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-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z 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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\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-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/curiosity-creativity- and-complexity DESCRIPTION:How does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisio ns when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?\nThe conference showcases cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscie nce and Psychology (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exploration\, decision-making\, information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artificial intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic motivation) an d Economics (decision making and information demand). Alongside formal pre sentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions among facult y\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poster presenta tions.\nSubmissions for poster presentations and travel awards are due Feb ruary 15\, 2023. Please visit the call for submissions for complete requir ements.\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public. Registration is r equired and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow Columbi a’s COVID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email even ts@zi.columbia.edu with any questions. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230526 GEO:+40.816847;-73.957958 LOCATION:Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) @ 3227 Br oadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Curiosity\, Creativity and Complexity Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/curiosity-creativity-and -complexity-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHow does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?
\nThe conference showca ses cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscience and Psycholog y (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exploration\, decision-making\ , information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artifici al intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic motivation) and Economics (deci sion making and information demand). Alongside formal presentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions among faculty\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poster presentations.
\nSu bmissions for poster presentations and travel awards are due February 15\, 2023. Please visit the call fo r submissions for complete requirements.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow Columbia’s COV ID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 va ccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email events@zi.columbia.edu with any quest ions.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,decision theory\,mind\,psych ology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7986@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z 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).
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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-7682@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: The Shenzi Fragments\, numbering a mere 3\,000 or so characters in length\, is all that remains of a work attributed to Shen Da o (ca. 350-275 BCE). While perhaps best known for his appearance in the Ha n Feizi as an advocate for positional power (勢 shi)\, he also makes an app earance in the Xunzi as one who is blinded by his focus on 法 fa (models\, standards\, laws). We will examine the fragments that discuss fa in an at tempt to come to a deeper understanding of the role that these fragments s ee for the fa\, how they are to be determined\, and why Shen Dao took them to be central to a strong\, stable\, and flourishing state. The fragments \, in classical Chinese with English translations (Harris 2016)\, are incl uded here as a PDF attachment.\n \nDATE: October 22\, 2021\nTIME: 7:00-8:3 0 pm\n \nThis seminar will take place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. The a ttached file is an instruction manual to help you familiarize yourself wit h the program. In addition to familiarizing yourself with the program’s ba sic functions\, there are two things we ask you to do before the meeting c an start. First\, you will need to sign in by typing your name in the chat . Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the meeti ng. The privacy policy provided by the Columbia University Seminars Office will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will raise your virt ual Zoom hand in the Participants panel. In the manual\, you will find ste p-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your hand.\nLead Pre senter: Eirik Lang Harris\nDiscussants: Alejandro Bárcenas (Texas State U niversity)\, Yutang Jin (Princeton University)\, Mercedes Valmisa (Gettysb urg College)\nNote Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are on ly accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Givi ng to Columbia. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T203000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Discussion of Fa (法) in the Shenzi: Eirik Lang Harris URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-discussion-of-fa-%e6%b 3%95-in-the-shenzi-eirik-lang-harris/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nABS TRACT: The Shenzi Fragments\, numbering a mere 3\,000 or so characters in length\, is all that remains of a work attributed to Shen Dao (ca. 350-275 BCE). While perhaps best known for his appearance in the Han Feizi as an advocate for positional power (勢 shi)\, he also makes an appearance in the Xunzi as one who is blinded by his focus on 法 fa (models\, standards\, la ws). We will examine the fragments that discuss fa in an attempt to come to a deeper understanding of the role that these fragments see for the fa\ , how they are to be determined\, and why Shen Dao took them to be central to a strong\, stable\, and flourishing state. The fragments\, in classica l Chinese with English translations (Harris 2016)\, are included here as a PDF attachment.
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DATE: October 22\, 2021
\nTIME: 7:00-8:30 pm
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This seminar w ill take place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Belo w you will find the link to join the meeting. The attached file is an inst ruction manual to help you familiarize yourself with the program. In addit ion to familiarizing yourself with the program’s basic functions\, there a re two things we ask you to do before the meeting can start. First\, you w ill need to sign in by typing your name in the chat. Subsequently\, we wil l have to agree on the privacy policy for the meeting. The privacy policy provided by the Columbia University Seminars Office will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will raise your virtual Zoom hand in the Pa rticipants panel. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your hand.
\nLead Presenter : Ei rik Lang Harris
\nDiscussants: Alejandro Bárcenas (Texas State University)\, Yutang Jin (Princeton University)\, Mercedes Valmisa (Gettysburg College)
\nNote Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are o nly accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7751@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/philosophy-library-virtual-20 220322 DESCRIPTION:How can we know what it’s like to be someone else? Classical In dian philosophers found the answer in theater\, arguing that it’s not just a form of entertainment\, but a source of knowledge of other minds. In th is talk\, I’ll explore how this theme is developed in Śrī Śaṅkuka (c. 850 CE) and examine the reasons his views were rejected in the later tradition . I’ll argue that those reasons are unsound\, and that we can see why by t urning to contemporary studies of the relationship between knowledge and l uck.\nJonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a philosopher whose work dr aws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind\, metaphysics and epistemology. His books include Attention\, Not Self (2017)\, a study of early Buddhist theories of attent ion\; The Concealed Art of the Soul (2012)\, an analysis of the idea of a search for one’s true self\; Virtual Subjects\, Fugitive Selves (2020)\, a n analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s philosophy of self\; and Inwardness: An Ou tsiders’ Guide (2021)\, a review of the concept of inwardness in literatur e\, film\, poetry\, and philosophy across cultures. He joined the Fellowsh ip of the British Academy in 2015\, and won the Infosys Prize in the Human ities the same year\, the only philosopher to do so.\n\n\nThis series is c urated and co-presented by Brooklyn Public Philosophers\, aka Ian Olasov. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T203000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Jonardon Ganeri (Toronto) Can theater teach us about what it’s lik e to be someone else? URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/jonardon-ganeri-toronto- can-theater-teach-us-about-what-its-like-to-be-someone-else/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHow ca n we know what it’s like to be someone else? Classical Indian philosophers found the answer in theater\, arguing that it’s not just a form of entert ainment\, but a source of knowledge of other minds. In this talk\, I’ll ex plore how this theme is developed in Śrī Śaṅkuka (c. 850 CE) and examine t he reasons his views were rejected in the later tradition. I’ll argue that those reasons are unsound\, and that we can see why by turning to contemp orary studies of the relationship between knowledge and luck.
\nThis series is curated and co-presented by Br ooklyn Public Philosophers\, aka Ian Olasov.
\nTHE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSO PHY
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Presents:
Lead Presenter : Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\, CUNY)
\nDiscussants: Robert A. Carleo III (East China Normal University)\, Emma Buchtel (Hong Kong Education Uni versity)
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T: Contemporary Chinese intellectual Li Zehou’s cross-cultural methodo
logy blends traditional Confucian thought with thinkers such as Kant and M
arx. This seminar addresses the question of culture and its role in Li’s t
hought. Li has made several claims about how a settled cultural tradition
influences the subjects within it. One such claim concerns the existence o
f ‘deep structures’ of Confucianism\, as outlined
DATE: March 25\, 2022
\n< p class='gmail-p1'>TIME: 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST< /span>\nThis seminar will t ake place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. Here is an instruction manual to help you familiariz e yourself with the program. In addition to familiarizing yourself with th e program’s basic functions\, there are two things we ask you to do before the meeting can start. First\, you will need to sign in by typing your na me in the chat. Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the meeting. The privacy policy provided by the Columbia University S eminars Office will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will r aise your virtual Zoom hand in the Participants panel. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your h and.
\nNote Regar ding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Co lumbia.
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\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative\,Confucianism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7774@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY\nWelcomes you t o an IN-PERSON meeting:\nAllison Aitken (Columbia University)\n« A Case ag ainst Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology »\nWith responses fr om Alexander Englert (Princeton University)\nABSTRACT: There’s a common li ne of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious expe rience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary\, Mādhya mika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh-eighth century ) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysical ly impossible. Lacking any unifying principle\, the phenomenal unity of co nscious experience is instead an ungrounded illusion. In this talk\, I wil l present an analysis of Śrīgupta’s “neither-one-nor-many argument” agains t mental simples and show how his line of reasoning is driven by a set of implicit questions concerning the nature of and relation between conscious ness and its intentional object. These questions not only set the agenda f or centuries of intra-Buddhist debate on the topic\, but they are also que stions to which any defender of unified consciousness or a simple subject of experience arguably owes responses. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Case against Simple-mindedness: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology. All ison Aitken\, Columbia URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-case-against-simple-mi ndedness-srigupta-on-mental-mereology-allison-aitken-columbia/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nTHE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSO PHY
\nWelcomes you to an IN-PERSON meeting:
\nAllison Aitken (Columbia University)
\n« A Case against Simple-mindedn ess: Śrīgupta on Mental Mereology »
\nWith responses from Alexander Englert (Princet
on University)
ABST RACT: There’s a common line of reasoning whi ch supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary\, Mādhyamika Buddhist philo sophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh-eighth century) argue that any ki nd of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysically impossible. Lack ing any unifying principle\, the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is instead an ungrounded illusion. In this talk\, I will present an analys is of Śrīgupta’s “neither-one-nor-many argument” against mental simples an d show how his line of reasoning is driven by a set of implicit questions concerning the nature of and relation between consciousness and its intent ional object. These questions not only set the agenda for centuries of int ra-Buddhist debate on the topic\, but they are also questions to which any defender of unified consciousness or a simple subject of experience argua bly owes responses.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z 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-7963@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic is said to be a once-in-a-century inciden t\, and it brought to us a sense of crisis at various levels. What is a cr isis\, though? Can any unnerving moment or period be called a crisis\, or are there different dimensions of a crisis to which we need to be attentiv e? Is solidarity possible after experiencing a crisis like Covid-19? Can B uddhism make any contribution to facilitating solidarity? This presentatio n explores the meaning and nature of a crisis and our responses to it by d rawing on modern Korean political thinker Pak Ch’iu’s (1909–1949) analysis of crisis and feminist-Buddhist thinker Kim Iryŏp’s (1896–1971) Buddhist philosophy. By doing so\, this presentation considers what social\, politi cal\, existential\, and even religious meaning we can draw from our experi ence of crises\, and what questions these insights present to us.\nWith re sponses from Karsten Struhl (John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, CUNY) \nPresented by THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY\nRSVP is re quired for dinner. If you would like to participate in our dinner\, a $30 fee is required. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for further information. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Crisis and a Question of Solidarity. Jin Y. Park (Ame rican) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-of-crisis-and -a-question-of-solidarity-jin-y-park-american/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe COVID-19 pandemic is said to be a once-in-a-century inciden t\, and it brought to us a sense of crisis at various levels. What is a cr isis\, though? Can any unnerving moment or period be called a crisis\, or are there different dimensions of a crisis to which we need to be attentiv e? Is solidarity possible after experiencing a crisis like Covid-19? Can B uddhism make any contribution to facilitating solidarity? This presentatio n explores the meaning and nature of a crisis and our responses to it by d rawing on modern Korean political thinker Pak Ch’iu’s (1909–1949) analysis of crisis and feminist-Buddhist thinker Kim Iryŏp’s (1896–1971) Buddhist philosophy. By doing so\, this presentation considers what social\, politi cal\, existential\, and even religious meaning we can draw from our experi ence of crises\, and what questions these insights present to us. p>\n
With responses from Kars ten Struhl (John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, CUNY)
\n< p class='gmail-p2'>Presented by THE COLUMBIA SOC IETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY\nRSVP is required for dinner. If you would like to participate in our dinner\, a $30 fee is required. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@colu mbia.edu for further information.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,existentialism\,Korean\,politi cal\,religion\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7977@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:Conceptual misalignment is a pervasive phenomenon in the studie s of Non-Western philosophy and the History of Philosophy (NW&HP). However \, conceptual misalignment is often undetected\, unsuspected\, or seen as a hurdle that NW&HP materials need to overcome to contribute to contempora ry discussions. Specifically\, conceptual misalignment refers to the follo wing: In the process of crystalizing NW&HP materials\, a linguistic coordi nation of concepts is formed between the speaker\, i.e.\, NW&HP\, and its context of contemporary anglophone philosophy. However\, in philosophicall y meaningful ways\, the original NW&HP concept and its anglophone counterp art misalign. This misalignment is particularly intricate and hard to dete ct when it comes to emotion concepts\, as they are thought to involve phen omenal and/or intentional features. Through investigating the concept of e motion in Chinese philosophy\, I propose a refocusing on conceptual misali gnment as a method of cross-cultural comparative and history of philosophy . Moreover\, I argue that conceptual misalignment is an important resource for contemporary conceptual engineering and amelioration projects.\nWith responses from Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\, CUNY)\nRSVP is r equired for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for further information.\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T193000 GEO:+40.807527;-73.960864 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Columbia @ 1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10 027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Conceptual Misalignment to Conceptual Engineering: A Case Stud y on Emotion from Chinese Philosophy. Wenqing Zhao (Whitman) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-conceptual-misalign ment-to-conceptual-engineering-a-case-study-on-emotion-from-chinese-philos ophy-wenqing-zhao-whitman/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nConceptual mi salignment is a pervasive phenomenon in the studies of Non-Western philoso phy and the History of Philosophy (NW&HP). However\, conceptual misalignme nt is often undetected\, unsuspected\, or seen as a hurdle that NW&HP mate rials need to overcome to contribute to contemporary discussions. Specific ally\, conceptual misalignment refers to the following: In the process of crystalizing NW&HP materials\, a linguistic coordination of concepts is fo rmed between the speaker\, i.e.\, NW&HP\, and its context of contemporary anglophone philosophy. However\, in philosophically meaningful ways\, the original NW&HP concept and its anglophone counterpart misalign. This misal ignment is particularly intricate and hard to detect when it comes to emot ion concepts\, as they are thought to involve phenomenal and/or intentiona l features. Through investigating the concept of emotion in Chinese philos ophy\, I propose a refocusing on conceptual misalignment as a method of cr oss-cultural comparative and history of philosophy. Moreover\, I argue tha t conceptual misalignment is an important resource for contemporary concep tual engineering and amelioration projects.
\nWith responses from Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\, CUNY)
\nRSVP is r equired for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Ple ase contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for further information.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative\,emotion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7978@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:In Sanskrit epistemology\, philosophers are preoccupied with th e notion of pramā. A pramā\, roughly\, is a mental event of learning or kn owledge-acquisition. Call any such mental event a knowledge-event. In A Co nfection of Refutation (Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya)\, the 12th century philosoph er and poet Śrīharṣa argued that knowledge-events are indefinable. Any sat isfactory (and therefore non-circular) definition of knowledge-events will have to include an anti-luck condition that doesn’t appeal back to the no tion of learning or knowledge-acquisition itself. But there is no such ant i-luck condition. What is novel about Śrīharṣa’s argument is that it is mo tivated by his commitment to a certain “knowledge first” approach to epist emology: the view that knowledge-events are epistemically prior to other n on-factive mental states and events. On this view\, when we are trying to determine whether an agent has undergone a knowledge-event\, we don’t init ially ascribe to them some other non-factive mental event\, and then check if that event meets some further conditions (like truth or reliability) n ecessary for it to count as a knowledge-event\; rather\, we treat certain mental events by default as knowledge-events until a defeater comes along. Surprisingly\, Śrīharṣa argues that this kind of “knowledge first” epist emology should give us reason to doubt whether our ordinary attributions o f knowledge-events are reliably tracking any sui generis psychological kin d. In this talk\, I reconstruct Śrīharṣa’s position.\nWith responses from Rosanna Picascia (Swarthmore College)\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@ columbia.edu for further information.\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 10027 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Śrīharṣa on the Indefinability of Knowledge. Nilanjan Das (U Toront o) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/srihar%e1%b9%a3a-on-the- indefinability-of-knowledge-nilanjan-das-u-toronto/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
In Sanskrit epistemology\, philosophers are preoccupied with th e notion of pramā. A pramā\, roughly\, is a mental event of learning or kn owledge-acquisition. Call any such mental event a knowledge-event. In A Co nfection of Refutation (Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya)\, the 12th century philosoph er and poet Śrīharṣa argued that knowledge-events are indefinable. Any sat isfactory (and therefore non-circular) definition of knowledge-events will have to include an anti-luck condition that doesn’t appeal back to the no tion of learning or knowledge-acquisition itself. But there is no such ant i-luck condition. What is novel about Śrīharṣa’s argument is that it is mo tivated by his commitment to a certain “knowledge first” approach to epist emology: the view that knowledge-events are epistemically prior to other n on-factive mental states and events. On this view\, when we are trying to determine whether an agent has undergone a knowledge-event\, we don’t init ially ascribe to them some other non-factive mental event\, and then check if that event meets some further conditions (like truth or reliability) n ecessary for it to count as a knowledge-event\; rather\, we treat certain mental events by default as knowledge-events until a defeater comes along. Surprisingly\, Śrīharṣa argues that this kind of “knowledge first” epistemology should give us re ason to doubt whether our ordinary attributions of knowledge-events are re liably tracking any sui generis psychological kind. In this talk\, I recon struct Śrīharṣa’s position.
\nWith res ponses from Rosanna Picascia (Swarthmore College)
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby resta urant. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for further information .
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative\,epistemology\,Indian END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8003@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:When someone is in a conscious state\, must they be aware of th at state? The Buddhist philosopher Dignāga offers a brilliant route to an swering this question by leveraging the role awareness might play as a con straint on memory. I begin by clarifying his strategy and what conclusion s it might be used to establish. Here I examine different candidate direc tions of explanation between consciousness and inner awareness. I interpr et the metaphor of consciousness as a lamp that lights itself\, and use th e metaphor to distinguish between his view and contemporary higher-order t heories of consciousness. I then turn to explain why the memory argument fails. The first main problem is that\, contrary to Dignāga’s contemporar y defenders\, there is no good way to use the argument to reach a conclusi on about all conscious states. The second main problem is that the propos ed awareness constraint on memory is highly problematic\, in tension both with ancient objections as well as current psychology.\nWith responses fro m Lu Teng (NYU Shanghai) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Speak\, Memory: Dignāga\, Consciousness\, and Awareness. Nicholas S ilins (Cornell) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/speak-memory-dignaga-con sciousness-and-awareness-nicholas-silins-cornell/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
When someone is in a conscious state\, must they be aware of that state? The Buddhist philosopher Dignāga offers a brilliant route to answering this question by leveraging the role awareness might play as a constraint on memory. I be gin by clarifying his strategy and what conclusions it might be used to es tablish. Here I examine different candidate directions of explanation bet ween consciousness and inner awareness. I interpret the metaphor of consc iousness as a lamp that lights itself\, and use the metaphor to distinguis h between his view and contemporary higher-order theories of consciousness . I then turn to explain why the memory argument fails. The first main p roblem is that\, contrary to Dignāga’s contemporary defenders\, there is n o good way to use the argument to reach a conclusion about all conscious s tates. The second main problem is that the proposed awareness constraint on memory is highly problematic\, in tension both with ancient objections as well as current psychology.
\nWith responses from Lu Teng (NYU Sh anghai)
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative\,consciousness\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8023@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://wp.nyu.edu/centerforbioethics/event/5638/ DESCRIPTION:Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow a t the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the Univer sity of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the pr oject Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethi cs in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and ho w) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning\, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning\, and various other problems in NLP \, AI\, and Vision including neuro-symbolic integration\, language groundi ng with vision and interactions\, and AI for social good. She is a co-reci pient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021)\, 7 Best/Outsta nding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023\, NAACL 2022\, ICML 2022\, NeurIPS 2021\, AAAI 2019\, and ICCV 2013)\, the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018\, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017\, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T173000 GEO:+40.728638;-73.993631 LOCATION:NYU room 801 @ 708 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/afternoon-talk-with-prof essor-yejin-choi/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nYejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow a t the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the Univer sity of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the pr oject Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethi cs in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and ho w) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning\, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning\, and various other problems in NLP \, AI\, and Vision including neuro-symbolic integration\, language groundi ng with vision and interactions\, and AI for social good. She is a co-reci pient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021)\, 7 Best/Outsta nding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023\, NAACL 2022\, ICML 2022\, NeurIPS 2021\, AAAI 2019\, and ICCV 2013)\, the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018\, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017\, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8044@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:What is an appropriate response to humiliating treatments such as insults? This question is not only relevant to today’s discourse but ha s also piqued the curiosity of thinkers in classical Chinese philosophy. T he Warring States period debate regarding whether one’s inner sense of sha me can shield one from insulting situations and from experiencing shame is frequently presented as a one-sided narrative that focuses on the Confuci an texts. Meanwhile\, the views of their rival thinkers\, such as the Daoi st\, legalist\, or much-neglected Songzi (3rd century BCE)\, are rarely th e focus of attention. This paper brings Songzi\, a key player in the debat e of emotions as responses to external triggers\, into the picture and res tores the historical intellectual discourse over the topic of what constit utes an appropriate response to humiliating situations such as insults. Mo re importantly\, I point out the philosophical significance of this debate \, namely how Songzi prompts Xunzi to respond to an ambiguity within the C onfucian doctrine: The early Confucians appear to think that an individual ’s internal virtues can isolate and shield one from hostile external stimu li while also maintaining that the external environment impacts one’s mora l cultivation and moral life in significant ways. Xunzi’s strategic move\, I argue\, is to give credit to both an inner sense of shame and the funct ion of external stimuli in inducing negative emotions\, thus making an imp ortant philosophical concession compared to Confucius and Mencius.\n\n\n\n \nWith responses from Nalei Chen (New York University)\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hope you’ve had restful and productive summers\, and we look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings. Below is the list of our scheduled speakers. Please save these dates!\n\nSeptember 15 – Jing Hu (Concordia)\nOctober 1 3 – Bill Waldron (Middlebury)\nOctober 27 – David Wong (Duke)\nDecember 1 – Stephen Angle (Wesleyan)\n\nFurther details will be circulated in due co urse. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716 @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10 027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:War and Shame –A Debate on the Appropriate Response to Insults betw een the Confucians and their Interlocutors. Jing Hu (Concordia University) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/war-and-shame-a-debate-o n-the-appropriate-response-to-insults-between-the-confucians-and-their-int erlocutors-jing-hu-concordia-university/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWhat i s an appropriate response to humiliating treatments such as insults? This question is not only relevant to today’s discourse but has also piqued the curiosity of thinkers in classical Chinese philosophy. The Warring States period debate regarding whether one’s inner sense of shame can shield one from insulting situations and from experiencing shame is frequently prese nted as a one-sided narrative that focuses on the Confucian texts. Meanwhi le\, the views of their rival thinkers\, such as the Daoist\, legalist\, o r much-neglected Songzi (3rd century BCE)\, are rarely the focus of attent ion. This paper brings Songzi\, a key player in the debate of emotions as responses to external triggers\, into the picture and restores the histori cal intellectual discourse over the topic of what constitutes an appropria te response to humiliating situations such as insults. More importantly\, I point out the philosophical significance of this debate\, namely how Son gzi prompts Xunzi to respond to an ambiguity within the Confucian doctrine : The early Confucians appear to think that an individual’s internal virtu es can isolate and shield one from hostile external stimuli while also mai ntaining that the external environment impacts one’s moral cultivation and moral life in significant ways. Xunzi’s strategic move\, I argue\, is to give credit to both an inner sense of shame and the function of external s timuli in inducing negative emotions\, thus making an important philosophi cal concession compared to Confucius and Mencius.
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ABSTRACT: Yogācāra Bud dhists articulated in the 3-5th c. CE India an explicit model of how we co llectively\, yet mostly unconsciously\, construct our shared social realit ies\, our cultures. These “worlds” are supported by cognitive processes in formed by cultural influences occurring outside our conscious awareness\, in the “store-house consciousness” (ālaya-vijñāna). Through development an d socialization\, we come to identify with these cultural norms\, thinking “I am this” and “this is mine.” Moreover\, and in agreement with cognitiv e scientists\, Yogācārins argue that humans have developed to be “innate e ssentialists\,” so that we imagine that our constructed social and cultura l identities have their own essential\, intrinsic characteristics\, set ap art from all others\, generating the “us/them” dichotomies that underlie c onflicts between groups. We can counteract these harmful patterns\, Yogācā rins say\, by analyzing how our social and cultural “realities” are collec tively constructed\, and by showing how—through logical\, psychological\, and contemplative exercises—we may weaken our unreflective\, knee-jerk rea ction to different peoples and cultures\, and thereby foster more toleranc e\, empathy and understanding for all beings. In sum\, Yogācāra Buddhism o ffers a rigorous and nuanced analysis of the origins of our prejudices and a set of methods to overcome them\, rooted in ancient traditions yet rele vant to contemporary issues.
\nWith responses from Jonathan Go ld (Princeton University)
\nDATE: October 13th\, 2023
\nTIME: 5:30 pm EST
\nLOCATION: Philosophy Hall \, Room 716\, Columbia University
\n1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
\nThe speaker w ill be Prof. Lewis Gordon of the University of Connecticut\, on “From Harl em to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the Black World with Question s for the 21st Century.” Gordon will talk about worldliness and public asp ects of philosophy\, placing them in the context of Harlem both at City Co llege and the public world of Africana philosophy from Du Bois to Malcolm X to contemporaries such as Nathalie Etoke. He will conclude with a set of questions for 21st century philosophy to consider.
\nLewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosop hy at UCONN-Storrs\; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies\; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes Univ ersity\, South Africa\; and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable P J Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies\, Mona. He co-edits the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs\ , the Rowman & Littlefield book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought\, and the Routledge-India book series Academics\, Politics and Society in t he Post-Covid World. He is the author of many books\, including\, most rec ently\, Freedom\, Justice\, and Decolonization (Routledge\, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover\, NY: Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2022 \; in the UK\, London: Penguin Books\, 2022)\, Picador paperback 2023. He is the 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Develop ment Studies division of the International Studies Association.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:African\,race\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8099@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:Despite the political polarization that characterizes many of o ur societies and much of the world\, comparative philosophy — which depend s on crossing various kinds of boundaries — is intellectually and professi onally doing reasonably well. Exciting new work continues to appear and ve nues for publication and discussion (print and digital\, in person and on- line) are proliferating. Another thing that is proliferating\, though\, is names for what it is we are doing. Are comparative\, cross-cultural\, int ercultural\, blended\, and fusion philosophy all the same thing? What do t hey share and where do they diverge\, and why? Can we identify a distincti ve project of comparative philosophy and say why it is important? Based on a broad survey of approaches\, in this essay I offer answers to these que stions. I maintain that whenever we do philosophy by drawing on at least t wo significantly different traditions of philosophy\, we are doing compara tive philosophy. Unpacking some of the key words in this definition will e nable me to clarify some persistent confusions as well as to stress the co nstitutive gamble that lies at the heart of all comparative philosophy. I identify three different ways to do comparative philosophy well—Comparison Philosophy\, Rooted Global Philosophy\, and Emergent Intercultural Philos ophy—and argue that which method to choose depends both on the values that motivate one’s inquiry and on the pragmatic situation that frames one’s w ork.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith responses from Katja Vogt (Columbia University)\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL NOTE FOR DINNER ON 12/1: For this event\, the Neo-Conf ucian Seminar and our Comparative Philosophy Seminar will be going to dinn er together. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further inform ation. RSVPs are limited for this event.\nNeo Confucian Studies seminar: I hope this email finds you well! Our next session of the seminar will conv ene on Friday 12/1 from 3:30-5:30 pm in the Heyman Center on Campus. The H eyman Center is also a dormitory. The guards at its entrance will have a l ist of all our attendees and will let you in based on that list\, no Green Pass required. (Green Passes are Columbia’s system for proving that you’r e up-to-date on your vaccinations and boosters.) Our guest speaker will be Professor Dongxian Jiang of Fordham University. Professor Jiang will pres ent his draft “Political Thinking in a Classless Society” attached. Please ask Dongxian Jiang directly before you cite or share his draft. To be on the list\, please RSVP to me at wk2363@columbia.edu before 11/27.\n\n\nWe hope you’ve had restful and productive summers\, and we look forward to s eeing you at our upcoming meetings. Below is the list of our scheduled spe akers. Please save these dates!\n\nSeptember 15 – Jing Hu (Concordia)\nOct ober 13 – Bill Waldron (Middlebury)\nOctober 27 – David Wong (Duke)\nDecem ber 1 – Stephen Angle (Wesleyan)\n\nFurther details will be circulated in due course. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T193000 GEO:+40.807527;-73.960864 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall 716 Columbia @ 1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mind the Gap: Methodological Pluralism in Comparative Philosophy St ephen Angle (Wesleyan) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mind-the-gap-methodologi cal-pluralism-in-comparative-philosophy-stephen-angle-wesleyan/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith responses from Katja Vogt (Columbia University)
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< b>SPECIAL NOTE FOR DINNER ON 12/1: For this event\, the Neo-Confucian Seminar and our Comparative Philosophy Seminar will be going to dinner tog ether. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information. R SVPs are limited for this event.
\nNeo Confucian Studies seminar: I hope this email finds you well! Our next session of the seminar will conve ne on Friday 12/1 from 3:30-5:30 pm in the Heyman Center on Campus. The He yman Center is also a dormitory. The guards at its entrance will have a li st of all our attendees and will let you in based on that list\, no Green Pass required. (Green Passes are Columbia’s system for proving that you’re up-to-date on your vaccinations and boosters.) Our guest speaker will be Professor Dongxian Jiang of Fordham University. Professor Jiang will prese nt his draft “Political Thinking in a Classless Society” attached. Please ask Dongxian Jiang directly before you cite or share his draft. To be on t he list\, please RSVP to me at wk2363@columbia.edu before 11/27.
\nThe first sec tion of the talk will give an account of the Hindu-Buddhist debate about t he existence of selves. The particular Hindu / Brāhmaṇical tradition conc entrated on is Nyāya\, and ‘Buddhism’ is used to refer specifically to Dha rmakīrtian Buddhism with its doctrine of momentariness. The second sectio n looks at a Nyāya argument against Buddhism. I will argue that it is not difficult for the Buddhist to come up with a satisfactory response. The third section will introduce the view of Rāmakaṇṭha (950–1000 CE) and look at three of his arguments against the Buddhist view. These I view as mor e difficult for the Buddhist to respond to. The fourth section introduces the view of Galen Strawson\, relates it to the Buddhist view\, and consid ers the extent to which it is susceptible to Rāmakaṇṭha’s arguments.
\nWith responses from Martin Lin (Rutgers University)
\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Ha ll will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have t his card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearb y to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
\nNOTE REGARDING DONATIONS: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted thr ough Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Dinner will take place at a n earby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further inf ormation.
\nComparative Philosophy Seminar:
\nJoin us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thi nking podcast. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral status of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global priorities research. p>\n
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Thank you to Effect ive Altruism New York City for their generous support of this event.
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr 5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8146@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:How does the imagination change us? Why should picturing oursel ves a certain way have any real effect on what we are? These questions are central to debates in Buddhist tantric literature regarding the generatio n stage (utpattikrama)\, wherein practitioners visualize themselves as bud dhas ensconsed in magnificent mandala-palaces. For some\, this practice is what sets Buddhist tantra apart: through this “yoga of the imagination\,” as David Shulman puts it\, a practitioner can achieve buddhahood in a sin gle lifetime. And yet\, as the Buddhist tantric author Indrabhūti (8th cen tury) argues\, a pauper who imagines himself to be a king does not thereby become one—so\, in the same way\, practitioners who visualize themselves as buddhas will not thereby become buddhas. The mental imagery (ākāra) inv olved in this practice is just so much unreal fabrication. Why should it h ave real transformative effects? I’ll consider here how these debates play ed out in Sanskrit Buddhist tantric texts from the 10th–11th centuries. I’ ll focus on early authors in the Kālacakra tradition\, who upheld Indrabhū ti’s critique of the generation stage\, and authors like Ratnākaraśānti\, Vāgīśvarakīrti\, and Advayavajra (aka Maitrīpa)\, who each in their own wa y critiqued mental imagery yet defended the importance and effectiveness o f generation-stage practice. In the first part of the paper\, I’ll conside r arguments against mental imagery as these appear in generation-stage pra ctice texts and the early Kālacakra tradition. In the second part\, I’ll t urn to why we might think unreal mental imagery can nevertheless have real transformative effects\, paying special attention to the ways Buddhist ta ntric authors writing in Sanskrit take up ideas from the tradition of dram atic theory (nāṭyaśastra) and Sanskrit culture more broadly.\n\n\n\n\nWith responses from Thomas Yarnall (Columbia University)\n\n\n\n\nDATE: Februa ry 2nd\, 2024\nTIME: 5:30 pm EST\nLOCATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, C olumbia University\n1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027\nNOTE ON ENTR Y FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in or con tact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final reso urce so as not to interrupt the talk.\nNOTE REGARDING DONATIONS: Due to CO VID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.\nRSVP is required for dinner. Din ner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@ columbia.edu for further information.\nACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT: Columbia U niversity encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its progr ams and activities. The University Seminars’ participants with dis- abilit ies who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about phys ical access may contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.854.2388 or disability@columbia.edu. Disability accommodations\, including sign-lan guage interpreters\, are available on request. Requests for accommodations must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public Safety Officer if they need assistance accessing campus.\nPLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://universityseminars.c olumbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philosophy/\n(Please do not reply to this announcement. You may contact the Co-Chairs using the link above.) \nComp arative Philosophy Seminar:\n\nJanuary 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University )\nFebruary 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova University)\nApril 5 – Laura Sp ecker (Fordham University)\nMay 3 – Daniel Stephens (University at Buffalo ) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T193000 GEO:+40.811099;-73.962729 LOCATION:Columbia Religion @ 80 Claremont Ave\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mental Imagery\, Tantric Practice\, and the Drama of the Imaginatio n. Davey K. Tomlinson (Villanova) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mental-imagery-tantric-p ractice-and-the-drama-of-the-imagination-davey-k-tomlinson-villanova/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHow does the imagination change us ? Why should picturing ourselves a certain way have any real effect on wha t we are? These questions are central to debates in Buddhist tantric liter ature regarding the generation stage (utpattikrama)\, wherein pract itioners visualize themselves as buddhas ensconsed in magnificent mandala- palaces. For some\, this practice is what sets Buddhist tantra apart: thro ugh this “yoga of the imagination\,” as David Shulman puts it\, a practiti oner can achieve buddhahood in a single lifetime. And yet\, as the Buddhis t tantric author Indrabhūti (8th century) argues\, a pauper who imagines h imself to be a king does not thereby become one—so\, in the same way\, pra ctitioners who visualize themselves as buddhas will not thereby become bud dhas. The mental imagery (ākāra) involved in this practice is just so much unreal fabrication. Why should it have real transformative effects ? I’ll consider here how these debates played out in Sanskrit Buddhist tan tric texts from the 10th–11th centuries. I’ll focus on early authors in th e Kālacakra tradition\, who upheld Indrabhūti’s critique of the generation stage\, and authors like Ratnākaraśānti\, Vāgīśvarakīrti\, and Advayavajr a (aka Maitrīpa)\, who each in their own way critiqued mental imagery yet defended the importance and effectiveness of generation-stage practice. In the first part of the paper\, I’ll consider arguments against mental imag ery as these appear in generation-stage practice texts and the early Kālac akra tradition. In the second part\, I’ll turn to why we might think unrea l mental imagery can nevertheless have real transformative effects\, payin g special attention to the ways Buddhist tantric authors writing in Sanskr it take up ideas from the tradition of dramatic theory (nāṭyaśastra ) and Sanskrit culture more broadly.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith responses from Thoma s Yarnall (Columbia University)
\nDATE: February 2nd\, 2024
\nTIME: 5:30 pm EST
\nLOCATION: Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, Columbia Univer sity
\n1150 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027
\nNOTE ON E NTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only op en with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting beg ins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
\nNOTE REGARDING DONAT IONS: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia U niversity’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Columbia.
\nRSV P is required for dinner. Dinner will take place at a nearby restauran t. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information.
\nACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT: Columbia University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. The Unive rsity Seminars’ participants with dis- abilities who anticipate needing ac commodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the O ffice of Disability Services at 212.854.2388 or disability@columbia.edu. Disability accommodations\, including sign-language interpreters\, are av ailable on request. Requests for accommodations must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public Safety Officer if they need assistance accessing campus.
\nPLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: h ttps://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philosophy/
\n(Please do not reply to this announcement. You may contact th e Co-Chairs using the link above.)
\nComparative Philosophy Sem inar:
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\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,imagination END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8156@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T064734Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:Comparative philosophy is gaining traction in professional acad emic philosophy\, with specialist journals\, organizations\, books\, and p ublic campaigns. These inroads have been made in canonical areas of philos ophy\, including epistemology\, metaphysics\, logic\, and value theory. Ye t comparative philosophy still plays little role in practical applied ethi cs\, an interdisciplinary research area in which work with practice and po licy implications are dominated by the anglophone world. In this article\, I explain why comparative work might be especially difficult in this type of applied ethics\, and I suggest how comparative philosophers might over come these challenges to connect their theoretical work with contemporary practical issues.\nWith responses from Wenqing Zhao (CUNY Baruch)\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please a rrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting begin s. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in o r contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk. \nRSVP IS REQUIRED FOR DINNER:. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2 798@columbia.edu for further information. RSVPs are limited.\n\n \nCompara tive Philosophy Seminar:\n\nJanuary 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)\n February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova University)\nApril 5 – Laura Speck er (Fordham University)\nMay 3 – Daniel Stephens (University at Buffalo) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716\, @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Comparative Philosophy and Practical Applied Ethics. Laura Specker Sullivan (Fordham) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/comparative-philosophy-a nd-practical-applied-ethics-laura-specker-sullivan-fordham/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\nFebruary 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova University)\n - April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham University)
\n- May 3 – Daniel Stephens (Univ ersity at Buffalo)
\n\\n\\n Comparative p hilosophy is gaining traction in professional academic philosophy\, with s pecialist journals\, organizations\, books\, and public campaigns. These i nroads have been made in canonical areas of philosophy\, including epistem ology\, metaphysics\, logic\, and value theory. Yet comparative philosophy still plays little role in practical applied ethics\, an interdisciplinar y research area in which work with practice and policy implications are do minated by the anglophone world. In this article\, I explain why comparati ve work might be especially difficult in this type of applied ethics\, and I suggest how comparative philosophers might overcome these challenges to connect their theoretical work with contemporary practical issues.
\n< p>With responses from Wenqing Zhao (CUNY Baruch)\nNOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late\, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in or cont act Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resourc e so as not to interrupt the talk.
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Comparative Philosophy Seminar:
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- Januar y 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka University)
\n- February 2 – Davey Tomlin son (Villanova University)
\n- April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham Univ ersity)
\n- May 3 – Daniel Stephens (University at Buffalo)
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\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:comparative END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR- January 19 – Alex Watson (Ashoka Univers ity)
\n- February 2 – Davey Tomlinson (Villanova University)
\n< li>April 5 – Laura Specker (Fordham University)\n- May 3 – Daniel S tephens (University at Buffalo)
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