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DESCRIPTION:\n\n
RSVP is required for both in-person and remote attendance. Click here to RSVP.
\n
Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP) wa
s launched in 2012. It is designed to build a bridge between Chinese philo
sophy and Western analytic philosophy and to promote critical engagement a
nd constructive dialogue between the two sides\, with the hope of bringing
the study of Chinese philosophy into the mainstream of philosophical disc
ourse within the Western academy. It is run every other year\, usually in
late spring.
\n
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CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea
t.detail/2022/10/20/701/-/bryan-van-norden-mini-course-on-chinese-philosop
hy
DESCRIPTION:Contact TBA
\n\n
\n- Thursday\, 12-2pm: Min
i-Course Lecture 1: “Learning from Chinese Philosophy” (presents an overvi
ew of how Chinese philosophy was originally accepted into the Anglo-Europe
an canon but later excluded due to pseudo-scientific racism\, along with b
rief overviews of several ancient Chinese philosophers\, including Kongzi
[Confucius]\, Mozi\, Mengzi\, and Zhuangzi)
\n- Thursday\, 3-5pm: Mi
ni-Course Lecture 2: “Mengzi’s Virtue Ethics” (introduces the Confucian M
engzi\, and his conceptions of human nature\, ethical cultivation\, and th
e cardinal virtues)
\n
\n
\n
\n- Friday\, 10am-12pm: Mini
-Course Lecture 3: “Zhuangzi’s Therapeutic Critique” (introduces the Daois
t Zhuangzi\, who presents arguments for skepticism and relativism that I a
rgue are “therapeutic” rather than “systematic” in Rorty’s senses)
\n<
li>Friday\, 2-4pm: Mini-Course Lecture 4: “Zhu Xi & Wang Yangming on Weakn
ess of Will (briefly introduces the medieval “Neo-Confucian” synthesis of
Buddhism and Confucianism\, and how two seminal Confucian philosophers too
k opposing views on the possibility of acting against moral knowledge)\n
\n
\n
\nLocation TBD
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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
\n
8:00-8:45 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”
\n9:30-9:
45 am Break
\n9:45-10:30 am Sara Negri (Genoa)\, “Faithful Modal Embedding: From Gödel to Labelled Calculi”
\n10:30-11:15 am Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\
, “Remarks on Semantic Information and Logic. From Semantic Te
tralateralism to the Pentalattice 65536_5”
\n11:15-11:
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“
\n1:00-1:15 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”
\n2:45-4:00 pm Session of
memories and congratulations featuring Sergei Artemov\,
Anil Nerode\, Hiroakira Ono\, Melvin Fitting\, and others.
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/
DESCRIPTION:A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, or
ganized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël
Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholar
s in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the <
a href='https://wp.nyu.edu/consciousness/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>
Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New York University.
\nAbout
\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:
\n\n- What cognitive capacities\, if any\, do current de
ep learning systems possess?
\n- What cognitive capacities might fut
ure deep learning systems possess?
\n- What kind of representations
can we ascribe to artificial neural networks?
\n- Could a large lang
uage model genuinely understand language?
\n- What do deep learning
systems tell us about human cognition\, and vice versa?
\n- How can
we develop a theoretical understanding of deep learning systems?
\n- How do deep learning systems bear on philosophical debates such as ration
alism vs empiricism and classical vs. nonclassical views of cognition.
\n- What are the key obstacles on the path from current deep learning s
ystems to human-level cognition?
\n
\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).
\nConference speakers
\n\nCall
for abstracts
\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).
\n
\nhttps://philevents.org/event/show/106406
\nTick
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers
CONTACT:https://rccs.rutgers.edu/component/jevents/icalrepeat.detail/2023/0
4/28/2376/54/sixth-rutgers-workshop-on-chinese-philosophy?Itemid=147
DESCRIPTION:Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philos
ophy (RWCP) was launched in 2012. It is designed to build a bridg
e between Chinese philosophy and Western analytic philosophy and to promot
e critical engagement and constructive dialogue between the two sides\, wi
th the hope to diversify the practice of philosophy by bringing the study
of Chinese philosophy into the mainstream of philosophical discourse withi
n the Western academy. It is run every other year\, usually in late spring
.
\nSixth RWCP\, “New Voices in Chinese
Philosophy\,” will be held in person\, with live streaming throu
gh Zoom\, on Friday\, April 28\, 2023. Six junior scholars of Chinese phil
osophy\, representing new voices in the field\, will engage six more senio
r scholars. This year’s workshop is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global\, Relig
ion Department\, Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion\, and Philo
sophy Department. RSVP is required for attendance\, either in-person (limi
ted to the room capacity) or online. Click here to register.
\nProgram
\n\n
\n
\n
8:20a.m. Breakfast
\n
8:50a.m. – 9:00a.m. Welcoming Remarks
\nKa
ren Bennett\, Chair of Philosophy Department\, Rutgers University
\n
9:00a.m. – 10:00a.m. “Relational Normativity: Williams’s Thick Eth
ical Concepts in Confucian Ethical Communities”
\nPresenter:
Sai-Ying Ng (CUNY Graduate Center)
\nCommentator: Alex Guerrero (Rut
gers University)
\nModerator: Stephen Angle (Wesleyan University)
\nRapporteur: Esther Goh (Rutgers University)
\n
10:00a.m. – 10:15a
.m. tea break
\n
10:15a.m. – 11:15a.m. “Paradoxes in the
Zhuangzi”
\nPresenter: Chun-Man Kwong (University of Ox
ford)
\nCommentator: Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center)
\nMode
rator: Karen Bennett (Rutgers University)
\nRapporteur: Adrian Liu (R
utgers University)
\n
11:15a.m. – 11:30a.m. tea break
\n
11:30a.
m. – 12:30p.m. “A Mohist Theory of Reference”
\nPres
enter: Susan Blake (Skidmore College)
\nCommentator: Jane Geaney (Uni
versity of Richmond)
\nModerator: Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
\nRapporteur: Esther Goh (Rutgers University)
\n
\n
\n
\n
12:30p.m. – 1:3
0p.m. Lunch (onsite)
\n
1:30p.m. – 2:30p.m.
“Wealth\, Poverty\, and Living a Moral Life: Confucius and Mencius”
\nPresenter: Frederick Choo (Rutgers University)
\nCommentato
r: Stephen Angle (Wesleyan University)
\nModerator: Tanja Sargent (Ru
tgers University)
\nRapporteur: Esther Goh (Rutgers University)
\n
2:30p.m. – 2:45p.m. tea break
\n
2:45p.m. – 3:45p.m. “Grat
itude and Debt in Western and Confucian Ethics”
\nPresenter:
Choo Lok-Chui (Nanyang Technological University)
\nCommentator: Fran
ces Kamm (Rutgers University)
\nModerator: Hagop Sarkissian (CUNY Bar
uch College)
\nRapporteur: Esther Goh (Rutgers University)
\n
3:
45p.m. – 4:00p.m. tea break
\n
4:00p.m. – 5:00p.m. “‘Flying b
y Not Having Wings’ — in and beyond the Zhuangzi”
\nPresenter: L. K. Gustin Law (University of Chicago)
\nCommentator:
Lincoln Rathnam (Duke Kunshan University)
\nModerator: George Tsai (U
niversity of Hawaii at Manoa)
\nRapporteur: Esther Goh (Rutgers Unive
rsity)
\n
\n
\n
\nTickets: https://rutgers.zoom.us/
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CONTACT:https://saulkripkecenter.org/index.php/2023/02/02/saul-kripke-memor
ial-conference/
DESCRIPTION:Lectures:
\nRomina Birman\, Paul Boghossian\, Michael
Devitt\, Hartry Field\, Melvin Fitting\, Daniel Isaacson\, Carl Posy\, Rob
ert Stalnaker
\nReminiscences:
\nJames Burgess\, David Chalmer
s\, Mircea Dumitru\, Margaret Gilbert\, Antonella Mallozzi\, Oliver Marsha
ll\, Yiannis Moschovakis\, Stephen Neale\, Gary Ostertag\, David Papineau\
, Graham Priest\, Teresa Robertson Ishii\, Nathan Salmon\, Larry Tribe\, l
akovos Vasiliou\, Timothy Williamson
\nFor more information contact
kripkecenter@gc.cuny.edu
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230510
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NY 10016\, USA
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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:
\n\n- Track 1: Cognitive
and Computational Foundations of Brain Science
\n- Track 2: Human In
formation Processing Systems
\n- Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics\,
Curation and Management
\n- Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brai
n and Mental Health Research
\n- Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence
and Brain-Inspired Computing
\n
\nKeynote Speakers
\nProfessor Emery N. Brown
\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
\n
Carnegie 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: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of the NIH’s Brain Res
earch Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. D
r. Ngai earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology from Pomona
College\, Claremont\, California\, and Ph.D. in biology from the Californi
a Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. He was a postdoctoral res
earcher at Caltech and at the Columbia University College of Physicians an
d Surgeons before starting his faculty position at the University of Calif
ornia at Berkeley. During more than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\
, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 undergraduate students\, 24 graduate students an
d 15 postdoctoral fellows in addition to teaching well over 1\,000 student
s in the classroom. His work has led to the publication of more than 70 sc
ientific articles in some of the field’s most prestigious journals and 10
U.S. and international patents. Dr. Ngai has received many awards includin
g from the Sloan Foundation\, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowme
nt Fund for Neuroscience. As a faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has served as the
director of Berkeley’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neur
oscience Institute. He has also provided extensive service on NIH study se
ctions\, councils and steering groups\, including as previous co-chair of
the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium Steering Group. Dr. Ngai o
versees the long-term strategy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN
Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain i
n both health and disease.
\nProfessor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile: Helen Mayberg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroima
ging studies of brain circuits in depression and their translation to the
development of deep brain stimulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment
resistant patients. Born and raised in Southern California\, she received
a BA in Psychobiology from UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern
California\, then trained in Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institut
e in New York and did a research fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns H
opkins. She had early academic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the Unive
rsity of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural
Sandra Rotman Chair in Neuropsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the
first Dorothy C. Fuqua Chair in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Em
ory University and is now the Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics a
t the Icahn School of Medicine where she is founding Director of the Nash
Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the bo
th the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine a
s well as the National Academy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts a
nd Sciences.
\nProfessor 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.
\nProfessor 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
\n\n- 15 April 2023: Full paper submissio
n deadline
\n
\n\n- 20 April 2023: Workshop proposal deadlin
e
\n
\n\n- 10 May 2023: Abstract presentation submission dea
dline
\n
\n\n- 30 May 2023: Final paper and abstract accepta
nce notification
\n
\n\n- 20 Jun 2023: Accepted paper and ab
stract registration deadline
\n
\n\n- 1-3 Aug 2023: The Brai
n Informatics Conference
\n
\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).
\nAbstract (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.
\nPoster-Conference Publication
\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).
\n
\nhttps:/
/philevents.org/event/show/109301
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URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c
onference-on-brain-informatics/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cscitalks
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaney To get Zoom links\, email davidrosenthal1@
gmail.com
\nSome—but not
all—sessions are recorded for later access
\n9/10: Carolyn Dicey Jennings Cognitive and Informati
on Sciences\, University of California\, Merced
9/17: Wayne Wu Philosophy\, Carnegie Mellon University
9/24: Chaz F
irestone Psychological and Bra
in Sciences\, The Johns Hopkins University
10/1: No talk—one-week break
10/8: Johann
es Kleiner Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy\, Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München
10/15: Jessie Mu
nton Philosophy\, University o
f Cambridge
10/22: Myrto Mylopoulos Philosophy and Cognitive Science\, Carleton University
10/29: Pascal Burgmer <
/span> Social and Organisational Psych
ology\, University of Kent
11/5: Jennifer Nagel Philosophy\, University of Toro
nto
1
1/12: Elizabeth Irvine Philosophy\, Cardiff University
11/19: Anna Alexandrova
History and Philosophy of Science\, King’s College Cambridge 11/26: No tal
k—Thanksgiving
12/3: Hasok Chang History and Philosophy of Science\, University
of Cambridge
\n
The CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate
Center\, Fridays\, 1-3 pm—currently on Zoom. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-
mail David Rosenthal al1@gmail.com>
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URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake
r-series-16/
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CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
DESCRIPTION:\n
Abstract: It i
s widely recognized by proponents of the notion that grounding can be\, in
deed is\, overdetermined. Further to this\, it seems safe to suppose that
something of a consensus has emerged: grounding is overdetermined and the
re is nothing about it\, either conceptually or metaphysically\, that we o
ught to find concerning. But from a small sampling of alleged cases no su
ch conclusions can responsibly be drawn. This paper aims to demonstrate t
hat there is nothing obvious or straightforward about grounding overdeterm
ination and that the topic is deserving of much more serious philosophical
attention.
\n
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on
Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time) entirely online\, unless otherwise not
ed. The provisional schedule is as follows:
\n
Sep 13. Ricki Bliss (L
ehigh University)
\n
Sep 20. Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion Univer
sity)
\n
Sep 27. Rashed Ahmad (University of Connecticut)
\n
Oct
4. Yale Weiss (CUNY GC)
\n
Oct 11. NO MEETING
\n
Oct 18. Rohit
Parikh (CUNY GC)
\n
Oct 25. Noah Friedman-Biglin (San José State Univ
ersity)
\n
Nov 1. Thomas Macaulay Ferguson (University of Amsterdam)<
/p>\n
Nov 8. Roman Kossak (CUNY GC)
\n
Nov 15. Sara Uckelman (Durha
m University)
\n
Nov 22. Konstantinos Georgatos (John Jay)
\n
No
v 29. Martin Pleitz (Münster)
\n
Dec 6. Dirk Batens (University of Gh
ent)
\n
Dec 13. Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210913T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210913T181500
LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Metaphysical Overdetermination (Ricki Bliss) @ Logic & Metaphysics
Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/metaphysical-overdetermi
nation-ricki-bliss-logic-metaphysics-workshop/
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CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
DESCRIPTION:\n
The Logic and Metaphysics Works
hop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time) entirely online
\, unless otherwise noted. The provisional schedule is as follows:
\n
Sep 13. Ricki Bliss (Lehigh University)
\n
Sep 20. Teresa Kouri Kiss
el (Old Dominion University)
\n
Sep 27. Rashed Ahmad (University of C
onnecticut)
\n
Oct 4. Yale Weiss (CUNY GC)
\n
Oct 11. NO MEETING
\n
Oct 18. Rohit Parikh (CUNY GC)
\n
Oct 25. Noah Friedman-Bigl
in (San José State University)
\n
Nov 1. Thomas Macaulay Ferguson (Un
iversity of Amsterdam)
\n
Nov 8. Roman Kossak (CUNY GC)
\n
Nov 1
5. Sara Uckelman (Durham University)
\n
Nov 22. Konstantinos Georgato
s (John Jay)
\n
Nov 29. Martin Pleitz (Münster)
\n
Dec 6. Dirk B
atens (University of Ghent)
\n
Dec 13. Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bo
chum)
\n
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T181500
LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Logic & Metaphysics Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-metaphysics-worksh
op-3/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://saulkripkecenter.org/index.php/2021/09/17/young-scholars-se
ries-william-nava/
DESCRIPTION:The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that William N
ava (PhD student\, Philosophy\, NYU) will deliver the eighth Saul Kripke C
enter Young Scholars Series talk on Friday\, October 8\, 2021\, from 1:00
to 3:00 pm (NY time) via Zoom. The talk is free and open to all\, but thos
e interested in attending should email the Saul Kripke Center in advance t
o register if they are not already on the Saul Kripke Center’s ma
iling list.
\nTitle: The significance and scope of
the adoption problem
\nAbstract: The adoption p
roblem is an argument purporting to show that certain logical inferen
ce rules cannot be rationally ‘adopted’—roughly because one would need to
already be guided by the inference rules in question to go about adopting
them. In this talk\, I’ll first argue that this argument is best understoo
d as showing that certain rules are necessary for adoption of rules in
general (where their own unadoptability is then a corollary). I’ll t
hen defend the argument from the objection that the notion of adoption is
too narrow for the argument to be relevant to logical debates. Finally\, I
’ll consider the question of just which rules the argument applies to. I c
onclude that the argument does not apply to any classical inference rules
in full generality\, but only to somewhat ad hoc restrictions of some of t
hem. On the other hand\, I’ll also show that the argument does ap
ply to the transparent truth rules—or\, more precisely\, to restrictions o
f them that suffice to generate paradox. What falls out of these considera
tions is an ur-logic to which everyone must subscribe on pain of
inability to adopt any new rules at all\; and which\, though quite minimal
\, is incompatible with classical logic by virtue of including the truth r
ules.
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The significance and scope of the adoption problem. Will Nava (NYU)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-significance-and-sco
pe-of-the-adoption-problem-will-nava-nyu/
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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.
\n
\nDA
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.
\n
Lead 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.
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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/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/01/18/spring-2022-schedule/
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Monday
s from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Speakers may present either virtually or in
-person\; the details will be announced for each talk individually. Meetin
gs will convene at the Graduate Center\, Room 5382. You may attend
any talk from that location (even if the speaker is not physically present
). At least for any talk for which the speaker is not physically present\,
you will also be able to attend virtually from anywhere via Zoom. The pro
visional schedule is as follows:
\nFeb 7. Guillermo Badia (Queenslan
d)
\nFeb 14. Ekaterina Kubyshkina (Campinas)
\nFeb 21. NO MEET
ING
\nFeb 28. Michael Burton (Yale)
\nMar 7. David Papineau (K
ing’s)
\nMar 14. Wilfrid Hodges (King’s)
\nMar 21. Noson Yanof
sky (CUNY)
\nMar 28. Dongwoo Kim (CUNY)
\nApr 4. Jenn McDonald
(Columbia)
\nApr 11. Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins)
\nApr 18.
NO MEETING
\nApr 25. Tore Fjetland Øgaard (Bergen)
\nMay 2. El
ia Zardini (Madrid)
\nMay 9. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Nice)
\nMay 16. Mircea Dumitru (Bucharest)
\n
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SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo
rkshop-16/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks
DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM\,
1-3\, NYC TIME
All are hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaney
Zoom links are all
announced on the Cognitive Science email list
To subscribe to that list\, email
davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
Some sessions—not all—are recorded for later access
2/11: Be
nce Nanay – Centre for Philosop
hical Psychology\, University of Antwerp
<
span dir='ltr' role='presentation'>2/18: No talk—one-week break
2/25: Joshua Mye
rs – Philosophy\, New York Univ
ersity
3/4: Nadine Dijkstra – Wellcom
e Centre for Human Neuroimaging\, University College London
3/11: Grace Helton
span> – Philosophy\, Princeton Univers
ity
3/
18: No talk—one-week break
3/25: Joshua Shepherd – Philosophy\, Carleton University and University of Barcelona
4/1:
Devin Sanchez Curry – Philosoph
y\, West Virginia University
4/8: Michał Wierzchoń – Institute of Psychology\, Jagiellonian University4/15: No talk—
Spring Break
4/22: Gary Ostertag – Ph
ilosophy\, CUNY Graduate Center
4/29: Jacob Berger – Philosophy\, Lycoming College
5/6: Maja Spener – Philosophy\, University of Birmingham5/13: Yair Lev
y – Philosophy\, Tel Aviv Unive
rsity
\nThe CUNY Cognitiv
e Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,
Fridays\, 1-
3 pm\, NYC time—currently on Zoom. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail Da
vid Rosenthal
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake
r-series-17/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://saulkripkecenter.org/index.php/2022/01/20/kripkean-necessit
ies-imaginative-kripke-puzzles-and-semantic-transparency/
DESCRIPTION:\n
The Saul Kripke Center is pleas
ed to announce that James Shaw (Associate Professor\, Philosophy\, Univers
ity of Pittsburgh) will deliver a talk on Thursday\, February 17th\, 2022\
, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (NY time) via Zoom. The talk is free and open to al
l\, but those interested in attending should email the Saul Kripke Center
in advance to register if they are not part of the CUNY Graduate
Center’s Philosophy Program or are not on the Saul Kripke Center’s mailing
list.
\n
Title: Kripkean Necessities\, Imaginative
Kripke Puzzles\, and Semantic Transparency
\n
Abstract: Kripke (1980) famously argued that some a posteriori statements are ne
cessary when true. I begin by exploring an unusual technique to try to lea
rn these necessities merely through imagination that I call “Semantic Imag
inative Transfer”. I explore an idealized instance of this technique which
I suggest leads to an imaginative variant of Kripke’s (1979) puzzle about
belief. I note that on some widespread assumptions (including that propos
itional idiom can be maintained in the face of Kripke puzzles)\, the ideal
ized example restricts the space for accommodating Kripkean necessities to
two families of views: familiar\, broadly Guise-Theoretic approaches to p
ropositional attitudes\, and unconventional and largely unexplored views e
mbracing semantic transparency principles. I briefly review some of the hi
story of transparency principles\, make some conjectures as to why they we
nt out of fashion following the work of semantic externalists (including K
ripke)\, and make a plea for exploring the consequences of their adoption.
Along the way I note the significance of doing so: the transparency princ
iples render Kripkean necessities a priori.
\n
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T160000
GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973
LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Kripkean Necessities\, Imaginative Kripke Puzzles\, and Semantic Tr
ansparency. James Shaw (U Pittsburgh)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/kripkean-necessities-ima
ginative-kripke-puzzles-and-semantic-transparency-james-shaw-u-pittsburgh/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:THE COLUMBIA SOCI
ETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
\n
\n<
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.
\n
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ersons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. Th
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ing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact
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ty accommodations\, including sign-language interpreters\, are available o
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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/
\n
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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/
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ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
THE 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)
\n
ABSTRACT: 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.
\n
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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/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/08/19/fall-2022-schedule/
DESCRIPTION:
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Monday
s from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or i
n-person (at the Graduate Center\, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is
as follows:
\nSept 5. NO MEETING
\nSep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyo
to)
\nSep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
\nSep 26. Gabriella Pigoz
zi (Paris Dauphine)\, Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine)\, and Matteo Michelin
i (Eindhoven)
\nOct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
\nOct 10. NO MEETING<
/p>\n
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
\nOct 24. Friederika Mo
ltmann (CNRS\, Côte d’Azur)
\nOct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
\nNo
v 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
\nNov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
\n
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
\nNov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)<
/p>\n
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
\nDec 12. Harry Deutsch (Ill
inois State)
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T181500
GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 7314 & Zoom @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\,
USA
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T161500
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T161500
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo
rkshop-17/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks
DESCRIPTION:\n\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T150000
GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973
LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T130000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T130000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T130000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T130000
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T130000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T130000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake
r-series-18/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
With responses from
Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)
\n
ABSTRACT: Budd
hist philosophers often draw a distinction between two different kinds of
truth: conventional truth (saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-sa
tya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinct
ion in terms of an ontological distinction between two different kinds of
entities: ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally rea
l entities (saṃvṛti-sat). Similar to contemporary philosophical discussion
s about ordinary objects\, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological st
atus of conventional entities and the semantics of discourse concerning th
em. Mark Siderits (2015\, 2021\, 2022) has influentially argued for an eli
minitivist position he calls “Buddhist reductionism” that interprets the A
bhidharma position as one that denies conventional entities exist but that
retains discourse involving apparent reference to them. However\, in a re
cent article Kris McDaniel (2019)\, a prominent defender of ontological pl
uralism\, challenges that view by proposing that the Abhidharma Buddhist d
istinction between conventional truth and ultimate truth be “defined up” f
rom a more basic distinction between two different ways an entity can exis
t: conventionally or ultimately. In this paper I argue that Saṃghabhadra’s
account of conventional reality and truth does lends itself well to McDan
iel’s proposal but I will also argue that the account of conventional and
ultimate truth that results differs in important ways from the models he o
ffers. I will end by offering a modification of McDaniel’s account of conv
entional truth that is derived from Saṃghabhadra’s pluralist ontology. Tha
t view will\, unlike the views suggested by both Siderits and McDaniel\, a
llow for there to be ultimate truths about what is conventionally true.
\n
\n
Dinner will
be kindly offered by the Columbia University Seminars.
\n
RSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with
eating requirements at lm3335@columb
ia.edu.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T193000
GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136
LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100
27\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Gue
rrero (William & Mary)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/buddhist-conventional-tr
uth-and-ontological-pluralism-laura-p-guerrero-william-mary/
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CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
With responses from
Timothy Connolly (East Stroudsburg University)
\n
ABSTRACT: Recent philosophical discussions on compassion focus on the value and the
nature of compassion as an emotion. Ancient Asian philosophical tradition
s such as Confucianism and Buddhism\, however\, emphasize compassion as a
character trait that should be nurtured. This paper examines the insights
drawn from these traditions to help inform the nurturing of compassion. Fo
r example\, is empathy a necessary tool? What is the role of love and car
e? Does self-reflection contribute to the process?
\n
\n
\n
Dinner will be kindly o
ffered by the Columbia University Seminars.
\n
RSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requ
irements at lm3335@columbia.edu.<
span class='gmail-Apple-converted-space'>
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T193000
GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136
LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100
27\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:How to nurture compassion? Some lessons from Asian philosophical tr
aditions. Sin Yee Chan (U Vermont)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-to-nurture-compassio
n-some-lessons-from-asian-philosophical-traditions-sin-yee-chan-u-vermont/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cscitalks
DESCRIPTION:
Talks hosted by Ryan McE
lhaney
To get Zoom links\, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
\n
Some—but not all—s
essions are recorded for later access
\n
2/3: Justin Sytsma
Philosophy\, Victoria University of Wellington
\n
2/10: Jonathan Birch
Philosophy\, London School of Economics
\n
2/17: No tal
k—one-week break
\n
2/24: Miguel Ángel Sebastián
Philosophy\, National Autonomous University of Mexico
p>\n
3/3:
Claudia Passos Ferreira
Philosophy\, New York University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Ro
om 7102 **
\n
3/10: Jonathan Morgan
Philosophy\, Montclair State University
** HYBRID:
Graduate Center Room 7102 **
\n
3/17: Derek Brown
Philosophy\, University of Gl
asgow
\n
3/24: Robert Kentridge
Psychology and Centre for Vision and Visual Cogn
ition\, University of Durham
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
\n
3/31: J
osh Weisberg
Philosophy\, University of Houston
** HYBRID: Room TBA **
\n
4/7\, 4/14:
Spring break—no talks
\n
4/21: Michal Polák
Philosophy\, University of West Bohe
mia
\n
The CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY
Graduate Center\,
Fridays\, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom\, some hybrid. This file is at:
span> http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional
information e-mail David Rosenthal
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T130000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake
r-series-19/
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CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
DESCRIPTION:
Neopragmatists seek to sidestep metaphysical puzzles by shif
ting the target of philosophical explanation from the objects we think and
talk about to the functions of expressions and concepts in our cognitive
economy. Logical vocabulary can serve as a target for neopragmatist inquir
y\, and it has also posed obstacles to neopragmatist accounts of other voc
abulary. I will argue that the obstacles can be addressed by adopting a ne
opragmatist perspective toward logical relations\, such as logical consequ
ence\, and toward propositional content. Doing so calls into question two
purported constraints on explanations of the functions of logical connecti
ves. I will sketch an account made possible by rejecting those constraints
\, one according to which logical connectives serve to express dialectical
attitudes. The proposal is deflationary in two ways: it rests on an exten
sion of deflationism from truth to logical relations\, and it aims to defl
ate some of neopragmatists’ theoretical ambitions.
\n
Hi\, All. Below
is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetin
gs will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reve
rting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
\n
\n
Feb 27 L
ionel Shapiro\, UConn
\n
Mar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\n
Mar 13 Mel
Fitting GC
\n
Mar 20 Shawn Simpson
\n
Mar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\,
SUNY Albany
\n
Apr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\n
Apr 10 Spri
ng recess. No meeting
\n
Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern<
/p>\n
Apr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\n
May 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\n
May 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and t
he session will run all afternoon:
\n
Marc Colyvan (Sydney)
and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\n
May 15 Maci
ej Sendłak\, Warsaw
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T181500
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 9205 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Neopragmatism and logic: A deflationary proposal. Lionel Shapiro (U
Conn)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/neopragmatism-and-logic-
a-deflationary-proposal-lionel-shapiro-uconn/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
The 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.
\n
With responses from Karsten Struhl (John Jay College of Criminal Ju
stice\, CUNY)
\n
Presented by THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
\n
RSVP 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.
\n
DTSTART;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/
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cal\,religion\,social
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
DESCRIPTION:
Hi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop
this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at t
he GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom
.)
\n
\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\n
Mar 6 Gary Oste
rtag\, GC
\n
Mar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\n
Mar 20 Shawn Simpson
\n
Mar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\n
Apr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, P
rague
\n
Apr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\n
Apr 17 Bra
nden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\n
Apr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\n
May 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\n
May 10 Special event. Note t
hat this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:<
/p>\n
Marc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt
(Bochum)
\n
May 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T181500
EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T161500
EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T161500
EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001
6\, USA
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T161500
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T161500
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T161500
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T161500
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T161500
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T161500
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo
rkshop-18/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
DESCRIPTION:
Saul Kripke announced his possible world semantics in 1959\,
and published his proof of axiomatic completeness for the standard modal
logics of the time in 1963. It is very unlike the standard completeness p
roof used today\, which involves a Lindenbaum/Henkin construction and prod
uces canonical models. Kripke’s proof involved tableaus\, in a format tha
t is difficult to follow\, and uses tableau construction algorithms that a
re complex and somewhat error prone to describe. I will first discuss Krip
ke’s proof\, then the historical origins of the modern version. Then I wi
ll show that completeness\, proved Kripke style\, could actually have been
done in the Lindenbaum/Henkin way\, thus simplifying things considerably.
None of this is new but\, with the parts collected together it is an int
eresting story. “In my end is my beginning”.
\n
Hi\, All. Below is th
e provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings wil
l be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting
to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
\n
\n
Feb 27 Lionel
Shapiro\, UConn
\n
Mar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\n
Mar 13 Mel Fittin
g GC
\n
Mar 20 Shawn Simpson
\n
Mar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY A
lbany
\n
Apr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\n
Apr 10 Spring rec
ess. No meeting
\n
Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\n<
p>Apr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\n
May 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\n
May 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the se
ssion will run all afternoon:
\n
Marc Colyvan (Sydney) and H
einrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\n
May 15 Maciej Sen
dłak\, Warsaw
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T181500
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001
6\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:On Kripke’s proof of Kripke completeness. Melvin Fitting (CUNY)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/on-kripkes-proof-of-krip
ke-completeness-melvin-fitting-cuny/
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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.
\n
With responses from Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\,
CUNY)
\n
RSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take place
at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for fu
rther information.
\n
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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/
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DESCRIPTION:
The sender-receiver model was developed by David Lewis to ta
ckle the question of the conventionality of meaning. But many people who c
ared about the conventionality of meaning did so because they thought it w
as intimately connected to the conventionality of logic. Since Lewis’s wor
k\, only a few attempts have been made to say anything about the nature of
logic and inference from the perspective of the sender-receiver model. Th
is talk will look at the what’s been said in that regard\, by Skyrms and o
thers\, and suggest a few general lessons.
\n
—
\n
Hi\, All. Bel
ow is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meet
ings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are re
verting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
\n
\n
Feb 27
Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\n
Mar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\n
Mar 13 Me
l Fitting GC
\n
Mar 20 Shawn Simpson
\n
Mar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\
, SUNY Albany
\n
Apr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\n
Apr 10 Sp
ring recess. No meeting
\n
Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeaster
n
\n
Apr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\n
May 1 Samara Burns\, Columb
ia
\n
May 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and
the session will run all afternoon:
\n
Marc Colyvan (Sydne
y) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\n
May 15 Ma
ciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T181500
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001
6\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Logic and inference in the sender-receiver model. Shawn Simpson (Pi
tt)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-inference-in-t
he-sender-receiver-model-shawn-simpson-pitt/
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DESCRIPTION:
What we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiat
ed\, in a certain guise\, by Peirce around 1885 and championed\, albeit in
idiosyncratic form\, by Zermelo in papers from the 1930s. We characteriz
e such logics model- and proof-theoretically and argue that they constitut
e exploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent ge
nerality. Whereas a logic\, or family of such\, can be of interest for an
y of a variety of reasons\, we suggest that one of those reasons might be
that said logic fosters some clarification regarding just what qualifies a
s a logical concept\, a logical operation\, or a logical law.
\n
\n
Note: The published paper is available here: <
a href='https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382'>https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.1
2382.
\n
Hi\, All. Below is the provisional program
for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Monday
s 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meeti
ngs. (No more Zoom.)
\n
\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\n
Mar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\n
Mar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\n
Mar 20 S
hawn Simpson
\n
Mar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\n
Apr 3 T
homas Ferguson\, Prague
\n
Apr 10 Spring recess. No meeting<
/p>\n
Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\n
Apr 24 Andrea Iacon
a\, Turin
\n
May 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\n
May 10 Spe
cial event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all af
ternoon:
\n
Marc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Boch
um)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\n
May 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T181500
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001
6\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:First-order logics over fixed domain. Gregory Taylor (CUNY)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/first-order-logics-over-
fixed-domain-gregory-taylor-cuny/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks
DESCRIPTION:
\n\n
9/8: Martina Helina
\nHistory and Philosophy of Scie
nce and Philosophy of Cognitive Science\,
\nUniversity of CambridgePh
ilosophy
\n9/15: No talk—one-week break
\n9/22: Janis Karan Hess
e
\nNeuroscience\, University of California at Berkeley
\n9/29:
Justin Halberda
\nPsychological and Brain Sciences\, Johns Hopkins Un
iversity
\n10/6: Jakub Mihalik
\nDepartment of Analytic Philosop
hy\, Institute of Philosophy of the
\nCzech Academy of Sciences in Pr
ague
\n10/13: Gregg Caruso
\nPhilosophy\, SUNY Corning\, Northea
stern University London\, and
\nMacquarie University
\n** HYBRID
: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
\n10/20: Edouard Machery
\nHistor
y and Philosophy of Science\, University of Pittsburgh
\n** HYBRID: G
raduate Center Room 7102 **
\n10/27: Heather Browning
\nPhilosop
hy\, University of Southampton
\n11/3: Panagiota Theodoni
\nPhil
osophy\, University of Athens
\n11/10: François Kammerer
\nInsti
tute for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
\n11/17: Jonath
an Phillips
\nCognitive Science\, Psychological and Brain Sciences\,
and
\nPhilosophy\, Dartmouth College
\n11/124: No talk—Thanksgiv
ing break
\n12/1: Lua Koenig
\nNeuroscience Institute\, NYU Lang
one Medical Center
\n
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **\n
\n
The CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets week
ly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,
\nFridays\, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom\, som
e hybrid. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
\nFor additional in
formation e-mail David Rosenthal
\n
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USA
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T130000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T130000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T130000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake
r-series-20/
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CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
DESCRIPTION:
This semester\, we will meet as usual on Mondays\, 4.15-6.15
\, followed by a trip to the pub for all those who would like to go. The
room is yet to be determined. Meetings will be face to face only. Below is
the provisional program for the semester. Details of each meeting will be
announced on a weekly basis\, as usual.
\n
Note that the first meeti
ng will be on September 11. Unfortunately we lose several Mondays towards
the start of the semester because of CUNY holidays. There is nothing curr
ently scheduled for Nov 20 or Dec 11. Whether we fill those slots is a dec
ision yet to be made\; but if you would like one of them\, let us know.
\n
\n
Sept 4. GC closed. No meeting
\n
Sept 11 Fra
ncesco Paoli\, Cagliari
\n
Sept 18 Will Nava\, NYU
\n
Sept 25 GC closed. No meeting
\n
Oct 2 Brett Topey\, Saltzburg
\n
Oct 9 GC closed. No meeting.
\n
Oct 16 Yale Weiss\, GC
\n
Oct 23 Melissa Fusco\, Columbia
\n
Oct 30 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUN
Y Albany
\n
Nov 6 Alex Citkin\, Private Researcher
\n
Nov 13 Ale
x Skiles\, Rutgers
\n
Nov 20 [GP in Germany]
\n
Nov 27
Mircea Dumitru\, Bucharest
\n
Dec 4 James Walsh\, NYU
\n
Dec 11<
/p>
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T161500
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T161500
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo
rkshop-19/
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CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso
phy/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
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<
p>With responses from Nalei Chen (New York University)\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
We hope you’ve had res
tful and productive summers\, and we look forward to seeing you at our upc
oming meetings. Below is the list of our scheduled speakers. Please save t
hese dates!
\n
\n
Further details will be circulated in du
e course.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T193000
GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573
LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716 @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10
027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:War and Shame –A Debate on the Appropriate Response to Insults betw
een the Confucians and their Interlocutors. Jing Hu (Concordia University)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/war-and-shame-a-debate-o
n-the-appropriate-response-to-insults-between-the-confucians-and-their-int
erlocutors-jing-hu-concordia-university/
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CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso
phy/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
\n
\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.
\n
With re
sponses from Jonathan Gold (Princeton University)
\n
DA
TE: October 13th\, 2023
\n
TIME: 5:30 pm EST
\n
LO
CATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, Columbia University
\n
1150
Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
\n
NOTE 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.
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
We hope
you’ve had restful and productive summers\, and we look forward to seeing
you at our upcoming meetings. Below is the list of our scheduled speakers
. Please save these dates!
\n
\n
Further details will be c
irculated in due course.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T193000
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027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Buddhist Analyses of the Unconscious Construction of our Collective
‘Life-Worlds. William Waldron (Middlebury)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/buddhist-analyses-of-the
-unconscious-construction-of-our-collective-life-worlds-william-waldron-mi
ddlebury/
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DESCRIPTION:
On the basis of Poincaré and Weyl’s view of predicativity as
invariance\, we develop an extensive framework for predicative\, type-fre
e first-order set theory in which Γ0 and muc
h bigger ordinals can be defined as von Neumann ordinals. This refutes the
accepted view of Γ0 as the ‘limit of pr
edicativity.’ We also explain what is wrong in Feferman-Schütte analysis o
f predicativity on which this view of
Γ0
is based.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T153000
GEO:+40.748815;-73.984102
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 6417 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Poincaré-Weyl’s predicativity: going beyond Γ0. Arnon Avron (Tel Av
iv)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/poincare-weyls-predicati
vity-going-beyond-%ce%b30-arnon-avron-tel-aviv/
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DESCRIPTION:
We consider the game of infinite Wordle as played on Baire s
pace ωω
span>. The codebreaker can win in finit
ely many moves against any countable dictionary Δ⊆ωω\, but not again
st the full dictionary of Baire space. The Wordle number is the siz
e of the smallest dictionary admitting such a winning strategy for the cod
ebreaker\, the corresponding Wordle ideal is the ideal generated by
these dictionaries\, which under MA includes all dictionaries of size les
s than the continuum. The Absurdle number\, meanwhile\, is the size
of the smallest dictionary admitting a winning strategy for the absurdist
in the two-player variant\, infinite Absurdle. In ZFC there are nondeterm
ined Absurdle games\, with neither player having a winning strategy\, but
if one drops the axiom of choice\, then the principle of Absurdle determin
acy has large cardinal consistency strength over ZF+DC. This is joint work
with Ben De Bondt (Paris).
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T153000
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 6417
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Wordle and Absurdle numbers. Joel David Hamkins (Notre Dame)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-wordle-and-absurdle-
numbers-joel-david-hamkins-notre-dame/
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CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
The 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.
\n
With responses from Martin Lin (Ru
tgers University)
\n
NOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS:
b>The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID
card. If you do not have this card please arrive early where someone will
be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you ca
n ask someone walking nearby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.ed
u. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt
the talk.
\n
NOTE REGARDING DONATIONS: Due to COVID-19\, dona
tions are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving
form\, Giving to Columbia.
\n
RSVP is required for dinner. Di
nner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@colum
bia.edu for further information.
\n
Comparative Philosophy Semina
r:
\n
\n- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n- F
ebruary 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova University)
\n- April 5 – Lau
ra Specker (Fordham University)
\n- May 3 – Daniel Stephens (Univers
ity at Buffalo)
\n
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240119T193000
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LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY
10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Nyāya\, Buddhism\, Rāmakaṇṭha\, and Galen Strawson on the Existence
of Selves. Alex Watson (Ashoka)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nyaya-buddhism-ramaka%e1
%b9%87%e1%b9%adha-and-galen-strawson-on-the-existence-of-selves-alex-watso
n-ashoka/
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CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks
DESCRIPTION:
ALL TALKS AVAILABLE ON ZOOM
\nSOME ALSO IN PERSON (Grad
uate Center room 7102)
\nTalks organized and hosted by Ryan McElhaney
\nTo get Zoom links: Email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
\n
2/2: Ed
ward Elliott
\nPhilosophy\, University of Leeds\; soon to be at Notre
Dame
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
\n2/9: Sami R.
Yousif
\nPsychology\, University of Pennsylvania
\n*** HYBRID:
Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
\n2/16: Susan E. Carey
\nPsycholog
y\, Harvard University
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
\n2/23: Amy Kind
\nPhilosophy\, Claremont McKenna College
\n3
/1: Johannes Fahrenfort
\nNeuroscience\, Conscious Brain Lab\, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam
\nand Universiteit van Amsterdam
\n3/8: S
am Coleman
\nPhilosophy\, University of Hertfordshire
\n3/15: Ch
ristopher Hill
\nPhilosophy\, Brown University
\n3/22: Nicholas
Humphrey
\nNeuropsychology\, London School of Economics and Darwin Co
llege Cambridge
\n3/29: No talk—Easter weekend
\n4/5: James R. O
’Shea
\nPhilosophy\, University College Dublin
\n4/12: Daniel St
oljar
\nPhilosophy\, Australian National University
\n4/19 and 4
/26: No talks—CUNY spring break
\n5/3: Willem A. deVries
\nPhilo
sophy\, University of New Hampshire
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Roo
m 7102 ***
\n5/10: Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn
\nPhilosophy\,
Simon Fraser University
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***<
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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
W
ith responses from Thomas Yarnall (Columbia University)
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\n\n
DATE: February 2nd\, 2024
p>\n
TIME: 5:30 pm EST
\n
LOCATION: Philosophy Hall\,
Room 716\, Columbia University
\n
1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY
10027
\n
NOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to P
hilosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you d
o not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing ou
tside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone w
alking nearby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please o
nly contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
\n
NOTE REGARDING DONATIONS: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only
accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving
to Columbia.
\n
RSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take
place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu fo
r further information.
\n
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT: Columbia Un
iversity encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its progra
ms and activities. The University Seminars’ participants with dis- abiliti
es who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physi
cal access may contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.854.2388 o
r
disability@columbia.edu. Disability accommodations\, including sign-la
nguage interpreters\, are available on request. Requests for accommodation
s must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar participants with
disabilities should alert a Public Safety Officer if they need assistanc
e accessing campus.
\n
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar
s/comparative-philosophy/
\n
(Please do not reply to this anno
uncement. You may contact the Co-Chairs using the link above.)
\n<
p>Comparative Philosophy Seminar:\n
\n- 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)
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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/
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CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
The Logic and Metaphysics Works
hop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicate
d. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room
7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:
\n
Feb 5. Rom
an Kossak (CUNY)
\n
Feb 12. NO MEETING
\n
Feb 19. NO MEETING
\n
Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)
\n
Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)
\n
Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)
\n
Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (War
saw)
\n
Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)
\n
Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (
Vienna)
\n
Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)
\n
Apr 15. Jessica Collin
s (Columbia)
\n
Apr 22. NO MEETING
\n
Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi
(Stockholm)
\n
May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
\n
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