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-7915@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141321Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://sartemov.ws.gc.cuny.edu/fitting-at-80/ DESCRIPTION:
A prominent logician Melvin Fitting has turned 80. This hybr id conference is a special event in his honor.
\nMelvin Fitting was in the departments of Computer Science\, Philosophy\, and Mathematics at t he CUNY Graduate Center and in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College. He is now Professor Emeritus. He has authored 1 1 books and over a hundred research papers with staggering citation figure s. In 2012\, Melvin Fitting was given the Herbrand Award by the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE) for distinguished contributions to the fiel d. In 2019\, Professor Fitting received a Doctor Honoris Causa (an Honorar y Doctorate) from the University of Bucharest.
\nGreetings\, congrat ulations\, photos for posting\, and ZOOM link requests could be sent to Se rgei Artemov by sartemov@gmail.com or sartemov@gc.cuny.edu.
\nConfer ence website https://sartemov.ws.gc.cuny.edu/fitting-at-80/
\nProgra m (the times are given in the Eastern Day Time zone EST). In-person locati on: CUNY Graduate Center\, rm. 3310-B.
\nJanuary 28\, Saturday
\n8:00-8:45 am Arnon Avron (Tel Aviv)\, “Bre
aking the Tie: Benacerraf’s Identification Argument Revisited”
\n8:45-9:30 am Junhua Yu (Beijing)\,
“Exploring Operators on Neighborhood Models”
9:30-9: 45 am Break
\n9:45-10:30 am Sara Negri (Genoa)\,
\n10:30-11:15 am Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\
, “Remarks on Semantic Information and Logic. From Semantic Te
tralateralism to the Pentalattice 65536_5”
11:15-11: 30 am Break
\n11:30 am -12:15 pm Roman Kuznets (Vie
nna)\, “On Interpolation”
\n12:15-1:00 pm <
strong>Walter Carnielli (Campinas)\, “Combining KX4 a
nd S4: A logic that encompasses factive and non-factive evidence“
1:00-1:15 pm Break
\n1:15-2:00 pm Eduardo Barr
io and Federico Pailos (Buenos Aires)\,
“Meta-classical Non-classical Logics”
\n2:00-2:45 p
m Graham Priest (New York)\, “Jaśkowski and t
he Jains: a Fitting Tribute”
2:45-4:00 pm Session of memories and congratulations featuring Sergei Artemov\, Anil Nerode\, Hiroakira Ono\, Melvin Fitting\, and others.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230129 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center rm 3310-B @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Fitting at 80 conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/fitting-at-80-conference / X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:computation\,conference\,logic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7699@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141321Z 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-7863@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141321Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 29th\, 2022
\nChristina Van Dyke (
Barnard College)
\nTitle “I feel it in my fingers\, I feel it in my t
oes: Imaginative Meditation and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplati
ve Philosophy”
\n4:10-6:00 PM
\n716 Philosophy Hall
Generative art made with algorithms has existed since the ea rly days of computing in the 1960s. In recent years\, a new strand of gene rative art has emerged: AI-generated art\, which leverages the recent prog ress of artificial intelligence to create artworks. Unlike old-fashioned g enerative art\, AI-generated art is not produced with an explicit set of p rogramming instructions provided by human artists\; instead\, it involves training an algorithm on a dataset so that it can later produce artworks ( images\, music\, or video clips) using its own internal parameters that ha ve not been explicitly defined by a human. This process raises fascinating questions at the intersection of computer science\, art history\, and the philosophy of art. At a superficial level of analysis\, AI-generated art seems to offload much of the creative impetus of art production to the mac hine\, requiring minimal intervention from the artist. On closer inspectio n\, however\, it involves a novel process of curation at two key stages: u pstream in the selection of the dataset on which the algorithm is trained\ , and downstream in the selection of the outputs that should qualify as ar tworks. Instead of replacing human artists with computers\, AI-generated a rt can be understood as a new kind of collaboration between mind and machi ne\, both of which contribute to the aesthetic value of the final artwork.
\nThis seminar will bring together AI artists and philosophers to e xplore the significance of this new mode of art production. It will discus s the implications of AI-generated art for the definition of art\, the nat ure of the relationship between artists and tools\, the process of digital curation\, and whether AI systems can be as creative as humans.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required via Eventbrite. Re gistered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the seminar b egins.
\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scho lars in Society and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability ac commodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please con tact us at scienceandsocie ty@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 days in advance of the e vent. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai- is-changing-artistic-creation-tickets-404716165947.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T153000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Online @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How AI Is Changing Artistic Creation URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-ai-is-changing-artis tic-creation/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,computation\,technology X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai-is-changing-artistic-crea tion-tickets-404716165947 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7897@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141321Z 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-7938@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141321Z 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.
\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-8032@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141321Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202 4 DESCRIPTION:
Verity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy\, with pa rticular research interests in ancient metaphysics\, epistemology and psyc hology\, especially of Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure\, and is the edito r of several important books on ancient philosophy.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Verity Harte (Yale) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/verity-harte-yale/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8107@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T141321Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age DESCRIPTION:David Bates\, in conversation with Stefanos Geroulano and Joanna Stalnaker
\nWe imagine that w
e are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet a
utomatic. This entanglement\, according to David W. Bates\, emerged in the
seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with
machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing\, Bates
reveals how time and time again technological developments offered new wa
ys to imagine how the body’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s auto
nomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought\, David Bates discusses his
new book\, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence\, which
offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on tec
hnology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural\,
outside origin.
\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rheto
ric at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the
history of legal and political ideas\, and the relationship between techno
logy\, science\, and the history of human cognition.
Stefa nos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Prof essor of European Intellectual History at NYU. He usually writes about con cepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and science s of human origins since 1770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as Th e Invention of Prehistory: Empire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Huma n Origins in 2024.
\nJoanna Stalnaker< /strong> is Professor of French at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment ph ilosophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the E nlightenment. Her new book\, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philos ophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in t he Walpole series.
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