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-7821@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/Calendar/events/fall-2022/arts-a nd-pragmatism-.html DESCRIPTION:Advance Registration Required\; RSVP details coming soon\nLa Ma ison Française is pleased to host the second symposium of Arts and Pragmat ism. Join us for two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the inter section of philosophy and artistic practice under the direction of Sandra Laugier and Yann Toma.\nwith the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University\, Politique scientifique program\, Global Works and Society\, Liberal Studi es\, and La Maison Française at New York University.\nFull program details to follow.\n*We are so excited to welcome the general public back to most events at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Instructions for attending events i n-person will be confirmed shortly before each event. Please note that NYU requires all visitors to provide official proof (in English) that they ar e fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Additional details to fol low. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221026 GEO:+40.731147;-73.995378 LOCATION:La Maison Française NYU & Zoom @ 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, N Y 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Arts and Pragmatism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/arts-and-pragmatism/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nAdvance Regis tration Required\; RSVP details coming soon
\nLa Maison Française is
pleased to host the second symposium of Arts and Pragmatism. Join us for
two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the intersection of philos
ophy and artistic practice under the direction of Sandra Laugier and Yann
Toma.
\nwith the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University\, Politique
scientifique program\, Global Works and Society\, Liberal Studies\, and La
Maison Française at New York University.
Full program details to follow.
\n*We are so excited to welcome the general public back to m ost events at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Instructions for attending event s in-person will be confirmed shortly before each event. Please note that NYU requires all visitors to provide official proof (in English) that they are fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Additional details to follow.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,pragmatism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/ DESCRIPTION:A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organ ized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York Univers ity) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New Yor k University.\nAbout\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI res earch from a philosophical perspective\, with particular attention to rece nt work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, a nd their relationship to human cognition.\nThe conference will focus espec ially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on top ics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:\n\nWhat c ognitive capacities\, if any\, do current deep learning systems possess?\n What cognitive capacities might future deep learning systems possess?\nWha t kind of representations can we ascribe to artificial neural networks?\nC ould a large language model genuinely understand language?\nWhat do deep l earning systems tell us about human cognition\, and vice versa?\nHow can w e develop a theoretical understanding of deep learning systems?\nHow do de ep learning systems bear on philosophical debates such as rationalism vs e mpiricism and classical vs. nonclassical views of cognition.\nWhat are the key obstacles on the path from current deep learning systems to human-lev el cognition?\n\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackl e the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for meanin g and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browning (New York Universi ty)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York Universi ty)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI).\nConference speake rs\n\nCameron Buckner (University of Houston)\nRosa Cao (Stanford Universi ty)\nIshita Dasgupta (DeepMind)\nNikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia Universit y)\nBrenden Lake (New York University / Meta AI)\nGrace Lindsay (New York University)\nTal Linzen (New York University / Google AI)\nRaphaël Millièr e (Columbia University)\nNicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy\, Universi ty of London)\n\nCall for abstracts\nWe invite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the confe rence. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).\n \nh ttps://philevents.org/event/show/106406\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.c om/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327 GEO:+40.729513;-73.996461 LOCATION:Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness @ New York\, NY 10012\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Deep Learning URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-philosophy-of-deep-l earning/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nA two-day con ference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia Uni versity)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscien ce program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, a nd Consciousness at New York University.
\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI research from a phi losophical perspective\, with particular attention to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, and their relatio nship to human cognition.
\nThe conference will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:
\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackle the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for m eaning and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browni ng (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York University)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown U niversity / Google AI).
\nWe i nvite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the conference. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com a> by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).
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https: //philevents.org/event/show/106406
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosop hy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfa\,cognitive science\,conf erence\,language\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conf erence-tickets-453924730087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7993@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Our friends from Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne return f or a third installment of their symposium Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post Creation. \nThis day-long symposium will be chaired by Yann Toma and Sandra Laugier. From the organizers:\nWe have noticed it du ring the two previous symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy a nd in particular Dewey defends the idea that aesthetics must not only be c onsidered as the search for truths about art and its creations but also as what concerns the experience of the persons with an artwork (a sensitive and active experience). The reception would thus be the dynamic experience of an incarnated observer\, acting\, feeling in his senses and his affect s what is the work and what it makes him feel.\n\nThe political stake of t he pragmatist aesthetics is to make sure that the strong aesthetic experie nces remain open and accessible to the largest public and become even a «m atter of ordinary conversation». It is then a matter of thinking about sha red experience as a transmission of values\, an important phenomenon for t he moral\, political\, “educational” reflection of adults» (Cavell 1979\, 1981\, Shusterman\, Laugier 2019\, 2023\, Gerrits 2020). Thus\, this quest ion of pragmatism addresses societal issues that concern all audiences\, n ot just from a broadcast/transmission perspective. By focusing on experien ce and agency\, this way of approaching pragmatism involves the cultural a udience in a broad way to the point where it engages mediums such as telev ision and in general digital cultures.\nThe concept of Post-Creation\, ins ofar as it plays a form of exteriority to an original Creation\, has all i ts place in a world where the strong aesthetic experiences remain open and accessible to a wider public. It is a question of placing the creation be yond what is biased\, in the heart of a form of Third State of the artisti c act in charge of a heuristic and critical potential\, towards a form ext racted from the zone of influence of the world of the art as such. The ide a of Post-Creation tends towards the universal that would be the fact of c onceiving the creation beyond any not institutionalized academism. We will see how a possible emulation between the ordinary aesthetic and the share d experience of the Post-Creation is articulated and played\, where the ex perience of the creation produces knowledge and transforms what is out of the specific field of perception of the art in so many new acting and refl exive spaces. In that\, the influence of the artistic creation on whole se ctions of the society\, domains of perception until now inaccessible\, bec omes a stake of opening which results from the transformation of a form of ordinary aesthetics in a Post-Creation freed from the aesthetic channels of the contemporary art.\nRead the statement in French\nProgram:\n10:30AM : Opening Yann Toma\, Sandra Laugier and François Noudelmann\n11:00AM – 1: 00PM : Panel I Pragmatism and the Project of an Ordinary Aesthetics\nChair : Yann Toma\nAndrew Brandel (Penn State University) From the Aesthetics o f the Everyday Life to Ordinary Aesthetics.\nBarbara Formis (Panthéon-Sorb onne University) Doings and redoings of the Identical.\nSandra Laugier (Pa nthéon-Sorbonne) Ordinary Creation and Shared Culture.\nEmmanuel Kattan (C olumbia University) What happens when nothing happens: Chantal Akerman\, F rancis Ponge\, Marisa Merz and the emergence of time.\n \n1:00PM – 3:00PM : Lunch Break\n \n3:00PM – 6:00PM : Panel II Pragmatism\, Post-Creation\nC hair : Sandra Laugier\nYann Toma (Artist/Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Pos t-Creation\, a new way of making creation\nThe example of L’Or bleu.\nJung Hee Choi (artist and author of «Manifest Unmanifest») Dream House.\nDa n Thomas (United Nations Global Compact)\, The importance of Art and Perce ption in the Diplomatic Way.\nWarren Neidich (Artist and Founding Director Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art) The Brain Without Organs and the Ecocen e.\nThis event is organized with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéo n-Sorbonne\, Politique scientifique program\, and La Maison Française at N ew York University\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-pragmatism- from-ordinary-aesthetics-to-post-creation-tickets-596140822247. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230404 GEO:+40.731169;-73.995381 LOCATION:La Maison Française @ 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post-Creation URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/arts-pragmatism-from-ord inary-aesthetics-to-post-creation/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nOur friends f rom Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne return for a third installment o f their symposium Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post C reation.
\nThis day-long symposium will be chaired by Yann Toma and Sandra Laugier. From the organizers:
\nWe have noticed it du
ring the two previous symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy a
nd in particular Dewey defends the idea that aesthetics must not only be c
onsidered as the search for truths about art and its creations but also as
what concerns the experience of the persons with an artwork (a sensitive
and active experience). The reception would thus be the dynamic experience
of an incarnated observer\, acting\, feeling in his senses and his affect
s what is the work and what it makes him feel.
\n
The political stake of the pragmatist aesthetics is to make sure that the stro ng aesthetic experiences remain open and accessible to the largest public and become even a «matter of ordinary conversation». It is then a matter o f thinking about shared experience as a transmission of values\, an import ant phenomenon for the moral\, political\, “educational” reflection of adu lts» (Cavell 1979\, 1981\, Shusterman\, Laugier 2019\, 2023\, Gerrits 2020 ). Thus\, this question of pragmatism addresses societal issues that conce rn all audiences\, not just from a broadcast/transmission perspective. By focusing on experience and agency\, this way of approaching pragmatism inv olves the cultural audience in a broad way to the point where it engages m ediums such as television and in general digital cultures.
\nThe concept of Post-Creation\, insofar as it plays a form of exteriority t o an original Creation\, has all its place in a world where the strong aes thetic experiences remain open and accessible to a wider public. It is a q uestion of placing the creation beyond what is biased\, in the heart of a form of Third State of the artistic act in charge of a heuristic and criti cal potential\, towards a form extracted from the zone of influence of the world of the art as such. The idea of Post-Creation tends towards the uni versal that would be the fact of conceiving the creation beyond any not in stitutionalized academism. We will see how a possible emulation between th e ordinary aesthetic and the shared experience of the Post-Creation is art iculated and played\, where the experience of the creation produces knowle dge and transforms what is out of the specific field of perception of the art in so many new acting and reflexive spaces. In that\, the influence of the artistic creation on whole sections of the society\, domains of perce ption until now inaccessible\, becomes a stake of opening which results fr om the transformation of a form of ordinary aesthetics in a Post-Creation freed from the aesthetic channels of the contemporary art.
\n\nProgram:
\n10:30AM : Opening Yann Toma\, Sandra Lau gier and François Noudelmann
\n11:00AM – 1:00PM : Panel I Pra gmatism and the Project of an Ordinary Aesthetics
\nChair : < /u>Yann Toma
\nAndrew Brandel (Penn State Unive rsity) From the Aesthetics of the Everyday Life to Ordinary Aesthetics.
\nBarbara Formis (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Doings and redo ings of the Identical.
\nSandra Laugier (Panthéon-Sorbonne) O rdinary Creation and Shared Culture.
\nEmmanuel Kattan (Colum bia University) What happens when nothing happens: Chantal Akerman\, Franc is Ponge\, Marisa Merz and the emergence of time.
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1:0 0PM – 3:00PM : Lunch Break
\n\n
3:00PM – 6:00PM : Pane l II Pragmatism\, Post-Creation
\nChair : Sandra La ugier
\nYann Toma (Artist/Panthéon-Sorbonne Universit y) Post-Creation\, a new way of making creation
\nThe example of L’O r bleu.
\nJung Hee Choi (artist and author of «Manifest Unman ifest») Dream House.
\nDan Thomas (United Nations Global C ompact)\, The importance of Art and Perception in the Diplomatic Way.
\nWarren Neidich (Artist and Founding Director Saas-Fee Summer I nstitute of Art) The Brain Without Organs and the Ecocene.
\nThis ev ent is organized with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\ , Politique scientifique program\, and La Maison Française at New York Uni versity
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,art\,pragmatism X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-pragmatism-from-ordinary-ae sthetics-to-post-creation-tickets-596140822247 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8000@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/110241 DESCRIPTION:Richard J. Bernstein first encountered John Dewey’s pragmatist naturalism as a graduate student at Yale University\, where “Dewey’s natu ralistic vision of the relation of experience and nature—how human beings as natural creatures are related to the rest of nature—spoke deeply to me. ” This early enthusiasm for Dewey’s naturalistic vision never left him. Du ring the final years of his long life\, Bernstein finished two books that return to issues of pragmatist naturalism.\n· His Pragmatic Naturali sm: John Dewey’s Living Legacy (2020)\, traces differing versions of Dewey an naturalism in the works of contemporary philosophers\, including Robert Brandom\, John McDowell\, Richard Rorty\, Wilfrid Sellars\, Peter Godfrey -Smith\, Philip Kitcher\, Bjorn Ramberg\, David Macarthur\, Steven Levine\ , Mark Johnson\, Robert Sinclair\, Huw Price\, and Joseph Rouse.\n· In his final book\, The Vicissitudes of Nature (2022)\, Bernstein clarifie s his own pragmatist naturalism in relation to the thinking of earlier mod ern philosophers: Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, and F reud.\nThis conference will critically assess and expand the legacy of Ber nstein’s final pragmatic naturalism as expressed in these two books. Accep ted papers will be collected for publication.\nThe New York Pragmatist For um\nPaper topics may include: \n● Bernstein’s discussion of Dewey’s t hinking in relation to contemporary philosophers’ formulations of naturali sm in Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy.\n● Bernstein’ s interpretation of an earlier thinker’s understanding of naturalism or na ture in The Vicissitudes of Nature (Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, or Freud).\n● A larger theme or problem that brings one of these Bernstein’s texts into conversation with philosophical naturalism \, either particular expressions or conceptual issues.\n● The consequ ences of one or both of these texts for questions of naturalism in relatio n to wider social and political questions\, e.g.\, democracy\, praxis\, cr itique.\nAbstracts: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to tara@newschool.edu.\nSubmission Deadline: May 22\, 2023 \nNYPF Conference Committee:\nSergio Gallegos\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice\nJudit h Green\, Fordham University\nBrendan Hogan\, New York University\nTara Ma strelli\, New School for Social Research\nDavid Woods\, New York Universit y DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham University at Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 11 3 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nature’s Vicissitudes: Richard J. Bernstein’s final pragmatic natur alism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/natures-vicissitudes-ric hard-j-bernsteins-final-pragmatic-naturalism/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nRichard J. Be rnstein first encountered John Dewey’s pragmatist naturalism as a graduate student at Yale University\, where “Dewey’s naturalistic vision of the r elation of experience and nature—how human beings as natural creatures are related to the rest of nature—spoke deeply to me.” This early enthusiasm for Dewey’s naturalistic vision never left him. During the final years of his long life\, Bernstein finished two books that return to issues of prag matist naturalism.
\n· His Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewe y’s Living Legacy (2020)\, traces differing versions of Deweyan natur alism in the works of contemporary philosophers\, including Robert Brandom \, John McDowell\, Richard Rorty\, Wilfrid Sellars\, Peter Godfrey-Smith\, Philip Kitcher\, Bjorn Ramberg\, David Macarthur\, Steven Levine\, Mark J ohnson\, Robert Sinclair\, Huw Price\, and Joseph Rouse.
\n· I n his final book\, The Vicissitudes of Nature (2022)\, B ernstein clarifies his own pragmatist naturalism in relation to the thinki ng of earlier modern philosophers: Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, and Freud.
\nThis conference will critically assess and expand the legacy of Bernstein’s final pragmatic naturalism as expressed i n these two books. Accepted papers will be collected for publication.
\nThe New York Pragmatist Forum
\nPaper topics may include:
\n● Bernstein’s discussion of Dew ey’s thinking in relation to contemporary philosophers’ formulations of na turalism in Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy.
\n● Bernstein’s interpretation of an earlier thinker’s understandi ng of naturalism or nature in The Vicissitudes of Nature (Spinoza \, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, or Freud).
\n● A la rger theme or problem that brings one of these Bernstein’s texts into conv ersation with philosophical naturalism\, either particular expressions or conceptual issues.
\n● The consequences of one or both of these texts for questions of naturalism in relation to wider social and politic al questions\, e.g.\, democracy\, praxis\, critique.
\nAbstr acts: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to tara@newschool.edu.
\nSubmission Deadlin e: May 22\, 2023
\nNYPF Conference Committee:
\nSerg io Gallegos\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
\nJudith Green\,
Fordham University
\nBrendan Hogan\, New York University
Tara Mastrelli\, New School for Social Research
\nDavid Woods\, New York University
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,naturalism\,pragmatism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8089@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/unmasking-objectivity/home DESCRIPTION:How does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape obj ectivity?\nWelcome to “Unmasking Objectivity: A Critical Examination of th e Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structures\,” a conference that plunges into the intricate relationship between knowledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemological standp oints intersect with systems of coercion\, marginalization\, and oppressio n. Our topic extends to alternative visions of knowledge\, truth\, and lea rning\, offering the potential for shared beliefs while addressing the adv erse impacts of entrenched power structures.\nHow have claims to absolute\ , objective\, or scientific truth driven oppression through ideologies lik e religious absolutism\, colonialism\, technocracy\, and scientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debates further emphasize the significance of th is intersection.\nOur discourse will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether universalist epistemologies privilege specific knowledg e systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on soci al and political issues overlooked by dominant knowledge frameworks throug h inclusive dialogues. This conference fosters critical exploration and in clusive discourse\, drawing on interdisciplinary studies in philosophy\, s ociology\, and political theory.\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical im plications of our epistemological practices and explore pathways to creati ng more equitable systems of knowledge and social learning. Join us at “Un masking Objectivity” as we navigate the intricate web of knowledge and pow er\, aiming for a just and inclusive future where the notion of objectivit y is both scrutinized and harnessed for social transformation.\n https://s ites.google.com/newschool.edu/unmasking-objectivity/home \nhttps://phileve nts.org/event/show/116553\nhttps://philevents.org/event/show/116561 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240324 GEO:+40.736924;-73.992688 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ Albert and Vera List Academic Center \, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Unmasking Objectivity: A Critical Examination of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structures Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/unmasking-objectivity-a- critical-examination-of-the-nexus-between-universal-truth-claims-and-emerg ent-power-structures-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHow does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape ob jectivity?
\nWelcome to “Unmasking Objectivity: A Critical Examinati on of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structur es\,” a conference that plunges into the intricate relationship between kn owledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemologica l standpoints intersect with systems of coercion\, marginalization\, and o ppression. Our topic extends to alternative visions of knowledge\, truth\, and learning\, offering the potential for shared beliefs while addressing the adverse impacts of entrenched power structures.
\nHow have clai ms to absolute\, objective\, or scientific truth driven oppression through ideologies like religious absolutism\, colonialism\, technocracy\, and sc ientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debates further emphasize the sig nificance of this intersection.
\nOur discourse will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether universalist epistemologies privi lege specific knowledge systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on social and political issues overlooked by dominant knowl edge frameworks through inclusive dialogues. This conference fosters criti cal exploration and inclusive discourse\, drawing on interdisciplinary stu dies in philosophy\, sociology\, and political theory.
\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical implications of our epistemological practices a nd explore pathways to creating more equitable systems of knowledge and so cial learning. Join us at “Unmasking Objectivity” as we navigate the intri cate web of knowledge and power\, aiming for a just and inclusive future w here the notion of objectivity is both scrutinized and harnessed for socia l transformation.
\n\n\n\n\nYejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow a t the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the Univer sity of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the pr oject Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethi cs in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and ho w) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning\, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning\, and various other problems in NLP \, AI\, and Vision including neuro-symbolic integration\, language groundi ng with vision and interactions\, and AI for social good. She is a co-reci pient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021)\, 7 Best/Outsta nding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023\, NAACL 2022\, ICML 2022\, NeurIPS 2021\, AAAI 2019\, and ICCV 2013)\, the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018\, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017\, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8082@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:The importance of incorporating value pluralism into a theory o f justice is recognized in many conceptualizations of justice. This plural ism is often seen as a reason to attend to a range of perspectives\, persp ectives which can function as a source of information in determining which principles should guide justice. However\, philosophy’s ability to proper ly attend to different perspectives has received extensive attention in th e criticisms of various non-ideal theorists\, who argue that ideal-theoret ical philosophy runs the risk of excluding important aspects of actual soc ial problems. Taking these criticisms on board\, this paper builds on non- ideal theory by arguing for a Wittgensteinian family resemblance approach to justice. I will explain how this linguistic practice-embedded understan ding of justice can be a helpful tool for non-ideal theory\, as it can giv e us insight into why\, in various similar but different cases\, the notio n of justice is seen as applicable. In light of this approach\, I will sug gest a reorientation of the pluralist demand towards an empirical starting point. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA 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/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe importanc e of incorporating value pluralism into a theory of justice is recognized in many conceptualizations of justice. This pluralism is often seen as a r eason to attend to a range of perspectives\, perspectives which can functi on as a source of information in determining which principles should guide justice. However\, philosophy’s ability to properly attend to different p erspectives has received extensive attention in the criticisms of various non-ideal theorists\, who argue that ideal-theoretical philosophy runs the risk of excluding important aspects of actual social problems. Taking the se criticisms on board\, this paper builds on non-ideal theory by arguing for a Wittgensteinian family resemblance approach to justice. I will expla in how this linguistic practice-embedded understanding 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 notion of justice is seen as applicable. In light of this approach\, I will suggest a reorientation of the pluralist demand towards an empirical starting point.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:justice\,social\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8124@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/events DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thinking podca st. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral stat us of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global priorities research.\n \nAbout the speakers\n \nJeff Sebo is Associate Pr ofessor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics\, Med ical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. P rogram\, Director of the Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy Program\, and Co-Direc tor of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He is the a uthor of Saving Animals\, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpan zee Rights (2018) and Food\, Animals\, and the Environment (2018). He is a lso an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection\, a board member at Minding Animals International\, an a dvisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, a senior res earch fellow at the Legal Priorities Project\, and a mentor at Sentient Me dia.\n \nSpencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a foc us on improving human well-being. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\ , which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisi ons and improve their lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wave\, an organization that conducts psychology research and builds psychology-related products design ed to help benefit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, with a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by numerous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Jour nal\, the Independent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.\n \nThank you to Effective Altruism New York City for their generous support of thi s event.\nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueN ASskgr5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform. 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/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nJoin us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thi nking 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 priorities research. p>\n
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Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a focus on improving human well-bei ng. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\, which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisions and improve thei r lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wa ve\, an organization that conducts psycho logy research and builds psychology-related products designed to help bene fit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, w ith a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by nu merous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Journal\, the Indep endent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.
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Thank you to Effect ive Altruism New York City for their generous support of this event.
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr 5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8140@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141451Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara DESCRIPTION:This talk reads contemporary debates about structural racism an d US history from the perspective of philosophical questions about identit y and difference. While many people have argued that America needs to come to terms with or “work through” the racism in its history that has shaped and continues to shape its present structures\, it remains difficult to e xplain what connects this past and the present. Are we talking about one r acism with many different past and present forms? Or are there multiple ra cisms that only share some similar features? In this talk\, I draw attenti on to how these divisions play out particularly in contemporary Black Stud ies and argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resources for thinking about these questions through his discussions of repetition. I argue that understanding our conversations about structural racism and history as conversations about a racism that repeats\, can help us to bett er understand why racism seems to reappear\, how to think its disparate fo rms together\, and what presuppositions operate in many attempts to “work through” the past.\nBio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and research explores the relatio nships between 20th Century Continental Philosophy\, Critical Philosophy o f Race\, and Queer Theory. His work has appeared in Theory and Event\, Pu ncta\, Philosophy Today\, Critical Philosophy of Race\, Political Theology \, and other venues. His current research project is particularly interest ed in engaging work in Continental Philosophy\, Queer Theory\, and Black S tudies to address questions of identity and difference amongst concepts of race\, forms of racism\, and forms of anti-racism. How can we better acco unt for the relations between at times radically disparate concepts\, stru ctures\, and practices such that they can all specifically and recognizabl y be called racial? What might our account of these relations say about ou r ability to address racism’s harms?\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu /eyoewara. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Strange Returns: Racism\, Repetition and Working Through the Past presented by Eyo Ewara URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/strange-returns-racism-r epetition-and-working-through-the-past-presented-by-eyo-ewara/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis talk rea ds contemporary debates about structural racism and US history from the pe rspective of philosophical questions about identity and difference. While many people have argued that America needs to come to terms with or “work through” the racism in its history that has shaped and continues to shape its present structures\, it remains difficult to explain what connects thi s past and the present. Are we talking about one racism with many differen t past and present forms? Or are there multiple racisms that only share so me similar features? In this talk\, I draw attention to how these division s play out particularly in contemporary Black Studies and argue that the p hilosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resources for thinking about thes e questions through his discussions of repetition. I argue that understand ing our conversations about structural racism and history as conversations about a racism that repeats\, can help us to better understand why racism seems to reappear\, how to think its disparate forms together\, and what presuppositions operate in many attempts to “work through” the past.
\nBio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and research explores the relatio nships between 20th Century Continental Philosophy\, Critical Philosophy o f Race\, and Queer Theory. His work has appeared in Theory and Event\, Pu ncta\, Philosophy Today\, Critical Philosophy of Race\, Political Theology \, and other venues. His current research project is particularly interest ed in engaging work in Continental Philosophy\, Queer Theory\, and Black S tudies to address questions of identity and difference amongst concepts of race\, forms of racism\, and forms of anti-racism. How can we better acco unt for the relations between at times radically disparate concepts\, stru ctures\, and practices such that they can all specifically and recognizabl y be called racial? What might our account of these relations say about ou r ability to address racism’s harms?
\nTickets: https://event .newschool.edu/eyoewara.
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