Training the Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith and the Epistolary Novel “
\nLauren Kopajtic
\nFordham University
\nTHE COLUMBIA SOCI ETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
\nWelcomes you to an IN-PERSON meeting:
\n< p class='gmail-p2'>Allison Aitken (Columbia University)\n« A Case against Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology »< /p>\n
With responses from Ale xander Englert (Princeton University)
\nABSTRACT: There’s a c ommon line of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of consci ous experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary\ , Mādhyamika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh-eighth century) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus meta physically impossible. Lacking any unifying principle\, the phenomenal uni ty of conscious experience is instead an ungrounded illusion. In this talk \, I will present an analysis of Śrīgupta’s “neither-one-nor-many argument ” against mental simples and show how his line of reasoning is driven by a set of implicit questions concerning the nature of and relation between c onsciousness and its intentional object. These questions not only set the agenda for centuries of intra-Buddhist debate on the topic\, but they are also questions to which any defender of unified consciousness or a simple subject of experience arguably owes responses.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Case against Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology. All ison Aitken\, Columbia URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-case-against-simple-mi ndedness-srigupta-on-mental-mereology-allison-aitken-columbia/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7780@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.facebook.com/events/367424652118347 DESCRIPTION:
We have a fun (and free\, as always) event tonight a t 7:00 PM at Black Spring Books in Williamsburg! It’s a discussion of the life of the mi nd in fiction and philosophy with the philosopher Skye Cl eary (How to Be Authentic)\, the novelist Christ ine Smallwood (The Life of the Mind)\, and the novelist- physician-neurologist Melodie Winawer (Anticipation em>). If you’re interested in what intellectual life means\, the drama of ideas\, and the relationship between philosophy and literature\, this one’ s for you. If you can’t make it in person\, it will also be livestreamed < a href='https://tumblr.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=018703e0a02ad870 a2c15a5bf&id=c6c69769c4&e=098e9e90c8'>here.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T200000 GEO:+40.714442;-73.959471 LOCATION:Black Spring Books @ 672 Driggs Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11211\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The life of the mind in fiction and philosophy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-life-of-the-mind-in- fiction-and-philosophy/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:literature\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7831@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z 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:20240329T015644Z 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:20240329T015644Z 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-7936@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumtolstoyasp DESCRIPTION:In better times\, this talk may have been given as a detaile d account of the practices and side stories that had been part of the just published anthology titled Tolstoy as Philosopher (2022)\, a res ult of a quarter-century work on Tolstoy’s manuscripts and research at int ernational archives. The finished book can be abstracted as follows.
\nBeginning with Tolstoy’s first extant records of his written œuvre\, th e anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts that cover more than seven decades of his life\, from 1835 to 1910. It constitutes the most co mplete single-volume edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s phil osophical output: apothegmatic sayings\, visions\, intimate sketchbook and day notes\, book reviews\, open letters\, dialogues\, pedagogic talks\, p ublic lectures\, programs and rules for personal behavior\, fictions\, and reminiscences.
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It was the insolvable\, the “scandalous\ ,” problems of philosophy that never gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will\, religious tolerance\, gender inequality\, the tonal shape of music \, the value of healthy life habits\, the responsibilities of teaching\, f orms of social protest\, cognitive development\, science in society\, the relation between body and mind\, charity and labor\, human dignity and pub lic service\, sexual psychology\, national war doctrines\, suicide\, indiv idual sacrifice\, the purposes of making art. And always: What are the so urces of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why do we need govern ments? How can one practice non-violence? What is the meaning of our irrep ressible desire to seek and find meaning? Why can’t we live without loving ? The typeset proofs of his final insights were brought to Tolstoy for app roval when he was already on his deathbed. No matter their brevity or the occasion on which they were written\, these works exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually absorbing thinker.
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Most of the newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have neve r been available in English. Among the notable archival restorations is t he text titled “Tolstoy on Venezuela\,” an authentic first publication in English of “Patriotism\, or Peace?” (1896) that had been personal ly checked by Tolstoy and deemed lost. In the inaugural piece\, a seven-ye ar-old Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and non-violence that a hungry wolf te aches a hungry boy during their conversation when both are on their way to lunch.
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The anthology was being copyedited when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24\, 2022. After having provided the n ecessary grounding for Tolstoy’s place within the Russian philosophical tr adition and explaining his overall reception and standing\, the speaker wi ll comment on the implications of this unfolding historic tragedy for the current moment and the future\, in order to then open the floor for genera l discussion.
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About the speaker:
\n< p>Inessa Medzhibovskaya has taught at The New School sinc e 2004. She is an intellectual historian\, philologist\, specialist in in ternational education\, and a literary scholar by training and is currentl y Professor of Liberal Studies and Literature at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. Her publications include numerous essay s and chapters that focus on Russia\, Central and Eastern Europe\, as well as nine previously published books: Tolstoy’s On Life (from the Archival History of Russian Philosophy)\, 2019 and Tolstoy and the Rel igious Culture of His Time (paperback 2009)\; and an online bibliogra phy of Tolstoy’s publications and Tolstoy criticism in the Oxford Universi ty Press Bibliographies series (2021). She is the editor of the critical e dition of Tolstoy’s On Life\, co-translated with Michael Denner (2018)\, a nd editor of two more volumes: Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from th e Twenty-First Century (2018)\, and A Critical Guide to Tolstoy’s On Life: Interpretive Essays (2019). She also served as the academic advisor for volumes 267 and 289AC of Short Story Criticism from Gale/Ceng age (2019\, 2020). Her Tolstoy as Philosopher was released on October 25\, 2022. She is currently completing a long book project solicited by Princ eton University Press.\nFor further information\, see this li nk.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Tolstoy as Philosopher: Reflections during the Darkest of Times URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/tolstoy-as-philosopher-r eflections-during-the-darkest-of-times/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:literature END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7938@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z 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-7976@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
This talk will develop the idea that racial identities are b est understood as formed through large scale historical events\, and that this genesis can only be obscured by disavowals of racial categories as co nceptually mistaken and inevitably morally pernicious. In this sense\, ra ces are formed not simply as ideas\, or ideologies and policies\, as many social constructivists about race argue\, but as forms of life with associ ated patterns of subjectivity including\, as a wealth of social psychology has shown\, presumptive attitudes and behavioral dispositions (Jeffers 20 19\; Steele 2010\; Sullivan 2005). Because they are historical form ations\, racial identities are thoroughly social\, contextual\, variegated internally\, and dynamic. It is history that will alter them\, not merely policy changes.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 5318 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-historical-formation -of-races-linda-alcoff/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:history\,race\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7977@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:Conceptual misalignment is a pervasive phenomenon in the stu dies of Non-Western philosophy and the History of Philosophy (NW&HP). Howe ver\, conceptual misalignment is often undetected\, unsuspected\, or seen as a hurdle that NW&HP materials need to overcome to contribute to contemp orary discussions. Specifically\, conceptual misalignment refers to the fo llowing: In the process of crystalizing NW&HP materials\, a linguistic coo rdination of concepts is formed between the speaker\, i.e.\, NW&HP\, and i ts context of contemporary anglophone philosophy. However\, in philosophic ally meaningful ways\, the original NW&HP concept and its anglophone count erpart misalign. This misalignment is particularly intricate and hard to d etect when it comes to emotion concepts\, as they are thought to involve p henomenal and/or intentional features. Through investigating the concept o f emotion in Chinese philosophy\, I propose a refocusing on conceptual mis alignment as a method of cross-cultural comparative and history of philoso phy. Moreover\, I argue that conceptual misalignment is an important resou rce for contemporary conceptual engineering and amelioration projects.
\nWith responses from Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\, CUNY)
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for fu rther information.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T193000 GEO:+40.807527;-73.960864 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Columbia @ 1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10 027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Conceptual Misalignment to Conceptual Engineering: A Case Stud y on Emotion from Chinese Philosophy. Wenqing Zhao (Whitman) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-conceptual-misalign ment-to-conceptual-engineering-a-case-study-on-emotion-from-chinese-philos ophy-wenqing-zhao-whitman/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative\,emotion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7978@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:
In Sanskrit epistemology\, philosoph ers are preoccupied with the notion of pramā. A pramā\, roughly\, is a men tal event of learning or knowledge-acquisition. Call any such mental event a knowledge-event. In A Confection of Refutation (Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya)\, the 12th century philosopher and poet Śrīharṣa argued that knowledge-even ts are indefinable. Any satisfactory (and therefore non-circular) definiti on of knowledge-events will have to include an anti-luck condition that do esn’t appeal back to the notion of learning or knowledge-acquisition itsel f. But there is no such anti-luck condition. What is novel about Śrīharṣa’ s argument is that it is motivated by his commitment to a certain “knowled ge first” approach to epistemology: the view that knowledge-events are epi stemically prior to other non-factive mental states and events. On this vi ew\, when we are trying to determine whether an agent has undergone a know ledge-event\, we don’t initially ascribe to them some other non-factive me ntal event\, and then check if that event meets some further conditions (l ike truth or reliability) necessary for it to count as a knowledge-event\; rather\, we treat certain mental events by default as knowledge-events un til a defeater comes along. Surprisingly\, Śrīharṣa argues that this kind of “knowledge first” epi stemology should give us reason to doubt whether our ordinary attributions of knowledge-events are reliably tracking any sui generis psychological k ind. In this talk\, I reconstruct Śrīharṣa’s position.
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\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 10027 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Śrīharṣa on the Indefinability of Knowledge. Nilanjan Das (U Toront o) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/srihar%e1%b9%a3a-on-the- indefinability-of-knowledge-nilanjan-das-u-toronto/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative\,epistemology\,Indian END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8003@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:
When someone is in a conscious state\, must they be aware of that state? The Buddhist philosopher Dignāga offers a brilliant route to answering this question by leveraging the role awareness might play as a constraint on memory. I begin by clarifying his strategy and what conclus ions it might be used to establish. Here I examine different candidate di rections of explanation between consciousness and inner awareness. I inte rpret the metaphor of consciousness as a lamp that lights itself\, and use the metaphor to distinguish between his view and contemporary higher-orde r theories of consciousness. I then turn to explain why the memory argume nt fails. The first main problem is that\, contrary to Dignāga’s contempo rary defenders\, there is no good way to use the argument to reach a concl usion about all conscious states. The second main problem is that the pro posed awareness constraint on memory is highly problematic\, in tension bo th with ancient objections as well as current psychology.
\nWith res ponses from Lu Teng (NYU Shanghai)
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Speak\, Memory: Dignāga\, Consciousness\, and Awareness. Nicholas S ilins (Cornell) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/speak-memory-dignaga-con sciousness-and-awareness-nicholas-silins-cornell/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative\,consciousness\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8023@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://wp.nyu.edu/centerforbioethics/event/5638/ DESCRIPTION:Yejin 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-8044@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:What is an appropriate response to humiliating treatm ents such as insults? This question is not only relevant to today’s discou rse but has also piqued the curiosity of thinkers in classical Chinese phi losophy. The Warring States period debate regarding whether one’s inner se nse of shame can shield one from insulting situations and from experiencin g shame is frequently presented as a one-sided narrative that focuses on t he Confucian texts. Meanwhile\, the views of their rival thinkers\, such a s the Daoist\, legalist\, or much-neglected Songzi (3rd century BCE)\, are rarely the focus of attention. This paper brings Songzi\, a key player in the debate of emotions as responses to external triggers\, into the pictu re and restores the historical intellectual discourse over the topic of wh at constitutes an appropriate response to humiliating situations such as i nsults. More importantly\, I point out the philosophical significance of t his debate\, namely how Songzi prompts Xunzi to respond to an ambiguity wi thin the Confucian doctrine: The early Confucians appear to think that an individual’s internal virtues can isolate and shield one from hostile exte rnal stimuli while also maintaining that the external environment impacts one’s moral cultivation and moral life in significant ways. Xunzi’s strate gic move\, I argue\, is to give credit to both an inner sense of shame and the function of external stimuli in inducing negative emotions\, thus mak ing an important philosophical concession compared to Confucius and Menciu s.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n< p>With responses from Nalei Chen (New York University)\n\n
ABSTRACT: Yogācāra Buddhists articulated in the 3-5th c. CE India an explicit model of how we collectively\, yet mostly unconsciously\, constru ct our shared social realities\, our cultures. These “worlds” are supporte d by cognitive processes informed by cultural influences occurring outside our conscious awareness\, in the “store-house consciousness” (ālaya-vijñā na). Through development and socialization\, we come to identify with thes e cultural norms\, thinking “I am this” and “this is mine.” Moreover\, and in agreement with cognitive scientists\, Yogācārins argue that humans hav e developed to be “innate essentialists\,” so that we imagine that our con structed social and cultural identities have their own essential\, intrins ic characteristics\, set apart from all others\, generating the “us/them” dichotomies that underlie conflicts between groups. We can counteract thes e harmful patterns\, Yogācārins say\, by analyzing how our social and cult ural “realities” are collectively constructed\, and by showing how—through logical\, psychological\, and contemplative exercises—we may weaken our u nreflective\, knee-jerk reaction to different peoples and cultures\, and t hereby foster more tolerance\, empathy and understanding for all beings. I n sum\, Yogācāra Buddhism offers a rigorous and nuanced analysis of the or igins of our prejudices and a set of methods to overcome them\, rooted in ancient traditions yet relevant to contemporary issues.
\nWith re sponses from Jonathan Gold (Princeton University)
\nDA TE: October 13th\, 2023
\nTIME: 5:30 pm EST
\nLO CATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, Columbia University
\n1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUM BIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early wher e someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in or contact Cole a t cf27 98@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as no t to interrupt the talk.
\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nWhen 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-8079@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philosophydayatccny.org/events/ DESCRIPTION:
The speaker will be Prof. Lewis Gordon of the University of Connecticut\, on “From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of th e Black World with Questions for the 21st Century.” Gordon will talk about worldliness and public aspects of philosophy\, placing them in the contex t of Harlem both at City College and the public world of Africana philosop hy from Du Bois to Malcolm X to contemporaries such as Nathalie Etoke. He will conclude with a set of questions for 21st century philosophy to consi der.
\nLewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs\; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies\; Honorary Professor in the Unit for th e Humanities at Rhodes University\, South Africa\; and Distinguished Schol ar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocac y at The University of the West Indies\, Mona. He co-edits the journal Phi losophy and Global Affairs\, the Rowman & Littlefield book series Global C ritical Caribbean Thought\, and the Routledge-India book series Academics\ , Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World. He is the author of many b ooks\, including\, most recently\, Freedom\, Justice\, and Decolonization (Routledge\, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover\, NY: Farrar \, Straus and Giroux\, 2022\; in the UK\, London: Penguin Books\, 2022)\, Picador paperback 2023. He is the 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Aw ard from the Global Development Studies division of the International Stud ies Association.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T191500 GEO:+40.820047;-73.949272 LOCATION:North Academic Building\, rm 1/201 @ 160 Convent Ave\, New York\, NY 10031\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the Black Wor ld with Questions for the 21st Century. Lewis Gordon (UConn) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-harlem-to-the-world -philosophy-from-a-center-of-the-black-world-with-questions-for-the-21st-c entury-lewis-gordon-uconn/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:African\,race\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8099@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith responses from Katja Vogt (C olumbia University)
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SPECIAL NOTE FOR DINNER ON 12/1: For this event\, the Neo-Confucian Seminar and our Comparative Philosophy Seminar w ill be going to dinner together. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information. RSVPs are limited for this event.
\nNeo Con fucian Studies seminar: I hope this email finds you well! Our next session of the seminar will convene on Friday 12/1 from 3:30-5:30 pm in the Heyma n Center on Campus. The Heyman Center is also a dormitory. The guards at i ts entrance will have a list of all our attendees and will let you in base d on that list\, no Green Pass required. (Green Passes are Columbia’s syst em for proving that you’re up-to-date on your vaccinations and boosters.) Our guest speaker will be Professor Dongxian Jiang of Fordham University. Professor Jiang will present his draft “Political Thinking in a Classless Society” attached. Please ask Dongxian Jiang directly before you cite or s hare his draft. To be on the list\, please RSVP to me at wk2363@columbia.edu before 11/27 .
\nThe first section of the talk will give an account of the Hi ndu-Buddhist debate about the existence of selves. The particular Hindu / Brāhmaṇical tradition concentrated on is Nyāya\, and ‘Buddhism’ is used t o refer specifically to Dharmakīrtian Buddhism with its doctrine of moment ariness. The second section looks at a Nyāya argument against Buddhism. I will argue that it is not difficult for the Buddhist to come up with a s atisfactory response. The third section will introduce the view of Rāmaka ṇṭha (950–1000 CE) and look at three of his arguments against the Buddhist view. These I view as more difficult for the Buddhist to respond to. Th e fourth section introduces the view of Galen Strawson\, relates it to the Buddhist view\, and considers the extent to which it is susceptible to Rā makaṇṭha’s arguments.
\nWith responses from Martin Lin (Ru tgers University)
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\nComparative Philosophy Semina r:
\nJoin 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-8146@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:
How doe s the imagination change us? Why should picturing ourselves a certain way have any real effect on what we are? These questions are central to debate s in Buddhist tantric literature regarding the generation stage (utpatt ikrama)\, wherein practitioners visualize themselves as buddhas enscon sed in magnificent mandala-palaces. For some\, this practice is what sets Buddhist tantra apart: through this “yoga of the imagination\,” as David S hulman puts it\, a practitioner can achieve buddhahood in a single lifetim e. And yet\, as the Buddhist tantric author Indrabhūti (8th century) argue s\, a pauper who imagines himself to be a king does not thereby become one —so\, in the same way\, practitioners who visualize themselves as buddhas will not thereby become buddhas. The mental imagery (ākāra) involve d in this practice is just so much unreal fabrication. Why should it have real transformative effects? I’ll consider here how these debates played o ut in Sanskrit Buddhist tantric texts from the 10th–11th centuries. I’ll f ocus on early authors in the Kālacakra tradition\, who upheld Indrabhūti’s critique of the generation stage\, and authors like Ratnākaraśānti\, Vāgī śvarakīrti\, and Advayavajra (aka Maitrīpa)\, who each in their own way cr itiqued mental imagery yet defended the importance and effectiveness of ge neration-stage practice. In the first part of the paper\, I’ll consider ar guments against mental imagery as these appear in generation-stage practic e texts and the early Kālacakra tradition. In the second part\, I’ll turn to why we might think unreal mental imagery can nevertheless have real tra nsformative effects\, paying special attention to the ways Buddhist tantri c authors writing in Sanskrit take up ideas from the tradition of dramatic theory (nāṭyaśastra) and Sanskrit culture more broadly.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nW ith responses from Thomas Yarnall (Columbia University)
\n div>\nDATE: February 2nd\, 2024 p>\n
TIME: 5:30 pm EST
\nLOCATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, Columbia University
\n1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T193000 GEO:+40.811099;-73.962729 LOCATION:Columbia Religion @ 80 Claremont Ave\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mental Imagery\, Tantric Practice\, and the Drama of the Imaginatio n. Davey K. Tomlinson (Villanova) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mental-imagery-tantric-p ractice-and-the-drama-of-the-imagination-davey-k-tomlinson-villanova/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,imagination END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8032@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202 4 DESCRIPTION:- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n- February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova Univ ersity)
\n- April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham University)
\n- M ay 3 – Daniel Stephens (University at Buffalo)
\nVerity 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:20240329T015644Z 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?
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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:20240329T015644Z 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).
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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 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8156@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:Comparative philosophy is gaining traction in professional a cademic philosophy\, with specialist journals\, organizations\, books\, an d public campaigns. These inroads have been made in canonical areas of phi losophy\, including epistemology\, metaphysics\, logic\, and value theory. Yet comparative philosophy still plays little role in practical applied e thics\, an interdisciplinary research area in which work with practice and policy implications are dominated by the anglophone world. In this articl e\, I explain why comparative work might be especially difficult in this t ype of applied ethics\, and I suggest how comparative philosophers might o vercome these challenges to connect their theoretical work with contempora ry practical issues.
\nWith responses from Wenqing Zhao (CUNY Baruch)
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosoph y Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not ha ve this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside un til the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking n earby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only cont act Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
\nRS VP IS REQUIRED FOR DINNER:. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaur ant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information. RSV Ps are limited.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Comparative Philosophy and Practical Applied Ethics. Laura Specker Sullivan (Fordham) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/comparative-philosophy-a nd-practical-applied-ethics-laura-specker-sullivan-fordham/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:applied\,comparative\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8106@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T015644Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n< li>February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova University)\n- April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham University)
\n- May 3 – Daniel Stephens (Uni versity at Buffalo)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T173000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Comparative Philosophy Seminar URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/comparative-philosophy-s eminar-11/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n- February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Vi llanova University)
\n- April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham University)
\n- May 3 – Daniel Stephens (University at Buffalo)
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