Whatever specific questions you address\, we invit
e you to present your analysis with an eye toward the long-standing concer
ns of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute and thereby to help develop a trenc
hant\, independent view of democracy that can inform both critique and pra
ctical action within our present historical moment. Please submit a short
c.v. and an abstract of up to 250 words by October 15\, 2023\, to telosnyc
2024@telosinstitute.net and place “The 2024 Telos Conference” in the email
’s subject line. Please direct questions to Professor Mark G. E. Kelly\, W
estern Sydney University\, M.Kelly@westernsydney.edu.au.
\nThe conference will take place at the
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City from Friday\,
March 22\, to Saturday\, March 23\, 2024.
\nThe Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy
was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original
model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by L
iam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host
in any given year.
\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or mora
l or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists
of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU\, a
nd faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the p
aper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects
\, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme
for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics wer
e canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pur
sue any particular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable depth
and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this pa
ge\, and participants are expected to have read it.
\nThe Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy
was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original
model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by L
iam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host
in any given year.
\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or mora
l or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists
of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU\, a
nd faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the p
aper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects
\, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme
for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics wer
e canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pur
sue any particular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable depth
and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this pa
ge\, and participants are expected to have read it.
\n\n
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SUMMARY:Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/fordham-workshop-in-soci
al-and-political-philosophy/
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CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
Pr
ofessor Rupert Read (Personal Website link) will be
joining us on the 22nd of October from 1-3 PM EDT on Zoom in presenting the introduction fro
m his book\, Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Ph
ilosophical Investigations\, in which he argues that “the key to understan
ding Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purpo
rt.”
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy\, Rupert Read
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/wittgensteins-liberatory
-philosophy-rupert-read/
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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
\n
DA
TE: October 22\, 2021
\n
TIME: 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
\n
Discussan
ts: Alejandro Bárcenas (Texas
State University)\, Yutang Jin (Princeton University)\, Mercedes Valmisa <
/a>(Gettysburg College)
\n
Note 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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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:Independent
CONTACT:https://bkpp.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:
Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in
the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience\,
hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of t
he best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and
to provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the
philosophical questions that matter to them.
\n
If you’re interested
in finding out more\, or if you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian
Olasov at his first and last name at gmail.com.
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GEO:+40.672511;-73.9682
LOCATION:Info Commons Lab\, Brookly Public Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza\,
Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Jennifer Scuro: On labor
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/jennifer-scuro-on-labor/
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CONTACT:https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/philosophy-library-virtual-20
220322
DESCRIPTION:
\n
\n
How can we know what it’s like to be someone else? Cl
assical Indian philosophers found the answer in theater\, arguing that it’
s not just a form of entertainment\, but a source of knowledge of other mi
nds. In this talk\, I’ll explore how this theme is developed in Śrī Śaṅkuk
a (c. 850 CE) and examine the reasons his views were rejected in the later
tradition. I’ll argue that those reasons are unsound\, and that we can se
e why by turning to contemporary studies of the relationship between knowl
edge and luck.
\n
Jonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. M
atilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
He is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical tradit
ions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind\, metaphysics an
d epistemology. His books include Attention\, Not Self (2017)\, a
study of early Buddhist theories of attention\; The Concealed Art of
the Soul (2012)\, an analysis of the idea of a search for one’s true
self\; Virtual Subjects\, Fugitive Selves (2020)\, an analysis of
Fernando Pessoa’s philosophy of self\; and Inwardness: An Outsiders’
Guide (2021)\, a review of the concept of inwardness in literature\,
film\, poetry\, and philosophy across cultures. He joined the Fellowship o
f the British Academy in 2015\, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanitie
s the same year\, the only philosopher to do so.
\n
\n
\n
This series is cur
ated and co-presented by Brooklyn Public Philosophers\, aka Ian Olasov.
\n
\n
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Jonardon Ganeri (Toronto) Can theater teach us about what it’s lik
e to be someone else?
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/jonardon-ganeri-toronto-
can-theater-teach-us-about-what-its-like-to-be-someone-else/
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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’
\n
Lead Presenter: Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\
, CUNY)
\n
Discussa
nts: Robert A. Carleo III (East China Normal University)\, Emma Bucht
el (Hong Kong Education University)
\n
ABSTRACT: 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.
\n
DATE: Ma
rch 25\, 2022
\n
TI
ME: 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST
\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. 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.
\n
Note Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations
are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form
\, Giving to Columbia.
\n
\n
Accessibility Statement: Columbia University encourages p
ersons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. Th
e University Seminars participants with dis- abilities who anticipate need
ing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact
the Office of Disability Services at 212.85
4.2388 or disability@columbia.edu. Disabili
ty accommodations\, including sign-language interpreters\, are available o
n request. Requests for accommodations must be made two weeks in advance.
On campus\, seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public S
afety Officer if they need assistance accessing campus.
\n
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/co
mparative-philosophy/
\n
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Li Zehou. Deep Structures of Confucianism
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/li-zehou-deep-structures
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CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
THE COLUMBIA SOCI
ETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
\n
Welcomes 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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SEQUENCE:0
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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:NYU
CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/Calendar/events/fall-2022/gaston
-bachelard-colloquium-.html
DESCRIPTION:
We are excited to announce a public talk featuring Elie Duri
ng as part of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s 60th death anniversary
. On the face of it\, The Dialectic of Duration\, Gaston Bachelard’
s 1936 essay\, is a pungent—if often unfair—criticism of the Bergsonian do
ctrine of time and creative evolution. The constructive side of this Anti-
Bergson has received less attention: it implies a genuine poetics of time
based on the intuition of the sporadic and oscillatory nature of becoming.
Bachelard’s rhythmic theme is consistent with the idea of “surrationalism
” introduced that same year as a formal counterpart to the surrealist expe
riments carried out on the fringes of conscious experience. Inspired by th
e explosive potential of scientific revolutions already celebrated in L
e Nouvel Esprit Scientifique\, the surrationalist project can be inter
preted as that of a poetics of reason. André Breton believed it wou
ld “act simultaneously as a stimulant and restraining influence” (“Crisis
of the Object”). Insights from the scientific investigation of time as wel
l as poetic and musical experience will help us see how this double action
is in keeping with the eruptive dynamics of imagination and reason\, as m
uch as with Bachelard’s ideal of “self-surveillance”.
\n
Elie Duri
ng is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris
Ouest. His research focuses on the philosophical implications of relativit
y theory. His publications include an introduction to Poincaré’s philosoph
y of science (La Science et l’Hypothèse\, 2001)\, an essay on the n
ature of time (The Future does not Exist\, 2014)\, two critical edi
tions of Bergson\, a coedited volume on contemporary metaphysics of realis
m (Choses en soi\, 2018\, English translation forthcoming from Edin
burgh University Press)\, and most recently a critical edition of Bachelar
d’s Dialectique de la durée (2021).
\n
Organized by
\n
Ju
lie Beauté\, Aix-Marseille Université\, ADES (France)
\n
Alexander Ca
mpolo\, Durham University (UK)
\n
Jeanne Etelain\, New York Universit
y (USA)
\n
Sam Kellogg\, New York University (USA)
\n
Alexander
Miller\, Ghent University (Belgium)
\n
Pierre Schwarzer\, New York Un
iversity (USA)
\n
Meg Wiessner\, New York University (USA)
\n
Ti
ckets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gaston-bachelard-colloquium-public-
talk-with-elie-during-tickets-412317431537.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T203000
GEO:+40.731147;-73.995378
LOCATION:La Maison Française NYU @ 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003
\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Anti-Bergson: Bachelard’s “Surrationalist” Moment and The Poetics o
f Time
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surrationalist-moment-and-the-poetics-of-time/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
2022-23
\n
\n
\n- September 20 – Miguel Vatte
r (Deakin)\, “Home\, Habitat\, Habitability: Reflections on Planetary
Politics”
\n- October 11 – María Pía Lara (Universidad Autón
oma Metropolitana)\, TBD
\n- Additional Meetings TBA
\n
\n
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T184500
GEO:+40.77103;-73.985096
LOCATION:Lincoln Center tbd @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T173000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/workshop-in-social-and-p
olitical-philosophy/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/how-ai-changing-artis
tic-creation
DESCRIPTION:
Generative art made with algorithms has existed since the ea
rly days of computing in the 1960s. In recent years\, a new strand of gene
rative art has emerged: AI-generated art\, which leverages the recent prog
ress of artificial intelligence to create artworks. Unlike old-fashioned g
enerative art\, AI-generated art is not produced with an explicit set of p
rogramming instructions provided by human artists\; instead\, it involves
training an algorithm on a dataset so that it can later produce artworks (
images\, music\, or video clips) using its own internal parameters that ha
ve not been explicitly defined by a human. This process raises fascinating
questions at the intersection of computer science\, art history\, and the
philosophy of art. At a superficial level of analysis\, AI-generated art
seems to offload much of the creative impetus of art production to the mac
hine\, requiring minimal intervention from the artist. On closer inspectio
n\, however\, it involves a novel process of curation at two key stages: u
pstream in the selection of the dataset on which the algorithm is trained\
, and downstream in the selection of the outputs that should qualify as ar
tworks. Instead of replacing human artists with computers\, AI-generated a
rt can be understood as a new kind of collaboration between mind and machi
ne\, both of which contribute to the aesthetic value of the final artwork.
\n
This seminar will bring together AI artists and philosophers to e
xplore the significance of this new mode of art production. It will discus
s the implications of AI-generated art for the definition of art\, the nat
ure of the relationship between artists and tools\, the process of digital
curation\, and whether AI systems can be as creative as humans.
\n
Event Speakers
\n
\n
Event Information
\n
Free and open to the public. Registration is required via Eventbrite. Re
gistered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the seminar b
egins.
\n
This event is hosted by the Presidential Scho
lars in Society and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
\n
The Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort
to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability ac
commodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please con
tact us at scienceandsocie
ty@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 days in advance of the e
vent. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
\n
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai-
is-changing-artistic-creation-tickets-404716165947.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T153000
GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973
LOCATION:Online @ New York\, NY\, USA
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SUMMARY:How AI Is Changing Artistic Creation
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-ai-is-changing-artis
tic-creation/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/news/celebrating-recent-work-michel
e-m-moody-adams
DESCRIPTION:
Making Space for Justice: Social Movements\, Collective Imagination\,
and Political Hope
\nby Michele M Moody-Adams
\n
From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today\, pr
ogressive social movements have been at the forefront of social change. Ye
t it is seldom recognized that such movements have not only engaged in pol
itical action but also posed crucial philosophical questions about the mea
ning of justice and about how the demands of justice can be met.
\n
M
ichele Moody-Adams argues that anyone who is concerned with the theory or
the practice of justice—or both—must ask what can be learned from social m
ovements. Drawing on a range of compelling examples\, she explores what th
ey have shown about the nature of justice as well as what it takes to crea
te space for justice in the world. Moody-Adams considers progressive socia
l movements as wellsprings of moral inquiry and as agents of social change
\, drawing out key philosophical and practical principles. Social justice
demands humane regard for others\, combining compassionate concern and rob
ust respect. Successful movements have drawn on the transformative power o
f imagination\, strengthening the motivation to pursue justice and to crea
te the political institutions and social policies that can sustain it by i
nspiring political hope.
\n
Making Space for Justice contend
s that the insights arising from social movements are critical to bridging
the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be tr
ansformative for political thought as well as for political activism.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T191500
GEO:+40.807325;-73.958831
LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd floor common room @ 74 Morningside Dr\, New Yo
rk\, NY 10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Celebrating Recent Work by Michele Moody-Adams
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/celebrating-recent-work-
by-michele-moody-adams/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2022/11/8/social-and-politi
cal-philosophy-workshop-michael-omoge-alberta-epistemic-injustices-in-phil
osophical-practices-african-and-western
DESCRIPTION:
Presented by the Social and Political Philosophy Workshop
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T183000
GEO:+40.77103;-73.985096
LOCATION:Plaza View Room\, 12th Floor @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023
\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Epistemic Injustices in Philosophical Practices: African and Wester
n. Michael Omoge (Alberta)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/epistemic-injustices-in-
philosophical-practices-african-and-western-michael-omoge-alberta/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2022/11/9/gannon-lecture-se
ries-from-trauma-to-disability-examining-our-cultural-values
DESCRIPTION:
This presentation will examine what it is like to h
ave trauma end life as you know it and then be processed through a fragmen
ted health-care system that focuses on acute care. It will examine the reh
abilitation journey and\, finally\, the world of disability. One cannot go
on this journey without recognizing the role that our societal values pla
y in marginalizing persons with disabilities. This journey is\, at its cor
e\, a fight over who counts as a “productive” person\, what values determi
ne the allocation of resources\, and how cultural attitudes toward vulnera
bility affect both the caregiver and those who are cared for. Two models o
f personhood are presented and the consequences of each are explored. How
we treat the most vulnerable among us highlights who we are as a society.<
/p>\n
This event will be held in-person and on Zoom. It
will have live captions and American Sign Language interpretation. If you
have questions or requests related to accessibility please contact us at
rsvp@fordham.edu.
\n
November 9\, 2022 | 5:30 p.m.
\nJo
seph McShane\, S.J. Campus Center | Room 303
\nRose Hill Campus | GPS
Location: 2691 Southern Boulevard | Bronx\, New York
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T183000
GEO:+40.86204;-73.885699
LOCATION:Joseph McShane\, S.J. Campus Center @ Bronx County\, The Bronx\, N
Y 10458\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Gannon Lecture Series: From Trauma to Disability: Examining Our Cul
tural Values. Marilyn Martone\, Ph.D.
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/gannon-lecture-series-fr
om-trauma-to-disability-examining-our-cultural-values-marilyn-martone-ph-d
/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar
DESCRIPTION:
Book panel: Anat Matar\, The Pover
ty of Ethics (Verso books 2022)
\n
Participants:
\n
Anat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy
at Tel Aviv University)
\n
Simon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philo
sophy at NSSR)
\n
Raef Zreik (Visiting Fellow at Yal
e Law School\, and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic Co
llege)
\n
\n
Abstract:
\n
It is a common
assumption that ethics must serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abs
tract moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of at
rocities\; ethical sensitivity and compassion have been expressed towards
particular kinds of victims\, while totally ignoring others.
\n
The l
iberal West\, in particular\, continually manifests such blindness. It is
horrified by non-Western oppressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to the
ir Western equivalents.
\n
The gratification of holding the moral hig
h ground consistently serves as a political instrument in the hands of tho
se seeking to shore up the existing order.
\n
In The Poverty of Ethic
s\, philosopher and activist Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy
of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political forc
e which stands for equality\, justice and democracy – the Left – can provi
de the coordinates for an ethical life under conditions of global injustic
e.
\n
Appealing to philosophical ideas on the essence of language\, M
atar shows how the ethos of the Left\, as it has evolved over years\, unde
rlies and gradually forms the basis for ethics.
\n
Struggles against
slavery\, racism\, colonization and militarization\, protests against expl
oitation and the capitalist order\, the feminist movement\, global demands
for climate action – all these are primarily motivated by a deep understa
nding of Left heritage rather than by abstract ethical requirements or by
airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moral
it
\n
Tickets: https://event.newschool.ed
u/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T200000
GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\,
USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium Book panel: Anat Matar “The Poverty of Ethics
”
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-bo
ok-panel-anat-matar-the-poverty-of-ethics/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/1/31/fordham-workshop-
in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-lynn-huffer
DESCRIPTION:
Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy presents
Lynn Huffer\, “ Anthropocene Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments”
\n
Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hol
d hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center
campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in atte
nding\, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu<
/a>\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will b
e sent out prior to each meeting.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T184500
GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539
LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\,
New York\, NY 10023\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Lynn Huffer\, “ Anthropocene Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments”
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/lynn-huffer-anthropocene
-extinction-ethics-in-99-fragments/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/sexual-and-reproducti
ve-justice-vehicle-global-progress
DESCRIPTION:
This event will feature a thought-provoking panel discussion
with sexual and reproductive justice experts on the value of the sexual a
nd reproductive justice framework and how it can be applied to diverse sta
keholders\, settings\, and contexts. Panelists will also highlight example
s from around the world of momentum towards sexual and reproductive justic
e.
\n
Event Information
\n
Free and open to the public\; regis
tration is required for both in-person and <
a class='external' href='https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sexual-reproductive-
justice-vehicle-for-global-progress-online-tickets-525885948027' target='_
blank' rel='noopener'>online attendance. For additional information\,
please visit the event webpage. Please em
ail Malia Maier at mm5352@cumc.c
olumbia.edu with any questions. All in-person attendees must follow Co
lumbia’s COVID-19 policies.
\n
Hosted by the Global Health Justice and
Governance Program at Columbia University.
\n
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sexual-reproductive-justice-vehicle-for-gl
obal-progress-in-person-tickets-523893077297.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T110000
GEO:+40.816253;-73.958389
LOCATION:Forum\, Columbia University @ 601 W 125th St\, New York\, NY 10027
\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Sexual and Reproductive Justice: Vehicle for Global Progress
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/sexual-and-reproductive-
justice-vehicle-for-global-progress/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.org/naturally-universal-how-aristotle-expla
ins-the-success-of-medieval-french-song
DESCRIPTION:
Poets and singers in a number of medieval vernacul
ar languages reached non-native audiences and inspired speakers of other l
anguages to compose in theirs\; and many imagined their compositions enjoy
ing a universality similar to that of cosmopolitan languages like Latin an
d Arabic. An interesting rationalization of these aspirations can be disce
rned in a short verse narrative of a well-known episode in the youth of Al
exander the Great\, conqueror of India\, together with his tutor\, the phi
losopher Aristotle. Not only does it involve Greeks and Indians singing Fr
ench songs and cosplaying French lovers\, but the philosopher is induced t
o pretend to be a horse and then justifies his behavior as “natural\,” wit
h far-reaching implications which this talk will explore.
\n
Sarah Kay is Professor Emerita in the Department of Fre
nch Literature\, Thought and Culture at New York University and Life Fello
w at Girton College\, University of Cambridge. In Spring 2023\, she is Dis
tinguished Visiting Scholar in the Columbia Society of Senior Scholars.
\n
Thi
s talk is presented by the Columbia Maison Française\, Society of Fellows
and Heyman Center for the Humanities\, The Society of Senior Scholars\, th
e Department of Music\, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
\n<
p>Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naturally-universal-a-lecture-by-sarah-kay-ti
ckets-516765338037.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T193000
GEO:+40.807717;-73.961428
LOCATION:Maison Française East Gallery @ Buell Hall\, 515 W 116th St\, New
York\, NY 10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Naturally Universal: How Aristotle Explains the Success of Medieval
French Song. Sarah Kay
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/naturally-universal-how-
aristotle-explains-the-success-of-medieval-french-song-sarah-kay/
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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:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/benjaminmorgan
DESCRIPTION:
In 1931\, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplina
ry research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures functi
on and might function better. He imagined an institute “in which philosoph
ers\, sociologists\, economists\, historians\, and psychologists are broug
ht together in permanent collaboration” (Horkheimer 1993\, 9). The institu
te would not work with a single theory but would let data lead to new hypo
theses (Horkheimer 1993\, 10). But the work of Horkheimer and colleagues r
arely lived up to the 1931 vision of an interdisciplinary\, empirically gr
ounded approach to culture. To understand why\, my paper will juxtapose Ho
rkheimer’s and Adorno’s history of humanity\, as it is set out in Dialecti
c of Enlightenment\, with current research on the development of early hum
an cultures by Richard Wrangham\, Sarah Blaffer Hardy\, Kim Sterelny\, Jos
eph Henrich and Cecilia Heyes. The comparison with recent research in anth
ropology\, sociology\, philosophy\, and cognitive science reveals some of
the deep conceptual commitments that limit Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s focus
on instrumental reason and conceptual violence. By contrast\, current app
roaches jointly suggest that human subjectivity is scaffolded and embedded
\; that cooperation is the necessary default for cultural transmission\; t
hat learning occurs in context through imitation\; and that customs and in
stitutions develop contingently and by accident through processes of coope
ration and collaboration. These new insights invite a radical re-thinking
of the phenomena Horkheimer and Adorno grouped together as ‘mimesis.’ The
resulting picture of environmentally embedded process of cultural evolutio
n is a first step towards revitalizing the interdisciplinary potential of
the early Frankfurt School\, and suggesting new\, practical\, productive\,
and sustainable routes such critique can take in the 21st century.
\n<
p> \n
\n
Bio:
\n
\n
Benjamin Mor
gan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of
Oxford\, and a Fellow of Worcester College. In 2019\, and 2020/21 he was
also Visiting Associate Professor of German at Harvard University. He is a
uthor of On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western S
elf (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, and numerous articles on modernist literature\,
film\, and philosophy. He edited\, with Carolin Duttlinger and Anthony Phe
lan\, Walter Benjamins Anthropologisches Denken (Rombach\, 2012)\, and wit
h Sowon Park and Ellen Spolsky a Special Issue of Poetics Today on “Situat
ed Cognition and the Study of Culture” (2017).
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T200000
GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\,
USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultu
ral Evolution. Benjamin Morgan
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rethinking-critique-dial
ectic-of-enlightenment-and-models-of-cultural-evolution-benjamin-morgan/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:
DESCRIPTION:
This talk will develop the idea that racial identities are b
est understood as formed through large scale historical events\, and that
this genesis can only be obscured by disavowals of racial categories as co
nceptually mistaken and inevitably morally pernicious. In this sense\, ra
ces are formed not simply as ideas\, or ideologies and policies\, as many
social constructivists about race argue\, but as forms of life with associ
ated patterns of subjectivity including\, as a wealth of social psychology
has shown\, presumptive attitudes and behavioral dispositions (Jeffers 20
19\; Steele 2010\; Sullivan 2005). Because they are historical form
ations\, racial identities are thoroughly social\, contextual\, variegated
internally\, and dynamic. It is history that will alter them\, not merely
policy changes.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 5318 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-historical-formation
-of-races-linda-alcoff/
X-COST-TYPE:free
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:swipnyc@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
SWIP–NYC Sue Weinberg Lecture Series
presents:
Grit & Imposter SyndromeJoint Lectures
by
Je
nnifer Morton (University of Pe
nnsylvania)
Talk Title: Interpreting
Obstacles
&
Leonie Smith (Unive
rsity of Manchester)
Talk Title: Class\, Academia\, and Imposter Syn
drome
Friday\, March 17
5–7 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
Room 9207
QUESTIONS? EMAIL swipnyc@g
mail.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T190000
GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092
LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 9207 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Grit & Imposter Syndrome. Joint Lectures by Jennifer Morton & Leoni
e Smith
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/grit-imposter-syndrome-j
oint-lectures-by-jennifer-morton-leonie-smith/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
Conceptual misalignment is a pervasive phenomenon in the stu
dies of Non-Western philosophy and the History of Philosophy (NW&HP). Howe
ver\, conceptual misalignment is often undetected\, unsuspected\, or seen
as a hurdle that NW&HP materials need to overcome to contribute to contemp
orary discussions. Specifically\, conceptual misalignment refers to the fo
llowing: In the process of crystalizing NW&HP materials\, a linguistic coo
rdination of concepts is formed between the speaker\, i.e.\, NW&HP\, and i
ts context of contemporary anglophone philosophy. However\, in philosophic
ally meaningful ways\, the original NW&HP concept and its anglophone count
erpart misalign. This misalignment is particularly intricate and hard to d
etect when it comes to emotion concepts\, as they are thought to involve p
henomenal and/or intentional features. Through investigating the concept o
f emotion in Chinese philosophy\, I propose a refocusing on conceptual mis
alignment as a method of cross-cultural comparative and history of philoso
phy. Moreover\, I argue that conceptual misalignment is an important resou
rce for contemporary conceptual engineering and amelioration projects.
\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
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T193000
GEO:+40.807527;-73.960864
LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Columbia @ 1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10
027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:From Conceptual Misalignment to Conceptual Engineering: A Case Stud
y on Emotion from Chinese Philosophy. Wenqing Zhao (Whitman)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-conceptual-misalign
ment-to-conceptual-engineering-a-case-study-on-emotion-from-chinese-philos
ophy-wenqing-zhao-whitman/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/3/21/fordham-workshop-
in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-desiree-valentine
DESCRIPTION:
Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Ph
ilosophy.
\n
Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 202
2-23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at
the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If
interested in attending\, contact je
flynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@for
dham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu<
/a>\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Z
oom details will be sent out prior to each meeting.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T183000
GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539
LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\,
New York\, NY 10023\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Desiree Valentine
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/desiree-valentine/
X-COST-TYPE:free
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/an-afternoon-with-judith-butler
DESCRIPTION:
The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about o
ur place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another\, how we v
itally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air\, share the surfaces of
the earth\, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to l
ive in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives.
How do we think from\, and about\, this common bind?
\n
In What World Is This? A Pandemic
Phenomenology\, Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and al
l its consequences—political\, social\, ecological\, economic—have challen
ged us to reconsider the sense of the world that such disasters bring abou
t. Drawing on the work of Max Scheler\, Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, and critic
al feminist phenomenology\, Butler illuminates the conditions in which we
seek to make sense of our disorientation\, precarity\, and social bonds. <
em>What World Is This? offers a new account of interdependency in whi
ch touching and breathing\, capacities that amid a viral outbreak can thre
aten life itself\, challenge the boundaries of the body and selfhood. Crit
icizing notions of unlimited personal liberty and the killing forces of ra
cism\, sexism\, and classism\, this book suggests that the pandemic illumi
nates the potential of shared vulnerabilities as well as the injustice of
pervasive inequalities.
\n
Exposing and opposing forms of injustice t
hat deny the essential interrelationship of living creatures\, Butler argu
es for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that se
ek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared w
orld.
\n
Speaker
\n
Judith Butler is a Distinguished Professor in th
e Graduate School at the University of California\, Berkeley. They are the
author of several books\, most recently The Force of Nonviolence: An
Ethico-Political Bind (2020). Butler’s previous Columbia University P
ress books include Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionis
m (2012)\, Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
(2000)\, and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Cen
tury France (1987).
\n
Respondents
\n
Mia Florin-Seft
on is a Ph.D. candidate and University Writing Instructor in
the English & Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University\, w
here she specializes in 20th and 21st-century transatlantic anglophone lit
eratures and culture. She is also working on a project that looks at the h
istory of sex glands and early history of hormone replacement therapy in t
he context of theories of racial degeneration and eugenics post-World War
I.
\n
Professor Goyal is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia Unive
rsity Medical Center and founding director of the major in Medical Humanit
ies. Professor Goyal completed his residency in Emergency Medicine as Chie
f Resident while finishing his PhD in English and Comparative Literature.
His research interests include the health humanities\, the study of the no
vel\, and medical epistemology. His writing has appeared in The Living
Handbook of Narratology\, Aktuel Forskning\, Litteratur\, Kultur
og Medier\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books\, among oth
er places. He is a Co-Founding Editor of the online journal\, Synapsis: A Health Hum
anities Journal
\n
Ma
rianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor Emeri
ta of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Profes
sor in the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. She is a membe
r of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former President of t
he Modern Language Association of America. Along with a group of local sch
olars\, artists and activists\, Hirsch is currently co-directing the Zip Code
Memory Project\, an initiative that seeks to find art and community-ba
sed ways to repair the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus p
andemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upp
er New York City neighborhoods.
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LOCATION:Jerome Greene Hall (Law School) Rm 101 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared Wor
ld
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-afternoon-with-judith
-butler-on-the-pandemic-and-our-shared-world/
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CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
In Sanskrit epistemology\, philosoph
ers are preoccupied with the notion of pramā. A pramā\, roughly\, is a men
tal event of learning or knowledge-acquisition. Call any such mental event
a knowledge-event. In A Confection of Refutation (Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya)\,
the 12th century philosopher and poet Śrīharṣa argued that knowledge-even
ts are indefinable. Any satisfactory (and therefore non-circular) definiti
on of knowledge-events will have to include an anti-luck condition that do
esn’t appeal back to the notion of learning or knowledge-acquisition itsel
f. But there is no such anti-luck condition. What is novel about Śrīharṣa’
s argument is that it is motivated by his commitment to a certain “knowled
ge first” approach to epistemology: the view that knowledge-events are epi
stemically prior to other non-factive mental states and events. On this vi
ew\, when we are trying to determine whether an agent has undergone a know
ledge-event\, we don’t initially ascribe to them some other non-factive me
ntal event\, and then check if that event meets some further conditions (l
ike truth or reliability) necessary for it to count as a knowledge-event\;
rather\, we treat certain mental events by default as knowledge-events un
til a defeater comes along. Surprisingly\, Śrīharṣa argues that this kind of “knowledge first” epi
stemology should give us reason to doubt whether our ordinary attributions
of knowledge-events are reliably tracking any sui generis psychological k
ind. In this talk\, I reconstruct Śrīharṣa’s position.
\n
With responses from Rosanna Picascia (Swarthmore
College)
\n
RSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will t
ake place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu<
/a> for further information.
\n
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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/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
The NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents:
\n
March 31st —
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting
on Wittgenstein and Care Ethics
\n
April 14th — Camila Lobo (PhD cand
idate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon and visiting scholar) wil
l be presenting on Wittgenstein and hermeneutical justice in connection wi
th the so-called “problem of the new.”
\n
April 21st — Harmut von Sas
s (Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting scholar) will be presenting o
n gratitude.
\n
April 28th — Janna van Grunsven (Delft University of
Technology) will be presenting on How Social Media Platforms Disrupt the F
ield of Social Affordances and Threaten Human Flourishing.
\n
With th
e exception of our last talk (which will take place over Zoom)\, workshops
will be in person from 4 to 6 pm EST\, followed by a reception. As always
\, snacks and drinks will be provided.
\n
Look out for an email close
r to each event with more details regarding the location and materials the
speaker would like to circulate.
\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T180000
GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:New School D1001 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Wittgenstein and Care Ethics. Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Pa
nthéon Sorbonne)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/wittgenstein-and-care-et
hics-sandra-laugier-universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
The NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents:
\n
March 31st —
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting
on Wittgenstein and Care Ethics
\n
April 14th — Camila Lobo (PhD cand
idate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon and visiting scholar) wil
l be presenting on Wittgenstein and hermeneutical justice in connection wi
th the so-called “problem of the new.” (11am-1pm EDT)
\n
April 21st —
Harmut von Sass (Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting scholar) will
be presenting on gratitude.
\n
April 28th — Janna van Grunsven (Delft
University of Technology) will be presenting on How Social Media Platform
s Disrupt the Field of Social Affordances and Threaten Human Flourishing.<
/p>\n
With the exception of our last talk (which will take place over Zo
om)\, workshops will be in person from 4 to 6 pm EST\, followed by a recep
tion. As always\, snacks and drinks will be provided.
\n
Look out for
an email closer to each event with more details regarding the location an
d materials the speaker would like to circulate.
\n
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T130000
GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:New School D1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Child and the Foreigner: Wittgenstein on Understanding the New.
Camila Lobo (Nova University of Lisbon)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-child-and-the-foreig
ner-wittgenstein-on-understanding-the-new-camila-lobo-nova-university-of-l
isbon/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/4/18/fordham-workshop-
in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-elvira-basevich
DESCRIPTION:
Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Ph
ilosophy
\n
Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022
-23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at t
he Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If i
nterested in attending\, contact jef
lynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@ford
ham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu
a>\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zo
om details will be sent out prior to each meeting.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T183000
GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539
LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\,
New York\, NY 10023\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Care Ethics at the Intersection of Race: Conceptualizing Women’s Ca
re Work in the Black Counter-Public. Elvira Basevich
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/care-ethics-at-the-inter
section-of-race-conceptualizing-womens-care-work-in-the-black-counter-publ
ic-elvira-basevich/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
The NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents:
\n
March 31st —
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting
on Wittgenstein and Care Ethics
\n
April 14th — Camila Lobo (PhD cand
idate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon and visiting scholar) wil
l be presenting on Wittgenstein and hermeneutical justice in connection wi
th the so-called “problem of the new.”
\n
April 21st — Harmut von Sas
s (Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting scholar) will be presenting o
n gratitude.
\n
April 28th — Janna van Grunsven (Delft University of
Technology) will be presenting on How Social Media Platforms Disrupt the F
ield of Social Affordances and Threaten Human Flourishing.
\n
With th
e exception of our last talk (which will take place over Zoom)\, workshops
will be in person from 4 to 6 pm EST\, followed by a reception. As always
\, snacks and drinks will be provided.
\n
Look out for an email close
r to each event with more details regarding the location and materials the
speaker would like to circulate.
\n
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T180000
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LOCATION:New School tbd @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T160000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T160000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:NYC Wittgenstein Workshop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nyc-wittgenstein-worksho
p-2/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
When someone is in a conscious state\, must they be aware of
that state? The Buddhist philosopher Dignāga offers a brilliant route to
answering this question by leveraging the role awareness might play as a
constraint on memory. I begin by clarifying his strategy and what conclus
ions it might be used to establish. Here I examine different candidate di
rections of explanation between consciousness and inner awareness. I inte
rpret the metaphor of consciousness as a lamp that lights itself\, and use
the metaphor to distinguish between his view and contemporary higher-orde
r theories of consciousness. I then turn to explain why the memory argume
nt fails. The first main problem is that\, contrary to Dignāga’s contempo
rary defenders\, there is no good way to use the argument to reach a concl
usion about all conscious states. The second main problem is that the pro
posed awareness constraint on memory is highly problematic\, in tension bo
th with ancient objections as well as current psychology.
\n
With res
ponses from Lu Teng (NYU Shanghai)
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LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100
27\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Speak\, Memory: Dignāga\, Consciousness\, and Awareness. Nicholas S
ilins (Cornell)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/speak-memory-dignaga-con
sciousness-and-awareness-nicholas-silins-cornell/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent
CONTACT:https://nightinthelibrary.com/comingsoon
DESCRIPTION:
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop\, an
d the beginning of a sonic\, cultural and socio-political revolution that
changed the U.S. and the world. To commemorate the anniversary\, Brooklyn
Public Library will present NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY: THE PHILOSOPHY O
F HIP-HOP on Saturday\, June 17th\, from 7 pm – 2 am at Central
Library.
\n
Join us for this FREE event that will ta
ke over the entire Central Library building to celebrate hip-hop culture p
ast\, present and future\, with keynote addresses\, live DJs\, film screen
ings\, discussions\, debates and contemplative engagements. BPL invites yo
u to celebrate hip-hop and spend a NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY.<
/p>\n
Co-curated by LeBrandon Smith and Kelly Harrison. The Dilemma Seri
es is curated by April R. Silver\, founder of AKILA WORKSONGS.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T020000
GEO:+40.672501;-73.968126
LOCATION:Central Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Night in the Library: The Philosophy of Hip-Hop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/night-in-the-library-the
-philosophy-of-hip-hop/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/lawphilosophy/colloquium
DESCRIPTION:
Colloquium 2023
\n
Professors
Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy
\n
September 7th
\nBonni
e Honig\, Brown University
\nFatal Forgiveness: Eurip
ides\, Austin\, Arendt\, Cavell
\n
September 14th
\nJeremy W
aldron\, NYU
\n
September 21st
\nAlice Crary\, The New School
\n
September 28th
\nDavid Enoch\, University of Oxford
\n
Oct
ober 5th
\nGina Schouten\, Harvard University
\n
October 12th
\nDaryl Levinson\, NYU
\n
October 19th
\nBarbara Levenbook\,
North Carolina State University
\n
October 26th
\nRob Howse\, NY
U
\n
November 2nd
\nTrevor Morrison\, NYU
\n
November 9th\nJohn Goldberg\, Harvard University
\n
November 16th
\nCour
tney Cox\, Fordham University
\n
November 30th
\nJuliana Bidadan
ure\, Stanford University
\n
\n
The Colloquium in Legal\, Poli
tical\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nag
el in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The C
olloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy W
aldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.
\n
Each week on Thu
rsday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper
to the group\, which consists of students\, faculty from the Law School an
d other departments of NYU\, and faculty from other universities. The choi
ce of subject is left to the paper’s author\, within the general boundarie
s of the Colloquium’s subjects\, and the discussions are therefore not con
nected by any structured theme for the term as a whole\, though in past ye
ars certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. Th
e Colloquium aims\, not to pursue any particular subject\, but to explore
new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own
skill in theoretical analysis.
\n
Each week’s paper is posted at leas
t a week in advance on this page\, and participants are expected to have r
ead it.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T190000
GEO:+40.730147;-73.998916
LOCATION:Lester Pollock Colloquium Room\, Furman Hall\, 9th flr @ 245 Sulli
van St\, New York\, NY 10012\, USA
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T160000
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RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T160000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T160000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/colloquium-in-legal-poli
tical-and-social-philosophy-9/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
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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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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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
still scheduled\, but zoom link for those who can’t travel:
https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/8479688193
\n
Throughout the 21st century
\, philosophers of language have increasingly concerned themselves with th
e hateful\, coercive\, dehumanizing\, and deadly. In particular\, ‘non-ide
al’ philosophers of language question whether received conceptual toolkits
from philosophy of language manage to make contact with our non-ideal wor
ld at all. This paper takes up that methodological interest from a Wittgen
steinian perspective. Drawing on critical interventions by Nancy Bauer\, A
vner Baz\, Alice Crary\, Cora Diamond\, and Toril Moi\, I argue that non-i
deal philosophers of language neutralize their ideology-critical bite when
they presume an authoritative force for their words by virtue of a normat
ively neutral conception of reason. This neutralization is driven and sust
ained by an idle picture of language that isolates our words from the acti
vities into which they are woven. To make discursive phenomena available i
n their political import\, we philosophers of language must acknowledge ou
r own non-neutral involvement in the very discursive practices we’re theor
izing – and this will require us to relinquish the entitlement to impose a
uthoritative requirements on language through theories of meaning.
\n
To illustrate the need for normatively non-neutral methods in philosophic
al practice\, I focus on cases where philosophers’ curious gaze treats tra
ns people
\nas fascinating objects of knowledge\, as opposed to ackno
wledging us as interlocutors and recognizing the political stakes of our d
iscursive practices. What inhibits the cultivation of acknowledgement\, of
normatively resonant modes of attention\, is a picture of philosophical t
heorizing that forbids us from articulating our political solidarities thr
ough our work (and thus obfuscates what we ourselves are doing with words
when theorizing). The non-ideal philosopher’s critical concept of idealiza
tion\, seen aright in a normatively non-neutral light\, exemplifies the so
rt of theoretical resource that is mobilized by members of marginalized gr
oups to invite such modes of attention – to shape not only our epistemic r
esources\, but also our senses of what matters.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T180000
GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:Room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Availability of the Non-Ideal: to an Engaged Philosophy of Lang
uage. Nikki Ernst (U Pittsburgh)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-availability-of-the-
non-ideal-to-an-engaged-philosophy-of-language-nikki-ernst-u-pittsburgh/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
The virtually ubiquitous view of seeing-as experiences in Wi
ttgenstein scholarship interprets them as conceptually-laden (with some ex
ceptions\, e.g. Travis 2016). The claim is that we can see the same image
differently due to switching the conceptual filters\, as it were\, through
which we experience the image (e.g. Schroeder 2010\; Mulhall 2001). In th
is paper I focus on a specific kind of a seeing-as experience for which Wi
ttgenstein’s example of suddenly noticing the similarity between faces is
the paradigm. I argue that it is possible to have no concepts involved in
this experience\, and propose an understanding of what I call “the imagist
ic seeing-as” as a similarity association\, of the kind that grounds poeti
c means of expression\, such as metaphors. The associative nature of this
imagistic seeing-as experience may also contribute to the understanding of
biases – both personal (e.g. displaced offence) and social (e.g. sexism).
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:An Imagistic Seeing-As: from Faces to Metaphors and Biases. Talia M
orag (U Wollongong)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-imagistic-seeing-as-f
rom-faces-to-metaphors-and-biases-talia-morag-u-wollongong/
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DESCRIPTION:
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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.
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With re
sponses from Jonathan Gold (Princeton University)
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DA
TE: October 13th\, 2023
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TIME: 5:30 pm EST
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LO
CATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, Columbia University
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1150
Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
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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.
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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!
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irculated in due course.
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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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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
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Fu
rther details will be circulated in due course.
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SUMMARY:Comparative Philosophy Seminar
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/comparative-philosophy-s
eminar-10/
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CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
The importance of incorporating value pluralism into a theor
y of justice is recognized in many conceptualizations of justice. This plu
ralism is often seen as a reason to attend to a range of perspectives\, pe
rspectives which can function as a source of information in determining wh
ich principles should guide justice. However\, philosophy’s ability to pro
perly attend to different perspectives has received extensive attention in
the criticisms of various non-ideal theorists\, who argue that ideal-theo
retical philosophy runs the risk of excluding important aspects of actual
social problems. Taking these criticisms on board\, this paper builds on n
on-ideal theory by arguing for a Wittgensteinian family resemblance approa
ch to justice. I will explain how this linguistic practice-embedded unders
tanding of justice can be a helpful tool for non-ideal theory\, as it can
give us insight into why\, in various similar but different cases\, the no
tion of justice is seen as applicable. In light of this approach\, I will
suggest a reorientation of the pluralist demand towards an empirical start
ing point.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T180000
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Non-Idea Justice: A Family Resemblance Approach. Nadia ben Hassine
(Cambridge)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/non-idea-justice-a-famil
y-resemblance-approach-nadia-ben-hassine-cambridge/
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DESCRIPTION:
The speaker will be Prof. Lewis Gordon of the University of
Connecticut\, on “From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of th
e Black World with Questions for the 21st Century.” Gordon will talk about
worldliness and public aspects of philosophy\, placing them in the contex
t of Harlem both at City College and the public world of Africana philosop
hy from Du Bois to Malcolm X to contemporaries such as Nathalie Etoke. He
will conclude with a set of questions for 21st century philosophy to consi
der.
\n
Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of
the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs\; Honorary President of the
Global Center for Advanced Studies\; Honorary Professor in the Unit for th
e Humanities at Rhodes University\, South Africa\; and Distinguished Schol
ar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocac
y at The University of the West Indies\, Mona. He co-edits the journal Phi
losophy and Global Affairs\, the Rowman & Littlefield book series Global C
ritical Caribbean Thought\, and the Routledge-India book series Academics\
, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World. He is the author of many b
ooks\, including\, most recently\, Freedom\, Justice\, and Decolonization
(Routledge\, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover\, NY: Farrar
\, Straus and Giroux\, 2022\; in the UK\, London: Penguin Books\, 2022)\,
Picador paperback 2023. He is the 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Aw
ard from the Global Development Studies division of the International Stud
ies Association.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T191500
GEO:+40.820047;-73.949272
LOCATION:North Academic Building\, rm 1/201 @ 160 Convent Ave\, New York\,
NY 10031\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the Black Wor
ld with Questions for the 21st Century. Lewis Gordon (UConn)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-harlem-to-the-world
-philosophy-from-a-center-of-the-black-world-with-questions-for-the-21st-c
entury-lewis-gordon-uconn/
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CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega
DESCRIPTION:
María Lugones theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of
the notion of “trespassing\,” through which “active subjectivity” has the
possibility of problematizing normative practices and redrawing maps of p
ower. In this presentation\, I highlight the importance of the aesthesic o
r the perceptual in Lugones’s view of resistance as developed before her t
urn to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which t
his account of resistance is dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by
the work of Gloria Anzaldúa. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic
trespassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses th
e intimacy between the perceiver and the perceived.
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Tickets: https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp.
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GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
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USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Intimacies of Perception and Aesthetic Trespassing. Mariana Ort
ega (PSU)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-intimacies-of-percep
tion-and-aesthetic-trespassing-mariana-ortega-psu/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso
phy/
DESCRIPTION:
Despite the political polarization that characterizes many
of our societies and much of the world\, comparative philosophy — which d
epends on crossing various kinds of boundaries — is intellectually and pro
fessionally doing reasonably well. Exciting new work continues to appear a
nd venues for publication and discussion (print and digital\, in person an
d on-line) are proliferating. Another thing that is proliferating\, though
\, is names for what it is we are doing. Are comparative\, cross-cultural\
, intercultural\, blended\, and fusion philosophy all the same thing? What
do they share and where do they diverge\, and why? Can we identify a dist
inctive project of comparative philosophy and say why it is important? Bas
ed on a broad survey of approaches\, in this essay I offer answers to thes
e questions. I maintain that whenever we do philosophy by drawing on at le
ast two significantly different traditions of philosophy\, we are doing co
mparative philosophy. Unpacking some of the key words in this definition w
ill enable me to clarify some persistent confusions as well as to stress t
he constitutive gamble that lies at the heart of all comparative philosoph
y. I identify three different ways to do comparative philosophy well—Compa
rison Philosophy\, Rooted Global Philosophy\, and Emergent Intercultural P
hilosophy—and argue that which method to choose depends both on the values
that motivate one’s inquiry and on the pragmatic situation that frames on
e’s work.
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With responses from Katja Vogt (C
olumbia University)
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SPECIAL NOTE FOR DINNER ON 12/1: For this
event\, the Neo-Confucian Seminar and our Comparative Philosophy Seminar w
ill be going to dinner together. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu
for further information. RSVPs are limited for this event.
\n
Neo Con
fucian Studies seminar: I hope this email finds you well! Our next session
of the seminar will convene on Friday 12/1 from 3:30-5:30 pm in the Heyma
n Center on Campus. The Heyman Center is also a dormitory. The guards at i
ts entrance will have a list of all our attendees and will let you in base
d on that list\, no Green Pass required. (Green Passes are Columbia’s syst
em for proving that you’re up-to-date on your vaccinations and boosters.)
Our guest speaker will be Professor Dongxian Jiang of Fordham University.
Professor Jiang will present his draft “Political Thinking in a Classless
Society” attached. Please ask Dongxian Jiang directly before you cite or s
hare his draft. To be on the list\, please RSVP to me at wk2363@columbia.edu before 11/27
.
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We hope you’ve had restful and productive
summers\, and we look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings. Bel
ow is the list of our scheduled speakers. Please save these dates!
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Further details will be circulated in due course.
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GEO:+40.807527;-73.960864
LOCATION:Philosophy Hall 716 Columbia @ 1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY
10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Mind the Gap: Methodological Pluralism in Comparative Philosophy St
ephen Angle (Wesleyan)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mind-the-gap-methodologi
cal-pluralism-in-comparative-philosophy-stephen-angle-wesleyan/
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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)
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240119T193000
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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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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.
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W
ith responses from Thomas Yarnall (Columbia University)
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DATE: February 2nd\, 2024
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TIME: 5:30 pm EST
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LOCATION: Philosophy Hall\,
Room 716\, Columbia University
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1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY
10027
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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.
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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.
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PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar
s/comparative-philosophy/
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uncement. You may contact the Co-Chairs using the link above.)
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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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SUMMARY:Mental Imagery\, Tantric Practice\, and the Drama of the Imaginatio
n. Davey K. Tomlinson (Villanova)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mental-imagery-tantric-p
ractice-and-the-drama-of-the-imagination-davey-k-tomlinson-villanova/
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DESCRIPTION:
Fordham Workshop in Social and
Political Philosophy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T184500
GEO:+40.770289;-73.984571
LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Nietzsche and the Politics of the Historical Dead. Christopher Myer
s (Fordham)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nietzsche-and-the-politi
cs-of-the-historical-dead-christopher-myers-fordham/
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CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu
ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age
DESCRIPTION:
\n\n
\n
\n
\nDavid Bates\, in conversation with
Stefanos Geroulano and Joanna Stalnaker
\nWe imagine that w
e are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet a
utomatic. This entanglement\, according to David W. Bates\, emerged in the
seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with
machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing\, Bates
reveals how time and time again technological developments offered new wa
ys to imagine how the body’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s auto
nomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought\, David Bates discusses his
new book\, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence\, which
offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on tec
hnology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural\,
outside origin.
\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rheto
ric at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the
history of legal and political ideas\, and the relationship between techno
logy\, science\, and the history of human cognition.
\nStefa
nos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Prof
essor of European Intellectual History at NYU. He usually writes about con
cepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and
the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and science
s of human origins since 1770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as Th
e Invention of Prehistory: Empire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Huma
n Origins in 2024.
\nJoanna Stalnaker<
/strong> is Professor of French at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment ph
ilosophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the E
nlightenment. Her new book\, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philos
ophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in t
he Walpole series.
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kets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-artificial-his
tory-of-natural-intelligence-david-bates-tickets-794696587887?aff=oddtdtcr
eator.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T193000
GEO:+40.807717;-73.961428
LOCATION:East Gallery\, Maison Française @ Buell Hall\, 515 W 116th St\, Ne
w York\, NY 10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machin
es from Descartes to the Digital Age
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-artificial-history-of
-natural-intelligence-thinking-with-machines-from-descartes-to-the-digital
-age/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/
DESCRIPTION:Fordham Workshop in Social and
Political Philosophy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T184500
GEO:+40.770289;-73.984571
LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Tracy Llanera (UConn)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/tracy-llanera-uconn/
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social
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UID:ai1ec-8154@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYC Wittgenstein Workshop
\nIf you wi
ll be visiting from outside the New School\, email the workshop to inform
the security desk.
\nRoom 1101\, 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T180000
GEO:+40.736924;-73.992688
LOCATION:Room 1101 @ Albert and Vera List Academic Center\, New York\, NY 1
0003\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Television with Cavell in Mind: the Ethics and Politics of Popular
Series. Sandra Laugier
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/television-with-cavell-i
n-mind-the-ethics-and-politics-of-popular-series-sandra-laugier/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:
Comparative philosophy is gaining traction in professional a
cademic philosophy\, with specialist journals\, organizations\, books\, an
d public campaigns. These inroads have been made in canonical areas of phi
losophy\, including epistemology\, metaphysics\, logic\, and value theory.
Yet comparative philosophy still plays little role in practical applied e
thics\, an interdisciplinary research area in which work with practice and
policy implications are dominated by the anglophone world. In this articl
e\, I explain why comparative work might be especially difficult in this t
ype of applied ethics\, and I suggest how comparative philosophers might o
vercome these challenges to connect their theoretical work with contempora
ry practical issues.
\nWith responses from Wenqing Zhao (CUNY
Baruch)
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosoph
y Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not ha
ve this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside un
til the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking n
earby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only cont
act Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
\nRS
VP IS REQUIRED FOR DINNER:. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaur
ant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information. RSV
Ps are limited.
\n
\n
\nComparative Philosophy Se
minar:
\n\n- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n<
li>February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova University)\n- April 5 –
Laura Specker (Fordham University)
\n- May 3 – Daniel Stephens (Uni
versity at Buffalo)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T193000
GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573
LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY
10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Comparative Philosophy and Practical Applied Ethics. Laura Specker
Sullivan (Fordham)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/comparative-philosophy-a
nd-practical-applied-ethics-laura-specker-sullivan-fordham/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham
CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/
DESCRIPTION:Fordham Workshop in Social and
Political Philosophy
\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T184500
GEO:+40.770289;-73.984571
LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Ashley Bohrer (Notre Dame)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/ashley-bohrer-notre-dame
/
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social
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UID:ai1ec-8106@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress
DTSTAMP:20240328T095824Z
CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos
ophy/
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Philosophy Seminar:
\n\n- January 19 –
Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n- February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Vi
llanova University)
\n- April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham University)
\n- May 3 – Daniel Stephens (University at Buffalo)
\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T193000
GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573
LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY
10027\, USA
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T173000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Comparative Philosophy Seminar
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/comparative-philosophy-s
eminar-11/
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative
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