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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://theassc.org/assc-26/
DESCRIPTION:
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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.
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Submissions for talks and poste
rs are now open with a deadline of February 15\, 2023. Conference registration will open
in early 2023.
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Ke
ynote speakers\, sympo
sia\, tutorials\,
and housing have now b
een arranged\, as specified below.
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Please direct any inquiries to
ASSC26@nyu.
edu.
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We hope to see you soon in New York!
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Ned Bloc
k and David Chalmers\, Conference Directors
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\nT
ickets: https://theassc.org/assc-26/#registration.
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://swip-nyc.org/swip-nyc-colloquium/
DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The Noble Lie proposed by Plato for the J
ust City in Republic III has been much misunderstood. Its agenda is twofol
d: to get the citizens of the City to see their society as a natural entit
y\, with themselves as all ‘family’ and akin\; and to get the Guardians in
particular to make class mobility\, on which the justice of the City depe
nds\, a top priority. Since the second is taken to depend on the first\, t
he Lie passage amounts to an argument (1) that the survival of a just comm
unity depends on the existence of social solidarity between elite and mass
\, which allows for full class mobility and genuine meritocracy\; (2) that
this solidarity in turn depends on an ideology of natural unity\; and (3)
that such ideologies are always false. So the Lie really is a lie\, but a
necessary one\; as such it poses an awkward ethical problem for Plato and
\, if he is right\, for our own societies as well.
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\nPrese
nted by SWIP-NYC
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SUMMARY:Rachel Barney (U Toronto)\, “The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Nob
le Lie”
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rachel-barney-u-toronto-
the-ethics-and-politics-of-platos-noble-lie/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent
CONTACT:https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/philosophy-library-virtual-20
220322
DESCRIPTION:\n
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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.
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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.
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This series is cur
ated and co-presented by Brooklyn Public Philosophers\, aka Ian Olasov.
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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:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar
DESCRIPTION:What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to R
oss’s question.
\nWhen W.D. Ross poses the question\,
“what makes right acts right?” (The Right and the Good ch. 2)\, he is aski
ng a question that is prior to the deliberative question\, “how do I deter
mine the right thing to do?” The Stoics recognize this: in De Officiis 1.7
\, Cicero says that every inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoreti
cal part concerned with the end of goods and evils\, which addresses such
matters as whether all duties are perfect\, whether some are more importan
t than others\, and what are the kinds of duties\, and (2) a practical par
t which sets out rules (praecepta) by which our conduct can be made to con
form with the end. This paper focuses on (1) and in particular asks Ross’
s question about Stoic right actions (kathêkonta).
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\nThe
endpoint of Stoic deliberation is determining what token action is the rig
ht action. The paper begins with the Stoic distinction between a thing’s
choiceworthiness\, its intrinsic disposition to elicit a choice response i
n a suitable subject\, and its possession being to-be-chosen. The determin
ation of what is to-be-done is made by weighing against each other all the
values of the relevant action types specified by their content (the so-ca
lled ‘intermediate actions’) that are in accordance with nature\, as Stoic
value theory says that according with nature is an objective reason to do
an action. What constitutes the rightness of the token right action\, an
d is given in its reasonable defense\, is the same as what constitutes the
rightness of a perfect (katorthôma) action. The Stoic distinction betw
een right and perfect action depends on the action’s moral goodness—not ri
ghtness—which is due to its causal origin.
\nPresented by Professor<
a href='https://philosophy.cornell.edu/rachana-kamtekar'> Rachana Kamtekar
(Cornell University)
\nTickets: http
s://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar.
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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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GEO:+40.791947;-73.952101
LOCATION:New York Academy of Medicine @ 1216 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10029\
, USA
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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: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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SEQUENCE:0
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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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/gwengrewal
DESCRIPTION:
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Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking A
bout Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP
2022)
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Speakers:
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Gwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR)
\nCinzia A
rruzza (NSSR)
\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)
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Thinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialo
gues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philo
sophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-heade
d sophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are t
he ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate bet
ween choral ode and rhapsody\, as Plato vacillates between referring to th
em in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close readi
ng explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-fort
h arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersi
ve remove from reality\, thinking simulates death even as it cannot concei
ve of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme
\, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of bei
ng disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s t
enuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration
through Crito’s implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the At
henian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades
. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thi
nking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’
s sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that
pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in
ways that substantially expand the reader’s access to the dialogue’s myste
ries.
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USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthydemus.
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/thinking-about-death-in-
platos-euthydemus/
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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.
\nWith res
ponses from Lu Teng (NYU Shanghai)
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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: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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\nRa
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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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:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202
4
DESCRIPTION:Verity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy\, with pa
rticular research interests in ancient metaphysics\, epistemology and psyc
hology\, especially of Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato
on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure\, and is the edito
r of several important books on ancient philosophy.
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SA
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SUMMARY:Verity Harte (Yale)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/verity-harte-yale/
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