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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers
CONTACT:http://susannaschellenberg.org/special-pages/rutgers-epistemology-c
onference/
DESCRIPTION: The REC is a pre-read conference. The papers will be made availab
le on this website on April 15. Friday\, April 29\, 2022 Satur
day\, April 30\, 2022 Discussants Participants (to be updated soon) Chris Copan\, Andy Egan\, Megan Feeney\, Peter Klein\, Matthew McGra
th\, Susanna Schellenberg\, Ernie Sosa The REC is a pre-
read conference\, so papers are to be read in advance. There is no registr
ation fee for the conference\, but please notify Chris Copan\, the confere
nce manager\, if you plan to attend by sending an email to rutgersepistemologyconference@gm
ail.com. If you wish to participate in the meals\, please send a check
made out to “Rutgers University” to the conference manager by April 15 ($
80 if you are a faculty member or a postdoc\; $60 if you are a graduate st
udent or an undergraduate): Chris Copan\; REC\; 106 Somerset St\, 5th Floo
r\; New Brunswick\, NJ 08901. PROGRAM
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Free Will
Implications from Ph
ysics and Metaphysics
The workshop will be hybrid\, and any one interested can participate through Zoom\, although there will be limit ed spots for in-person participants. If you are interested in attending in -person\, please reply to this email or write to loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu.
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Barry Loewer (loewer@
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nt: Diego Arana (diego.arana@rutgers.edu)
Program (All times are EST)
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/fr eewillzoom
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May 11
10:00am Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame\, Duke)
Ginet’s Principle: Our freedom is
the freedom to add to the
given past.
11:30
am John Perry (Stanford)
Causation\, Entailment and Freedom
3:00pm Barry Loewer (Rutge
rs)
Th
e Consequence Argument Meets the Mentaculus
4:30pm Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille\
, UWO)
Free will: Back to Reichenbach
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10:00am Kadri Vihvelin (USC)
Why We can’t Ch
ange the Past
11:30am Valia Allori (N
IU)
Fr
eedom from the Quantum?
3:00pm Tim O’Connor (Indiana\, Baylor)
Top-Down and Indetermin
istic Agency: Why?
4:30pm Jessica Wilson (Toronto)
Two Routes to the Emergence of Free
Will
Contact Toby Bollig
\nTBA
\nLocation TBD
This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Saul Kripke’s masterpiece\, Naming and Necessity\, by show casing new work on a range of topics on which it has had a lasting influen ce. These topics include\, but are not limited to: the nature of names and natural kind terms\; the failure of the description or cluster/descriptio n theories\; the distinction between metaphysical necessity and epistemic apriority\; empty names\; the metaphysics of essence and origin\; the natu re of modality and possible worlds\; conceivability and the epistemology o f modality\; the role of philosophical intuition\; and the mind-body probl em.
\nDates: 12th and 13th December\, from 9am to 5pm.
\nVenue : The CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York.
\nFormat: hybrid
\nRegistration: for both online and in person attend ance\, please register by the 28th of November\, 2022 at https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221214 GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098 LOCATION:Philosophy Dept.\, CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:50 Years of Naming and Necessity URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/50-years-of-naming-and-n ecessity/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,epistemology\,language\,metaphysics X-TICKETS-URL:https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7913@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013044Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/106913 DESCRIPTION:The Center for Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University is pleased to host an in-person\, working-papers conference on the Psychol ogy and Epistemology of Religious Experience. We are seeking abstracts (15 0-350 words) from those interested in participating. The tentative date is 15-16 April 2023. And the deadline for submission is 28 February 2023. Pa rticipants with accepted submissions will be given hotel accommodations an d a modest honorarium to help defray travel costs.
\nTheme
\nThe overall theme of the workshop is the Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experiences. Philosophers of religion frequently assign reli gious experiences important epistemic roles\, such as justifying religious beliefs. But religious experiences of the kind philosophers are intereste d in are also studied in other fields as well\, such as psychology and rel igious studies. However\, the psychology and epistemology of religious exp eriences are presumably not independent\; studying them together is likely to be insightful in various ways. To that end\, we are interested in brin ging together scholars working on the psychology and epistemology of relig ious experiences. Potential topics include:
\n· The nature of religious experiences
\n· Taxonomies of religious experiences< /p>\n
· Potential psychological mechanisms and accounts of religio us experience
\n· The relation between perception and religiou s experiences
\n· The epistemology of religious experience
\n· The interactions between the psychology and epistemology of r eligious experience
\n· The relation of cognitive science of r eligion to religious experience
\nAny proposed papers on these topic s\, or similar ones\, are welcome. Papers exploring interdisciplinary appr oaches are also welcome.
\nInstructions
\nPlease submit an abstract (150-350 words)\, long abstract (350-650 words)\, or full pap er to Timothy Perrine at tp654@scarletmail.rutgers.edu. Submission should be prepa red for blind review. In a separate document please provide your name\, in stitutional affiliation (if applicable)\, and contact information. Submiss ion deadline is 28 February\; acceptances will be decided by 5 March\; and the workshop will be held 15-16 April.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230417 GEO:+40.49747;-74.44717 LOCATION:Center for Philosophy of Religions\, Rutgers @ The Gateway\, 106 S omerset St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experiences Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/psychology-and-epistemol ogy-of-religious-experiences-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,epistemology\,mind\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7935@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013044Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea t.detail/2023/04/04/749/-/rutgers-epistemology-conference DESCRIPTION:Keynote: Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison) p>\n
Pedagogy Workshop Leader: TBA
\nLocation: The Graduate Center \, CUNY—New York\, New York
\nAbstracts & Workshop Applications due: July 31st 2023
\nResponses: August 31st 2023
\nOrganizers: Mi chael Greer (CUNY)\, Maria Salazar (CUNY)
\nContact email: gscope.co mmittee@gmail.com
\nThe committee for the Graduate Student Conferenc e on Philosophy of Education (GSCOPE) invites abstracts for papers on the topic of Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy. The theme of the conference & post-conference pedagogy workshop reflects the difficulty in creating and maintaining respectful discourse in higher-education classroo ms\, especially surrounding controversial empirical\, moral\, and politica l issues. Some argue that this is an equity issue. Undergraduate students who come from rural and/or underprivileged areas are more likely to experi ence alienation on campus\, sometimes because they have never been exposed to certain “politically correct” language or ideas\, and sometimes simply because they lack the financial and social capital that their peers have. It seems crucial (and follows from democratic and civic values) to foster safe learning environments for all students\, especially those students w ho are more likely to feel alienated on college campuses and in elite spac es. At the same time\, some argue that the aim of higher education is pure ly epistemological\, and not civic or democratic. Proponents of this view might hold that free speech and academic freedom must be properly protecte d for higher education to perform its proper social function: education. W hat is the appropriate relationship between higher education\, knowledge-p roduction\, teaching\, free speech\, and democracy? How can higher educati on instructors and professors be effective teachers in the light of these relationships?
\nPapers must pertain to higher educationbut maybe ab out anything from interpersonal classroom dynamicstoinstitutional policies to campus controversy. We are particularly interested in papers that expl ore the following topics:
\nWe especially welcome contributions that:
\nAbstracts should:
\n– Outline the paper’s principal
argument(s).
\n– Give a good sense of the paper’s philosophical and/o
r empirical contributions and methods.
\n– Be anonymized.
Pro posal Guidelines:
\nPlease submit abstracts of up to 500 words by mi dnight EST on Monday\, July 31\, 2023.
\nPDF or DOC.X by email to gs cope.committee@gmail.com
\nPost-Conference Pedagogy Workshop
\nThe theme of our conference Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Contro versy is relevant to graduate student educators\, who are routinely u nder-trained and under-equipped to engage with real-life problems they may encounter in the classroom. The lack of training for higher education tea chers is a growing iue in philosophy of education.
\nThis workshop a ttends to this issue by facilitating a space for graduate student educator s to reflect on how to foster good teaching environments for controversial issues\, and be good interlocutors with each other on controversial issue s. The workshop will also touch on promoting equity in classrooms. We will provide workshop participants with a certificate of completion.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231015 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:GSCOPE 2023: Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/gscope-2023-higher-educa tion-democracy-and-controversy/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,epistemology\,ethics\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8024@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013044Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/beyond-polarization-epistemic-distorti on-and-criticism DESCRIPTION:Individuals support forms of domination with varying levels of understanding that they are doing so. In many cases\, those very struct ures of domination distort our conceptions of them through mechanisms such as motivated reasoning\, implicit bias\, affected ignorance\, false consc iousness\, and belief polarization. These various epistemic distortions\, in turn\, cause social conflict\, notably by promoting political polarizat ion. Those worried by social conflict have spent a great deal of energy de crying the increasingly polarized contexts in which we live. However\, epi stemic distortions in our sociopolitical beliefs also misrepresent\, maint ain systems of domination and prevent human needs from being met.
\nThis workshop aims to go beyond pronouncements such as ‘we are polarized’ or that ‘partisanship is on the rise\,’ and begin to think through epistem ic distortions at the individual and intersubjective levels\, the role of criticism and critique in facilitating belief and social change\, and the idea of reconciliation\, by asking questions such as:
\nConvenors
\nEge Yumuşak is a philosopher\, specializing in epistemolo gy\, the philosophy of mind\, and social & political philosophy. She recei ved a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2022. Her research exam ines political disagreement—its material foundations\, psychological and s ocial manifestations\, and epistemic properties. She is currently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of clashes of perspect ive in social life.
\nNicolas Côté is a postdoctoral res earcher at the University of Toronto. His research is mainly in normative ethics and social choice theory\, but they also dabble in applied ethics a nd issues of practical rationality. Côté’s doctoral dissertation work focu ses on the measurement of freedom\, especially on axiomatic approaches to the measurement question\, and on how deontic concerns for protecting indi vidual rights interact with welfarist concerns for improving the general w elfare. Côté’s current research focuses on the ethics of decision-making u nder radical uncertainty.
\nInvited speakers:
\nSabina Vaccarino Bremner\; Daniela Dover\; Cain Shelley
\nInvited commentators
\nTBA
How does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape objectivity?
\nWelcome to “Unmasking Object ivity: A Critical Examination of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structures\,” a conference that plunges into the intric ate relationship between knowledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemological standpoints intersect with systems of coercio n\, marginalization\, and oppression. Our topic extends to alternative vis ions of knowledge\, truth\, and learning\, offering the potential for shar ed beliefs while addressing the adverse impacts of entrenched power struct ures.
\nHow have claims to absolute\, objective\, or scientific trut h driven oppression through ideologies like religious absolutism\, colonia lism\, technocracy\, and scientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debate s further emphasize the significance of this intersection.
\nOur dis course will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether univer salist epistemologies privilege specific knowledge systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on social and political issues o verlooked by dominant knowledge frameworks through inclusive dialogues. Th is conference fosters critical exploration and inclusive discourse\, drawi ng on interdisciplinary studies in philosophy\, sociology\, and political theory.
\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical implications of our epistemological practices and explore pathways to creating more equitable systems of knowledge and social learning. Join us at “Unmasking Objectivit y” as we navigate the intricate web of knowledge and power\, aiming for a just and inclusive future where the notion of objectivity is both scrutini zed and harnessed for social transformation.
\n\n\n\nThe Rutgers Epistemology Conference is a pre-read conference. The papers\, the finalized schedule\, and further i nformation about the conference will be posted soon.
\nThere is no registration fee for the confer ence\, but please notify Caroline von Klemperer\, the conference manager\, if you plan to attend by sending an email to rutgersepistem ologyconference@gmail.com. If you wish to participate in the meals\, p lease send a check made out to “Rutgers University” to Caroline von Klempe rer by April 15 ($80 if you are a faculty member or a postdoc\; $60 if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate). Checks should be sent to Car oline von Klemperer\; Rutgers Epistemology Conference\; 106 Somerset St\, 5th Floor\; New Brunswick\, NJ 08901. Everyone signed up for conference me als by April 15 will be listed as a participant on the conference website.
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\nAll sessions will be held at the Hyatt Regenc y in New Brunswick\, NJ. A limited number of reduced-priced rooms are available to those attending the conference. The reduced rate is $170 per night for a single or double room. You can reserve a room here: https://ww w.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/EWRRN/G-RE01.
\nIf you are a graduate student or a postdoc and would like to attend the c onference and stay with a Rutgers graduate student\, please contact the co nference manager at rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com< /a>. We will try to provide all graduate students and postdocs a place to stay\, but we cannot make any promises.
\nInformation about accessibility of the conference venue can be found here.
\nPlane & Train: If you are flying\, it is best t o fly into Newark Airport. It is about 25 miles from the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. The best way to get from the airport to New Brunswick is vi a NJ Transit. The train stops at the airport and it is a 25 min train ride from the airport to New Brunswick. When you arrive at Newark Airport\, fo llow the signs to the monorail “airtrain”. The airtrain will take you to t he NJ transit train stop. Trains run from Newark Airport to New Brunswick about every half hour. A oneway ticket Newark Airport – New Brunswick is a bout $14. You can buy tickets at the vending machines at the Newark Airpor t train station or on the mobile app MyTix. The Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train station.
\nTra in: The best way to get to New Brunswick from New York or Philade lphia is via NJ Transit. The Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train station.
\nIn 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.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will t ake place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu< /a> for further information.
\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-8002@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013044Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
We are excited to announce the upcoming MAPS Symposium on th e Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics\, taking place at NYU on April 25th from 3pm-7pm. The event will feature talks from Eddy Chen\, Emily Adlam\, and Tim Maudlin. Further details can be found below.
\nTalks:
\nPl ease note that while all are welcome to attend\, non-NYU attendees must RS VP by emailing Diego Arana (da689@rutgers.edu) and Barry Loewer (loewer@ph ilosophy.rutgers.edu) to ensure their names are added to the entry list fo r the NYU building. For any further information\, please contact us throug h the emails just provided.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T190000 GEO:+40.726272;-73.996644 LOCATION:NYU room 307 @ 194 Mercer Street\, New York\, NY 10012\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophical-foundation s-of-quantum-mechanics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:physics\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8005@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013044Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Presented by Metro Area Philosophers of Science
\nDire ctions: Enter the Philosophy building at 5 Washington Place\, and have a u niversity ID and vaccination card ready. For any questions\, please contac t Diego Arana (da689@rutgers.edu)\, Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutger s.edu) and Jack Mikuszewski (jhm378@nyu.edu).
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T183000 GEO:+40.729457;-73.994348 LOCATION:202 NYU Philosophy Dept. @ 5 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Why de Broglie-Bohm and only de Broglie-Bohm? Or\, Towards a Nosolo gy of Quantum Interpretations. Jean Bricmont (UCLouvain) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/why-de-broglie-bohm-and- only-de-broglie-bohm-or-towards-a-nosology-of-quantum-interpretations-jean -bricmont-uclouvain/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:physics\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8084@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013044Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
The controversial issue of information transfer in quantum t eleportation procedure is analyzed in the framework of the many-worlds int erpretation of quantum mechanics. In contrast to the claims of Deutsch & H ayden 2000\, it is argued that quantum information\, considered as a measu rable property for an observer in a particular world\, is transferred in a nonlocal way in the teleportation process. This\, however\, does not lead to action at a distance on the level of the universe which includes all p arallel worlds. Preprint: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21447/
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T180000 GEO:+40.729457;-73.994348 LOCATION:NYU room 302 @ 5 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Transfer of quantum information in teleportation. Lev Vaidman URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/transfer-of-quantum-info rmation-in-teleportation-lev-vaidman/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:physics\,science END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR