BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/curiosity-creativity- and-complexity DESCRIPTION:How does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisio ns when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?\nThe conference showcases cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscie nce and Psychology (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exploration\, decision-making\, information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artificial intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic motivation) an d Economics (decision making and information demand). Alongside formal pre sentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions among facult y\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poster presenta tions.\nSubmissions for poster presentations and travel awards are due Feb ruary 15\, 2023. Please visit the call for submissions for complete requir ements.\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public. Registration is r equired and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow Columbi a’s COVID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email even ts@zi.columbia.edu with any questions. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230526 GEO:+40.816847;-73.957958 LOCATION:Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) @ 3227 Br oadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Curiosity\, Creativity and Complexity Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/curiosity-creativity-and -complexity-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nHow does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?
\nThe conference showca ses cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscience and Psycholog y (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exploration\, decision-making\ , information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artifici al intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic motivation) and Economics (deci sion making and information demand). Alongside formal presentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions among faculty\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poster presentations.
\nSu bmissions for poster presentations and travel awards are due February 15\, 2023. Please visit the call fo r submissions for complete requirements.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow Columbia’s COV ID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 va ccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email events@zi.columbia.edu with any quest ions.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,decision theory\,mind\,psych ology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8048@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a series of keynote presentations as part of the 20 23 Institute for Philosophy and New Humanities: Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds.\nArtifacts are a primary object of study in the humanities. They are products and\, thus\, manifestations of human thought \, action\, and self-determination without which they cannot be understood . At the same time\, human mindedness depends on artifacts\, and as well a s other objects – a dependence that is manifest in the form of artifacts. Human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are therefore intertwined in complex ways.\nOur Fall institute meeting 2023 Institute will consider wa ys in which human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are dialecticall y intertwined. Of special interest will be automatically or mechanically p roduced artifacts\, and AI systems as artifacts that are neither inert cau sal models of human thinking nor independently minded entities. The ontolo gy of such products thus needs to be calibrated in light of their contribu tion to the deep diversity of the mutual dependence of mindedness and arti facts. Some questions our seminar will address include: How do AI-research and AI-systems structure and restructure the historical\, diverse articul ation of human mindedness? How does our understanding of these and other a rtifacts shape our self-conception at the most fundamental level?\n \nWe w ill explore these issues in the ontology\, epistemology\, and humanistic s tudy of AI and other artifacts together with distinguished keynote speaker s:\nMonday\, September 11\, 4pm\nHans Ulrich Gumbrecht: UNFOLDING A FUZZY FUTURE? Dimensions for Thinking about “Singularity”\n\nTuesday\, September 12\, 10am\nCameron Buckner: Understanding Progress in AI Using Empiricist Philosophy of Mind\n\nWednesday\, September 13\, 3pm\nKanta Dihal\nWednes day\, September 13\, 5pm\nDavid Chalmers: Forum Humanum Lecture\n\nThursda y\, September 14\, 4pm\nNandi Theunissen: Rethinking Regress Arguments for the Value of Humanity\n\nFriday\, September 15\, 4pm\nKalindi Vora\nTicke ts: https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230911 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230916 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall (UL102) @ 63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mind-dependent-artifacts -artifact-dependent-minds/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nJoin us for a series of keynote presentations as part of the 2023 Institute for Philoso phy and New Humanities: Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds .
\nArtifacts are a primary object of study in the humanities. They are products and\, thus\, manifestations of human thought\, action\, and s elf-determination without which they cannot be understood. At the same tim e\, human mindedness depends on artifacts\, and as well as other objects – a dependence that is manifest in the form of artifacts. Human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are therefore intertwined in complex ways.
\nOur Fall institute meeting 2023 Institute will consider ways in whic h human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are dialectically intertwi ned. Of special interest will be automatically or mechanically produced ar tifacts\, and AI systems as artifacts that are neither inert causal models of human thinking nor independently minded entities. The ontology of such products thus needs to be calibrated in light of their contribution to th e deep diversity of the mutual dependence of mindedness and artifacts. Som e questions our seminar will address include: How do AI-research and AI-sy stems structure and restructure the historical\, diverse articulation of h uman mindedness? How does our understanding of these and other artifacts s hape our self-conception at the most fundamental level?
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We will explore these issues in the ontology\, epistemology\, and humanist ic study of AI and other artifacts together with distinguished keynote spe akers:
\nMonday\, September 11\, 4pm
\nHans Ulrich Gumb
recht: UNFOLDING A FUZZY FUTURE? Dimensions for Thinking about “Singularit
y”
Tuesday\, September 12\, 10am
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Cameron Buckner: Understanding Progress in AI Using Empiricist Philosophy
of Mind
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Wednesday\, September 13\, 3pm
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Wednesday\, September 13\, 5pm
\nDavid Chalmers: Forum Humanum Lecture
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Thursday\, September 14\, 4pm
\nNandi Theunissen:
Rethinking Regress Arguments for the Value of Humanity
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Friday\, September 15\, 4pm
\nKalindi Vora
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Tickets: https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7709@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/art-brain-beholder DESCRIPTION:What can science teach us about how we perceive and understand art? How can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this even t\, the Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains a nd the artistic world\, finding connections and parallels between art and science.\nEvent Speakers\nPlease visit the event webpage to view the speak er list.\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public\, registration is required by January 28\, 2022. This event will also be live-streamed. Ple ase email zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu with any questions.\nThis talk i s part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hos ted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\nTickets : https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKsoLFSuOXr1-x3 rGT5g. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T190000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Art in the Brain of the Beholder URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/art-in-the-brain-of-the- beholder/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWhat can science teach us about how we perceive and understand art? H ow can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this event\, th e Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains and the artistic world\, finding connections and parallels between art and scienc e.
\nPlease visit the event webpage to view the spe aker list.
\nFree and open to the public \, registrat ion is required by January 28\, 2022. This event will also be live-str eamed. Please email zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu< /a> with any questions.
\nThis talk is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hosted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and su pported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
\nTickets: h ttps://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKsoLFSuOXr1-x3rGT 5g.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,mind\,neuroscience\,science X-TICKETS-URL:https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKso LFSuOXr1-x3rGT5g END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7719@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2021-20 22 DESCRIPTION:*Zoom link can be requested if you are not on the email list\, please send an email to ap3097@columbia.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T180000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Jonathan Gilmore (CUNY & Baruch College): Feelings Fit for Fiction s and Imaginings URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/jonathan-gilmore-cuny-ba ruch-college-feelings-fit-for-fictions-and-imaginings/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n*Zoom link ca n be requested if you are not on the email list\, please send an email to ap3097@columbia.edu
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7774@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY\nWelcomes you t o an IN-PERSON meeting:\nAllison Aitken (Columbia University)\n« A Case ag ainst Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology »\nWith responses fr om Alexander Englert (Princeton University)\nABSTRACT: There’s a common li ne of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious expe rience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary\, Mādhya mika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh-eighth century ) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysical ly impossible. Lacking any unifying principle\, the phenomenal unity of co nscious experience is instead an ungrounded illusion. In this talk\, I wil l present an analysis of Śrīgupta’s “neither-one-nor-many argument” agains t mental simples and show how his line of reasoning is driven by a set of implicit questions concerning the nature of and relation between conscious ness and its intentional object. These questions not only set the agenda f or centuries of intra-Buddhist debate on the topic\, but they are also que stions to which any defender of unified consciousness or a simple subject of experience arguably owes responses. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Case against Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology. All ison Aitken\, Columbia URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-case-against-simple-mi ndedness-srigupta-on-mental-mereology-allison-aitken-columbia/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nTHE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSO PHY
\nWelcomes you to an IN-PERSON meeting:
\nAllison Aitken (Columbia University)
\n« A Case against Simple-mindedn ess: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology »
\nWith responses from Alexander Englert (Princet
on University)
ABST RACT: There’s a common line of reasoning whi ch supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary\, Mādhyamika Buddhist philo sophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh-eighth century) argue that any ki nd of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysically impossible. Lack ing any unifying principle\, the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is instead an ungrounded illusion. In this talk\, I will present an analys is of Śrīgupta’s “neither-one-nor-many argument” against mental simples an d show how his line of reasoning is driven by a set of implicit questions concerning the nature of and relation between consciousness and its intent ional object. These questions not only set the agenda for centuries of int ra-Buddhist debate on the topic\, but they are also questions to which any defender of unified consciousness or a simple subject of experience argua bly owes responses.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7863@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 29th\, 2022\nChristina Van Dyke (Barnard C ollege)\nTitle “I feel it in my fingers\, I feel it in my toes: Imaginativ e Meditation and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplative Philosophy” \n4:10-6:00 PM\n716 Philosophy Hall DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:I feel it in my fingers\, I feel it in my toes: Imaginative Meditat ion and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplative Philosophy. Christina Van Dyke\, Barnard URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/i-feel-it-in-my-fingers- i-feel-it-in-my-toes-imaginative-meditation-and-experience-of-love-in-medi eval-contemplative-philosophy-christina-van-dyke-barnard/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nThursday\, Se
ptember 29th\, 2022
\nChristina Van Dyke (Barnard College)
\nTit
le “I feel it in my fingers\, I feel it in my toes: Imaginative Meditation
and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplative Philosophy”
\n4:10-
6:00 PM
\n716 Philosophy Hall
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 be gin by clarifying his strategy and what conclusions it might be used to es tablish. Here I examine different candidate directions of explanation bet ween consciousness and inner awareness. I interpret the metaphor of consc iousness as a lamp that lights itself\, and use the metaphor to distinguis h between his view and contemporary higher-order theories of consciousness . I then turn to explain why the memory argument fails. The first main p roblem is that\, contrary to Dignāga’s contemporary defenders\, there is n o good way to use the argument to reach a conclusion about all conscious s tates. The second main problem is that the proposed awareness constraint on memory is highly problematic\, in tension both with ancient objections as well as current psychology.
\nWith responses from Lu Teng (NYU Sh anghai)
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative\,consciousness\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8046@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, I explore the role that metaphor plays in the d evelopment of new scientific models. My goal is to illustrate metaphor’s f ecundity in this regard\, the way in which it extends our understanding in surprisingly diverse ways. As Mary Hesse put this point\, “it is precisel y in its extension that the fruitfulness of the model may lie” (1980\, 114 ).\n \nThe particular focus of my paper is on the history of what John Hau geland called mind design: the use of mechanical models to reverse-enginee r how minds work (1997\, 1). My history focuses on two such models: the cl ockwork model and the computer model. In each case\, I show how a metaphor ical understanding of the model led to conceptual innovation in two distin ct ways. First\, it provided an interpretive frame that guided new researc h by offering an abstract\, hypothesized structure to be later filled in b y empirical research (Camp 2020). Second\, it provided a concrete exemplar to contrast with human minds (Daston 1994). For instance\, while on the o ne hand Descartes invoked the clockwork model to explain how color vision works (Adams 2015)\, he also invoked it as a vivid illustration of how hum an reasoning does not work (Riskin 2016).\n \nIt is this second source of conceptual innovation that is the real core of the paper\; it reveals what I call the dialectic of mind design. This dialectic is especially evident in our tendency to redefine what it is to be human in response to new tec hnological developments. For instance\, it is evident when we take somethi ng that was previously assumed to be paradigmatic of mental acuity\, such as the ability to play chess\, and redefine it as something merely mechani cal (Ensmenger 2012). But it is equally well evident when we take somethin g that was previously taken to be mechanical—such as color vision—and rede fine it as paradigmatically mental (Chalmers 1997\; cf. Adams and Browning 2020). The concept of mindedness is\, in this sense\, a constantly moving goalpost that is perennially being redefined in response to new technolog ical developments.\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofmin ddesign#rsvp. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: The Dialectic of Mind Design. Zed Adams (NSS R) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-th e-dialectic-of-mind-design-zed-adams-nssr/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIn this paper \, I explore the role that metaphor plays in the development of new scient ific models. My goal is to illustrate metaphor’s fecundity in this regard\ , the way in which it extends our understanding in surprisingly diverse wa ys. As Mary Hesse put this point\, “it is precisely in its extension that the fruitfulness of the model may lie” (1980\, 114).
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The particular focus of my paper is on the history of what John Haugeland cal led mind design: the use of mechanical models to reverse-engineer how mind s work (1997\, 1). My history focuses on two such models: the clockwork mo del and the computer model. In each case\, I show how a metaphorical under standing of the model led to conceptual innovation in two distinct ways. F irst\, it provided an interpretive frame that guided new research by offer ing an abstract\, hypothesized structure to be later filled in by empirica l research (Camp 2020). Second\, it provided a concrete exemplar to contra st with human minds (Daston 1994). For instance\, while on the one hand De scartes invoked the clockwork model to explain how color vision works (Ada ms 2015)\, he also invoked it as a vivid illustration of how human reasoni ng does not work (Riskin 2016).
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It is this second source of conceptual innovation that is the real core of the paper\; it reveals what I call the dialectic of mind design. This dialectic is especially evi dent in our tendency to redefine what it is to be human in response to new technological developments. For instance\, it is evident when we take som ething that was previously assumed to be paradigmatic of mental acuity\, s uch as the ability to play chess\, and redefine it as something merely mec hanical (Ensmenger 2012). But it is equally well evident when we take some thing that was previously taken to be mechanical—such as color vision—and redefine it as paradigmatically mental (Chalmers 1997\; cf. Adams and Brow ning 2020). The concept of mindedness is\, in this sense\, a constantly mo ving goalpost that is perennially being redefined in response to new techn ological developments.
\nTickets: https: //event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign#rsvp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind\,science X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8025@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/designing-space DESCRIPTION:How do we experience space? And what does this mean for the spa ces we design? We explore these questions by bringing together speakers fr om Architecture\, Neuroscience\, and Virtual Reality\, with two specific a ims: First\, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn fr om each other\, as two distinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spa tial experience has long been a central question of Architecture\, Virtual Reality is only beginning to grapple with these questions\, as technology transitions from 2D screens to 3D spatial interfaces. Second\, we explore the nature of spatial experience itself\, with two approaches to understa nding the human mind. Whilst contemporary Architecture is influenced by Ph ilosophy (specifically the “Phenomenological” tradition)\, the tools of Ne uroscience are increasingly being applied to questions of Architecture as well. Through this multidisciplinary exchange we hope to deepen our unders tanding of spatial experience\, and how it informs the physical and virtua l spaces we design.\nEvent Speakers\n\nNitzan Bartov\, Designer at Meta Re ality Labs Research\nAnjan Chatterjee\, Professor of Neurology\, Psycholog y\, and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania\nSteven Holl\, Prof essor of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation at Columbia University \nModerated by Paul Linton\, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscie nce and Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at C olumbia University\n\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public. Regi stration is required via Eventbrite. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link from Eventbrite. Please email presidentialscholars@columbia.edu with any questions.\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Socie ty and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience se ries. Co-sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University.\nThe Center for Scienc e and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals wit h disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Cente r for Science and Society event\, please contact us at scienceandsociety@c olumbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at least 10 days in advance of the event. Fo r more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.\nTicke ts: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-space-tickets-681760884157. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T200000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Havemeyer Hall (Room 309) & Online @ 116th and Broadway\, New York \, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Designing Space URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/designing-space/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHow do we exp erience space? And what does this mean for the spaces we design? We explor e these questions by bringing together speakers from Architecture\, Neuros cience\, and Virtual Reality\, with two specific aims: First\, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn from each other\, as two d istinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spatial experience has long been a central question of Architecture\, Virtual Reality is only beginni ng to grapple with these questions\, as technology transitions from 2D scr eens to 3D spatial interfaces. Second\, we explore the nature of spatial e xperience itself\, with two approaches to understanding the human mind. Wh ilst contemporary Architecture is influenced by Philosophy (specifically t he “Phenomenological” tradition)\, the tools of Neuroscience are increasin gly being applied to questions of Architecture as well. Through this multi disciplinary exchange we hope to deepen our understanding of spatial exper ience\, and how it informs the physical and virtual spaces we design.
\nFree and open to the pu blic. Registration i s required via Eventbrite. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link from Eventbrite. Please email presidentialscholars@columbia.edu with any questions.
\nThis e vent is hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Society and N euroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series. Co-sponsored by the< a class='external' href='https://italianacademy.columbia.edu/' target='_bl ank' rel='noopener'> Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America a nd the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia Univer sity.
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable ef fort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disabili ty accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, pleas e contact us at scienceand society@columbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at least 10 days in advance of the event. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-space-tickets -681760884157.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind\,neuroscience\,phenomenology X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-space-tickets-68176088 4157 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8031@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquia-lectures-2023-202 4 DESCRIPTION:Matthew Boyle works on topics in the philosophy of mind and on some issues in the history of philosophy. In the former area\, he has been especially concerned with the question of how we know our own minds and w ith debates about the scope and limits of such knowledge. He is presently at work on a book called The Significance of Self-Consciousness (under con tract with Oxford University Press) on the distinction between rational an d nonrational minds\, the connection between rationality and the capacity for first-person awareness of one’s own cognitive activity\, and the conti nuing relevance of these topics to contemporary debates in philosophy and psychology. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/matthew-boyle-university -of-chicago/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nMatthew Boyle works on topics in the philosophy of mind and on some issues in the histo ry of philosophy. In the former area\, he has been especially concerned wi th the question of how we know our own minds and with debates about the sc ope and limits of such knowledge. He is presently at work on a book called The Significance of Self-Consciousness (under contract with Oxfo rd University Press) on the distinction between rational and nonrational m inds\, the connection between rationality and the capacity for first-perso n awareness of one’s own cognitive activity\, and the continuing relevance of these topics to contemporary debates in philosophy and psychology.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8107@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T165206Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age DESCRIPTION:David Bates\, in conversation with Stefanos Geroulano and Joann a Stalnaker\nWe imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by o ur bodies—autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement\, according to D avid W. Bates\, emerged in the seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with machines. Reading varied thinkers from Desca rtes to Kant to Turing\, Bates reveals how time and time again technologic al developments offered new ways to imagine how the body’s automaticity wo rked alongside the mind’s autonomy. Tracing these evolving lines of though t\, David Bates discusses his new book\, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence\, which offers a new theorization of the human as a being tha t is dependent on technology and produces itself as an artificial automato n without a natural\, outside origin.\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rhetori c at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the hi story of legal and political ideas\, and the relationship between technolo gy\, science\, and the history of human cognition.\nStefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Professor of European Intellec tual History at NYU. He usually writes about concepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and sciences of human origins since 1 770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as The Invention of Prehistory: Emp ire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Human Origins in 2024.\nJoanna Sta lnaker is Professor of French at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment phil osophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the Enl ightenment. Her new book\, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in the Walpole series.\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets: 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/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nDavid Bates\, in conversation with Stefanos Geroulano and Joa nna Stalnaker
\nWe imagine that we are both in control of a
nd controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglemen
t\, according to David W. Bates\, emerged in the seventeenth century when
humans first built and compared themselves with machines. Reading varied t
hinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing\, Bates reveals how time and time
again technological developments offered new ways to imagine how the body
’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s autonomy. Tracing these evolvi
ng lines of thought\, David Bates discusses his new book\, An Artifici
al History of Natural Intelligence\, which offers a new theorization
of the human as a being that is dependent on technology and produces itsel
f as an artificial automaton without a natural\, outside origin.
\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of C
alifornia Berkeley. His research focuses on the history of legal and polit
ical ideas\, and the relationship between technology\, science\, and the h
istory of human cognition.
Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Professor of European Intellec tual History at NYU. He usually writes about concepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and sciences of human origins since 1 770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as The Invention of Prehistory: Empire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Human Origins in 2024.
\nJoanna Stalnaker is Professor of F rench at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment philosophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the Enlightenment. Her new book \, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in the Walpole series.
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