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-7656@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea t.detail/2021/10/08/624/-/cognitive-science-of-religion-workshop DESCRIPTION:Please note: All events are virtual until otherwise stated. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211011 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science of Religion Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-of-rel igion-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
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\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cognitive science\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7730@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea t.detail/2022/03/25/678/-/cognitive-science-of-religion-in-philosophy-an-i nterdisciplinary-workshop DESCRIPTION:Location TBA DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327 GEO:+40.496976;-74.446506 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ 111 Somerset St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 0 8901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science of Religion in Philosophy: An Interdisciplinary W orkshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-of-rel igion-in-philosophy-an-interdisciplinary-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nLocation TBA< /p>\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cognitive science\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7768@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://nyphilsci.wordpress.com/2022/04/20/free-will-implications-f rom-physics-and-metaphysics/ DESCRIPTION:Free WillImplications from Physics and Metaphysics\nThe worksho p will be hybrid\, and anyone interested can participate through Zoom\, al though there will be limited spots for in-person participants. If you are interested in attending in-person\, please reply to this email or write to loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu.\nBarry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.e du) Assistant: Diego Arana (diego.arana@rutgers.edu)Program (All times are EST)\nZoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/freewillzoom\niCal: https://tinyurl. com/freewillical\nMay 1110:00am Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame\, Duke)Ginet ’s Principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to thegiven past.11:30am J ohn Perry (Stanford)Causation\, Entailment and Freedom3:00pm Barry Loewer (Rutgers)The Consequence Argument Meets the Mentaculus4:30pm Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille\, UWO)Free will: Back to Reichenbach\nMay 1210:00am Kadri Vihvelin (USC)Why We can’t Change the Past11:30am Valia Allori (NIU)Freedo m from the Quantum?3:00pm Tim O’Connor (Indiana\, Baylor)Top-Down and Inde terministic Agency: Why?4:30pm Jessica Wilson (Toronto)Two Routes to the E mergence of Free Will DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220513 GEO:+40.500841;-74.447417 LOCATION:Rutgers & Zoom @ New Brunswick\, NJ\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Free Will Workshop: Implications from Physics and Metaphysics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/free-will-workshop-impli cations-from-physics-and-metaphysics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nFree Will
Implications from Physics and Metaphysics
The workshop will be hybrid\, and anyone interested can particip ate through Zoom\, although there will be limited spots for in-person part icipants. If you are interested in attending in-person\, please reply to t his email or write to loewe r@philosophy.rutgers.edu.
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Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu) Assistant: Diego Arana (diego.aran
a@rutgers.edu)
Program (All times are EST)
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/freewillzoom
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May 11
10:00am Peter van Inwagen (
Notre Dame\, Duke)
Ginet’s Principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to the
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1:30am John Perry (Stanford)
Causatio
n\, Entailment and Freedom
3:00pm Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
The Consequence Argument Meet
s the Mentaculus
4:30pm Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille\, UWO)
Free will: Back to Reichen
bach
May 12
10:00am Kadri Vihvelin (USC)
11:30am Valia Allori (NIU)
Freedom from the Quantum?
3:00pm Ti
m O’Connor (Indiana\, Baylor)
Top-Down and Indeterministic Agency: Why?4:30pm Jessica
Wilson (Toronto)
Two Routes to the Emergence of Free Will
Susan Neiman develops in Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosop hy (2002\, Princeton: Princeton University Press) a watershed perspec tive on the longstanding problem of evil\, the perniciously difficult to s atisfy “need to find order within those appearances so unbearable that the y threaten reason’s ability to go on.” The book thereby also presents a ra dically new perspective on traditional debates within metaphysics. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary\, we gather to celebrate her accompl ishment and to advance the research program it reflects. Participants will include\, in addition to Neiman herself: Annalise Acorn\, Frederick Beise r\, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer\, Omri Boehm\, Dan Brudney\, Caroline Bynum\, Lor raine Daston\, Michael Della Rocca\, Wendy Doniger\, Wolfram Ellenberger\, John Faithful Hamer\, Carey Harrison\, Patricia Kitcher\, Philip Kitcher\ , Christia Mercer\, Cornel West\, Allen Wood\, and James Wood.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:evil\,metaphysics\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7884@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/104470 DESCRIPTION:Our speakers will be Karen Lewis (Columbia)\, Sam Berstler (MIT )\, Ray Buchanan (Texas/Austin)\, and Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and U of Iceland). We will post titles and abstracts for their talks\, along wit h a schedule of who is speaking when\, soon.\nIf you are not a faculty or student at CUNY\, you will have to RSVP for the event at this URL\, no lat er than Monday\, November 14th:\nhttps://forms.gle/KN3YJNaCs5yHPtBP7\nPlea se also be prepared to show proof of vaccination when you enter the buildi ng. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221119 GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098 LOCATION:President's Large Conference Room 8201.01 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York \, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Language\, Planning\, and Cooperativity Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/language-planning-and-co operativity-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nOur speakers will be Karen Lewis (Columbia)\, Sam Berstler (MIT)\, Ray Buchanan (Texas/ Austin)\, and Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and U of Iceland). We will pos t titles and abstracts for their talks\, along with a schedule of who is s peaking when\, soon.
\nIf you are not a faculty or student at CUNY\, you will have to RSVP for the event at this URL\, no later than Monday\, November 14th:
\nhttps://forms.gle/KN3YJNaCs5yHPtBP7
\nPlease also be prepared to show proof of vaccination when you enter the building.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,language\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7879@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/103858 DESCRIPTION:This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first pu blication of Saul Kripke’s masterpiece\, Naming and Necessity\, by showcas ing new work on a range of topics on which it has had a lasting influence. These topics include\, but are not limited to: the nature of names and na tural kind terms\; the failure of the description or cluster/description t heories\; the distinction between metaphysical necessity and epistemic apr iority\; empty names\; the metaphysics of essence and origin\; the nature of modality and possible worlds\; conceivability and the epistemology of m odality\; the role of philosophical intuition\; and the mind-body problem. \nDates: 12th and 13th December\, from 9am to 5pm.\nVenue: The CUNY Gradua te Center\, 365 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York.\nFormat: hybrid\nRegistr ation: for both online and in person attendance\, please register by the 2 8th of November\, 2022 at https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7.\n https://s aulkripkecenter.org/ \nSpeakers:\n\n\n Katalin Balog \nRutgers University – Newark\n\n\n Anandi Hattiangadi \nStockholm University\n\n\n Carl Hoefer \nUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona\n\n\n Janet Levin \nUniversity of Sou thern California\n\n\n Antonella Mallozzi \nProvidence College\n\n\n Genov eva Martí \nICREA And University Of Barcelona\n\n\n Alexander Moran \nTrin ity College\, Dublin\n\n\n Brian Rabern \nUniversity of Edinburgh\n\n\n Te resa Robertson Ishii \nUniversity of California at Santa Barbara\n\n\n Nat han Salmon \nUniversity of California at Santa Barbara\n\n\n Sarah Sawyer \nUniversity of Sussex\n\n\n Anders Schoubye \nStockholm University\n\n\n Jennifer Wang \nSimon Fraser University\n\n\n Stephen Yablo \nMassachusett s Institute of Technology\n\n\nOrganisers:\n\n\n Corine Besson \nUniversit y of Sussex\n\n\n Anandi Hattiangadi \nStockholm University\n\n\n Antonell a Mallozzi \nProvidence College\n\n\n Yale Weiss \nCUNY Graduate Center\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTickets: https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221214 GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098 LOCATION:Philosophy Dept.\, CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:50 Years of Naming and Necessity URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/50-years-of-naming-and-n ecessity/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis conferen ce celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Saul Kripke ’s masterpiece\, Naming and Necessity\, by showcasing new work on a range of topics on which it has had a lasting influence. These topics include\, but are not limited to: the nature of names and natural kind terms\; the f ailure of the description or cluster/description theories\; the distinctio n between metaphysical necessity and epistemic apriority\; empty names\; t he metaphysics of essence and origin\; the nature of modality and possible worlds\; conceivability and the epistemology of modality\; the role of ph ilosophical intuition\; and the mind-body problem.
\nDates: 12th and 13th December\, from 9am to 5pm.
\nVenue: The CUNY Graduate Center\ , 365 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York.
\nFormat: hybrid
\nReg istration: for both online and in person attendance\, please register by t he 28th of November\, 2022 at https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7.
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,epistemology\,language\,metaphysics X-TICKETS-URL:https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z 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-7948@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://saulkripkecenter.org/index.php/2023/02/02/saul-kripke-memor ial-conference/ DESCRIPTION:Lectures:\nRomina Birman\, Paul Boghossian\, Michael Devitt\, H artry Field\, Melvin Fitting\, Daniel Isaacson\, Carl Posy\, Robert Stalna ker\nReminiscences:\nJames Burgess\, David Chalmers\, Mircea Dumitru\, Mar garet Gilbert\, Antonella Mallozzi\, Oliver Marshall\, Yiannis Moschovakis \, Stephen Neale\, Gary Ostertag\, David Papineau\, Graham Priest\, Teresa Robertson Ishii\, Nathan Salmon\, Larry Tribe\, lakovos Vasiliou\, Timoth y Williamson\nFor more information contact kripkecenter@gc.cuny.edu DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230510 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:Elebash Recital Hall\, CUNY Grad Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Saul Kripke Memorial Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/saul-kripke-memorial-con ference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nLectures:
\nRomina Birman\, Paul Boghossian\, Michael Devitt\, Hartry Field\, Mel vin Fitting\, Daniel Isaacson\, Carl Posy\, Robert Stalnaker
\nRemin iscences:
\nJames Burgess\, David Chalmers\, Mircea Dumitru\, Margar et Gilbert\, Antonella Mallozzi\, Oliver Marshall\, Yiannis Moschovakis\, Stephen Neale\, Gary Ostertag\, David Papineau\, Graham Priest\, Teresa Ro bertson Ishii\, Nathan Salmon\, Larry Tribe\, lakovos Vasiliou\, Timothy W illiamson
\nFor more information contact kripkecenter@gc.cuny.edu
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:language\,logic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7986@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2023/index.html DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series h as established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscie nce\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main proble ms that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatics r esearch.\nThe 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) p rovides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and pr actitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research resu lts\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical de velopment experiences on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired techn ologies and brain/mental health applications.\nThe key theme of the confer ence is “Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper an d abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:\n \nTrack 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science\nTrack 2: Human Information Processing Systems\nTrack 3: Brain Big Data Analytic s\, Curation and Management\nTrack 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research\nTrack 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Insp ired Computing\n\nKeynote Speakers\nProfessor Emery N. Brown\nMIT\, Massac husetts General Hospital\, USA\nProfile: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachuse tts General Hospital (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and prof essor of computational neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Instit ute for Medical Engineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard– MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 ind ividuals who has been elected to all three branches of the National Academ ies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first Africa n American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three Natio nal Academies.\nProfessor Bin He\nCarnegie Mellon University\, USA\nProfil e: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor o f the Neuroscience Institute\, and Professor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. He has made signi ficant research and education contributions to the field of neuroengineeri ng and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noni nvasive brain-computer interface (BCI)\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped transforming electroencephalography fro m a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modali ty. His lab demonstrated for the first time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinking about it using a noninvasive BCI. H e is an elected Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Enginee ring (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He se rved as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology S ociety\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineerin g from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the International Academy of Medical and B iological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAI N Initiative Multi-Council Working Group from 2014-2019.\nProfessor John N gai\nNIH BRAIN Initiative\, USA\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Di rector of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechn ologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor’s degree in chemi stry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, California\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasade na. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at the Columbia Univer sity College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty positi on at the University of California at Berkeley. During more than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 undergraduate stude nts\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows in addition to teac hing well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His work has led to the p ublication of more than 70 scientific articles in some of the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international patents. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation\, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. As a faculty member \, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided exte nsive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steering groups\, inclu ding as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consorti um Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strategy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.\nProfessor Helen M ayberg\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA\nProfile: Helen Mayb erg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circ uits in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain stimulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born and raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology fro m UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained in Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a re search fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acad emic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scie nces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neu ropsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Cha ir in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now the Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medi cine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Aca demy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\nProfessor Vi nod Goel\nYork University\, Canada\nProfile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitive science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral t raining in neuroscience at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\, Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made signi ficant empirical contributions to our understanding of the roles of prefro ntal cortex in real-world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asym metry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodo logies of fMRI and lesion studies. He has most recently completed a book r econstructing the role of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason a nd Less: Pursuing Food\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His c urrent project is to explore the implications of this work on our understa nding of reason and legal responsibility.\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski\nCornel l University\, USA\nProfile: Amy Kuceyeski is an Associate Professor of Ma thematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cornell University. She is the directo r of the Computational Connectomics (CoCo) Laboratory and the Machine Lear ning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been w orking to understand the human brain using quantitative modeling approache s\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological chara cteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we can devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to support natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersection of biological and artificial ne ural networks that aims to understand how human brains process incoming vi sual information.\nProfessor Patrick Purdon\nHarvard Medical School\, USA \nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Anaest hesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospita l. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard Coll ege in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1998\, and hi s Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Purdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthesia\, Alzheimer’ s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologies for brain mo nitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications\, is an inve ntor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New In novator Award.\nImportant Dates\n\n15 April 2023: Full paper submission de adline\n\n\n20 April 2023: Workshop proposal deadline\n\n\n10 May 2023: Ab stract presentation submission deadline\n\n\n30 May 2023: Final paper and abstract acceptance notification\n\n\n20 Jun 2023: Accepted paper and abst ract registration deadline\n\n\n1-3 Aug 2023: The Brain Informatics Confer ence\n\nPaper Submission and Publications\nFull Paper (Regular):\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedings format(https://www.springer.com/u s/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Over length pa pers will be charged for 100$ per page.\n2. All papers will be peer-review ed and accepted based on originality\, significance of contribution\, tech nical merit\, and presentation quality.\n3. All papers accepted (and all w orkshop & special sessions’ full-length papers) will be published by Sprin ger as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series( https://link.springer.com/conference/brain).\nAbstract (Only for Workshops /Special Sessions):\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepte d for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentat ion format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.\nJournal Opport unities:\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-t rack review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https://br aininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, inter disciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference p aper authors.\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:\nWorkshop/special ses sion organizers and BI conference session chairs may consider and can be i nvited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for possible book publ ication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (htt ps://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Info rmatics Journal.\nPoster-Conference Publication\n1. Accepted full papers w ill be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. \n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/). \n3. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepa re a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and He alth book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).\n \nhttps://phile vents.org/event/show/109301 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804 GEO:+40.744623;-74.025399 LOCATION:Stevens Institute of Technology @ 1 Castle Point Terrace\, Hoboken \, NJ 07030\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c onference-on-brain-informatics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Internati onal Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series has established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is a n emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that com bines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscience\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communi cation Technology (ICT) to explore the main problems that lie in the inter play between human brain studies and informatics research.
\nThe 16t h International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experie nces on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired technologies and brain /mental health applications.
\nThe key theme of the conference is “< strong>Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.
\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
\nKeynote Speakers
\nProfessor Emery N. Bro wn
\nMIT\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, USA
\nPro file: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor o f Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospit al (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edwa rd Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computati onal neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical En gineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Hea lth Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 individuals who has b een elected to all three branches of the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first African American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three National Academies.
\nProfessor Bin He
\nCarnegie Mellon University\ , USA
\nProfile: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor of the Neuroscience Institute\, and Pr ofessor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mel lon University. Dr. He has made significant research and education contrib utions to the field of neuroengineering and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI )\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped tr ansforming electroencephalography from a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality. His lab demonstrated for the firs t time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinkin g about it using a noninvasive BCI. He is an elected Fellow of Internation al Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Instit ute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He served as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the I nternational Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Gr oup from 2014-2019.
\nProfessor John Ngai
\nN IH BRAIN Initiative\, USA
\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Inn ovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor ’s degree in chemistry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, Calif ornia\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech) in Pasadena. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at t he Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty position at the University of California at Berkeley. During m ore than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 u ndergraduate students\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows i n addition to teaching well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His wor k has led to the publication of more than 70 scientific articles in some o f the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international pate nts. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation \, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. A s a faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neu roscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided extensive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steer ing groups\, including as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Ce ll Census Consortium Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strat egy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.< /p>\n
Professor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of M edicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile: Helen Maybe rg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circu its in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain s timulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born a nd raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology from UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained i n Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a res earch fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acade mic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scien ces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neur opsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Chai r in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now t he Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medic ine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Acad emy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
\nYork University\, Canada
\nP rofile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscien ce at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitiv e science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral training in neuroscie nce at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\ , Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made significant empirical con tributions to our understanding of the roles of prefrontal cortex in real- world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asymmetry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodologies of fMRI and l esion studies. He has most recently completed a book reconstructing the ro le of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason and Less: Pursuing Fo od\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His current project is to explore the implications of this work on our understanding of reason and legal responsibility.
\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski
\nCornell University\, USA
\nProfile: Amy Kuceye ski is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cor nell University. She is the director of the Computational Connectomics (Co Co) Laboratory and the Machine Learning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been working to understand the human brain us ing quantitative modeling approaches\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological characteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we ca n devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to suppo rt natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersect ion of biological and artificial neural networks that aims to understand h ow human brains process incoming visual information.
\nProfe ssor Patrick Purdon
\nHarvard Medical School\, USA
\nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Prof essor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims E ndowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences fr om Harvard College in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT i n 1998\, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Pu rdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthes ia\, Alzheimer’s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologi es for brain monitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publicatio ns\, is an inventor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the America n Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won nu merous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Di rector’s New Innovator Award.
\nImportant Dates
\nPaper Submission and Publications
\nF ull Paper (Regular):
\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the
regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedi
ngs format(https://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-pr
oceedings-guidelines). Over length papers will be charged for 100$ per pag
e.
\n2. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on origin
ality\, significance of contribution\, technical merit\, and presentation
quality.
\n3. All papers accepted (and all workshop & special session
s’ full-length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the Sp
ringer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series(https://link.springer.com
/conference/brain).
Abstract (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions) :
\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for prese ntations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abs tract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conf erence proceedings to be published by Springer.
\nJournal Opportunit ies:
\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fas t-track review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https:/ /braininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, in terdisciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conferenc e paper authors.
\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:
\nWor kshop/special session organizers and BI conference session chairs may cons ider and can be invited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for p ossible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal.
\nPoster-Conference Public ation
\n1. Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision.
\n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics c onference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/).
\n3. The org anizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book pr oposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible bo ok publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and Health book se ries (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
\n\n
https://philevents.org/event/show/ 109301
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfp\,cognitive science\,comm unication\,conference\,information\,mind\,neuroscience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8048@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z 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?
\n\n
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
\n
Cameron Buckner: Understanding Progress in AI Using Empiricist Philosophy
of Mind
\n
Wednesday\, September 13\, 3pm
\n
Wednesday\, September 13\, 5pm
\nDavid Chalmers: Forum Humanum Lecture
\n
Thursday\, September 14\, 4pm
\nNandi Theunissen:
Rethinking Regress Arguments for the Value of Humanity
< /p>\n
Friday\, September 15\, 4pm
\nKalindi Vora
p>\n
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-8028@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/phlip/phlip-8/ DESCRIPTION:Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy (PhLiP) 8 will take place November 9-12\, 2023 at the Tarrytown Estate in Westches ter\, NY.\n\nParticipants\nProgram\nLocation and travel information\n\n\nP rogram Committee\nKai von Fintel\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n Chris Kennedy\, University of Chicago\nKaren Lewis\, Barnard College/Colum bia University\nUna Stojnić\, Princeton University DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231113 GEO:+41.050281;-73.858263 LOCATION:Tarrytown Estate @ 49 E Sunnyside Ln\, Tarrytown\, NY 10591\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy (PhLiP) 8 URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophical-linguistic s-and-linguistical-philosophy-phlip-8/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nPhilosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy (PhL iP) 8 will take place November 9-12\, 2023 at the Tarrytown Estate in Westchester\, NY.
\nProgram Committee
\nKai von Fintel\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\nChris Kennedy\,
University of Chicago
\nKa
ren Lewis\, Barnard College/Columbia University
\nUna Stojnić\, Princeton University
Ideas about “ identity” and “difference” proliferate in the news media\, in higher educa tion\, in political disputations\, and in critical theories of society. C laims about “identity” and “difference” can readily be found at work in a wide variety of typologies\, including those of race\, class\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, religion\, nationality\, political affiliation\, abi lity and disability\, animality and humanity\, etc. But what exactly do w e mean when we speak of “identity” or “difference”? And if we achieve gre ater clarity about the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of “i dentity” and “difference\,” what difference would that make?
\nA ser ious metaphysical examination of “identity” and “difference” will expected ly generate a wide variety of questions. Is discourse about what is “iden tical” reducible to discourse about what is “the same”? Is discourse abou t what is “different” reducible to discourse about what is “other”? Can s omething be “the same” without being “identical\,” and can something be “o ther” without being “different”? When we speak about “being\,” does our s peaking about it have many different senses (is it spoken of analogically) \, or instead does our speaking about being always have the same sense (is it spoken of univocally)? Does the “identity” of a thing depend mainly o n the thing’s status as an individual\, or does it depend instead on the t hing’s membership in a general kind? Does an understanding of identity de pend on some reference to what is different? Or does an understanding of difference depend on some reference to identity? What is the relation of knowing to being: is it one of identity\, or difference\, or some combinat ion of both? Is it possible for a knower to discern real differences betw een things without discerning intelligible differences\, or does the indis cernibility of intelligible differences imply that there are no real diffe rences at all but rather an identity? Does difference depend on negation\ , or can one assert that there is difference without having to assert that something is “not”? Does it make sense to speak of an ontological differ ence\, i.e.\, a difference between Being and beings\, or is it senseless – maybe even useless – to speak of a difference between Being and beings? Is “being” different from “nothing\,” or is it possible for differences t o exist only among beings (in which case there apparently cannot be a diff erence between “being” and “nothing”)?
\nIn spite of the virtual ubi quity of discourses about identity and difference\, there is a dearth of d iscourse about the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of “ident ity and difference.” With its choice of conference theme for 2024 (“Ident ity\, Difference\, and the Difference that Metaphysics Makes”)\, the Metap hysical Society of America wishes to provoke deeper thinking about the met aphysics of identity and difference\, with the hope that such deeper think ing will make a meaningful difference in both theory and practice.
\nProposals for papers on the conference theme are especially encouraged\, but papers on other metaphysical topics are also welcome. Please note: wh en selecting which submissions to accept for this conference\, the Program Committee will regard “relevance to theme” as one important criterion amo ng others.
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\nAbstracts of approximately 500 words sh ould be submitted electronically by September 30\, 2023\, to: secretary@me taphysicalsociety.org.
\nAristotle Prize: Those wishing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize of the Metaphysical Society should sub mit full papers along with their abstracts. Eligibility for the Aristotle Prize extends only to persons who have not yet earned a Ph.D.. Those wis hing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize should express this wish cle arly in the email note that accompanies their submission. Papers submitte d for the Aristotle Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word l imit applies to the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not t o footnotes or other supporting material. The Aristotle Prize carries a c ash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the cos ts associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Aristo tle Prize\, full papers and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.
\nPlato Prize: Tho se wishing to be considered for the Plato Prize of the Metaphysical Societ y should submit full papers along with their abstracts. Eligibility for t he Plato Prize extends only to persons who received a Ph.D. degree within six years of the conference submission date (i.e.\, persons who hold a Ph. D. degree which was conferred after September 30\, 2017). Those wishing t o be considered for the Plato Prize should express this wish clearly in th e email note that accompanies their submission. Papers submitted for the Plato Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word limit applies t o the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not to footnotes or other supporting material. The Plato Prize carries a cash award of $500\ , inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the costs associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Plato Prize\, full paper s and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@meta physicalsociety.org.
\nTravel Grants: Thanks to the generous support of past presidents of the MSA and a grant from the Hocking-Cabot F und for Systematic Philosophy\, the Metaphysical Society is pleased to be able to offer reimbursements for travel expenses up to $350 to graduate st udents whose papers are selected for the conference program (those wishing to receive such reimbursements must provide the Metaphysical Society with all relevant expense-receipts).
\nThose who submit abstracts\, and those who submit full papers plus abstracts for the Aristotle Prize or Pla to Prize\, will receive notice of the Program Committee’s decision on thei r submission no later than December 1\, 2023.
\n\nTickets: https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/2024_meeting.htm.< /p> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,identity\,metaphysics X-COST:$70-120 X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/2024_meeting.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8126@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/month.cal endar/2024/04/09/- DESCRIPTION:Social Metaphysics Workshop – location tbd DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240429 GEO:+40.49747;-74.44717 LOCATION:Rutgers Philosophy @ The Gateway\, 106 Somerset St\, New Brunswick \, NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Social Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/social-metaphysics-works hop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nSocial Metaph ysics Workshop – location tbd
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7641@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cscitalks DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaney To get Zoom links\, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com \nSome—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access \n9/10: Carolyn Dicey Jennings Cognitive and Information Sciences\, University of California\, Merced 9/17: Wayne Wu Philosophy\, C arnegie Mellon University 9/24: Chaz Firestone Psychological and Brain Sc iences\, The Johns Hopkins University 10/1: No talk—one-week break 10/8: J ohannes Kleiner Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy\, Ludwig-Maximil ians-Universität München 10/15: Jessie Munton Philosophy\, University of Cambridge 10/22: Myrto Mylopoulos Philosophy and Cognitive Science\, Carl eton University 10/29: Pascal Burgmer Social and Organisational Psycholog y\, University of Kent 11/5: Jennifer Nagel Philosophy\, University of Tor onto 11/12: Elizabeth Irvine Philosophy\, Cardiff University 11/19: Anna A lexandrova History and Philosophy of Science\, King’s College Cambridge 11 /26: No talk—Thanksgiving 12/3: Hasok Chang History and Philosophy of Scie nce\, University of Cambridge \nThe CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center\, Fridays\, 1-3 pm—currently on Z oom. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks For additional information e- mail David Rosenthal DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210910T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210910T150000 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake r-series-16/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaney To get Zoom links\, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
\n< span dir='ltr' role='presentation'>Some—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access
\n9/10:
Carolyn Dicey Jennings Cognitive and Information Sciences\, University of
California\, Merced
9/17: Wayne Wu
Philosophy\, Carnegie Mellon University
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span dir='ltr' role='presentation'>9/24: Chaz Firestone Psychological and Brain Sciences\, The Johns Hop
kins University
10/1: No talk—one-week break
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span dir='ltr' role='presentation'>10/8: Johannes Kleiner Munich Center fo
r Mathematical Philosophy\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
10/15: Jessie Munton Philosophy\, University of Cambridge
10/22: Myrto Mylopou
los Philosophy and Cognitive S
cience\, Carleton University
10/29: Pascal Burgmer Social and Organisational Psychology\, University of Kent
11/5:
Jennifer Nagel Philosophy\, University of Toronto
11/12: Elizabeth Irvine Phil
osophy\, Cardiff University
11/19: Anna Alexandrova History and Philosophy of S
cience\, King’s College Cambridge 11/26: No talk—Thanksgiving
12/3: Hasok Chang
History and Philosophy of Science\, University of Cambridge
Abstract: It is widely recognized by prop
onents of the notion that grounding can be\, indeed is\, overdetermined.
Further to this\, it seems safe to suppose that something of a consensus h
as emerged: grounding is overdetermined and there is nothing about it\, ei
ther conceptually or metaphysically\, that we ought to find concerning. B
ut from a small sampling of alleged cases no such conclusions can responsi
bly be drawn. This paper aims to demonstrate that there is nothing obviou
s or straightforward about grounding overdetermination and that the topic
is deserving of much more serious philosophical attention. The Log
ic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (
NY time) entirely online\, unless otherwise noted. The provisional schedul
e is as follows: Sep 13. Ricki Bliss (Lehigh University) S
ep 20. Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion University) Sep 27. Rashe
d Ahmad (University of Connecticut) Oct 4. Yale Weiss (CUNY GC) Oct 11. NO MEETING Oct 18. Rohit Parikh (CUNY GC) Oc
t 25. Noah Friedman-Biglin (San José State University) Nov 1. Thom
as Macaulay Ferguson (University of Amsterdam) Nov 8. Roman Kossak
(CUNY GC) Nov 15. Sara Uckelman (Durham University) Nov 2
2. Konstantinos Georgatos (John Jay) Nov 29. Martin Pleitz (Münste
r) Dec 6. Dirk Batens (University of Ghent) Dec 13. Dolf R
ami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) During Spring
2020\, we’ll meet online on Mondays from 3pm until 5pm (Eastern Time). De
tails and zoom links will be posted on this site. Anyone with an interest
in philosophy of language is welcome! September 20th (special time: 4:30–6pm) September 27th October 4th October
18th October 25th November 1st (special time: 4:30–6pm)\nRichard Moore (Warwick) November 8th November 15th November 22nd November 29th December 6th Dece
mber 13th The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mond
ays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time) entirely online\, unless otherwise noted.
The provisional schedule is as follows: Sep 13. Ricki Bliss (Lehig
h University) Sep 20. Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion University
) Sep 27. Rashed Ahmad (University of Connecticut) Oct 4.
Yale Weiss (CUNY GC) Oct 11. NO MEETING Oct 18. Rohit Pari
kh (CUNY GC) Oct 25. Noah Friedman-Biglin (San José State Universi
ty) Nov 1. Thomas Macaulay Ferguson (University of Amsterdam) Nov 8. Roman Kossak (CUNY GC) Nov 15. Sara Uckelman (Durham U
niversity) Nov 22. Konstantinos Georgatos (John Jay) Nov 2
9. Martin Pleitz (Münster) Dec 6. Dirk Batens (University of Ghent
) Dec 13. Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) The rich phil
osophical and mathematical disputes that took place between Isaac Newton a
nd Gottfried Leibniz at the start of the eighteenth century have received
more historical attention than any other exchange in the history of philos
ophy. Nevertheless\, in this talk\, Robert Iliffe discusses a prominent bu
t neglected aspect of their disagreement\, namely the mutual claim that th
eir opponents’ conceptual foundations were fictional\, and were the produc
t both of diseased thinking and of illegitimately organized intellectual s
tructures. Newton assailed Leibniz’s allegedly debased metaphysics in vari
ous prominent places\, and mobilized allies such as Roger Cotes and John K
eill to do the same. Nevertheless\, by far the most sophisticated critique
of illicit philosophical assumptions was launched against Newton by Leibn
iz in his correspondence with Samuel Clarke. In the Fifth letter to Clarke
\, Leibniz identified core Newtonian positions as infantile\, vulgar\, and
profoundly irreligious\, asserting that they were dangerous fictions that
were less plausible and much less edifying than the rational romances of
writers in the previous century. Although Leibniz saved his most potent in
tellectual weapons for his final letter to Clarke\, Robert Iliffe suggests
that his attack on the fictional status of Newton’s work was no mere codi
cil to his general critique of Newton’s philosophy\, but instead lay at th
e heart of it. This famous debate\, while of course somewhat sui generis\,
is indicative of more general and dynamic features of intellectual debate
. Robert Iliffe\, Professor of the History of Science at the Unive
rsity of Oxford This event is free and
open to the public\; Registration r
equired. Please contact sc
ienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions. This event is
part of the New York History of Science Lectu
re Series. The Logic and
Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY tim
e). Speakers may present either virtually or in-person\; the details will
be announced for each talk individually. Meetings will convene at the Grad
uate Center\, Room 5382. You may attend any talk from that location
(even if the speaker is not physically present). At least for any talk fo
r which the speaker is not physically present\, you will also be able to a
ttend virtually from anywhere via Zoom. The provisional schedule is as fol
lows: Feb 7. Guillermo Badia (Queensland) Feb 14. Ekaterin
a Kubyshkina (Campinas) Feb 21. NO MEETING Feb 28. Michael
Burton (Yale) Mar 7. David Papineau (King’s) Mar 14. Wilf
rid Hodges (King’s) Mar 21. Noson Yanofsky (CUNY) Mar 28.
Dongwoo Kim (CUNY) Apr 4. Jenn McDonald (Columbia) Apr 11.
Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins) Apr 18. NO MEETING Apr 25.
Tore Fjetland Øgaard (Bergen) May 2. Elia Zardini (Madrid) May 9. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Nice) May 16. Mircea Dumitru (Bu
charest) ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM\, 1-3\, NYC TIME The CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series me
ets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,
The CUNY
Cognitive Science Speaker Serie
s meets weekly at the CUNY Grad
uate
Center\, Fridays\, 1-3 pm—currently on Zoom. This file is at:
http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal
\nDiego Feinmann (ENS\, Jean Nicod\, Paris)<
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\nTBD
\nNajoung Kim (Jonhs Hopkins)
\nCian Dorr (NYU)
\nZoltán Szabó (Yale)
\nYimei Xian
g (Rutgers)
\nTBD
\nRyan Nefdt (Cape Town)
\nTBD
\nTBD
\nKit Fine (NYU)Event Speaker
\nEvent Information
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All are hosted by
Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaney
Zoom links are all announced on the Cognitive
Science email list
To subscribe to that list\, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
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Some se
ssions—not all—are recorded for later access
2/11: Bence Nanay – Centre for Philosophical Psychology\, Universi
ty of Antwerp
2/18: No talk—one-week break
2/25: Joshua Myers – Philosophy\, New York University
3/4: Nadine Dijkstra – Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroima
ging\, University College London
3/11: Grace Helton – Philosophy\, Princeton University
3/18: No talk—one-week break<
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3/25:
Joshua Shepherd – Philosophy\,
Carleton University and University of Barcelona
4/1: Devin Sanchez Curry – Philosophy\, West Virginia Universit
y
4/8:
Michał Wierzchoń – Institute o
f Psychology\, Jagiellonian University
4/22: Gary Ostertag<
/span> – Philosophy\, CUNY Graduate Ce
nter
4
/29: Jacob Berger – Philosophy\
, Lycoming College
5/6: Maja Spener – Philosophy\, University of Birmingham
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span dir='ltr' role='presentation'>Fridays\, 1-3 pm\, NYC time—currently o
n Zoom. This file is at:
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal
The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that James S haw (Associate Professor\, Philosophy\, University of Pittsburgh) will del iver a talk on Thursday\, February 17th\, 2022\, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (NY time) via Zoom. The talk is free and open to all\, but those interested in attending should email the Saul Kripke Center in advance to register if they are not part of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Philosophy Program or are not on the Saul Kripke Center’s mailing list.
\nTitl e: Kripkean Necessities\, Imaginative Kripke Puzzles\, and Semant ic Transparency
\nAbstract: Kripke (1980) famously argued that some a posteriori statements are necessary when true. I begin by exploring an unusual technique to try to learn these necessities merely through imagination that I call “Semantic Imaginative Transfer”. I explor e an idealized instance of this technique which I suggest leads to an imag inative variant of Kripke’s (1979) puzzle about belief. I note that on som e widespread assumptions (including that propositional idiom can be mainta ined in the face of Kripke puzzles)\, the idealized example restricts the space for accommodating Kripkean necessities to two families of views: fam iliar\, broadly Guise-Theoretic approaches to propositional attitudes\, an d unconventional and largely unexplored views embracing semantic transpare ncy principles. I briefly review some of the history of transparency princ iples\, make some conjectures as to why they went out of fashion following the work of semantic externalists (including Kripke)\, and make a plea fo r exploring the consequences of their adoption. Along the way I note the s ignificance of doing so: the transparency principles render Kripkean neces sities a priori.
\nThe Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY tim e). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate C enter\, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
\nSept 5 . NO MEETING
\nSep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
\nSep 19. Bokai Y ao (Notre Dame)
\nSep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine)\, Louis e Dupuis (Paris Dauphine)\, and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
\nOct 3 . Yale Weiss (CUNY)
\nOct 10. NO MEETING
\nOct 17. Guillermo B adia (Queensland)
\nOct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS\, Côte d’Azur)
\nOct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
\nNov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
\nNov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
\nNov 21. Marko Malink (NY U)
\nNov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
\nDec 5. Martin Pleit z (Muenster)
\nDec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
\n HTML> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7818@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM\, 1-3\, NYC TIMEAll are hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaneyZoom links are all announced on the Cognitive Sc ience email listTo subscribe to that list\, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.co mSome sessions—not all—are recorded for later access\n9/16: Michael A. Coh enPsychology and Neuroscience\, Amherst College9/23: Alon ZivonyPsychologi cal Sciences\, Birkbeck College London9/30: Steven GrossPhilosophy\, Johns Hopkins University10/7: Steven FlemingExperimental Psychology and Neuroim aging\, University College London10/14: John MorrisonPhilosophy\, Barnard College and Columbia University10/21: Michael SnodgrassCognition & Cogniti ve Neuroscience\, University of Michigan10/28: Jamal WilliamsPsychology\, University of California San Diego11/4: Ian PhillipsPhilosophy and Psychol ogical and Brain Sciences\, Johns Hopkins11/11: Paweł ZiębaInstitute of Ph ilosophy\, Jagiellonian University11/18: Nicholas SheaPhilosophy\, Univers ity of Oxford and University of LondonThe CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker S eries meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,Fridays\, 1-3 pm\, NYC tim e—currently on Zoom. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talksFor additional information e-mail David Rosenthal DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T150000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake r-series-18/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nDuring Fall 2 022\, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Ph ilosophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is bel ow.
\nRSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID\, you wi ll have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vacc ination. We have made a single RSVP form where you can RSVP for all of the seme ster’s workshops at once\, or for as many as you think you might attend. ( Hopefully you will also only have to upload your proof of vaccination once \, but we’re not sure.) So\, if you don’t have an NYU ID\, you can RSVP now!
\nSeptember 19
\nTal Linzen (NYU)
Octob
er 3
\nNatasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
October 10
\nCraige Roberts
(OSU)
October 17
\nJustin Khoo (MIT)
October 24
\nJosh Knobe (Yal
e)
November 7
\nSadhwi Srinivas (William & Mary)
November 14
\nElm
ar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
November 21
\nRobert Staln
aker (MIT)
November 28
\nJonathan Phillips (Dartmouth)
Dec
ember 5
\nAndrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbon Nova)
December 12
\nGretchen E
llefson (Southern Utah)
With responses from Mark Siderits (Illin ois State University)
\nABSTRACT: Buddhist philosophers often dra w a distinction between two different kinds of truth: conventional truth ( saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinction in terms of an ontologi cal distinction between two different kinds of entities: ultimately real e ntities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally real entities (saṃvṛti-sat). S imilar to contemporary philosophical discussions about ordinary objects\, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological status of conventional entiti es and the semantics of discourse concerning them. Mark Siderits (2015\, 2 021\, 2022) has influentially argued for an eliminitivist position he call s “Buddhist reductionism” that interprets the Abhidharma position as one t hat denies conventional entities exist but that retains discourse involvin g apparent reference to them. However\, in a recent article Kris McDaniel (2019)\, a prominent defender of ontological pluralism\, challenges that v iew by proposing that the Abhidharma Buddhist distinction between conventi onal truth and ultimate truth be “defined up” from a more basic distinctio n between two different ways an entity can exist: conventionally or ultima tely. In this paper I argue that Saṃghabhadra’s account of conventional re ality and truth does lends itself well to McDaniel’s proposal but I will a lso argue that the account of conventional and ultimate truth that results differs in important ways from the models he offers. I will end by offeri ng a modification of McDaniel’s account of conventional truth that is deri ved from Saṃghabhadra’s pluralist ontology. That view will\, unlike the vi ews suggested by both Siderits and McDaniel\, allow for there to be ultima te truths about what is conventionally true.
\n\n
Dinner will be kindly offered by the C olumbia University Seminars.
\nRSVP is req uired for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requirements at lm3335@columbia.edu.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,metaphysics\,truth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7864@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:The NYU Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy Program is thrilled to be ho sting a talk by David Chalmers on whether large language models can be sen tient.\nAbout the talk\nArtificial intelligence systems—especially large l anguage models\, giant neural networks trained to predict text from the in ternet—have recently shown remarkable abilities. There has been widespread discussion of whether some of these language models might be sentient. Sh ould we take this idea seriously? David Chalmers will discuss the underlyi ng issue and try to break down the strongest reasons for and against.\nThe talk\, which is free and open to the public\, will take place on October 13 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm ET. The in-person location will be Jurow Lecture Hall (inside the Silver Center at 32 Waverly Place)\, and the virtual loca tion will be Zoom (you can sign up to receive a link by clicking “Register here” below). There will also be a light reception from 6:30-7:30pm in th e Silverstein Lounge (immediately outside of the Jurow Lecture Hall).\n– I f you plan to attend in person\, please be prepared to show proof of full vaccination.\n– If you plan to attend virtually\, please check your email for a link in advance of the event.\nAbout the speaker\nDavid Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of t he Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at NYU. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (1996)\, Constructing the World (2010)\, and Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He co-founded the A ssociation for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the PhilPapers Fo undation. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness\ , which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem\, and for the idea o f the “extended mind\,” which says that the tools we use can become parts of our minds.\nThank you to our co-sponsors for your generous support of t his event:\n\n\nNYU Center for Bioethics\n\n\nNYU Center for Mind\, Brain\ , and Consciousness\n\n\nNYU Minds\, Brains\, and Machines Initiative\n\n \nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKX7ETjulX7mLhH0D9rxH FHVM29ug-mDWdfgVbhzJBQICFCA/viewform?usp=sf_link. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T183000 GEO:+40.730266;-73.995401 LOCATION:Jurow Lecture Hall\, Silver Center NYU @ 32 Waverly Pl\, New York\ , NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Are Large Language Models Sentient? David Chalmers URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/are-large-language-model s-sentient-david-chalmers/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe NYU Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy Program is thrilled t o be hosting a talk by David Chalmers on whether large language models can be sentient.
\nAbout the talk
\nArtificial in
telligence systems—especially large language models\, giant neural network
s trained to predict text from the internet—have recently shown remarkable
abilities. There has been widespread discussion of whether some of these
language models might be sentient. Should we take this idea seriously? Dav
id Chalmers will discuss the underlying issue and try to break down the st
rongest reasons for and against.
Th e talk\, which is free and open to the public\, will take place on October 13 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm ET. The in-person location will be Jurow Lecture Hall (inside the Silver Center at 32 Waverly Place)\, and the virtual loc ation will be Zoom (you can sign up to receive a link by clicking “Registe r here” below). There will also be a light reception from 6:30-7:30pm in t he Silverstein Lounge (immediately outside of the Jurow Lecture Hall).
\n– If you plan to attend in person\, pl
ease be prepared to show proof of full vaccination.
\n– If you plan t
o attend virtually\, please check your email for a link in advance of the
event.
About the speaker
\nDavid Chalmers is
University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of
the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at NYU. He is the author o
f The Conscious Mind (1996)\, Constructing the World (2010)\, and Reality+
: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He co-founded the
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the PhilPapers F
oundation. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness
\, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem\, and for the idea
of the “extended mind\,” which says that the tools we use can become parts
of our minds.
Thank you to our co-sponsors for your generous support of this event:
\nNYU Center for Bioethics
\nNYU Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness
\nNYU Minds\, Brains\, and Machines Initiative
\nAbstr act:
\nAs a specific form of rights insecurity the revocabi lity of reproductive rights manifests contradictory understandings (privat ive and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.
\nI ask ho w and why we should understand reproductive rights as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and suggesting a conjoined voc abulary that includes conditionality\, exceptionality\, and disqualifying qualification.
\nI ask: what kind of grammar might help us understan d more specifically how the concurrent action of conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, security\, necropower\, and n eoliberal expectation) coordinate together in relation to reproductive rig hts-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combinations of power also produce a m utual disruptiveness\, even auto-critique\, manifesting as conflictual emb odiment.
\nExternal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-acces s/?open=visitors.
\n\n
Audience members must show proof o f a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher#rs vp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,language\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutsche r#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7944@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cscitalks DESCRIPTION:Talks hosted by Ryan McElhaneyTo get Zoom links\, email davidro senthal1@gmail.com\nSome—but not all—sessions are recorded for later acces s\n2/3: Justin SytsmaPhilosophy\, Victoria University of Wellington\n2/10: Jonathan BirchPhilosophy\, London School of Economics\n2/17: No talk—one- week break\n2/24: Miguel Ángel SebastiánPhilosophy\, National Autonomous U niversity of Mexico\n3/3: Claudia Passos FerreiraPhilosophy\, New York Uni versity** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **\n3/10: Jonathan MorganPhilo sophy\, Montclair State University** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ** \n3/17: Derek BrownPhilosophy\, University of Glasgow\n3/24: Robert Kentri dgePsychology and Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition\, University of D urham** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **\n3/31: Josh WeisbergPhilosoph y\, University of Houston** HYBRID: Room TBA **\n4/7\, 4/14: Spring break— no talks\n4/21: Michal PolákPhilosophy\, University of West Bohemia\nThe C UNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Cen ter\,Fridays\, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom\, some hybrid. This file is at: http://b it.ly/cs-talksFor additional information e-mail David Rosenthal DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230203T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230203T150000 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center & Zoom @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake r-series-19/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nTalks hosted by Ryan McElhaney
To get Zoom links\, email
davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
Some—but not all—sessions are recorded for la
ter access
2/3: Justin
Sytsma
Philosophy\, Victoria University of Wellington
2/10: Jonathan Birch
Philosop
hy\, London School of Economics
<
span dir='ltr' role='presentation'>2/17: No talk—one-week break
2/24: M
iguel Ángel Sebastián
Philosophy\, Na
tional Autonomous University of Mexico
3/3: Claudia Passos Ferreira
Philosoph
y\, New York University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
<
br role='presentation' />3/10: Jonatha
n Morgan
Philosophy\, Montclair State University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102
**
3/17: Derek Brown
Philosophy\, University of Glasgow
3/24: Robert Kentr
idge
P
sychology and Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition\, University of Durha
m
** H
YBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
3/31: Josh Weisberg
Philosophy\, Universi
ty of Houston
** HYBRID: Room TBA **
4/7\, 4/14: Spring break—no talks
4/2
1: Michal Polák
Philosophy\, University of West Bohemia
The CUNY Cognitive Sc
ience Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,
Fridays\, 1-3 pm
—all on Zoom\, some hybrid. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Ros
enthal
We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New Y ork City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring S pring 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 6-8pm in room 202 of the NYU Philos ophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Anyone with an interest in philosop hy of language is welcome.
\nFebruary 6
\nAilís Courna
ne (NYU)
February 13
\nBianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salu
te San Raffaele)
February 27
\nJanek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod\, EN
S)
March 6
\nDan Hoek (V
irginia Tech)
March 20
\nMatt Moss (Vassar)
March 27
\nWill Merrill (NYU)
April 3
\nDevin Morse
a> (Columbia)
April 10
\nFlorian Schwarz (Penn)
April 17
\nAndrea Iacona (Turin)
April 24
\nTyler Knowlton (Penn)
Ma
y 1
\nAndy Egan (Rutgers)
May 8
\nPrerna Nadathur (OSU)
RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID\, and if you have n’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year\, please RSVP no l ater than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name\, em ail address\, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu no later than 10am on the mornin g of the talk. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. Wh en you arrive\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and booste rs at the request of the security guard.
\nOur speaker on Monday\, February 13th will be Bianca C epollaro\, who is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy in Un iversity Vita-Salute San Raffaele. Bianca will give a talk called ‘(Not Ne cessarily Credible) Deniability’:
\nDinges and Zakkou’s 2022 analyze deniability as an epistemic notion. For them\, a speaker has deniability with respect to the proposition that they meant something just in case their audience does not know what they meant\, possibly thanks to their denial. In this paper\, we illustrate two kinds of cases that chall enge their account\, in order to argue that deniability cannot be so under stood. The first kind of scenario shows how their epistemic understanding of deniability does not provide sufficient conditions for deniability\; th e second one suggests that their conditions are not necessary either. Our goal here is entirely negative: we aim to do a ground-clearing job\, provi ding reasons why deniability cannot be understood in certain ways\, and le ave the articulation of an alternative proposal for future work.
\nWe’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring Spring 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 6-8pm in room 202 of the NYU Philo sophy Building\, at 5 Washington Place. Anyone with an interest in philoso phy of language is welcome.
\n
February 6
\nAilís Courn
ane (NYU)
February 13
\nBianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Sal
ute San Raffaele)
February 27
\nJanek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod\, E
NS)
March 6
\nDan Hoek (
Virginia Tech)
March 20
\nMatt Moss (Vassar)
March 27
\nWill Merrill (NYU)
April 3
\nDevin Morse<
/a> (Columbia)
April 10
\nFlorian Schwarz (Penn)
April 17
\nAndrea Iacona (Turin)
April 24
\nTyler Knowlton (Penn)
M
ay 1
\nAndy Egan (Rutgers)
May 8
\nPrerna Nadathur (OSU)
RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID\, and if you have n’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year\, please RSVP no l ater than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name\, em ail address\, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu no later than 10am on the mornin g of the talk. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. Wh en you arrive\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and booste rs at the request of the security guard.
\nNeopragmatist s seek to sidestep metaphysical puzzles by shifting the target of philosop hical explanation from the objects we think and talk about to the function s of expressions and concepts in our cognitive economy. Logical vocabulary can serve as a target for neopragmatist inquiry\, and it has also posed o bstacles to neopragmatist accounts of other vocabulary. I will argue that the obstacles can be addressed by adopting a neopragmatist perspective tow ard logical relations\, such as logical consequence\, and toward propositi onal content. Doing so calls into question two purported constraints on ex planations of the functions of logical connectives. I will sketch an accou nt made possible by rejecting those constraints\, one according to which l ogical connectives serve to express dialectical attitudes. The proposal is deflationary in two ways: it rests on an extension of deflationism from t ruth to logical relations\, and it aims to deflate some of neopragmatists’ theoretical ambitions.
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Monday s 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meeti ngs. (No more Zoom.)
\n\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 S hawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 T homas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting< /p>\n
Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iacon a\, Turin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 Spe cial event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all af ternoon:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Boch um)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n BODY> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7920@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:Hi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop thi s coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.) \n \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel F itting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nAp r 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Bra nden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara B urns\, Columbia\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and t he session will run all afternoon:\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wa nsing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T181500 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T161500 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T161500 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T161500 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo rkshop-18/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHi\, All. Bel ow is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meet ings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are re verting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
\n\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Me l Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\ , SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Sp ring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeaster n
\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columb ia
\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydne y) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Ma ciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7980@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:Saul Kripke announced his possible world semantics in 1959\, an d published his proof of axiomatic completeness for the standard modal log ics of the time in 1963. It is very unlike the standard completeness proo f used today\, which involves a Lindenbaum/Henkin construction and produce s canonical models. Kripke’s proof involved tableaus\, in a format that i s difficult to follow\, and uses tableau construction algorithms that are complex and somewhat error prone to describe. I will first discuss Kripke’ s proof\, then the historical origins of the modern version. Then I will show that completeness\, proved Kripke style\, could actually have been do ne in the Lindenbaum/Henkin way\, thus simplifying things considerably. N one of this is new but\, with the parts collected together it is an intere sting story. “In my end is my beginning”.\nHi\, All. Below is the provisio nal program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as us ual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)\n \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 G ary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Bra d Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:\nMarc C olyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:On Kripke’s proof of Kripke completeness. Melvin Fitting (CUNY) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/on-kripkes-proof-of-krip ke-completeness-melvin-fitting-cuny/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nSaul Kripke a nnounced his possible world semantics in 1959\, and published his proof of axiomatic completeness for the standard modal logics of the time in 1963. It is very unlike the standard completeness proof used today\, which inv olves a Lindenbaum/Henkin construction and produces canonical models. Kri pke’s proof involved tableaus\, in a format that is difficult to follow\, and uses tableau construction algorithms that are complex and somewhat err or prone to describe. I will first discuss Kripke’s proof\, then the histo rical origins of the modern version. Then I will show that completeness\, proved Kripke style\, could actually have been done in the Lindenbaum/Hen kin way\, thus simplifying things considerably. None of this is new but\, with the parts collected together it is an interesting story. “In my end is my beginning”.
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional program for t he Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.1 5-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. ( No more Zoom.)
\n\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn S impson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\n< p>Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Tu rin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 Special e vent. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoo n:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n< /HTML> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7987@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:The sender-receiver model was developed by David Lewis to tackl e the question of the conventionality of meaning. But many people who care d about the conventionality of meaning did so because they thought it was intimately connected to the conventionality of logic. Since Lewis’s work\, only a few attempts have been made to say anything about the nature of lo gic and inference from the perspective of the sender-receiver model. This talk will look at the what’s been said in that regard\, by Skyrms and othe rs\, and suggest a few general lessons.\n—\nHi\, All. Below is the provisi onal program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as u sual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face t o face meetings. (No more Zoom.)\n \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Br ad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague\nApr 10 Sprin g recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andre a Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia\nMay 10 Special event. Not e that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMa y 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Logic and inference in the sender-receiver model. Shawn Simpson (Pi tt) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-inference-in-t he-sender-receiver-model-shawn-simpson-pitt/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe sender-re ceiver model was developed by David Lewis to tackle the question of the co nventionality of meaning. But many people who cared about the conventional ity of meaning did so because they thought it was intimately connected to the conventionality of logic. Since Lewis’s work\, only a few attempts hav e been made to say anything about the nature of logic and inference from t he perspective of the sender-receiver model. This talk will look at the wh at’s been said in that regard\, by Skyrms and others\, and suggest a few g eneral lessons.
\n—
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional progr am for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mond ays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face mee tings. (No more Zoom.)
\n\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iac ona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 S pecial event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bo chum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7990@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:What we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated\ , in a certain guise\, by Peirce around 1885 and championed\, albeit in id iosyncratic form\, by Zermelo in papers from the 1930s. We characterize s uch logics model- and proof-theoretically and argue that they constitute e xploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent gener ality. Whereas a logic\, or family of such\, can be of interest for any o f a variety of reasons\, we suggest that one of those reasons might be tha t said logic fosters some clarification regarding just what qualifies as a logical concept\, a logical operation\, or a logical law.\n \nNote: The p ublished paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382.\nHi\ , All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semes ter. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)\n \nFeb 27 Lio nel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nApr 3 Thomas Ferg uson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia \nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session wil l run all afternoon:\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\ , Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:First-order logics over fixed domain. Gregory Taylor (CUNY) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/first-order-logics-over- fixed-domain-gregory-taylor-cuny/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWhat we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated\, in a certain guise\, b y Peirce around 1885 and championed\, albeit in idiosyncratic form\, by Ze rmelo in papers from the 1930s. We characterize such logics model- and pr oof-theoretically and argue that they constitute exploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent generality. Whereas a logic\ , or family of such\, can be of interest for any of a variety of reasons\, we suggest that one of those reasons might be that said logic fosters som e clarification regarding just what qualifies as a logical concept\, a log ical operation\, or a logical law.
\n\n
Note: Th e published paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382.
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this comi ng semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Ro om 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
\n< p> \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fite lson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Sam ara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nM arc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7945@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.org/the-paris-school-of-jewish-thought-an-i ntellectual-philosophical-and-spiritual-r DESCRIPTION:In France\, during the decades that followed World War II and t he Shoah\, an impressive attempt was made to rebuild Jewish life and thoug ht\, and to invent new ways of being Jewish in the post-Holocaust secular world. Known as the Paris School of Jewish Thought\, this collective enter prise gathered an incredible variety of Jewish scholars\, rabbis\, philoso phers\, scientists\, and writers\, both religious and secular\, from a wid e range of backgrounds. This talk sheds light on the major role played by these thinkers who addressed political\, philosophical\, and spiritual cha llenges that remain relevant today.\n\nSophie Nordmann teaches Philosophy\ , Ethics\, and Jewish Thought in the Department of Religious Studies at th e École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (PSL University). A specialist of modern and contemporary Jewish thought\, her early work focused on Jud eo-German Philosophy in 20th century Europe (H. Cohen\, F. Rosenzweig\, M. Buber) and its extension in the United States and Israel. Among her curr ent projects\, Dr. Nordmann studies how post WWII France became a laborato ry for Jewish thinkers who undertook to rethink the modern Jewish conditio n after the Shoah.\n\nThis talk is co-presented by the Columbia Maison Fra nçaise and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies\, and sponsored by the Knapp Family Foundation.\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pa ris-school-of-jewish-thought-a-talk-by-sophie-nordmann-tickets-52689780451 7. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T190000 GEO:+40.807717;-73.961428 LOCATION:Maison Française East Gallery @ Buell Hall\, 515 W 116th St\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Paris School of Jewish Thought: An Intellectual\, Philosophical \, and Spiritual Renewal in the Wake of the Holocaust URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-paris-school-of-jewi sh-thought-an-intellectual-philosophical-and-spiritual-renewal-in-the-wake -of-the-holocaust/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWestern metap
hysics is based on the opposition between reality and appearance. This con
struction essentially rests on a visual model\, or more exactly on some st
aging of what visual experience is.
\nI am going to question the basi
s of this metaphysics\, by taking into account the reality of appearances
and reflecting on their various uses\, in particular artistic ones. This p
ath will be taken in the first place by shifting the focus of philosophica
l analysis from visual to acoustic models. Thus\, I will envisage a realis
m of echoes\, as opposed to the metaphysics of shadows.
Jocelyn Benoist\, born in 1968\, is Pro fessor at the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, where he teaches Cont emporary Philosophy\, and currently a member of the ‘Institut Universitair e de France’. He has dedicated his early work to phenomenology and the bri dges between phenomenology and early Analytic philosophy. For some time he was the Director of the Husserl Archive of Paris at the Ecole Normale Sup érieure. Then\, he developed a personal investigation into the meaning of realism in philosophy. He has published many books\, including recently: < em>Toward a Contextual Realism\, H.U.P.\, 2021\, and Von der Phänomen ologie zum Realismus\, Mohr Siebeck\, 2022.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8010@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://nightinthelibrary.com/comingsoon DESCRIPTION:2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop\, and t he beginning of a sonic\, cultural and socio-political revolution that cha nged the U.S. and the world. To commemorate the anniversary\, Brooklyn Pub lic Library will present NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HIP-HOP on Saturday\, June 17th\, from 7 pm – 2 am at Central Library.\nJoin us fo r this FREE event that will take over the entire Central Library building to celebrate hip-hop culture past\, present and future\, with keynote addr esses\, live DJs\, film screenings\, discussions\, debates and contemplati ve engagements. BPL invites you to celebrate hip-hop and spend a NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY.\nCo-curated by LeBrandon Smith and Kelly Harrison. The Dilemm a Series is curated by April R. Silver\, founder of AKILA WORKSONGS. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T020000 GEO:+40.672501;-73.968126 LOCATION:Central Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Night in the Library: The Philosophy of Hip-Hop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/night-in-the-library-the -philosophy-of-hip-hop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n2023 marks th e 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop\, and the beginning of a sonic\ , cultural and socio-political revolution that changed the U.S. and the wo rld. To commemorate the anniversary\, Brooklyn Public Library will present NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HIP-HOP on Satu rday\, June 17th\, from 7 pm – 2 am at Central Library.
\nJoin us fo r this FREE event that will take over the entire Central Library building to celebrate hip-hop culture past\, present and future\, with keynote addresses\, live DJs\, film screenings\, discussions\, debate s and contemplative engagements. BPL invites you to celebrate hip-hop and spend a NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY.
\nCo-curated by LeBra ndon Smith and Kelly Harrison. The Dilemma Series is curated by April R. S ilver\, founder of AKILA WORKSONGS.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,culture\,music\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8022@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS ON ZOOM\nSOME ALSO IN PERSON (SEE ROOMS BELOW)\nTalks organized andhosted by Ryan McElhaney\nTo get Zoom links\, email davidros enthal1@gmail.com\nSome—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access \n9/8: Martina Helina\nHistory and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science\,\nUniversity of CambridgePhilosophy\n9/15: No talk—one -week break\n9/22: Janis Karan Hesse\nNeuroscience\, University of Califor nia at Berkeley\n9/29: Justin Halberda\nPsychological and Brain Sciences\, Johns Hopkins University\n10/6: Jakub Mihalik\nDepartment of Analytic Phi losophy\, Institute of Philosophy of the\nCzech Academy of Sciences in Pra gue\n10/13: Gregg Caruso\nPhilosophy\, SUNY Corning\, Northeastern Univers ity London\, and\nMacquarie University\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 71 02 **\n10/20: Edouard Machery\nHistory and Philosophy of Science\, Univers ity of Pittsburgh\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **\n10/27: Heather Browning\nPhilosophy\, University of Southampton\n11/3: Panagiota Theodon i\nPhilosophy\, University of Athens\n11/10: François Kammerer\nInstitute for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum\n11/17: Jonathan Phillips \nCognitive Science\, Psychological and Brain Sciences\, and\nPhilosophy\, Dartmouth College\n11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break\n12/1: Lua Koenig\n Neuroscience Institute\, NYU Langone Medical Center\n** HYBRID: Graduate C enter Room 7102 **\n\nThe CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets week ly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,\nFridays\, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom\, some hybr id. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks\nFor additional information e- mail David Rosenthal DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T150000 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:Zoom & CUNY Grad Center 7102 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake r-series-20/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis semester \, we will meet as usual on Mondays\, 4.15-6.15\, followed by a trip to th e pub for all those who would like to go. The room is yet to be determine d. Meetings will be face to face only. Below is the provisional program fo r the semester. Details of each meeting will be announced on a weekly basi s\, as usual.
\nNote that the first meeting will be on September 11. Unfortunately we lose several Mondays towards the start of the semester b ecause of CUNY holidays. There is nothing currently scheduled for Nov 20 or Dec 11. Whether we fill those slots is a decision yet to be made\; but if you would like one of them\, let us know.
\n\n
Sept 4. GC closed. No meeting
\nSept 11 Francesco Paoli\, Cagliari
\nSept 18 Will Nava\, NYU
\nSept 25 GC closed. No meeting
\nOct 2 Brett Topey\, Saltzburg
\nOct 9 GC closed. No me eting.
\nOct 16 Yale Weiss\, GC
\nOct 23 Melissa Fusco\, Columbia
\nOct 30 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nNov 6 Alex Citkin\, Private Researcher
\nNov 13 Alex Skiles\, Rutgers
\nN ov 20 [GP in Germany]
\nNov 27 Mircea Dumitru\, Bucharest p>\n
Dec 4 James Walsh\, NYU
\nDec 11
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8021@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New Y ork City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.\nDuring Fall 202 3\, we will meet on Mondays\, 5:00–7:00pm in room 103 of the NYU Linguisti cs Building (10 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy o f language is welcome.\n\nSeptember 11\nKate Ritchie (UC Irvine)\nSeptembe r 18\n(no workshop)\nSeptember 25\n(no workshop)\nOctober 2\nGiorgio Sbard olini (ILLC\, Amsterdam)\nOctober 9\nSoeren Knudstorp (ILLC\, Amsterdam)\n October 16\nMaria Aloni (ILLC\, Amsterdam)\nOctober 23\nPaula Rubio Fernan dez (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics\, Nijmegen)\nOctober 30\nD anny Fox (MIT)\nNovember 6\nSimon Charlow (Rutgers)\nNovember 13\nKevin Ri chardson (Duke)\nNovember 20\nLilia Rissman (Rochester)\nNovember 27\nKare n Lewis (Columbia)\nDecember 4\nGuillermo Del Pinal (UMass Amherst)\nDecem ber 11\nHenry Schiller (Sheffield/Pitt) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T190000 GEO:+40.72937;-73.995001 LOCATION:103 NYU Linguistics Dept. @ Student Services Block\, 10 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231009T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T170000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T170000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Language Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-of-language-w orkshop-14/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWe’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New Y ork City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring F all 2023\, we will meet on Mondays\, 5:00–7:00pm in room 103 of the NYU Li nguistics Building (10 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philo sophy of language is welcome.
\nSeptember 11
\nKate Ritchie (UC Irvine)
September 18
\n(no workshop)
September 25
\n(no workshop)
October 2
\nGiorgio Sbardolini (ILLC\, Amsterdam)<
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October 9
\nSoeren Knud
storp (ILLC\, Amsterdam)
October 16
\nMaria Aloni (ILLC\, Amsterdam)
October 23
\nPaula Rubio Fernandez (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics\, N
ijmegen)
October 30
\nDanny Fox (MIT)
November 6
\nSimon Charlow (Rutgers)
November 13
\nKevin Richardson (Duke)
November 20
\nLilia Riss
man (Rochester)
November 27
\nKaren Lewis (Columbia)
December 4
\nGuillermo Del Pinal (UMa
ss Amherst)
December 11
\nHenry Schiller (Sheffield/Pitt)
still schedul ed\, but zoom link for those who can’t travel: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j /8479688193
\nThroughout the 21st century\, philosophers of language have increasingly concerned themselves with the hateful\, coercive\, dehu manizing\, and deadly. In particular\, ‘non-ideal’ philosophers of languag e question whether received conceptual toolkits from philosophy of languag e manage to make contact with our non-ideal world at all. This paper takes up that methodological interest from a Wittgensteinian perspective. Drawi ng on critical interventions by Nancy Bauer\, Avner Baz\, Alice Crary\, Co ra Diamond\, and Toril Moi\, I argue that non-ideal philosophers of langua ge neutralize their ideology-critical bite when they presume an authoritat ive force for their words by virtue of a normatively neutral conception of reason. This neutralization is driven and sustained by an idle picture of language that isolates our words from the activities into which they are woven. To make discursive phenomena available in their political import\, we philosophers of language must acknowledge our own non-neutral involveme nt in the very discursive practices we’re theorizing – and this will requi re us to relinquish the entitlement to impose authoritative requirements o n language through theories of meaning.
\nTo illustrate the need for
normatively non-neutral methods in philosophical practice\, I focus on ca
ses where philosophers’ curious gaze treats trans people
\nas fascina
ting objects of knowledge\, as opposed to acknowledging us as interlocutor
s and recognizing the political stakes of our discursive practices. What i
nhibits the cultivation of acknowledgement\, of normatively resonant modes
of attention\, is a picture of philosophical theorizing that forbids us f
rom articulating our political solidarities through our work (and thus obf
uscates what we ourselves are doing with words when theorizing). The non-i
deal philosopher’s critical concept of idealization\, seen aright in a nor
matively non-neutral light\, exemplifies the sort of theoretical resource
that is mobilized by members of marginalized groups to invite such modes o
f attention – to shape not only our epistemic resources\, but also our sen
ses of what matters.
The virtually ubiquitous view of seeing-as experiences in Wittgenstein scholarship inte rprets them as conceptually-laden (with some exceptions\, e.g. Travis 2016 ). The claim is that we can see the same image differently due to switchin g the conceptual filters\, as it were\, through which we experience the im age (e.g. Schroeder 2010\; Mulhall 2001). In this paper I focus on a speci fic kind of a seeing-as experience for which Wittgenstein’s example of sud denly noticing the similarity between faces is the paradigm. I argue that it is possible to have no concepts involved in this experience\, and propo se an understanding of what I call “the imagistic seeing-as” as a similari ty association\, of the kind that grounds poetic means of expression\, suc h as metaphors. The associative nature of this imagistic seeing-as experie nce may also contribute to the understanding of biases – both personal (e. g. displaced offence) and social (e.g. sexism).
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:language\,phenomenology\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8134@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New Y ork City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.\nDuring Spring 2 024\, we will meet on Mondays\, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the NYU Philoso phy Building (5 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy o f language is welcome.\nRSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID\, and if you hav en’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year\, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name\, email addre ss\, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is requi red by NYU in order to access the building. When you arrive\, please be pr epared to show government ID to the security guard.\nJanuary 22nd\nRose Ry an Flinn (NYU)\nJanuary 29th\nZeynep Soysal (Rochester)\nFebruary 5th\nKar en Lewis (Barnard/Columbia)\nFebruary 12th\nWillow Starr (Cornell)\nFebrua ry 19th\n(No workshop)\nFebruary 26th\nJeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)\nMar ch 4th\nJulian Jara-Ettinger (Yale)\nMarch 11th\nJames Walsh (NYU)\nMarch 18th\n(no workshop)\nMarch 25th\nCal Howland (Rutgers)\nApril 1st\n(no wor kshop)\nApril 8th\nSam Cumming (UCLA)\nApril 15th\nEno Agolli (Rutgers)\nA pril 22md\n(no workshop)\nApril 29th\nViola Schmitt (Humbolt University Be rlin/MIT)\nMay 6th\nBob Beddor (Florida)\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240122T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240122T193000 GEO:+40.729457;-73.994348 LOCATION:NYU room 202 @ 5 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240129T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240311T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T173000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240506T173000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Language Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-of-language-w orkshop-15/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWe’re a commu nity of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meet ing each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relati ng to the philosophy of language.
\nDuring Spring 2024\, we will mee t on Mondays\, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building (5 W ashington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is wel come.
\nRSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID\, and if you haven’ t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year\, please RSVP no lat er than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name\, emai l address\, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is required by NYU in order to acc ess the building. When you arrive\, please be prepared to show government ID to the security guard.
\nJanuary 22nd
\nRo
se Ryan Flinn (NYU)
January 29th
\nZeynep Soysal (Rochester)
February 5th
\nKaren Lewis (Barnard/Colu
mbia)
February 12th
\nWillow Starr (Cornell)
February 19th
\n(No
workshop)
February 26th
\nJeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)
March 4th
\nJulian Jara-Ettinger
(Yale)
March 11th
\nJames Walsh (NYU)
March 18th
\n(no workshop
)
March 25th
\nCal Howland
(Rutgers)
April 1st
\n(no workshop)
April 8th
\nSam Cumming (UCLA)
April 15th
\nEno Agolli (Rutgers)
April 22md
\n(no workshop)
April 29th
\nViola Schmitt (Humbolt Univers
ity Berlin/MIT)
May 6th
\nBob Beddor (Florida)
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:language END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8123@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS AVAILABLE ON ZOOM\nSOME ALSO IN PERSON (Graduate Cent er room 7102)\nTalks organized and hosted by Ryan McElhaney\nTo get Zoom l inks: Email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com\n2/2: Edward Elliott\nPhilosophy\, U niversity of Leeds\; soon to be at Notre Dame\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***\n2/9: Sami R. Yousif\nPsychology\, University of Pennsylvan ia\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***\n2/16: Susan E. Carey\nPsych ology\, Harvard University\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***\n2/2 3: Amy Kind\nPhilosophy\, Claremont McKenna College\n3/1: Johannes Fahrenf ort\nNeuroscience\, Conscious Brain Lab\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\nan d Universiteit van Amsterdam\n3/8: Sam Coleman\nPhilosophy\, University of Hertfordshire\n3/15: Christopher Hill\nPhilosophy\, Brown University\n3/2 2: Nicholas Humphrey\nNeuropsychology\, London School of Economics and Dar win College Cambridge\n3/29: No talk—Easter weekend\n4/5: James R. O’Shea \nPhilosophy\, University College Dublin\n4/12: Daniel Stoljar\nPhilosophy \, Australian National University\n4/19 and 4/26: No talks—CUNY spring bre ak\n5/3: Willem A. deVries\nPhilosophy\, University of New Hampshire\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***\n5/10: Kathleen Akins and Martin Hah n\nPhilosophy\, Simon Fraser University\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 *** DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T150000 GEO:+40.748815;-73.984102 LOCATION:Hybrid: Zoom/ CUNY 7102 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240216T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake r-series-21/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
ALL TALKS AVA
ILABLE ON ZOOM
\nSOME ALSO IN PERSON (Graduate Center room 7102)
\nTalks organized and hosted by Ryan McElhaney
\nTo get Zoom links:
Email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
2/2: Edward Elliott
\nPhiloso
phy\, University of Leeds\; soon to be at Notre Dame
\n*** HYBRID: Gr
aduate Center Room 7102 ***
\n2/9: Sami R. Yousif
\nPsychology\,
University of Pennsylvania
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 *
**
\n2/16: Susan E. Carey
\nPsychology\, Harvard University
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
\n2/23: Amy Kind
\n
Philosophy\, Claremont McKenna College
\n3/1: Johannes Fahrenfort
\nNeuroscience\, Conscious Brain Lab\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
\nand Universiteit van Amsterdam
\n3/8: Sam Coleman
\nPhilosoph
y\, University of Hertfordshire
\n3/15: Christopher Hill
\nPhilo
sophy\, Brown University
\n3/22: Nicholas Humphrey
\nNeuropsycho
logy\, London School of Economics and Darwin College Cambridge
\n3/29
: No talk—Easter weekend
\n4/5: James R. O’Shea
\nPhilosophy\, U
niversity College Dublin
\n4/12: Daniel Stoljar
\nPhilosophy\, A
ustralian National University
\n4/19 and 4/26: No talks—CUNY spring b
reak
\n5/3: Willem A. deVries
\nPhilosophy\, University of New H
ampshire
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
\n5/10: Kat
hleen Akins and Martin Hahn
\nPhilosophy\, Simon Fraser University
\n*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mond ays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in -person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisi onal schedule is as follows:
\nFeb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)
\nFe b 12. NO MEETING
\nFeb 19. NO MEETING
\nFeb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)
\nMar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)
\nMar 11. Otávio Bueno (M iami)
\nMar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)
\nMar 25. Dan Mar shall (Lingnan)
\nApr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)
\nApr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)
\nApr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)
\nApr 22. NO MEETING
\nApr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)
\nMay 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
\nVerity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy\, with particular research interests in ancient metaphysics\, epistemology and psychology\, especially of Plat o and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The M etaphysics of Structure\, and is the editor of several important book s on ancient philosophy.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8138@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T013027Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 DESCRIPTION:Serving as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal fi lled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French Comm unist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of univ ersal emancipation. To do so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is an example of a universal and cultural project. Rec alling Césaire’s words in “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that serves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familiar w ith the play of the world.” To this end\, I develop a conception of cultur e that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of wha t it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by reading culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.\n \n Bio:\n \nElisabeth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparat ive Literature at the University at Buffalo\, SUNY. Her book\, titled Univ ersal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press\, 20 20)\, engages French political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négri tude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theor y of emancipation. Currently\, she is working on a monograph on the writin gs of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Fe minist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during th e summer.\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Culture & Freedom: Thinking Universality with Aimé Césaire and Sylv ia Wynter presented by Elisabeth Paquette URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/culture-freedom-thinking -universality-with-aime-cesaire-and-sylvia-wynter-presented-by-elisabeth-p aquette/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nServing as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal filled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French Communist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of universal emancipation. To d o so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is a n example of a universal and cultural project. Recalling Césaire’s words i n “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that serves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familiar with the play of the worl d.” To this end\, I develop a conception of culture that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of what it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by reading culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.
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Bio:
\n\n
Elisabeth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo\, SUNY. H er book\, titled Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (Univ ersity of Minnesota Press\, 2020)\, engages French political theorist Alai n Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation. Currently\, she is workin g on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during the summer.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:culture\,freedom X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR