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-7763@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240319T130548Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:Since Plato\, western philosophy has been set down a path paved by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed material bodies\, and delimite d aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environment s separated from the natural world. Such exclusions have left philosophy i ll-equipped to deal with the various environmental crises we currently fac e\, as economic rationality and utilitarian logic further de-animate the w orld and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environme nt” often\, and ironically\, brings with it implicit anthropocentric assum ptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separating\, the human as independe nt from the surrounding world and reinforcing the human/nature divide. As a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature” and “environment” may make us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than address\, climate change an d other environmental catastrophes. To avoid ambiguities and clarify our u nderstanding\, we must ask: what role does Nature play within our theories and practices concerning so-called Environmental Philosophy? Furthermore\ , what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broade n our understanding of “environment” to include a more robust conceptualiz ation of the natural world and how the human being ought to be contextuali zed within it?\nThis conference asks how we might reorient the language an d practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequately respon d to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propose a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “nature\,” and “environment\,” as wel l as the reciprocal relations that constitute them. To recognize humans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the material\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play in our attempts to construct\, under stand\, and preserve our environment(s). How should we make sense of our p ractices and our relations to those with whom we share our surroundings? H ow can we re-situate the human with/in the environment? Do we have the rig ht tools to guide these investigations? How might philosophy look beyond i tself—to literature\, architecture\, music\, film\, design—to better bring Environment\, and thus the world\, into view? In the spirit of this\, we invite paper as well as project submissions from current graduate students in any discipline.\nPossible Topics:\n● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Considering Beauty + the Sublime\n● Environmental Justice + Rest orative Justice + Transformative Justice\n● Environmental Ethics + Sustainable Practices\n● Diversity + Biodiversity\n● Capital ism and Climate\n● Eco-phenomenology\n● Eco-deconstruction\n ● Environmental Racism/Racist Environments\n● Ecofeminist co nceptions of nature\n● Land Rights and Property Relations\n● Posthumanism + Object Ontologies\n● Afrofuturism + Technological U topias\n● Environmental Ethics In Narratives\n● Mastery of N ature in Philosophy\n● Anarcho-primitivism\n● Queer and Tran s Ecologies\n● Local and Global Ecologies\n● Regionalisms an d Globalisms in the Ecological Imagination\n \nConfirmed Conference Keynot es:\nSandra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York\nEmanuele Coccia\, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)\, Paris\nDates and Lo cation:\nThis conference will be held at the New School for Social Researc h in New York City from Thursday\, April 14\, to Saturday\, April 16. Whil e we (tentatively) plan to hold the conference primarily in-person we woul d also like to provide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to parti cipate remotely. Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all par ticipants and attendees are invited to participate in a conference hike in Cold Spring\, NY (about an hour and a half north of NYC and accessible by the Metro North commuter train).\nCall for Papers: Submission Procedure: \nPlease submit complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abstract of 250 words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or P DF to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com. Please prepare your submission for bli nd review by removing any identifying information from the body of the pap er. In your email please include your name\, affiliation\, and paper title . Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15.\nCall for Project s: Submission Procedure:\nPlease submit a project description (Word Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) to WithInE nvironments@gmail.com\, as well as:\nFor Visual Arts projects: submit 5 im ages of your work as .jpeg.\nFor Performing Arts projects: submit video/ a udio of your work in .mp4 format\nPlease prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information. In your email please incl ude your name\, affiliation\, and project title. Notification of acceptanc e will be sent by January 15.\nIf you have any questions please email With InEnvironments@gmail.com\n https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/ \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220417 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School Dept. of Philosophy @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:With/In Environments: Reimagining Frameworks and Practices for Envi ronmental Philosophy–Graduate Student Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/with-in-environments-rei magining-frameworks-and-practices-for-environmental-philosophy-graduate-st udent-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nSince Plato\, western philosophy has been set down a path pave d by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed material bodies\, and delimit ed aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environmen ts separated from the natural world. Such exclusions have left philosophy ill-equipped to deal with the various environmental crises we currently fa ce\, as economic rationality and utilitarian logic further de-animate the world and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environm ent” often\, and ironically\, brings with it implicit anthropocentric assu mptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separating\, the human as independ ent from the surrounding world and reinforcing the human/nature divide. As a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature” and “environment” may make us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than address\, climate change a nd other environmental catastrophes. To avoid ambiguities and clarify our understanding\, we must ask: what role does Nature play within our theorie s and practices concerning so-called Environmental Philosophy? Furthermore \, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broad en our understanding of “environment” to include a more robust conceptuali zation of the natural world and how the human being ought to be contextual ized within it?
\nThis conference asks how we might reorient the lan guage and practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequatel y respond to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propos e a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “nature\,” and “environment\, ” as well as the reciprocal relations that constitute them. To recognize h umans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the materia l\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play in our attempts to construct \, understand\, and preserve our environment(s). How should we make sense of our practices and our relations to those with whom we share our surroun dings? How can we re-situate the human with/in the environment? Do we have the right tools to guide these investigations? How might philosophy look beyond itself—to literature\, architecture\, music\, film\, design—to bett er bring Environment\, and thus the world\, into view? In the spirit of th is\, we invite paper as well as project submissions from current graduate students in any discipline.
\nPossible Topics:
\n● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Considering Beauty + the Sublim e
\n● Environmental Justice + Restorative Justice + Transform ative Justice
\n● Environmental Ethics + Sustainable Practice s
\n● Diversity + Biodiversity
\n● Capitalism an d Climate
\n● Eco-phenomenology
\n● Eco-deconstr uction
\n● Environmental Racism/Racist Environments
\n● Ecofeminist conceptions of nature
\n● Land Rights and Property Relations
\n● Posthumanism + Object Ontologies
\n● Afrofuturism + Technological Utopias
\n● Enviro nmental Ethics In Narratives
\n● Mastery of Nature in Philoso phy
\n● Anarcho-primitivism
\n● Queer and Trans Ecologies
\n● Local and Global Ecologies
\n● Reg ionalisms and Globalisms in the Ecological Imagination
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\nConfirmed Conference Keynotes:
\nSa ndra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York
\nEmanuele Coccia\, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)\, Paris
\nThis conference will be held at th e New School for Social Research in New York City from Thursday\, April 14 \, to Saturday\, April 16. While we (tentatively) plan to hold the confere nce primarily in-person we would also like to provide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to participate remotely. Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all participants and attendees are invited to part icipate in a conference hike in Cold Spring\, NY (about an hour and a half north of NYC and accessible by the Metro North commuter train).
\n< strong>Call for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\nPlease subm it complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abstract of 250 words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or PDF to WithInEnvironments@g mail.com. Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information from the body of the paper. In your email plea se include your name\, affiliation\, and paper title. Notification of acce ptance will be sent by January 15.
\nCall for Projects: Subm ission Procedure:
\nPlease submit a project description (Wo rd Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) t o WithInEnvir onments@gmail.com\, as well as:
\nFor Visual Arts projects: subm it 5 images of your work as .jpeg.
\nFor Performing Arts projects: s ubmit video/ audio of your work in .mp4 format
\nPlease prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information. In y our email please include your name\, affiliation\, and project title. Noti fication of acceptance will be sent by January 15.
\nIf you have any questions please email WithInEnvironments@gmail.com
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Keynote: Harr y Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
\nPedagogy Workshop Le ader: TBA
\nLocation: The Graduate Center\, CUNY—New York\, New York
\nAbstracts & Workshop Applications due: July 31st 2023
\nRes ponses: August 31st 2023
\nOrganizers: Michael Greer (CUNY)\, Maria Salazar (CUNY)
\nContact email: gscope.committee@gmail.com
\nT he committee for the Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Educatio n (GSCOPE) invites abstracts for papers on the topic of Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy. The theme of the conference & post-conferenc e pedagogy workshop reflects the difficulty in creating and maintaining re spectful discourse in higher-education classrooms\, especially surrounding controversial empirical\, moral\, and political issues. Some argue that t his is an equity issue. Undergraduate students who come from rural and/or underprivileged areas are more likely to experience alienation on campus\, sometimes because they have never been exposed to certain “politically co rrect” language or ideas\, and sometimes simply because they lack the fina ncial and social capital that their peers have. It seems crucial (and foll ows from democratic and civic values) to foster safe learning environments for all students\, especially those students who are more likely to feel alienated on college campuses and in elite spaces. At the same time\, some argue that the aim of higher education is purely epistemological\, and no t civic or democratic. Proponents of this view might hold that free speech and academic freedom must be properly protected for higher education to p erform its proper social function: education. What is the appropriate rela tionship between higher education\, knowledge-production\, teaching\, free speech\, and democracy? How can higher education instructors and professo rs be effective teachers in the light of these relationships?
\nPape rs must pertain to higher educationbut maybe about anything from interpers onal classroom dynamicstoinstitutional policies to campus controversy. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the following topics: p>\n
We especially welcome contributions that:
\n\nAbstracts
should:
\n– Outline the paper’s principal argument(s).
\n– Give
a good sense of the paper’s philosophical and/or empirical contributions a
nd methods.
\n– Be anonymized.
Proposal Guidelines:
\nP lease submit abstracts of up to 500 words by midnight EST on Monday\, July 31\, 2023.
\nPDF or DOC.X by email to gscope.committee@gmail.com
\nPost-Conference Pedagogy Workshop
\nThe theme of our conferenc e Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy is relevant to g raduate student educators\, who are routinely under-trained and under-equi pped to engage with real-life problems they may encounter in the classroom . The lack of training for higher education teachers is a growing iue in p hilosophy of education.
\nThis workshop attends to this issue by fac ilitating a space for graduate student educators to reflect on how to fost er good teaching environments for controversial issues\, and be good inter locutors with each other on controversial issues. The workshop will also t ouch on promoting equity in classrooms. We will provide workshop participa nts with a certificate of completion.
\nhttps://philevents.org/event /show/112546
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,epistemology\,ethics\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7896@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240319T130548Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar DESCRIPTION:Book panel: Anat Matar\, The Poverty of Ethics (Verso books 2 022)\nParticipants:\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)\nSimon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at NSSR) \nRaef Zreik (Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School\, and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College)\n \nAbstract:\nIt is a common a ssumption that ethics must serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abstr act moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of atro cities\; ethical sensitivity and compassion have been expressed towards pa rticular kinds of victims\, while totally ignoring others.\nThe liberal We st\, in particular\, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western oppressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to their Wester n equivalents.\nThe gratification of holding the moral high ground consist ently serves as a political instrument in the hands of those seeking to sh ore up the existing order.\nIn The Poverty of Ethics\, philosopher and act ivist Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political force which stands for equa lity\, justice and democracy – the Left – can provide the coordinates for an ethical life under conditions of global injustice.\nAppealing to philos ophical ideas on the essence of language\, Matar shows how the ethos of th e Left\, as it has evolved over years\, underlies and gradually forms the basis for ethics.\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, colonization and m ilitarization\, protests against exploitation and the capitalist order\, t he feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all these are p rimarily motivated by a deep understanding of Left heritage rather than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moralit\nTickets: https://event.newschool. edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium Book panel: Anat Matar “The Poverty of Ethics ” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-bo ok-panel-anat-matar-the-poverty-of-ethics/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nBook panel: Anat Matar\, The Poverty of Ethics (Verso books 2022)
\nParticipants:
\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)
\nSim on Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at NSSR)
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Abstract:
It is a common assumption that ethics mus t serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abstract moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of atrocities\; ethical sensitiv ity and compassion have been expressed towards particular kinds of victims \, while totally ignoring others.
\nThe liberal West\, in particular \, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western op pressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to their Western equivalents.
\nThe gratification of holding the moral high ground consistently serve s as a political instrument in the hands of those seeking to shore up the existing order.
\nIn The Poverty of Ethics\, philosopher and activis t Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political force which stands for equality \, justice and democracy – the Left – can provide the coordinates for an e thical life under conditions of global injustice.
\nAppealing to phi losophical ideas on the essence of language\, Matar shows how the ethos of the Left\, as it has evolved over years\, underlies and gradually forms t he basis for ethics.
\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, coloniza tion and militarization\, protests against exploitation and the capitalist order\, the feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all t hese are primarily motivated by a deep understanding of Left heritage rath er than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moralit
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatm atar.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ethics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7897@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240319T130548Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar DESCRIPTION:What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ross’s question. \nWhen W.D. Ross poses the question\, “what makes right acts right?” (The Right and the Good ch. 2)\, he is asking a question that is prior to the d eliberative question\, “how do I determine the right thing to do?” The Sto ics recognize this: in De Officiis 1.7\, Cicero says that every inquiry ab out duty has two parts: (1) a theoretical part concerned with the end of g oods and evils\, which addresses such matters as whether all duties are pe rfect\, whether some are more important than others\, and what are the kin ds of duties\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (praecepta) b y which our conduct can be made to conform with the end. This paper focus es on (1) and in particular asks Ross’s question about Stoic right actions (kathêkonta).\n \nThe endpoint of Stoic deliberation is determining what token action is the right action. The paper begins with the Stoic distin ction between a thing’s choiceworthiness\, its intrinsic disposition to el icit a choice response in a suitable subject\, and its possession being to -be-chosen. The determination of what is to-be-done is made by weighing ag ainst each other all the values of the relevant action types specified by their content (the so-called ‘intermediate actions’) that are in accordanc e with nature\, as Stoic value theory says that according with nature is a n objective reason to do an action. What constitutes the rightness of the token right action\, and is given in its reasonable defense\, is the same as what constitutes the rightness of a perfect (katorthôma) action. Th e Stoic distinction between right and perfect action depends on the action ’s moral goodness—not rightness—which is due to its causal origin.\nPresen ted by Professor Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University)\nTickets: https://e vent.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rachana Kamtekar: What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ro ss’s question URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rachana-kamtekar-what-ma kes-right-acts-right-a-stoic-answer-to-rosss-question/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nW hat makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ross’s question.
\nWhen W.D. Ross poses the question\, “what makes right acts righ t?” (The Right and the Good ch. 2)\, he is asking a question that is prior to the deliberative question\, “how do I determine the right thing to do? ” The Stoics recognize this: in De Officiis 1.7\, Cicero says that every i nquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoretical part concerned with the end of goods and evils\, which addresses such matters as whether all duti es are perfect\, whether some are more important than others\, and what ar e the kinds of duties\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (pra ecepta) by which our conduct can be made to conform with the end. This pa per focuses on (1) and in particular asks Ross’s question about Stoic righ t actions (kathêkonta).
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The endpoint of Stoic deliberat ion is determining what token action is the right action. The paper begin s with the Stoic distinction between a thing’s choiceworthiness\, its intr insic disposition to elicit a choice response in a suitable subject\, and its possession being to-be-chosen. The determination of what is to-be-done is made by weighing against each other all the values of the relevant act ion types specified by their content (the so-called ‘intermediate actions’ ) that are in accordance with nature\, as Stoic value theory says that acc ording with nature is an objective reason to do an action. What constitut es the rightness of the token right action\, and is given in its reasonabl e defense\, is the same as what constitutes the rightness of a perfect (ka torthôma) action. The Stoic distinction between right and perfect actio n depends on the action’s moral goodness—not rightness—which is due to its causal origin.
\nPresented by Professor Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University) p>\n
Tickets: https://event.newschool.edu/phi losophycolloquiumkamtekar.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240319T130548Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/cynthia-bennett-disab ility-accessibility-and-fairness-artificial-intelligence DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to automate and scale sol utions to perennial accessibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image desc riptions for blind users). However\, research shows that AI-bias dispropor tionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gender \, or disabilities\, raising questions about potential impacts in addition to AI’s promise. In this talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad conce rns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She will t hen share details about one project in this research space that led to gui dance on human and AI-generated image descriptions that account for subjec tive and potentially sensitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and disa bility of people in images. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T140000 GEO:+40.841243;-73.940971 LOCATION:Presbyterian Hospital Building (Room PH20-200) @ 622 W 168th St\, New York\, NY 10032\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cynthia Bennett – Disability Accessibility and Fairness in Artifici al Intelligence URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cynthia-bennett-disabili ty-accessibility-and-fairness-in-artificial-intelligence/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nArtificial in telligence (AI) promises to automate and scale solutions to perennial acce ssibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image descriptions for blind users ). However\, research shows that AI-bias disproportionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gender\, or disabilities\, rai sing questions about potential impacts in addition to AI’s promise. In thi s talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad concerns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She will then share details about one project in this research space that led to guidance on human and AI-ge nerated image descriptions that account for subjective and potentially sen sitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and disability of people in imag es.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7892@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240319T130548Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://events.nyas.org/event/aeb22abd-112e-4973-b86d-8a4a73b0c618/ websitePage:2b462a34-6b82-4e70-99c9-e8dd3c218e9b DESCRIPTION:Rationality\, long considered a distinctive characteristic of t he human mind\, provides us with the capacity for understanding and discer nment\, as well as the ability to introduce order into our thoughts by all owing us to form higher-order volitions\, adopt values\, establish priorit ies\, and achieve a level of consistency in our actions across time. The a ncient Socratic ideal of the “examined life” in pursuit of truth and justi ce relied on a definition of human nature that was to be cultivated in a s ystematic way. If the key to fully realizing our humanity lies in the cult ivation of our minds\, what ethical principles and practices in modern lif e can help our minds to flourish? How can reason be blended with emotion t o nurture a more ethical life? In this regard\, experimental psychology an d neuroscientific research may have much to teach us\, as might the age-ol d wisdom traditions.\nPsychologist and neurobiologist Richard Davidson\, c lassics scholar Edith Hall\, and psychologist Dacher Keltner analyze how r eason and the mind can facilitate ethical development.\nReception to follo w.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets: https:/ /events.nyas.org/event/aeb22abd-112e-4973-b86d-8a4a73b0c618/websitePage:2d 4463fc-e326-4269-9b07-c57fae3d4cb6. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T203000 GEO:+40.791947;-73.952101 LOCATION:New York Academy of Medicine @ 1216 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10029\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cultivating the Mind: Reason and the Pursuit of Ethical Transformat ion URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cultivating-the-mind-rea son-and-the-pursuit-of-ethical-transformation/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe NYC Wittg enstein Workshop presents:
\nMarch 31st — Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) will be presenting on Wittgenstein and Care Et hics
\nApril 14th — Camila Lobo (PhD candidate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon and visiting scholar) will be presenting on Wittgens tein and hermeneutical justice in connection with the so-called “problem o f the new.”
\nApril 21st — Harmut von Sass (Humboldt University Berl in and a visiting scholar) will be presenting on gratitude.
\nApril 28th — Janna van Grunsven (Delft University of Technology) will be present ing on How Social Media Platforms Disrupt the Field of Social Affordances and Threaten Human Flourishing.
\nWith the exception of our last tal k (which will take place over Zoom)\, workshops will be in person from 4 t o 6 pm EST\, followed by a reception. As always\, snacks and drinks will b e provided.
\nLook out for an email closer to each event with more d etails regarding the location and materials the speaker would like to circ ulate.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ethics\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8051@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240319T130548Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/rachanakamtekar DESCRIPTION:When W.D. Ross poses the question “what makes right acts right? ” (The Right and the Good\, ch. 2)\, he is asking a question that is prior to\, and has a bearing on\, the practical question “how do I determine th e right thing to do?” The Stoics recognize this. Cicero (De Officio\, wher e he is referring to Panaetius’ work Peri Kathêkontos) tells us that ever y inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoretical part concerned with the end of good and evil deeds\, which addresses such matters as whether a ll duties are perfect (omniane official perfecta sint)\, whether some are more important than others\, and what the kinds of duties are\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (praecepta) by which our conduct can b e made to conform with the end (De Officiis\, 1.7). While Cicero himself focuses on the second\, this paper seeks the answer to the first part.\n \nRachana Kamtekar is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell Un iversity and has written on many topics in ancient philosophy and contempo rary moral psychology. Her monograph\, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellect ualism\, the Divided Soul and the Desire for Good\, was published in 2017. She is currently working on the relationship between action and characte r in ancient Greek ethics.\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Chrysippus on What Makes Right Acts Right. Rachana Kamtekar (Cornel l) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/chrysippus-on-what-makes -right-acts-right-rachana-kamtekar-cornell/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
When W.D. Ros s poses the question “what makes right acts right?” (The Right and the Good\, ch. 2)\, he is asking a question that is prior to\, and has a bearing on\, the practical question “how do I determine the right thing t o do?” The Stoics recognize this. Cicero (De Officio\, where he i s referring to Panaetius’ work Peri Kathêkontos) tells us that e very inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoretical part concerned wi th the end of good and evil deeds\, which addresses such matters as whethe r all duties are perfect (omniane official perfecta sint)\, wheth er some are more important than others\, and what the kinds of duties are\ , and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (praecepta) by wh ich our conduct can be made to conform with the end (De Officiis\, 1.7). While Cicero himself focuses on the second\, this paper seeks the answer to the first part.
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Rachana Kamtekar is a Profess or of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell University and has written on man y topics in ancient philosophy and contemporary moral psychology. Her mono graph\, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellectualism\, the Divided Soul a nd the Desire for Good\, was published in 2017. She is currently wor king on the relationship between action and character in ancient Greek eth ics.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8124@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240319T130548Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/events DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thinking podca st. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral stat us of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global priorities research.\n \nAbout the speakers\n \nJeff Sebo is Associate Pr ofessor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics\, Med ical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. P rogram\, Director of the Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy Program\, and Co-Direc tor of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He is the a uthor of Saving Animals\, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpan zee Rights (2018) and Food\, Animals\, and the Environment (2018). He is a lso an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection\, a board member at Minding Animals International\, an a dvisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, a senior res earch fellow at the Legal Priorities Project\, and a mentor at Sentient Me dia.\n \nSpencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a foc us on improving human well-being. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\ , which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisi ons and improve their lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wave\, an organization that conducts psychology research and builds psychology-related products design ed to help benefit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, with a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by numerous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Jour nal\, the Independent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.\n \nThank you to Effective Altruism New York City for their generous support of thi s event.\nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueN ASskgr5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000 GEO:+40.730098;-73.995693 LOCATION:Jurow Hall\, Silver Center @ 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 1000 3\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Moral Status of Insects and AI Systems\, and Other Thorny Quest ions in Global Priorities Research. Jeff Sebo and Spencer Greenberg URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-moral-status-of-inse cts-and-ai-systems-and-other-thorny-questions-in-global-priorities-researc h-jeff-sebo-and-spencer-greenberg/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
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Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a focus on improving human well-bei ng. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\, which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisions and improve thei r lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wa ve\, an organization that conducts psycho logy research and builds psychology-related products designed to help bene fit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, w ith a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by nu merous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Journal\, the Indep endent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.
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Thank you to Effect ive Altruism New York City for their generous support of this event.
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