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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
Since Plato\, western philosophy ha
s been set down a path paved by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed ma
terial bodies\, and delimited aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings
and their built environments separated from the natural world. Such exclu
sions have left philosophy ill-equipped to deal with the various environme
ntal crises we currently face\, as economic rationality and utilitarian lo
gic further de-animate the world and sharpen the human/nature distinction.
Even the concept “environment” often\, and ironically\, brings with it im
plicit anthropocentric assumptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separat
ing\, the human as independent from the surrounding world and reinforcing
the human/nature divide. As a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature”
and “environment” may make us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than
address\, climate change and other environmental catastrophes. To avoid a
mbiguities and clarify our understanding\, we must ask: what role does Nat
ure play within our theories and practices concerning so-called Environmen
tal Philosophy? Furthermore\, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are
made possible when we broaden our understanding of “environment” to includ
e a more robust conceptualization of the natural world and how the human b
eing ought to be contextualized within it?
\n
This conference asks ho
w we might reorient the language and practices of philosophy in a way that
can enable us to adequately respond to ongoing environmental crises. As a
starting point\, we propose a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “n
ature\,” and “environment\,” as well as the reciprocal relations that cons
titute them. To recognize humans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate
the sensuous\, the material\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play i
n our attempts to construct\, understand\, and preserve our environment(s)
. How should we make sense of our practices and our relations to those wit
h whom we share our surroundings? How can we re-situate the human with/in
the environment? Do we have the right tools to guide these investigations?
How might philosophy look beyond itself—to literature\, architecture\, mu
sic\, film\, design—to better bring Environment\, and thus the world\, int
o view? In the spirit of this\, we invite paper as well as project submiss
ions from current graduate students in any discipline.
\n
Pos
sible Topics:
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● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Consi
dering Beauty + the Sublime
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● Environmental Justice + Resto
rative Justice + Transformative Justice
\n
● Environmental Eth
ics + Sustainable Practices
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● Diversity + Biodiversity
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● Capitalism and Climate
\n
● Eco-phenomenology
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● Eco-deconstruction
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● Environmental Racism/Ra
cist Environments
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● Ecofeminist conceptions of nature
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● Land Rights and Property Relations
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● Posthumani
sm + Object Ontologies
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● Afrofuturism + Technological Utopi
as
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● Environmental Ethics In Narratives
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● Ma
stery of Nature in Philosophy
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● Anarcho-primitivism
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● Queer and Trans Ecologies
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● Local and Global Ecol
ogies
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● Regionalisms and Globalisms in the Ecological Imagi
nation
\n
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Confirmed Conference Key
notes:
\n
Sandra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York<
/p>\n
Emanuele Coccia\, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EH
ESS)\, Paris
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Dates and Location:
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This con
ference will be held at the New School for Social Research in New York Cit
y from Thursday\, April 14\, to Saturday\, April 16. While we (tentatively
) plan to hold the conference primarily in-person we would also like to pr
ovide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to participate remotely.
Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all participants and att
endees are invited to participate in a conference hike in Cold Spring\, NY
(about an hour and a half north of NYC and accessible by the Metro North
commuter train).
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Call for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\n
Please submit complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abs
tract of 250 words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment
(.docx) or PDF to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com. Please prepare your submission for
blind review by removing any identifying information from the body of the
paper. In your email please include your name\, affiliation\, and paper t
itle. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15.
\n
Call for Projects: Submission Procedure:
\n
Please submit
a project description (Word Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a
Word attachment (.docx) to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com\, as well as:
\n
For
Visual Arts projects: submit 5 images of your work as .jpeg.
\n
For P
erforming Arts projects: submit video/ audio of your work in .mp4 format
p>\n
Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any ide
ntifying information. In your email please include your name\, affiliation
\, and project title. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 1
5.
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If you have any questions please email WithInEnvironments@gmail.com
\n
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\, USA
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ronmental Philosophy–Graduate Student Conference
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://theassc.org/assc-26/
DESCRIPTION:
\n
\n
We are pleased to announce that the 26th annual meeting
of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held
at New York University on June 22-25\, 2023.
\n
Submissions for talks and poste
rs are now open with a deadline of February 15\, 2023. Conference registration will open
in early 2023.
\n
Ke
ynote speakers\, sympo
sia\, tutorials\,
and housing have now b
een arranged\, as specified below.
\n
Please direct any inquiries to
ASSC26@nyu.
edu.
\n
We hope to see you soon in New York!
\n
Ned Bloc
k and David Chalmers\, Conference Directors
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T
ickets: https://theassc.org/assc-26/#registration.
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LOCATION:Vanderbilt Hall @ Vanderbilt Hall\, 40 Washington Square S\, New Y
ork\, NY 10012\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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ntific-study-of-consciousness-conference/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/112490
DESCRIPTION:
Keynote: Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
p>\n
Pedagogy Workshop Leader: TBA
\n
Location: The Graduate Center
\, CUNY—New York\, New York
\n
Abstracts & Workshop Applications due:
July 31st 2023
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Responses: August 31st 2023
\n
Organizers: Mi
chael Greer (CUNY)\, Maria Salazar (CUNY)
\n
Contact email: gscope.co
mmittee@gmail.com
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The committee for the Graduate Student Conferenc
e on Philosophy of Education (GSCOPE) invites abstracts for papers on the
topic of Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy. The theme of the
conference & post-conference pedagogy workshop reflects the difficulty in
creating and maintaining respectful discourse in higher-education classroo
ms\, especially surrounding controversial empirical\, moral\, and politica
l issues. Some argue that this is an equity issue. Undergraduate students
who come from rural and/or underprivileged areas are more likely to experi
ence alienation on campus\, sometimes because they have never been exposed
to certain “politically correct” language or ideas\, and sometimes simply
because they lack the financial and social capital that their peers have.
It seems crucial (and follows from democratic and civic values) to foster
safe learning environments for all students\, especially those students w
ho are more likely to feel alienated on college campuses and in elite spac
es. At the same time\, some argue that the aim of higher education is pure
ly epistemological\, and not civic or democratic. Proponents of this view
might hold that free speech and academic freedom must be properly protecte
d for higher education to perform its proper social function: education. W
hat is the appropriate relationship between higher education\, knowledge-p
roduction\, teaching\, free speech\, and democracy? How can higher educati
on instructors and professors be effective teachers in the light of these
relationships?
\n
Papers must pertain to higher educationbut maybe ab
out anything from interpersonal classroom dynamicstoinstitutional policies
to campus controversy. We are particularly interested in papers that expl
ore the following topics:
\n
\n- Philosophical issues around teach
ing controversy
\n
\n
\n- Navigating different identities in
the classroom and on campus
\n- Free speech and controversial issues
in classrooms and on campus
\n- Differential roles of various highe
r education actors when it comes to protecting free speech (administration
\, tenured professors\, students\, residential life)
\n
\n
\nTraining (or lack thereof) of graduate students to be teachers and the i
mpact of this on teaching in our current political moment\n
\n
\n- Theright relationship(s) between democracy\, knowledge\,free speech
\, and higher education
\n
\n
\n- The role of controversy in
democracy
\n- The relationship between controversy and equality
\n
\n
\n- Teaching as an equity issue – how education might foste
r or impede different kinds of equity (class equity\, racial equity\, urba
n/rural equity\, gender equity)
\n
\n
\n- Disagreement in cla
ssrooms
\n
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\n- Epistemological issues around disagreement
and understanding
\n- Trust in classrooms
\n- Pedagogical tool
s to cope with disagreement in classrooms
\n- Philosophical views on
coming to understanding from different social locations\, epistemic commi
tments\, and material circumstances
\n
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We especially welcome
contributions that:
\n
\n- Think about universities outside of the
“top 50” and the “top 500” — we want our conversation to reflect issues f
ound across the entire spectrum of international higher ed institutions\n
- Engage with CUNY-specific issues and offer CUNY-specific solutions
\n
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Abstracts should:
\n– Outline the paper’s principal
argument(s).
\n– Give a good sense of the paper’s philosophical and/o
r empirical contributions and methods.
\n– Be anonymized.
\n
Pro
posal Guidelines:
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Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words by mi
dnight EST on Monday\, July 31\, 2023.
\n
PDF or DOC.X by email to gs
cope.committee@gmail.com
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Post-Conference Pedagogy Workshop
\n
The theme of our conference Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Contro
versy is relevant to graduate student educators\, who are routinely u
nder-trained and under-equipped to engage with real-life problems they may
encounter in the classroom. The lack of training for higher education tea
chers is a growing iue in philosophy of education.
\n
This workshop a
ttends to this issue by facilitating a space for graduate student educator
s to reflect on how to foster good teaching environments for controversial
issues\, and be good interlocutors with each other on controversial issue
s. The workshop will also touch on promoting equity in classrooms. We will
provide workshop participants with a certificate of completion.
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h
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SEQUENCE:0
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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)
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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
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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.
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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:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar
DESCRIPTION:
What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to R
oss’s question.
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When W.D. Ross poses the question\,
“what makes right acts right?” (The Right and the Good ch. 2)\, he is aski
ng a question that is prior to the deliberative question\, “how do I deter
mine the right thing to do?” The Stoics recognize this: in De Officiis 1.7
\, Cicero says that every inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoreti
cal part concerned with the end of goods and evils\, which addresses such
matters as whether all duties are perfect\, whether some are more importan
t than others\, and what are the kinds of duties\, and (2) a practical par
t which sets out rules (praecepta) by which our conduct can be made to con
form with the end. This paper focuses on (1) and in particular asks Ross’
s question about Stoic right actions (kathêkonta).
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The
endpoint of Stoic deliberation is determining what token action is the rig
ht action. The paper begins with the Stoic distinction between a thing’s
choiceworthiness\, its intrinsic disposition to elicit a choice response i
n a suitable subject\, and its possession being to-be-chosen. The determin
ation of what is to-be-done is made by weighing against each other all the
values of the relevant action types specified by their content (the so-ca
lled ‘intermediate actions’) that are in accordance with nature\, as Stoic
value theory says that according with nature is an objective reason to do
an action. What constitutes the rightness of the token right action\, an
d is given in its reasonable defense\, is the same as what constitutes the
rightness of a perfect (katorthôma) action. The Stoic distinction betw
een right and perfect action depends on the action’s moral goodness—not ri
ghtness—which is due to its causal origin.
\n
Presented by Professor<
a href='https://philosophy.cornell.edu/rachana-kamtekar'> Rachana Kamtekar
(Cornell University)
\n
Tickets: http
s://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar.
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GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\,
USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Rachana Kamtekar: What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ro
ss’s question
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rachana-kamtekar-what-ma
kes-right-acts-right-a-stoic-answer-to-rosss-question/
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CONTACT:https://events.nyas.org/event/aeb22abd-112e-4973-b86d-8a4a73b0c618/
websitePage:9772d97b-6260-4e47-bbfb-cbb109517975
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T203000
GEO:+40.791947;-73.952101
LOCATION:New York Academy of Medicine @ 1216 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10029\
, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Unraveling the Mind: The Mystery of Consciousness
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/unraveling-the-mind-the-
mystery-of-consciousness/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/cynthia-bennett-disab
ility-accessibility-and-fairness-artificial-intelligence
DESCRIPTION:
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to automate and scale
solutions to perennial accessibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image d
escriptions for blind users). However\, research shows that AI-bias dispro
portionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gen
der\, or disabilities\, raising questions about potential impacts in addit
ion to AI’s promise. In this talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad co
ncerns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She wil
l then share details about one project in this research space that led to
guidance on human and AI-generated image descriptions that account for sub
jective and potentially sensitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and d
isability of people in images.
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LOCATION:Presbyterian Hospital Building (Room PH20-200) @ 622 W 168th St\,
New York\, NY 10032\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Cynthia Bennett – Disability Accessibility and Fairness in Artifici
al Intelligence
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cynthia-bennett-disabili
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DESCRIPTION:
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d4cb6.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T203000
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LOCATION:New York Academy of Medicine @ 1216 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10029\
, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Cultivating the Mind: Reason and the Pursuit of Ethical Transformat
ion
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cultivating-the-mind-rea
son-and-the-pursuit-of-ethical-transformation/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/departments/philosophy/events/spring-2023/depart
ment-colloquium-katharina-kraus.html
DESCRIPTION:
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This talk explores the reflexive nature of
consciousness\, which consists primarily in the fact that a state of consc
iousness has a reflexive relation to the subject who has that state\, so t
hat the subject can typically be aware of itself as having that state. Com
paring Kant’s\, Fichte’s\, and selected contemporary analytic theories of
this reflexivity shows that there is a crucial difference in the way the r
elation between form (or mode) and content of a state of consciousness is
conceived. The first part examines Kant’s formal theory of consciousness:
reflexivity is understood not in terms of a self-referential content resul
ting from a reflection on the state of the subject\, but as the universal
transcendental form that any content must have in order to be representati
onally significant and potentially conscious to the subject. The second pa
rt examines Fichte’s departure from Kant in his theory of a self-positing
consciousness: in the original act of self-positing\, the mere form of ref
lexivity is turned into a self-referential content that determines the sub
ject as an object from the absolute standpoint of consciousness. The third
part examines analytic theories that explain the reflexivity (or what is
often called the subjective character) of consciousness on a model of ment
al indexicality. These theories tend to reduce reflexivity to an objective
constituent of content that\, although often implicit\, can be read off f
rom the subject’s contextual situatedness in nature. In conclusion\, Kant’
s theory can be understood as a moderate\, human-centered kind of perspect
ivism that navigates between Fichtean absolute subjectivity and a naturali
st absolute objectivity.
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Regis
tration is free but required. A registration link will be shared via e
mail with our department mailing lists a few weeks before the event. Pleas
e contact Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu if you did not receive a regi
stration link.
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The Phi
losophy Department provides reasonable accommodations to people with disab
ilities. Requests for accommodations should be submitted to philosophy@nyu
.edu at least two weeks before the event.
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Tickets: https://as.nyu.edu/departments/philosophy/events/spr
ing-2023/department-colloquium-katharina-kraus.html.
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LOCATION:NYU Philosophy Dept. @ 5 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA
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SUMMARY:The Reflexivity of Consciousness in Kant\, Fichte and Beyond. Katha
rina Kraus (Johns Hopkins)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-reflexivity-of-consc
iousness-in-kant-fichte-and-beyond-katharina-kraus-johns-hopkins/
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CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:
The NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents:
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March 31st —
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting
on Wittgenstein and Care Ethics
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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.”
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April 21st — Harmut von Sas
s (Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting scholar) will be presenting o
n gratitude.
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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.
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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.
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Look out for an email close
r to each event with more details regarding the location and materials the
speaker would like to circulate.
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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: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.
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With res
ponses from Lu Teng (NYU Shanghai)
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GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136
LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100
27\, USA
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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:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/rachanakamtekar
DESCRIPTION:
When W.D. Ross poses the question “what makes right acts rig
ht?” (The Right and the Good\, ch. 2)\, he is asking a question t
hat is prior to\, and has a bearing on\, the practical question “how do I
determine the right thing to do?” The Stoics recognize this. Cicero (D
e Officio\, where he is referring to Panaetius’ work Peri Kathêk
ontos) tells us that every inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a th
eoretical part concerned with the end of good and evil deeds\, which addre
sses such matters as whether all duties are perfect (omniane official
perfecta sint)\, whether some are more important than others\, and wh
at the kinds of duties are\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules
(praecepta) by which our conduct can be made to conform with the
end (De Officiis\, 1.7). While Cicero himself focuses on the se
cond\, this paper seeks the answer to the first part.
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Ra
chana Kamtekar is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell Univer
sity and has written on many topics in ancient philosophy and contemporary
moral psychology. Her monograph\, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellect
ualism\, the Divided Soul and the Desire for Good\, was published in
2017. She is currently working on the relationship between action and cha
racter in ancient Greek ethics.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000
GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\,
USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Chrysippus on What Makes Right Acts Right. Rachana Kamtekar (Cornel
l)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/chrysippus-on-what-makes
-right-acts-right-rachana-kamtekar-cornell/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/events
DESCRIPTION:
Join u
s for a special live taping of the Clearer Thinking podcast.
Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral status
of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global pr
iorities research.
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About the speakers
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Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated
Professor of Bioethics\, Medical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director
of the Animal Studies M.A. Program\, Director of the Mind\, Ethics\, and Po
licy Program\, and Co-Director of the Wil
d Animal Welfare Program at New York Univ
ersity. He is the author of S
aving Animals\, Saving Ourselves (2022) a
nd co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (2018) and
span>Food\, Animals\
, and the Environment (2018). He is also
an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Anim
al Protection\, a board member at Minding Animals International\, an advis
ory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, a senior researc
h fellow at the Legal Priorities Project\, and a mentor at Sentient Media.
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Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a focus
on improving human well-being. He’s the founder of <
span class='C9DxTc aw5Odc '>ClearerThinking.org\, which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better
decisions and improve their lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Th
inking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wave\, an organi
zation that conducts psychology research and builds psychology-related pro
ducts designed to help benefit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math f
rom New York University\, with a specialty in machine learning\, and his w
ork has been featured by numerous major media outlets\, including The Wall
Street Journal\, the Independent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and mor
e.
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Thank you to Effective Altruism New York City for their generous s
upport of this event.
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Tickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000
GEO:+40.730098;-73.995693
LOCATION:Jurow Hall\, Silver Center @ 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 1000
3\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Moral Status of Insects and AI Systems\, and Other Thorny Quest
ions in Global Priorities Research. Jeff Sebo and Spencer Greenberg
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-moral-status-of-inse
cts-and-ai-systems-and-other-thorny-questions-in-global-priorities-researc
h-jeff-sebo-and-spencer-greenberg/
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