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-7725@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:http://susannaschellenberg.org/special-pages/rutgers-epistemology-c onference/ DESCRIPTION:The REC is a pre-read conference. The papers will be made avail able on this website on April 15.\n\n\n\nPROGRAM\n\nFriday\, April 29\, 20 22\n\n1:30 – 3:15 pm\n\nJeremy Fantl (Calgary)\n\nChair: TBD\n\n\n\n\nCoff ee Break\n3:45 – 5:30 pm\n\nThomas Kelly (Princeton)\n\nChair: TBD\n\n\n\n \nDinner\n7:30 – 9:15 pm\n\nJane Friedman (NYU)\n\nChair: TBD\n\n\n\n\nRec eption 9:30 – 11:00 PM\n\n \nSaturday\, April 30\, 2022\n\n9:30 – 11:15 am \n\nPeter Graham (UCR)\n\nChair: TBD\n\n\n\n\nCoffee Break\n11:45 – 1:30 p m Winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize\n\nMona Simion (Glasgow)\n \nChair: TBD\n\n\n\n\nLunch\n2:45 – 4:30 pm\n\nKathrin Glüer (Stockholms U niversitet) and Asa Wikforss (Stockholms Universitet)\n\nChair: TBD\n\n\n \n\n\nDiscussants\n\nPatrick Greenough (University of St. Andrews)\nSarah Paul (NYU-Abu Dhabi)\nDeclan Smithies (OSU)\nJulia Staffel (University of Colorado)\n\n \nParticipants (to be updated soon)\n\nChris Copan\, Andy Eg an\, Megan Feeney\, Peter Klein\, Matthew McGrath\, Susanna Schellenberg\, Ernie Sosa\n \nThe REC is a pre-read conference\, so papers are to be rea d in advance. There is no registration fee for the conference\, but please notify Chris Copan\, the conference manager\, if you plan to attend by se nding an email to rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com. If you wish to participate in the meals\, please send a check made out to “Rutgers Univer sity” to the conference manager by April 15 ($80 if you are a faculty memb er or a postdoc\; $60 if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate): Chris Copan\; REC\; 106 Somerset St\, 5th Floor\; New Brunswick\, NJ 08901 .\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220501 GEO:+40.49633;-74.441176 LOCATION:Hyatt Regency New Brunswick @ 2 Albany St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 089 01\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2022 URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rutgers-epistemology-con ference-2022/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nThe REC is a pre-r ead conference. The papers will be made available on this website on April 15.
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Saturday\, April 30\, 2022
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ipants (to be updated soon)
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Chris Copan\, Andy Eg an\, Megan Feeney\, Peter Klein\, Matthew McGrath\, Susanna Schellenberg\, Ernie Sosa
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The REC is a pre-read conference\, so papers are to be read in advance. There is no registration fee for the conferenc e\, but please notify Chris Copan\, the conference manager\, if you plan t o attend by sending an email to rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com. If you wish to participate in the meals\, please send a check made out to “Rutgers Unive rsity” to the conference manager by April 15 ($80 if you are a faculty mem ber or a postdoc\; $60 if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate): Chris Copan\; REC\; 106 Somerset St\, 5th Floor\; New Brunswick\, NJ 0890 1.
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Free Will
Implications from Physics and Metaphysics
The workshop will be hybrid\, and anyone interested can particip ate through Zoom\, although there will be limited spots for in-person part icipants. If you are interested in attending in-person\, please reply to t his email or write to loewe r@philosophy.rutgers.edu.
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Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu) Assistant: Diego Arana (diego.aran
a@rutgers.edu)
Program (All times are EST)
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/freewillzoom
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May 11
10:00am Peter van Inwagen (
Notre Dame\, Duke)
Ginet’s Principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to the
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1:30am John Perry (Stanford)
Causatio
n\, Entailment and Freedom
3:00pm Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
The Consequence Argument Meet
s the Mentaculus
4:30pm Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille\, UWO)
Free will: Back to Reichen
bach
May 12
10:00am Kadri Vihvelin (USC)
11:30am Valia Allori (NIU)
Freedom from the Quantum?
3:00pm Ti
m O’Connor (Indiana\, Baylor)
Top-Down and Indeterministic Agency: Why?4:30pm Jessica
Wilson (Toronto)
Two Routes to the Emergence of Free Will
Contact Toby Bollig
\nTBA
\nLocation TBD
Susan Neiman develops in Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosop hy (2002\, Princeton: Princeton University Press) a watershed perspec tive on the longstanding problem of evil\, the perniciously difficult to s atisfy “need to find order within those appearances so unbearable that the y threaten reason’s ability to go on.” The book thereby also presents a ra dically new perspective on traditional debates within metaphysics. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary\, we gather to celebrate her accompl ishment and to advance the research program it reflects. Participants will include\, in addition to Neiman herself: Annalise Acorn\, Frederick Beise r\, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer\, Omri Boehm\, Dan Brudney\, Caroline Bynum\, Lor raine Daston\, Michael Della Rocca\, Wendy Doniger\, Wolfram Ellenberger\, John Faithful Hamer\, Carey Harrison\, Patricia Kitcher\, Philip Kitcher\ , Christia Mercer\, Cornel West\, Allen Wood\, and James Wood.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:evil\,metaphysics\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7879@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/103858 DESCRIPTION:This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first pu blication of Saul Kripke’s masterpiece\, Naming and Necessity\, by showcas ing new work on a range of topics on which it has had a lasting influence. These topics include\, but are not limited to: the nature of names and na tural kind terms\; the failure of the description or cluster/description t heories\; the distinction between metaphysical necessity and epistemic apr iority\; empty names\; the metaphysics of essence and origin\; the nature of modality and possible worlds\; conceivability and the epistemology of m odality\; the role of philosophical intuition\; and the mind-body problem. \nDates: 12th and 13th December\, from 9am to 5pm.\nVenue: The CUNY Gradua te Center\, 365 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York.\nFormat: hybrid\nRegistr ation: for both online and in person attendance\, please register by the 2 8th of November\, 2022 at https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7.\n https://s aulkripkecenter.org/ \nSpeakers:\n\n\n Katalin Balog \nRutgers University – Newark\n\n\n Anandi Hattiangadi \nStockholm University\n\n\n Carl Hoefer \nUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona\n\n\n Janet Levin \nUniversity of Sou thern California\n\n\n Antonella Mallozzi \nProvidence College\n\n\n Genov eva Martí \nICREA And University Of Barcelona\n\n\n Alexander Moran \nTrin ity College\, Dublin\n\n\n Brian Rabern \nUniversity of Edinburgh\n\n\n Te resa Robertson Ishii \nUniversity of California at Santa Barbara\n\n\n Nat han Salmon \nUniversity of California at Santa Barbara\n\n\n Sarah Sawyer \nUniversity of Sussex\n\n\n Anders Schoubye \nStockholm University\n\n\n Jennifer Wang \nSimon Fraser University\n\n\n Stephen Yablo \nMassachusett s Institute of Technology\n\n\nOrganisers:\n\n\n Corine Besson \nUniversit y of Sussex\n\n\n Anandi Hattiangadi \nStockholm University\n\n\n Antonell a Mallozzi \nProvidence College\n\n\n Yale Weiss \nCUNY Graduate Center\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTickets: https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221214 GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098 LOCATION:Philosophy Dept.\, CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:50 Years of Naming and Necessity URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/50-years-of-naming-and-n ecessity/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis conferen ce celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Saul Kripke ’s masterpiece\, Naming and Necessity\, by showcasing new work on a range of topics on which it has had a lasting influence. These topics include\, but are not limited to: the nature of names and natural kind terms\; the f ailure of the description or cluster/description theories\; the distinctio n between metaphysical necessity and epistemic apriority\; empty names\; t he metaphysics of essence and origin\; the nature of modality and possible worlds\; conceivability and the epistemology of modality\; the role of ph ilosophical intuition\; and the mind-body problem.
\nDates: 12th and 13th December\, from 9am to 5pm.
\nVenue: The CUNY Graduate Center\ , 365 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York.
\nFormat: hybrid
\nReg istration: for both online and in person attendance\, please register by t he 28th of November\, 2022 at https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7.
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Tickets: https: //forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,epistemology\,language\,metaphysics X-TICKETS-URL:https://forms.gle/Jbr3uaFx1ZwRxJpZ7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/ DESCRIPTION:A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organ ized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York Univers ity) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New Yor k University.\nAbout\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI res earch from a philosophical perspective\, with particular attention to rece nt work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, a nd their relationship to human cognition.\nThe conference will focus espec ially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on top ics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:\n\nWhat c ognitive capacities\, if any\, do current deep learning systems possess?\n What cognitive capacities might future deep learning systems possess?\nWha t kind of representations can we ascribe to artificial neural networks?\nC ould a large language model genuinely understand language?\nWhat do deep l earning systems tell us about human cognition\, and vice versa?\nHow can w e develop a theoretical understanding of deep learning systems?\nHow do de ep learning systems bear on philosophical debates such as rationalism vs e mpiricism and classical vs. nonclassical views of cognition.\nWhat are the key obstacles on the path from current deep learning systems to human-lev el cognition?\n\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackl e the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for meanin g and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browning (New York Universi ty)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York Universi ty)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI).\nConference speake rs\n\nCameron Buckner (University of Houston)\nRosa Cao (Stanford Universi ty)\nIshita Dasgupta (DeepMind)\nNikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia Universit y)\nBrenden Lake (New York University / Meta AI)\nGrace Lindsay (New York University)\nTal Linzen (New York University / Google AI)\nRaphaël Millièr e (Columbia University)\nNicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy\, Universi ty of London)\n\nCall for abstracts\nWe invite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the confe rence. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).\n \nh ttps://philevents.org/event/show/106406\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.c om/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327 GEO:+40.729513;-73.996461 LOCATION:Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness @ New York\, NY 10012\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Deep Learning URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-philosophy-of-deep-l earning/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nA two-day con ference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia Uni versity)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscien ce program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, a nd Consciousness at New York University.
\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI research from a phi losophical perspective\, with particular attention to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, and their relatio nship to human cognition.
\nThe conference will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:
\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackle the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for m eaning and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browni ng (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York University)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown U niversity / Google AI).
\nWe i nvite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the conference. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com a> by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).
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https: //philevents.org/event/show/106406
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosop hy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfa\,cognitive science\,conf erence\,language\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conf erence-tickets-453924730087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7913@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/106913 DESCRIPTION:The Center for Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University is pleased to host an in-person\, working-papers conference on the Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experience. We are seeking abstracts (150-3 50 words) from those interested in participating. The tentative date is 15 -16 April 2023. And the deadline for submission is 28 February 2023. Parti cipants with accepted submissions will be given hotel accommodations and a modest honorarium to help defray travel costs.\nTheme\nThe overall theme of the workshop is the Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experience s. Philosophers of religion frequently assign religious experiences import ant epistemic roles\, such as justifying religious beliefs. But religious experiences of the kind philosophers are interested in are also studied in other fields as well\, such as psychology and religious studies. However\ , the psychology and epistemology of religious experiences are presumably not independent\; studying them together is likely to be insightful in var ious ways. To that end\, we are interested in bringing together scholars w orking on the psychology and epistemology of religious experiences. Potent ial topics include:\n· The nature of religious experiences\n· Taxonomies of religious experiences\n· Potential psychological mecha nisms and accounts of religious experience\n· The relation between p erception and religious experiences\n· The epistemology of religious experience\n· The interactions between the psychology and epistemol ogy of religious experience\n· The relation of cognitive science of religion to religious experience\nAny proposed papers on these topics\, or similar ones\, are welcome. Papers exploring interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome.\nInstructions\nPlease submit an abstract (150-350 words )\, long abstract (350-650 words)\, or full paper to Timothy Perrine at tp 654@scarletmail.rutgers.edu. Submission should be prepared for blind revie w. In a separate document please provide your name\, institutional affilia tion (if applicable)\, and contact information. Submission deadline is 28 February\; acceptances will be decided by 5 March\; and the workshop will be held 15-16 April. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230417 GEO:+40.49747;-74.44717 LOCATION:Center for Philosophy of Religions\, Rutgers @ The Gateway\, 106 S omerset St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experiences Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/psychology-and-epistemol ogy-of-religious-experiences-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Center fo r Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University is pleased to host an in-pe rson\, working-papers conference on the Psychology and Epistemology of Rel igious Experience. We are seeking abstracts (150-350 words) from those int erested in participating. The tentative date is 15-16 April 2023. And the deadline for submission is 28 February 2023. Participants with accepted su bmissions will be given hotel accommodations and a modest honorarium to he lp defray travel costs.
\nTheme
\nThe overall theme of the workshop is the Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experiences. Philosophers of religion frequently assign religious experiences important epistemic roles\, such as justifying religious beliefs. But religious exp eriences of the kind philosophers are interested in are also studied in ot her fields as well\, such as psychology and religious studies. However\, t he psychology and epistemology of religious experiences are presumably not independent\; studying them together is likely to be insightful in variou s ways. To that end\, we are interested in bringing together scholars work ing on the psychology and epistemology of religious experiences. Potential topics include:
\n· The nature of religious experiences
\n· Taxonomies of religious experiences
\n· Potential p sychological mechanisms and accounts of religious experience
\n· The relation between perception and religious experiences
\n· The epistemology of religious experience
\n· The interactio ns between the psychology and epistemology of religious experience
\n· The relation of cognitive science of religion to religious experi ence
\nAny proposed papers on these topics\, or similar ones\, are w elcome. Papers exploring interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome.
\nInstructions
\nPlease submit an abstract (150-350 words )\, long abstract (350-650 words)\, or full paper to Timothy Perrine at tp654@scarletm ail.rutgers.edu. Submission should be prepared for blind review. In a separate document please provide your name\, institutional affiliation (if applicable)\, and contact information. Submission deadline is 28 February \; acceptances will be decided by 5 March\; and the workshop will be held 15-16 April.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,epistemology\,mind\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7935@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea t.detail/2023/04/04/749/-/rutgers-epistemology-conference DESCRIPTION:Rutgers Epistemology Conference DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230505 GEO:+40.49747;-74.44717 LOCATION:Seminar Room 524B @ The Gateway\, 106 Somerset St\, New Brunswick\ , NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rutgers Epistemology Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rutgers-epistemology-con ference-3/ 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:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2023/index.html DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series h as established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscie nce\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main proble ms that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatics r esearch.\nThe 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) p rovides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and pr actitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research resu lts\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical de velopment experiences on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired techn ologies and brain/mental health applications.\nThe key theme of the confer ence is “Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper an d abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:\n \nTrack 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science\nTrack 2: Human Information Processing Systems\nTrack 3: Brain Big Data Analytic s\, Curation and Management\nTrack 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research\nTrack 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Insp ired Computing\n\nKeynote Speakers\nProfessor Emery N. Brown\nMIT\, Massac husetts General Hospital\, USA\nProfile: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachuse tts General Hospital (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and prof essor of computational neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Instit ute for Medical Engineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard– MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 ind ividuals who has been elected to all three branches of the National Academ ies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first Africa n American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three Natio nal Academies.\nProfessor Bin He\nCarnegie Mellon University\, USA\nProfil e: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor o f the Neuroscience Institute\, and Professor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. He has made signi ficant research and education contributions to the field of neuroengineeri ng and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noni nvasive brain-computer interface (BCI)\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped transforming electroencephalography fro m a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modali ty. His lab demonstrated for the first time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinking about it using a noninvasive BCI. H e is an elected Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Enginee ring (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He se rved as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology S ociety\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineerin g from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the International Academy of Medical and B iological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAI N Initiative Multi-Council Working Group from 2014-2019.\nProfessor John N gai\nNIH BRAIN Initiative\, USA\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Di rector of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechn ologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor’s degree in chemi stry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, California\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasade na. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at the Columbia Univer sity College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty positi on at the University of California at Berkeley. During more than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 undergraduate stude nts\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows in addition to teac hing well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His work has led to the p ublication of more than 70 scientific articles in some of the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international patents. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation\, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. As a faculty member \, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided exte nsive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steering groups\, inclu ding as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consorti um Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strategy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.\nProfessor Helen M ayberg\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA\nProfile: Helen Mayb erg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circ uits in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain stimulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born and raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology fro m UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained in Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a re search fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acad emic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scie nces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neu ropsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Cha ir in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now the Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medi cine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Aca demy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\nProfessor Vi nod Goel\nYork University\, Canada\nProfile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitive science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral t raining in neuroscience at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\, Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made signi ficant empirical contributions to our understanding of the roles of prefro ntal cortex in real-world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asym metry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodo logies of fMRI and lesion studies. He has most recently completed a book r econstructing the role of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason a nd Less: Pursuing Food\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His c urrent project is to explore the implications of this work on our understa nding of reason and legal responsibility.\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski\nCornel l University\, USA\nProfile: Amy Kuceyeski is an Associate Professor of Ma thematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cornell University. She is the directo r of the Computational Connectomics (CoCo) Laboratory and the Machine Lear ning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been w orking to understand the human brain using quantitative modeling approache s\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological chara cteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we can devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to support natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersection of biological and artificial ne ural networks that aims to understand how human brains process incoming vi sual information.\nProfessor Patrick Purdon\nHarvard Medical School\, USA \nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Anaest hesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospita l. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard Coll ege in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1998\, and hi s Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Purdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthesia\, Alzheimer’ s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologies for brain mo nitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications\, is an inve ntor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New In novator Award.\nImportant Dates\n\n15 April 2023: Full paper submission de adline\n\n\n20 April 2023: Workshop proposal deadline\n\n\n10 May 2023: Ab stract presentation submission deadline\n\n\n30 May 2023: Final paper and abstract acceptance notification\n\n\n20 Jun 2023: Accepted paper and abst ract registration deadline\n\n\n1-3 Aug 2023: The Brain Informatics Confer ence\n\nPaper Submission and Publications\nFull Paper (Regular):\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedings format(https://www.springer.com/u s/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Over length pa pers will be charged for 100$ per page.\n2. All papers will be peer-review ed and accepted based on originality\, significance of contribution\, tech nical merit\, and presentation quality.\n3. All papers accepted (and all w orkshop & special sessions’ full-length papers) will be published by Sprin ger as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series( https://link.springer.com/conference/brain).\nAbstract (Only for Workshops /Special Sessions):\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepte d for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentat ion format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.\nJournal Opport unities:\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-t rack review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https://br aininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, inter disciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference p aper authors.\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:\nWorkshop/special ses sion organizers and BI conference session chairs may consider and can be i nvited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for possible book publ ication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (htt ps://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Info rmatics Journal.\nPoster-Conference Publication\n1. Accepted full papers w ill be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. \n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/). \n3. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepa re a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and He alth book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).\n \nhttps://phile vents.org/event/show/109301 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804 GEO:+40.744623;-74.025399 LOCATION:Stevens Institute of Technology @ 1 Castle Point Terrace\, Hoboken \, NJ 07030\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c onference-on-brain-informatics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Internati onal Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series has established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is a n emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that com bines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscience\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communi cation Technology (ICT) to explore the main problems that lie in the inter play between human brain studies and informatics research.
\nThe 16t h International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experie nces on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired technologies and brain /mental health applications.
\nThe key theme of the conference is “< strong>Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.
\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
\nKeynote Speakers
\nProfessor Emery N. Bro wn
\nMIT\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, USA
\nPro file: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor o f Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospit al (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edwa rd Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computati onal neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical En gineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Hea lth Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 individuals who has b een elected to all three branches of the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first African American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three National Academies.
\nProfessor Bin He
\nCarnegie Mellon University\ , USA
\nProfile: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor of the Neuroscience Institute\, and Pr ofessor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mel lon University. Dr. He has made significant research and education contrib utions to the field of neuroengineering and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI )\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped tr ansforming electroencephalography from a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality. His lab demonstrated for the firs t time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinkin g about it using a noninvasive BCI. He is an elected Fellow of Internation al Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Instit ute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He served as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the I nternational Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Gr oup from 2014-2019.
\nProfessor John Ngai
\nN IH BRAIN Initiative\, USA
\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Inn ovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor ’s degree in chemistry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, Calif ornia\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech) in Pasadena. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at t he Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty position at the University of California at Berkeley. During m ore than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 u ndergraduate students\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows i n addition to teaching well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His wor k has led to the publication of more than 70 scientific articles in some o f the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international pate nts. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation \, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. A s a faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neu roscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided extensive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steer ing groups\, including as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Ce ll Census Consortium Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strat egy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.< /p>\n
Professor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of M edicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile: Helen Maybe rg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circu its in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain s timulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born a nd raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology from UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained i n Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a res earch fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acade mic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scien ces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neur opsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Chai r in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now t he Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medic ine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Acad emy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
\nYork University\, Canada
\nP rofile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscien ce at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitiv e science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral training in neuroscie nce at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\ , Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made significant empirical con tributions to our understanding of the roles of prefrontal cortex in real- world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asymmetry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodologies of fMRI and l esion studies. He has most recently completed a book reconstructing the ro le of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason and Less: Pursuing Fo od\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His current project is to explore the implications of this work on our understanding of reason and legal responsibility.
\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski
\nCornell University\, USA
\nProfile: Amy Kuceye ski is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cor nell University. She is the director of the Computational Connectomics (Co Co) Laboratory and the Machine Learning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been working to understand the human brain us ing quantitative modeling approaches\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological characteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we ca n devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to suppo rt natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersect ion of biological and artificial neural networks that aims to understand h ow human brains process incoming visual information.
\nProfe ssor Patrick Purdon
\nHarvard Medical School\, USA
\nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Prof essor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims E ndowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences fr om Harvard College in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT i n 1998\, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Pu rdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthes ia\, Alzheimer’s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologi es for brain monitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publicatio ns\, is an inventor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the America n Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won nu merous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Di rector’s New Innovator Award.
\nImportant Dates
\nPaper Submission and Publications
\nF ull Paper (Regular):
\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the
regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedi
ngs format(https://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-pr
oceedings-guidelines). Over length papers will be charged for 100$ per pag
e.
\n2. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on origin
ality\, significance of contribution\, technical merit\, and presentation
quality.
\n3. All papers accepted (and all workshop & special session
s’ full-length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the Sp
ringer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series(https://link.springer.com
/conference/brain).
Abstract (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions) :
\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for prese ntations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abs tract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conf erence proceedings to be published by Springer.
\nJournal Opportunit ies:
\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fas t-track review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https:/ /braininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, in terdisciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conferenc e paper authors.
\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:
\nWor kshop/special session organizers and BI conference session chairs may cons ider and can be invited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for p ossible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal.
\nPoster-Conference Public ation
\n1. Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision.
\n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics c onference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/).
\n3. The org anizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book pr oposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible bo ok publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and Health book se ries (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
\n\n
https://philevents.org/event/show/ 109301
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfp\,cognitive science\,comm unication\,conference\,information\,mind\,neuroscience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8048@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a series of keynote presentations as part of the 20 23 Institute for Philosophy and New Humanities: Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds.\nArtifacts are a primary object of study in the humanities. They are products and\, thus\, manifestations of human thought \, action\, and self-determination without which they cannot be understood . At the same time\, human mindedness depends on artifacts\, and as well a s other objects – a dependence that is manifest in the form of artifacts. Human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are therefore intertwined in complex ways.\nOur Fall institute meeting 2023 Institute will consider wa ys in which human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are dialecticall y intertwined. Of special interest will be automatically or mechanically p roduced artifacts\, and AI systems as artifacts that are neither inert cau sal models of human thinking nor independently minded entities. The ontolo gy of such products thus needs to be calibrated in light of their contribu tion to the deep diversity of the mutual dependence of mindedness and arti facts. Some questions our seminar will address include: How do AI-research and AI-systems structure and restructure the historical\, diverse articul ation of human mindedness? How does our understanding of these and other a rtifacts shape our self-conception at the most fundamental level?\n \nWe w ill explore these issues in the ontology\, epistemology\, and humanistic s tudy of AI and other artifacts together with distinguished keynote speaker s:\nMonday\, September 11\, 4pm\nHans Ulrich Gumbrecht: UNFOLDING A FUZZY FUTURE? Dimensions for Thinking about “Singularity”\n\nTuesday\, September 12\, 10am\nCameron Buckner: Understanding Progress in AI Using Empiricist Philosophy of Mind\n\nWednesday\, September 13\, 3pm\nKanta Dihal\nWednes day\, September 13\, 5pm\nDavid Chalmers: Forum Humanum Lecture\n\nThursda y\, September 14\, 4pm\nNandi Theunissen: Rethinking Regress Arguments for the Value of Humanity\n\nFriday\, September 15\, 4pm\nKalindi Vora\nTicke ts: https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230911 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230916 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall (UL102) @ 63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mind-dependent-artifacts -artifact-dependent-minds/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nJoin us for a series of keynote presentations as part of the 2023 Institute for Philoso phy and New Humanities: Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds .
\nArtifacts are a primary object of study in the humanities. They are products and\, thus\, manifestations of human thought\, action\, and s elf-determination without which they cannot be understood. At the same tim e\, human mindedness depends on artifacts\, and as well as other objects – a dependence that is manifest in the form of artifacts. Human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are therefore intertwined in complex ways.
\nOur Fall institute meeting 2023 Institute will consider ways in whic h human mindedness and the reality of artifacts are dialectically intertwi ned. Of special interest will be automatically or mechanically produced ar tifacts\, and AI systems as artifacts that are neither inert causal models of human thinking nor independently minded entities. The ontology of such products thus needs to be calibrated in light of their contribution to th e deep diversity of the mutual dependence of mindedness and artifacts. Som e questions our seminar will address include: How do AI-research and AI-sy stems structure and restructure the historical\, diverse articulation of h uman mindedness? How does our understanding of these and other artifacts s hape our self-conception at the most fundamental level?
\n\n
We will explore these issues in the ontology\, epistemology\, and humanist ic study of AI and other artifacts together with distinguished keynote spe akers:
\nMonday\, September 11\, 4pm
\nHans Ulrich Gumb
recht: UNFOLDING A FUZZY FUTURE? Dimensions for Thinking about “Singularit
y”
Tuesday\, September 12\, 10am
\n
Cameron Buckner: Understanding Progress in AI Using Empiricist Philosophy
of Mind
\n
Wednesday\, September 13\, 3pm
\n
Wednesday\, September 13\, 5pm
\nDavid Chalmers: Forum Humanum Lecture
\n
Thursday\, September 14\, 4pm
\nNandi Theunissen:
Rethinking Regress Arguments for the Value of Humanity
< /p>\n
Friday\, September 15\, 4pm
\nKalindi Vora
p>\n
Tickets: https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/ipnh2023#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8039@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/113918 DESCRIPTION:Professor Joseph Raz\, to many of us a lifelong mentor\, collea gue and dear friend\, passed away on May 2nd\, 2022. In recognition of Raz ’s enormous influence in philosophy and legal theory\, organizers of the t win conferences in tribute to his work invite you to attend one or both co nferences and to participate in the discussions. The papers will be made a vailable for download in advance of each conference\, and participants wil l be assumed to have read the papers in advance. The sessions will be devo ted to open discussion. This event is open to all.\n\n Emad H. Atiq \nCorn ell University\n\n\n Brian Bix \nUniversity of Minnesota\n\n\n Ulrike Heue r \nUniversity College London\n\n\n Claire Kirwin \nNorthwestern Universit y\n\n\n Elinor Mason \n(unaffiliated)\n\n\n T.m. Scanlon \nHarvard Univers ity\n\n\n Ashwini Vasanthakumar \nQueen’s University\n\n\n Ralph Wedgwood \nUniversity of Southern California\n\n\n Daniel Marc Weinstock \nUniversi té de Montréal\n\n\nOrganisers:\n\n\n Ahmad Ashraf \n(unaffiliated)\n\n\n Kimberley Brownlee \nUniversity of British Columbia\n\n\n Mala Chatterjee \nStanford University\n\n\n David Enoch \nHebrew University of Jerusalem\n \n\n Andrei Marmor \nCornell University\n\n\n Daniel Viehoff \nNew York Un iversity\n\n\n Jeremy Waldon \nNew York University\n\n\n\nTopic areas\n\nV alue Theory\n\n\n\nTalks at this conference\nAdd a talk\n\nDetails\n\n \n https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty-scholarship/workshops-lectures-colloq uia-and-conferences/twin-conferences-tribute-philosophy-joseph-raz \n\n\nT ickets: https://forms.gle/rzEaVneRo3ohK5nu9. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230923 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230925 GEO:+40.806777;-73.960523 LOCATION:Columbia Law School @ 435 W 116th St\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Twin Conferences in Tribute to The Philosophy of Joseph Raz URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/twin-conferences-in-trib ute-to-the-philosophy-of-joseph-raz/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nTickets: https:/ /forms.gle/rzEaVneRo3ohK5nu9.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,legal\,value X-TICKETS-URL:https://forms.gle/rzEaVneRo3ohK5nu9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8013@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/112490 DESCRIPTION:Keynote: Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)\nPed agogy Workshop Leader: TBA\nLocation: The Graduate Center\, CUNY—New York\ , New York\nAbstracts & Workshop Applications due: July 31st 2023\nRespons es: August 31st 2023\nOrganizers: Michael Greer (CUNY)\, Maria Salazar (CU NY)\nContact email: gscope.committee@gmail.com\nThe committee for the Grad uate Student Conference on Philosophy of Education (GSCOPE) invites abstra cts for papers on the topic of Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controve rsy. The theme of the conference & post-conference pedagogy workshop refle cts the difficulty in creating and maintaining respectful discourse in hig her-education classrooms\, especially surrounding controversial empirical\ , moral\, and political issues. Some argue that this is an equity issue. U ndergraduate students who come from rural and/or underprivileged areas are more likely to experience alienation on campus\, sometimes because they h ave never been exposed to certain “politically correct” language or ideas\ , and sometimes simply because they lack the financial and social capital that their peers have. It seems crucial (and follows from democratic and c ivic values) to foster safe learning environments for all students\, espec ially those students who are more likely to feel alienated on college camp uses and in elite spaces. At the same time\, some argue that the aim of hi gher education is purely epistemological\, and not civic or democratic. Pr oponents of this view might hold that free speech and academic freedom mus t be properly protected for higher education to perform its proper social function: education. What is the appropriate relationship between higher e ducation\, knowledge-production\, teaching\, free speech\, and democracy? How can higher education instructors and professors be effective teachers in the light of these relationships?\nPapers must pertain to higher educat ionbut maybe about anything from interpersonal classroom dynamicstoinstitu tional policies to campus controversy. We are particularly interested in p apers that explore the following topics:\n\nPhilosophical issues around te aching controversy\n\n\nNavigating different identities in the classroom a nd on campus\nFree speech and controversial issues in classrooms and on ca mpus\nDifferential roles of various higher education actors when it comes to protecting free speech (administration\, tenured professors\, students\ , residential life)\n\n\nTraining (or lack thereof) of graduate students t o be teachers and the impact of this on teaching in our current political moment\n\n\nTheright relationship(s) between democracy\, knowledge\,free s peech\, and higher education\n\n\nThe role of controversy in democracy\nTh e relationship between controversy and equality\n\n\nTeaching as an equity issue – how education might foster or impede different kinds of equity (c lass equity\, racial equity\, urban/rural equity\, gender equity)\n\n\nDis agreement in classrooms\n\n\nEpistemological issues around disagreement an d understanding\nTrust in classrooms\nPedagogical tools to cope with disag reement in classrooms\nPhilosophical views on coming to understanding from different social locations\, epistemic commitments\, and material circums tances\n\nWe especially welcome contributions that:\n\nThink about univers ities outside of the “top 50” and the “top 500” — we want our conversation to reflect issues found across the entire spectrum of international highe r ed institutions\nEngage with CUNY-specific issues and offer CUNY-specifi c solutions\n\nAbstracts should:\n– Outline the paper’s principal argument (s).\n– Give a good sense of the paper’s philosophical and/or empirical co ntributions and methods.\n– Be anonymized.\nProposal Guidelines:\nPlease s ubmit abstracts of up to 500 words by midnight EST on Monday\, July 31\, 2 023.\nPDF or DOC.X by email to gscope.committee@gmail.com\nPost-Conference Pedagogy Workshop\nThe theme of our conference Higher Education\, Democra cy\, and Controversy is relevant to graduate student educators\, who are r outinely under-trained and under-equipped to engage with real-life problem s they may encounter in the classroom. The lack of training for higher edu cation teachers is a growing iue in philosophy of education.\nThis worksho p attends to this issue by facilitating a space for graduate student educa tors to reflect on how to foster good teaching environments for controvers ial issues\, and be good interlocutors with each other on controversial is sues. The workshop will also touch on promoting equity in classrooms. We w ill provide workshop participants with a certificate of completion.\nhttps ://philevents.org/event/show/112546 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231015 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:GSCOPE 2023: Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/gscope-2023-higher-educa tion-democracy-and-controversy/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nKeynote: Harr y Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
\nPedagogy Workshop Le ader: TBA
\nLocation: The Graduate Center\, CUNY—New York\, New York
\nAbstracts & Workshop Applications due: July 31st 2023
\nRes ponses: August 31st 2023
\nOrganizers: Michael Greer (CUNY)\, Maria Salazar (CUNY)
\nContact email: gscope.committee@gmail.com
\nT he committee for the Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Educatio n (GSCOPE) invites abstracts for papers on the topic of Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy. The theme of the conference & post-conferenc e pedagogy workshop reflects the difficulty in creating and maintaining re spectful discourse in higher-education classrooms\, especially surrounding controversial empirical\, moral\, and political issues. Some argue that t his is an equity issue. Undergraduate students who come from rural and/or underprivileged areas are more likely to experience alienation on campus\, sometimes because they have never been exposed to certain “politically co rrect” language or ideas\, and sometimes simply because they lack the fina ncial and social capital that their peers have. It seems crucial (and foll ows from democratic and civic values) to foster safe learning environments for all students\, especially those students who are more likely to feel alienated on college campuses and in elite spaces. At the same time\, some argue that the aim of higher education is purely epistemological\, and no t civic or democratic. Proponents of this view might hold that free speech and academic freedom must be properly protected for higher education to p erform its proper social function: education. What is the appropriate rela tionship between higher education\, knowledge-production\, teaching\, free speech\, and democracy? How can higher education instructors and professo rs be effective teachers in the light of these relationships?
\nPape rs must pertain to higher educationbut maybe about anything from interpers onal classroom dynamicstoinstitutional policies to campus controversy. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the following topics: p>\n
We especially welcome contributions that:
\n\nAbstracts
should:
\n– Outline the paper’s principal argument(s).
\n– Give
a good sense of the paper’s philosophical and/or empirical contributions a
nd methods.
\n– Be anonymized.
Proposal Guidelines:
\nP lease submit abstracts of up to 500 words by midnight EST on Monday\, July 31\, 2023.
\nPDF or DOC.X by email to gscope.committee@gmail.com
\nPost-Conference Pedagogy Workshop
\nThe theme of our conferenc e Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy is relevant to g raduate student educators\, who are routinely under-trained and under-equi pped to engage with real-life problems they may encounter in the classroom . The lack of training for higher education teachers is a growing iue in p hilosophy of education.
\nThis workshop attends to this issue by fac ilitating a space for graduate student educators to reflect on how to fost er good teaching environments for controversial issues\, and be good inter locutors with each other on controversial issues. The workshop will also t ouch on promoting equity in classrooms. We will provide workshop participa nts with a certificate of completion.
\nhttps://philevents.org/event /show/112546
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,epistemology\,ethics\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8024@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/beyond-polarization-epistemic-distorti on-and-criticism DESCRIPTION:Individuals support forms of domination with varying levels of understanding that they are doing so. In many cases\, those very structure s of domination distort our conceptions of them through mechanisms such as motivated reasoning\, implicit bias\, affected ignorance\, false consciou sness\, and belief polarization. These various epistemic distortions\, in turn\, cause social conflict\, notably by promoting political polarization . Those worried by social conflict have spent a great deal of energy decry ing the increasingly polarized contexts in which we live. However\, episte mic distortions in our sociopolitical beliefs also misrepresent\, maintain systems of domination and prevent human needs from being met.\nThis works hop aims to go beyond pronouncements such as ‘we are polarized’ or that ‘p artisanship is on the rise\,’ and begin to think through epistemic distort ions at the individual and intersubjective levels\, the role of criticism and critique in facilitating belief and social change\, and the idea of re conciliation\, by asking questions such as:\n\nIn what ways are individual beliefs about domination/social structures epistemically distorted?\nWhat explains why social beliefs are epistemically distorted?\nWhat are the no rmative upshots of epistemic distortion for social relationships like ally ship\, comradeship\, and friendship?\nOught polarization be remedied? Whic h epistemic resources and theoretical frameworks avail themselves of emanc ipatory potential?\n\nConvenors\nEge Yumuşak is a philosopher\, specializi ng in epistemology\, the philosophy of mind\, and social & political philo sophy. She received a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2022. H er research examines political disagreement—its material foundations\, psy chological and social manifestations\, and epistemic properties. She is cu rrently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of cla shes of perspective in social life.\nNicolas Côté is a postdoctoral resear cher at the University of Toronto. His research is mainly in normative eth ics and social choice theory\, but they also dabble in applied ethics and issues of practical rationality. Côté’s doctoral dissertation work focuses on the measurement of freedom\, especially on axiomatic approaches to the measurement question\, and on how deontic concerns for protecting individ ual rights interact with welfarist concerns for improving the general welf are. Côté’s current research focuses on the ethics of decision-making unde r radical uncertainty.\nInvited speakers:\nSabina Vaccarino Bremner\; Dani ela Dover\; Cain Shelley\nInvited commentators\nTBA DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231109 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd foor common room @ 116th and Broadway\, New Yo rk\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Beyond Polarization: Epistemic Distortion and Criticism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/beyond-polarization-epis temic-distortion-and-criticism-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIndividuals s upport forms of domination with varying levels of understanding that they are doing so. In many cases\, those very structures of domination distort our conceptions of them through mechanisms such as motivated reasoning\, i mplicit bias\, affected ignorance\, false consciousness\, and belief polar ization. These various epistemic distortions\, in turn\, cause social conf lict\, notably by promoting political polarization. Those worried by socia l conflict have spent a great deal of energy decrying the increasingly pol arized contexts in which we live. However\, epistemic distortions in our s ociopolitical beliefs also misrepresent\, maintain systems of domination a nd prevent human needs from being met.
\nThis workshop aims to go be yond pronouncements such as ‘we are polarized’ or that ‘partisanship is on the rise\,’ and begin to think through epistemic distortions at the indiv idual and intersubjective levels\, the role of criticism and critique in f acilitating belief and social change\, and the idea of reconciliation\, by asking questions such as:
\nConvenors
\nEge Yumuşak is a philosopher\, specializing in epistemology\, the philosophy of mind \, and social & political philosophy. She received a PhD in Philosophy fro m Harvard University in 2022. Her research examines political disagreement —its material foundations\, psychological and social manifestations\, and epistemic properties. She is currently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of clashes of perspective in social life.
\nNicolas Côté is a postdoctoral researcher at the University o f Toronto. His research is mainly in normative ethics and social choice th eory\, but they also dabble in applied ethics and issues of practical rati onality. Côté’s doctoral dissertation work focuses on the measurement of f reedom\, especially on axiomatic approaches to the measurement question\, and on how deontic concerns for protecting individual rights interact with welfarist concerns for improving the general welfare. Côté’s current rese arch focuses on the ethics of decision-making under radical uncertainty. p>\n
Invited speakers:
\nSabina Vaccarino Bremner \; Daniela Dover\; Cain Shelley
\nInvited commentators
\nTBA
Ideas about “ identity” and “difference” proliferate in the news media\, in higher educa tion\, in political disputations\, and in critical theories of society. C laims about “identity” and “difference” can readily be found at work in a wide variety of typologies\, including those of race\, class\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, religion\, nationality\, political affiliation\, abi lity and disability\, animality and humanity\, etc. But what exactly do w e mean when we speak of “identity” or “difference”? And if we achieve gre ater clarity about the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of “i dentity” and “difference\,” what difference would that make?
\nA ser ious metaphysical examination of “identity” and “difference” will expected ly generate a wide variety of questions. Is discourse about what is “iden tical” reducible to discourse about what is “the same”? Is discourse abou t what is “different” reducible to discourse about what is “other”? Can s omething be “the same” without being “identical\,” and can something be “o ther” without being “different”? When we speak about “being\,” does our s peaking about it have many different senses (is it spoken of analogically) \, or instead does our speaking about being always have the same sense (is it spoken of univocally)? Does the “identity” of a thing depend mainly o n the thing’s status as an individual\, or does it depend instead on the t hing’s membership in a general kind? Does an understanding of identity de pend on some reference to what is different? Or does an understanding of difference depend on some reference to identity? What is the relation of knowing to being: is it one of identity\, or difference\, or some combinat ion of both? Is it possible for a knower to discern real differences betw een things without discerning intelligible differences\, or does the indis cernibility of intelligible differences imply that there are no real diffe rences at all but rather an identity? Does difference depend on negation\ , or can one assert that there is difference without having to assert that something is “not”? Does it make sense to speak of an ontological differ ence\, i.e.\, a difference between Being and beings\, or is it senseless – maybe even useless – to speak of a difference between Being and beings? Is “being” different from “nothing\,” or is it possible for differences t o exist only among beings (in which case there apparently cannot be a diff erence between “being” and “nothing”)?
\nIn spite of the virtual ubi quity of discourses about identity and difference\, there is a dearth of d iscourse about the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of “ident ity and difference.” With its choice of conference theme for 2024 (“Ident ity\, Difference\, and the Difference that Metaphysics Makes”)\, the Metap hysical Society of America wishes to provoke deeper thinking about the met aphysics of identity and difference\, with the hope that such deeper think ing will make a meaningful difference in both theory and practice.
\nProposals for papers on the conference theme are especially encouraged\, but papers on other metaphysical topics are also welcome. Please note: wh en selecting which submissions to accept for this conference\, the Program Committee will regard “relevance to theme” as one important criterion amo ng others.
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\nAbstracts of approximately 500 words sh ould be submitted electronically by September 30\, 2023\, to: secretary@me taphysicalsociety.org.
\nAristotle Prize: Those wishing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize of the Metaphysical Society should sub mit full papers along with their abstracts. Eligibility for the Aristotle Prize extends only to persons who have not yet earned a Ph.D.. Those wis hing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize should express this wish cle arly in the email note that accompanies their submission. Papers submitte d for the Aristotle Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word l imit applies to the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not t o footnotes or other supporting material. The Aristotle Prize carries a c ash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the cos ts associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Aristo tle Prize\, full papers and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.
\nPlato Prize: Tho se wishing to be considered for the Plato Prize of the Metaphysical Societ y should submit full papers along with their abstracts. Eligibility for t he Plato Prize extends only to persons who received a Ph.D. degree within six years of the conference submission date (i.e.\, persons who hold a Ph. D. degree which was conferred after September 30\, 2017). Those wishing t o be considered for the Plato Prize should express this wish clearly in th e email note that accompanies their submission. Papers submitted for the Plato Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word limit applies t o the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not to footnotes or other supporting material. The Plato Prize carries a cash award of $500\ , inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the costs associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Plato Prize\, full paper s and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@meta physicalsociety.org.
\nTravel Grants: Thanks to the generous support of past presidents of the MSA and a grant from the Hocking-Cabot F und for Systematic Philosophy\, the Metaphysical Society is pleased to be able to offer reimbursements for travel expenses up to $350 to graduate st udents whose papers are selected for the conference program (those wishing to receive such reimbursements must provide the Metaphysical Society with all relevant expense-receipts).
\nThose who submit abstracts\, and those who submit full papers plus abstracts for the Aristotle Prize or Pla to Prize\, will receive notice of the Program Committee’s decision on thei r submission no later than December 1\, 2023.
\n\nTickets: https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/2024_meeting.htm.< /p> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,identity\,metaphysics X-COST:$70-120 X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/2024_meeting.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8089@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/unmasking-objectivity/home DESCRIPTION:How does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape obj ectivity?\nWelcome to “Unmasking Objectivity: A Critical Examination of th e Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structures\,” a conference that plunges into the intricate relationship between knowledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemological standp oints intersect with systems of coercion\, marginalization\, and oppressio n. Our topic extends to alternative visions of knowledge\, truth\, and lea rning\, offering the potential for shared beliefs while addressing the adv erse impacts of entrenched power structures.\nHow have claims to absolute\ , objective\, or scientific truth driven oppression through ideologies lik e religious absolutism\, colonialism\, technocracy\, and scientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debates further emphasize the significance of th is intersection.\nOur discourse will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether universalist epistemologies privilege specific knowledg e systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on soci al and political issues overlooked by dominant knowledge frameworks throug h inclusive dialogues. This conference fosters critical exploration and in clusive discourse\, drawing on interdisciplinary studies in philosophy\, s ociology\, and political theory.\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical im plications of our epistemological practices and explore pathways to creati ng more equitable systems of knowledge and social learning. Join us at “Un masking Objectivity” as we navigate the intricate web of knowledge and pow er\, aiming for a just and inclusive future where the notion of objectivit y is both scrutinized and harnessed for social transformation.\n https://s ites.google.com/newschool.edu/unmasking-objectivity/home \nhttps://phileve nts.org/event/show/116553\nhttps://philevents.org/event/show/116561 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240324 GEO:+40.736924;-73.992688 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ Albert and Vera List Academic Center \, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Unmasking Objectivity: A Critical Examination of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structures Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/unmasking-objectivity-a- critical-examination-of-the-nexus-between-universal-truth-claims-and-emerg ent-power-structures-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nHow does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape ob jectivity?
\nWelcome to “Unmasking Objectivity: A Critical Examinati on of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structur es\,” a conference that plunges into the intricate relationship between kn owledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemologica l standpoints intersect with systems of coercion\, marginalization\, and o ppression. Our topic extends to alternative visions of knowledge\, truth\, and learning\, offering the potential for shared beliefs while addressing the adverse impacts of entrenched power structures.
\nHow have clai ms to absolute\, objective\, or scientific truth driven oppression through ideologies like religious absolutism\, colonialism\, technocracy\, and sc ientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debates further emphasize the sig nificance of this intersection.
\nOur discourse will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether universalist epistemologies privi lege specific knowledge systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on social and political issues overlooked by dominant knowl edge frameworks through inclusive dialogues. This conference fosters criti cal exploration and inclusive discourse\, drawing on interdisciplinary stu dies in philosophy\, sociology\, and political theory.
\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical implications of our epistemological practices a nd explore pathways to creating more equitable systems of knowledge and so cial learning. Join us at “Unmasking Objectivity” as we navigate the intri cate web of knowledge and power\, aiming for a just and inclusive future w here the notion of objectivity is both scrutinized and harnessed for socia l transformation.
\n\n\n\n\nSocial Metaph ysics Workshop – location tbd
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8011@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com\; https://juancomesana.org/ rec24 DESCRIPTION:The Rutgers Epistemology Conference is a pre-read conference. T he papers\, the finalized schedule\, and further information about the con ference will be posted soon.\nRegistration\nThere is no registration fee f or the conference\, but please notify Caroline von Klemperer\, the confere nce manager\, if you plan to attend by sending an email to rutgersepistemo logyconference@gmail.com. If you wish to participate in the meals\, please send a check made out to “Rutgers University” to Caroline von Klemperer b y April 15 ($80 if you are a faculty member or a postdoc\; $60 if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate). Checks should be sent to Caroline von Klemperer\; Rutgers Epistemology Conference\; 106 Somerset St\, 5th F loor\; New Brunswick\, NJ 08901. Everyone signed up for conference meals b y April 15 will be listed as a participant on the conference website.\n \n https://philevents.org/event/show/112086\nWhere to stay \nAll sessions wil l be held at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick\, NJ. A limited number of reduced-priced rooms are available to those attending the conference. The reduced rate is $170 per night for a single or double room. You can reserv e a room here: https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/EWRRN/G-RE01.\nIf you are a graduate student or a postdoc and would like to attend the conf erence and stay with a Rutgers graduate student\, please contact the confe rence manager at rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com. We will try to p rovide all graduate students and postdocs a place to stay\, but we cannot make any promises.\nAccessibility\nInformation about accessibility of the conference venue can be found here.\nHow to get there \nPlane & Train: If you are flying\, it is best to fly into Newark Airport. It is about 25 mil es from the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. The best way to get from the a irport to New Brunswick is via NJ Transit. The train stops at the airport and it is a 25 min train ride from the airport to New Brunswick. When you arrive at Newark Airport\, follow the signs to the monorail “airtrain”. Th e airtrain will take you to the NJ transit train stop. Trains run from New ark Airport to New Brunswick about every half hour. A oneway ticket Newark Airport – New Brunswick is about $14. You can buy tickets at the vending machines at the Newark Airport train station or on the mobile app MyTix. T he Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train station.\nTrain: The best way to get to New Brunswick from New York or Philadelphia is via NJ Transit. The Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train station.\n Speakers\nAnnalisa Coliva\nAdam Elga\nMark Schroeder\nJulia Staffel\nScott Sturgeon\nCommentators\nEleonora Cresto\nSven Rosenkranz\nNicholas Silins \nMichael Titelbaum DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240505 GEO:+40.49624;-74.441296 LOCATION:Hyatt Regency @ 2 Albany St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2024 URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rutgers-epistemology-con ference-2024/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Rutgers Epistemology Conference is a pre-read conference. The papers\, the finalized schedule\, and further information about the confer ence will be posted soon.
\nThere is no registration fee for the conference\, but please notify Ca roline von Klemperer\, the conference manager\, if you plan to attend by s ending an email to rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com a>. If you wish to participate in the meals\, please send a check made out to “Rutgers University” to Caroline von Klemperer by April 15 ($80 if you are a faculty member or a postdoc\; $60 if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate). Checks should be sent to Caroline von Klemperer\; Rutge rs Epistemology Conference\; 106 Somerset St\, 5th Floor\; New Brunswick\, NJ 08901. Everyone signed up for conference meals by April 15 will be lis ted as a participant on the conference website.
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https:// philevents.org/event/show/112086
\nAll sessions will be held at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick\, NJ . A limited number of reduced-priced rooms are available to those attendin g the conference. The reduced rate is $170 per night for a single or doubl e room. You can reserve a room here: https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-boo king/EWRRN/G-RE01.
\nIf you are a graduate stud ent or a postdoc and would like to attend the conference and stay with a R utgers graduate student\, please contact the conference manager at rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com. We will try to provide all graduate students and postdocs a place to stay\, but we cannot make a ny promises.
\nInformation about accessibility of the conference venue can be fo und here.
\nPlane & T rain: If you are flying\, it is best to fly into Newark Airport. It is about 25 miles from the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. The best way to get from the airport to New Brunswick is via NJ Transit. The train sto ps at the airport and it is a 25 min train ride from the airport to New Br unswick. When you arrive at Newark Airport\, follow the signs to the monor ail “airtrain”. The airtrain will take you to the NJ transit train stop. T rains run from Newark Airport to New Brunswick about every half hour. A on eway ticket Newark Airport – New Brunswick is about $14. You can buy ticke ts at the vending machines at the Newark Airport train station or on the m obile app MyTix. The Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train st ation.
\nTrain: The best way t o get to New Brunswick from New York or Philadelphia is via NJ Transit. Th e Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train station.
\nAbstract: It is widely recognized by prop onents of the notion that grounding can be\, indeed is\, overdetermined. Further to this\, it seems safe to suppose that something of a consensus h as emerged: grounding is overdetermined and there is nothing about it\, ei ther conceptually or metaphysically\, that we ought to find concerning. B ut from a small sampling of alleged cases no such conclusions can responsi bly be drawn. This paper aims to demonstrate that there is nothing obviou s or straightforward about grounding overdetermination and that the topic is deserving of much more serious philosophical attention.
\nThe Log ic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 ( NY time) entirely online\, unless otherwise noted. The provisional schedul e is as follows:
\nSep 13. Ricki Bliss (Lehigh University)
\nS ep 20. Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion University)
\nSep 27. Rashe d Ahmad (University of Connecticut)
\nOct 4. Yale Weiss (CUNY GC)
\nOct 11. NO MEETING
\nOct 18. Rohit Parikh (CUNY GC)
\nOc t 25. Noah Friedman-Biglin (San José State University)
\nNov 1. Thom as Macaulay Ferguson (University of Amsterdam)
\nNov 8. Roman Kossak (CUNY GC)
\nNov 15. Sara Uckelman (Durham University)
\nNov 2 2. Konstantinos Georgatos (John Jay)
\nNov 29. Martin Pleitz (Münste r)
\nDec 6. Dirk Batens (University of Ghent)
\nDec 13. Dolf R ami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
\nThe Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mond ays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time) entirely online\, unless otherwise noted. The provisional schedule is as follows:
\nSep 13. Ricki Bliss (Lehig h University)
\nSep 20. Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion University )
\nSep 27. Rashed Ahmad (University of Connecticut)
\nOct 4. Yale Weiss (CUNY GC)
\nOct 11. NO MEETING
\nOct 18. Rohit Pari kh (CUNY GC)
\nOct 25. Noah Friedman-Biglin (San José State Universi ty)
\nNov 1. Thomas Macaulay Ferguson (University of Amsterdam)
\nNov 8. Roman Kossak (CUNY GC)
\nNov 15. Sara Uckelman (Durham U niversity)
\nNov 22. Konstantinos Georgatos (John Jay)
\nNov 2 9. Martin Pleitz (Münster)
\nDec 6. Dirk Batens (University of Ghent )
\nDec 13. Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
\nThe rich phil osophical and mathematical disputes that took place between Isaac Newton a nd Gottfried Leibniz at the start of the eighteenth century have received more historical attention than any other exchange in the history of philos ophy. Nevertheless\, in this talk\, Robert Iliffe discusses a prominent bu t neglected aspect of their disagreement\, namely the mutual claim that th eir opponents’ conceptual foundations were fictional\, and were the produc t both of diseased thinking and of illegitimately organized intellectual s tructures. Newton assailed Leibniz’s allegedly debased metaphysics in vari ous prominent places\, and mobilized allies such as Roger Cotes and John K eill to do the same. Nevertheless\, by far the most sophisticated critique of illicit philosophical assumptions was launched against Newton by Leibn iz in his correspondence with Samuel Clarke. In the Fifth letter to Clarke \, Leibniz identified core Newtonian positions as infantile\, vulgar\, and profoundly irreligious\, asserting that they were dangerous fictions that were less plausible and much less edifying than the rational romances of writers in the previous century. Although Leibniz saved his most potent in tellectual weapons for his final letter to Clarke\, Robert Iliffe suggests that his attack on the fictional status of Newton’s work was no mere codi cil to his general critique of Newton’s philosophy\, but instead lay at th e heart of it. This famous debate\, while of course somewhat sui generis\, is indicative of more general and dynamic features of intellectual debate .
\nRobert Iliffe\, Professor of the History of Science at the Unive rsity of Oxford
\nThis event is free and open to the public\; Registration r equired. Please contact sc ienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.
\nThis event is part of the New York History of Science Lectu re Series.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7714@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/philosophy/events/spring-2022/department-colloqu ium--Cordelia-Fine.html DESCRIPTION:Investigations of sex differences in the human brain take place on politically sensitive terrain. While some scholars express concern tha t gendered biases and stereotypes remain embedded in scientific research\, others are alarmed about the politicization of science. This talk sets ou t three kinds of conflicts that can arise in the neuroscience of sex diffe rences: academic freedom versus gender equality\; frameworks\, background assumptions\, and dominant methodologies\; and inductive risk and social v alues. The boundaries between fair criticism and politicization are explor ed for each kind of conflict\, pointing to ways in which the academic comm unity can facilitate fair criticism while protecting against politicizatio n.\nRegistration is free but required. A registration link will be shared via email with our department mailing lists a few weeks before the event. Please contact Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu if you did not receive a registration link. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T173000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cordelia Fine (Melbourne): Fairly Criticized\, or Politicized? Conf licts in the Neuroscience of Sex Differences in the Human Brain URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cordelia-fine-melbourne- fairly-criticized-or-politicized-conflicts-in-the-neuroscience-of-sex-diff erences-in-the-human-brain/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nInvestigation s of sex differences in the human brain take place on politically sensitiv e terrain. While some scholars express concern that gendered biases and st ereotypes remain embedded in scientific research\, others are alarmed abou t the politicization of science. This talk sets out three kinds of conflic ts that can arise in the neuroscience of sex differences: academic freedom versus gender equality\; frameworks\, background assumptions\, and domina nt methodologies\; and inductive risk and social values. The boundaries be tween fair criticism and politicization are explored for each kind of conf lict\, pointing to ways in which the academic community can facilitate fai r criticism while protecting against politicization.
\nRegistrati on is free but required. A registration link will be shared via email with our department mailing lists a few weeks before the event. Please con tact Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu if you did not receive a registrat ion link.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:neuroscience\,sexuality END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7709@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/art-brain-beholder DESCRIPTION:What can science teach us about how we perceive and understand art? How can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this even t\, the Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains a nd the artistic world\, finding connections and parallels between art and science.\nEvent Speakers\nPlease visit the event webpage to view the speak er list.\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public\, registration is required by January 28\, 2022. This event will also be live-streamed. Ple ase email zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu with any questions.\nThis talk i s part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hos ted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\nTickets : https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKsoLFSuOXr1-x3 rGT5g. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220202T190000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Art in the Brain of the Beholder URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/art-in-the-brain-of-the- beholder/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWhat can science teach us about how we perceive and understand art? H ow can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this event\, th e Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains and the artistic world\, finding connections and parallels between art and scienc e.
\nPlease visit the event webpage to view the spe aker list.
\nFree and open to the public \, registrat ion is required by January 28\, 2022. This event will also be live-str eamed. Please email zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu< /a> with any questions.
\nThis talk is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hosted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and su pported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
\nTickets: h ttps://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKsoLFSuOXr1-x3rGT 5g.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,mind\,neuroscience\,science X-TICKETS-URL:https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKso LFSuOXr1-x3rGT5g END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7713@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/01/18/spring-2022-schedule/ DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays f rom 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Speakers may present either virtually or in-pe rson\; the details will be announced for each talk individually. Meetings will convene at the Graduate Center\, Room 5382. You may attend any talk f rom that location (even if the speaker is not physically present). At leas t for any talk for which the speaker is not physically present\, you will also be able to attend virtually from anywhere via Zoom. The provisional s chedule is as follows:\nFeb 7. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)\nFeb 14. Ekate rina Kubyshkina (Campinas)\nFeb 21. NO MEETING\nFeb 28. Michael Burton (Ya le)\nMar 7. David Papineau (King’s)\nMar 14. Wilfrid Hodges (King’s)\nMar 21. Noson Yanofsky (CUNY)\nMar 28. Dongwoo Kim (CUNY)\nApr 4. Jenn McDonal d (Columbia)\nApr 11. Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins)\nApr 18. NO MEETING\nA pr 25. Tore Fjetland Øgaard (Bergen)\nMay 2. Elia Zardini (Madrid)\nMay 9. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Nice)\nMay 16. Mircea Dumitru (Bucharest)\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T181500 GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098 LOCATION:Zoom & CUNY rm 5382 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220214T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220221T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220307T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220314T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220404T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220411T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220502T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220516T161500 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo rkshop-16/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY tim e). Speakers may present either virtually or in-person\; the details will be announced for each talk individually. Meetings will convene at the Grad uate Center\, Room 5382. You may attend any talk from that location (even if the speaker is not physically present). At least for any talk fo r which the speaker is not physically present\, you will also be able to a ttend virtually from anywhere via Zoom. The provisional schedule is as fol lows:
\nFeb 7. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
\nFeb 14. Ekaterin a Kubyshkina (Campinas)
\nFeb 21. NO MEETING
\nFeb 28. Michael Burton (Yale)
\nMar 7. David Papineau (King’s)
\nMar 14. Wilf rid Hodges (King’s)
\nMar 21. Noson Yanofsky (CUNY)
\nMar 28. Dongwoo Kim (CUNY)
\nApr 4. Jenn McDonald (Columbia)
\nApr 11. Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins)
\nApr 18. NO MEETING
\nApr 25. Tore Fjetland Øgaard (Bergen)
\nMay 2. Elia Zardini (Madrid)
\nMay 9. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Nice)
\nMay 16. Mircea Dumitru (Bu charest)
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7816@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/08/19/fall-2022-schedule/ DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays f rom 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-p erson (at the Graduate Center\, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:\nSept 5. NO MEETING\nSep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)\nSep 19. Boka i Yao (Notre Dame)\nSep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine)\, Louise Du puis (Paris Dauphine)\, and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)\nOct 3. Yale Weis s (CUNY)\nOct 10. NO MEETING\nOct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)\nOct 24 . Friederika Moltmann (CNRS\, Côte d’Azur)\nOct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)\nN ov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)\nNov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)\nNov 21. Ma rko Malink (NYU)\nNov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)\nDec 5. Martin Pleit z (Muenster)\nDec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T181500 GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 7314 & Zoom @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221003T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221121T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T161500 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo rkshop-17/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY tim e). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate C enter\, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
\nSept 5 . NO MEETING
\nSep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
\nSep 19. Bokai Y ao (Notre Dame)
\nSep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine)\, Louis e Dupuis (Paris Dauphine)\, and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
\nOct 3 . Yale Weiss (CUNY)
\nOct 10. NO MEETING
\nOct 17. Guillermo B adia (Queensland)
\nOct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS\, Côte d’Azur)
\nOct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
\nNov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
\nNov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
\nNov 21. Marko Malink (NY U)
\nNov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
\nDec 5. Martin Pleit z (Muenster)
\nDec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
\n HTML> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7818@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM\, 1-3\, NYC TIMEAll are hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaneyZoom links are all announced on the Cognitive Sc ience email listTo subscribe to that list\, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.co mSome sessions—not all—are recorded for later access\n9/16: Michael A. Coh enPsychology and Neuroscience\, Amherst College9/23: Alon ZivonyPsychologi cal Sciences\, Birkbeck College London9/30: Steven GrossPhilosophy\, Johns Hopkins University10/7: Steven FlemingExperimental Psychology and Neuroim aging\, University College London10/14: John MorrisonPhilosophy\, Barnard College and Columbia University10/21: Michael SnodgrassCognition & Cogniti ve Neuroscience\, University of Michigan10/28: Jamal WilliamsPsychology\, University of California San Diego11/4: Ian PhillipsPhilosophy and Psychol ogical and Brain Sciences\, Johns Hopkins11/11: Paweł ZiębaInstitute of Ph ilosophy\, Jagiellonian University11/18: Nicholas SheaPhilosophy\, Univers ity of Oxford and University of LondonThe CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker S eries meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,Fridays\, 1-3 pm\, NYC tim e—currently on Zoom. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talksFor additional information e-mail David Rosenthal DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220916T150000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake r-series-18/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWith responses from Mark Siderits (Illin ois State University)
\nABSTRACT: Buddhist philosophers often dra w a distinction between two different kinds of truth: conventional truth ( saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinction in terms of an ontologi cal distinction between two different kinds of entities: ultimately real e ntities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally real entities (saṃvṛti-sat). S imilar to contemporary philosophical discussions about ordinary objects\, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological status of conventional entiti es and the semantics of discourse concerning them. Mark Siderits (2015\, 2 021\, 2022) has influentially argued for an eliminitivist position he call s “Buddhist reductionism” that interprets the Abhidharma position as one t hat denies conventional entities exist but that retains discourse involvin g apparent reference to them. However\, in a recent article Kris McDaniel (2019)\, a prominent defender of ontological pluralism\, challenges that v iew by proposing that the Abhidharma Buddhist distinction between conventi onal truth and ultimate truth be “defined up” from a more basic distinctio n between two different ways an entity can exist: conventionally or ultima tely. In this paper I argue that Saṃghabhadra’s account of conventional re ality and truth does lends itself well to McDaniel’s proposal but I will a lso argue that the account of conventional and ultimate truth that results differs in important ways from the models he offers. I will end by offeri ng a modification of McDaniel’s account of conventional truth that is deri ved from Saṃghabhadra’s pluralist ontology. That view will\, unlike the vi ews suggested by both Siderits and McDaniel\, allow for there to be ultima te truths about what is conventionally true.
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Dinner will be kindly offered by the C olumbia University Seminars.
\nRSVP is req uired for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requirements at lm3335@columbia.edu.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,metaphysics\,truth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z 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-7972@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:Neopragmatists seek to sidestep metaphysical puzzles by shiftin g the target of philosophical explanation from the objects we think and ta lk about to the functions of expressions and concepts in our cognitive eco nomy. Logical vocabulary can serve as a target for neopragmatist inquiry\, and it has also posed obstacles to neopragmatist accounts of other vocabu lary. I will argue that the obstacles can be addressed by adopting a neopr agmatist perspective toward logical relations\, such as logical consequenc e\, and toward propositional content. Doing so calls into question two pur ported constraints on explanations of the functions of logical connectives . I will sketch an account made possible by rejecting those constraints\, one according to which logical connectives serve to express dialectical at titudes. The proposal is deflationary in two ways: it rests on an extensio n of deflationism from truth to logical relations\, and it aims to deflate some of neopragmatists’ theoretical ambitions.\nHi\, All. Below is the pr ovisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to f ace to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)\n \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn\nM ar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia\nMay 10 Special event . Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:\n Marc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum )\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 9205 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Neopragmatism and logic: A deflationary proposal. Lionel Shapiro (U Conn) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/neopragmatism-and-logic- a-deflationary-proposal-lionel-shapiro-uconn/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nNeopragmatist s seek to sidestep metaphysical puzzles by shifting the target of philosop hical explanation from the objects we think and talk about to the function s of expressions and concepts in our cognitive economy. Logical vocabulary can serve as a target for neopragmatist inquiry\, and it has also posed o bstacles to neopragmatist accounts of other vocabulary. I will argue that the obstacles can be addressed by adopting a neopragmatist perspective tow ard logical relations\, such as logical consequence\, and toward propositi onal content. Doing so calls into question two purported constraints on ex planations of the functions of logical connectives. I will sketch an accou nt made possible by rejecting those constraints\, one according to which l ogical connectives serve to express dialectical attitudes. The proposal is deflationary in two ways: it rests on an extension of deflationism from t ruth to logical relations\, and it aims to deflate some of neopragmatists’ theoretical ambitions.
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Monday s 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meeti ngs. (No more Zoom.)
\n\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 S hawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 T homas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting< /p>\n
Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iacon a\, Turin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 Spe cial event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all af ternoon:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Boch um)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n BODY> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7920@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:Hi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop thi s coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.) \n \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel F itting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nAp r 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Bra nden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara B urns\, Columbia\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and t he session will run all afternoon:\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wa nsing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T181500 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T161500 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T161500 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T161500 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo rkshop-18/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHi\, All. Bel ow is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meet ings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are re verting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
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Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Me l Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\ , SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Sp ring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeaster n
\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columb ia
\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydne y) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Ma ciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7980@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:Saul Kripke announced his possible world semantics in 1959\, an d published his proof of axiomatic completeness for the standard modal log ics of the time in 1963. It is very unlike the standard completeness proo f used today\, which involves a Lindenbaum/Henkin construction and produce s canonical models. Kripke’s proof involved tableaus\, in a format that i s difficult to follow\, and uses tableau construction algorithms that are complex and somewhat error prone to describe. I will first discuss Kripke’ s proof\, then the historical origins of the modern version. Then I will show that completeness\, proved Kripke style\, could actually have been do ne in the Lindenbaum/Henkin way\, thus simplifying things considerably. N one of this is new but\, with the parts collected together it is an intere sting story. “In my end is my beginning”.\nHi\, All. Below is the provisio nal program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as us ual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)\n \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 G ary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Bra d Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:\nMarc C olyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:On Kripke’s proof of Kripke completeness. Melvin Fitting (CUNY) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/on-kripkes-proof-of-krip ke-completeness-melvin-fitting-cuny/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nSaul Kripke a nnounced his possible world semantics in 1959\, and published his proof of axiomatic completeness for the standard modal logics of the time in 1963. It is very unlike the standard completeness proof used today\, which inv olves a Lindenbaum/Henkin construction and produces canonical models. Kri pke’s proof involved tableaus\, in a format that is difficult to follow\, and uses tableau construction algorithms that are complex and somewhat err or prone to describe. I will first discuss Kripke’s proof\, then the histo rical origins of the modern version. Then I will show that completeness\, proved Kripke style\, could actually have been done in the Lindenbaum/Hen kin way\, thus simplifying things considerably. None of this is new but\, with the parts collected together it is an interesting story. “In my end is my beginning”.
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional program for t he Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.1 5-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. ( No more Zoom.)
\n\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn S impson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\n< p>Apr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Tu rin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 Special e vent. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoo n:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n< /HTML> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7982@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://www.cruzdavis.com/method-theory-reality/upcoming-events DESCRIPTION:Well-being\, also known as prudential value\, refers to whateve r makes a life non-instrumentally good for the person living it. Well-bein g is the object of immense practical\, philosophical\, and scientific conc ern. Assessments of well-being help to guide our decisions in everyday lif e\, from relationships\, to health decisions\, to education and career cho ices. Well-being is increasingly the object of governmental and institutio nal policy\, and even policies that are not aimed directly at promoting it can be evaluated in terms of their impacts on well-being. Colleges and un iversities routinely offer programs designed to help students maintain the ir well-being in the face of academic and personal stress. However\, debat es over the nature of well-being have raged since the beginning of philoso phical inquiry\, leaving us in a bad position when it comes to making head way on addressing those practical and scientific concerns. The goal of thi s talk is to show how the application of naturalistic methodology can help us to resolve the philosophical stalemate and thus to make progress in ou r practical and scientific projects relating to well-being. \n\n\nTalk lin k — Email cruzdavis umass.edu or jrc2266 columbia.edu for the passcode DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T173000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia [ZOOM] @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Prudence of Prudential Naturalism: How to Do “Good For” Well. E melia Miller (UMass Amherst) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-prudence-of-prudenti al-naturalism-how-to-do-good-for-well-emelia-miller-umass-amherst/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWell-being\, also known as prudential value\, refers to whatever makes a life non-instr umentally good for the person living it. Well-being is the object of immen se practical\, philosophical\, and scientific concern. Assessments of well -being help to guide our decisions in everyday life\, from relationships\, to health decisions\, to education and career choices. Well-being is incr easingly the object of governmental and institutional policy\, and even po licies that are not aimed directly at promoting it can be evaluated in ter ms of their impacts on well-being. Colleges and universities routinely off er programs designed to help students maintain their well-being in the fac e of academic and personal stress. However\, debates over the nature of we ll-being have raged since the beginning of philosophical inquiry\, leaving us in a bad position when it comes to making headway on addressing those practical and scientific concerns. The goal of this talk is to show how th e application of naturalistic methodology can help us to resolve the philo sophical stalemate and thus to make progress in our practical and scientif ic projects relating to well-being.
\nTalk link — Email cruzdavis
The sender-re ceiver model was developed by David Lewis to tackle the question of the co nventionality of meaning. But many people who cared about the conventional ity of meaning did so because they thought it was intimately connected to the conventionality of logic. Since Lewis’s work\, only a few attempts hav e been made to say anything about the nature of logic and inference from t he perspective of the sender-receiver model. This talk will look at the wh at’s been said in that regard\, by Skyrms and others\, and suggest a few g eneral lessons.
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\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional progr am for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mond ays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face mee tings. (No more Zoom.)
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Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iac ona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 S pecial event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bo chum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7978@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z 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\\nIn 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-7990@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:What we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated\ , in a certain guise\, by Peirce around 1885 and championed\, albeit in id iosyncratic form\, by Zermelo in papers from the 1930s. We characterize s uch logics model- and proof-theoretically and argue that they constitute e xploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent gener ality. Whereas a logic\, or family of such\, can be of interest for any o f a variety of reasons\, we suggest that one of those reasons might be tha t said logic fosters some clarification regarding just what qualifies as a logical concept\, a logical operation\, or a logical law.\n \nNote: The p ublished paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382.\nHi\ , All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semes ter. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)\n \nFeb 27 Lio nel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nApr 3 Thomas Ferg uson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia \nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session wil l run all afternoon:\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\ , Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:First-order logics over fixed domain. Gregory Taylor (CUNY) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/first-order-logics-over- fixed-domain-gregory-taylor-cuny/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
What we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated\, in a certain guise\, b y Peirce around 1885 and championed\, albeit in idiosyncratic form\, by Ze rmelo in papers from the 1930s. We characterize such logics model- and pr oof-theoretically and argue that they constitute exploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent generality. Whereas a logic\ , or family of such\, can be of interest for any of a variety of reasons\, we suggest that one of those reasons might be that said logic fosters som e clarification regarding just what qualifies as a logical concept\, a log ical operation\, or a logical law.
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Note: Th e published paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382.
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this comi ng semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Ro om 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
\n< p> \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fite lson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Sam ara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nM arc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7941@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/jocelynbenoist DESCRIPTION:Western metaphysics is based on the opposition between reality and appearance. This construction essentially rests on a visual model\, or more exactly on some staging of what visual experience is.\nI am going to question the basis of this metaphysics\, by taking into account the reali ty of appearances and reflecting on their various uses\, in particular art istic ones. This path will be taken in the first place by shifting the foc us of philosophical analysis from visual to acoustic models. Thus\, I will envisage a realism of echoes\, as opposed to the metaphysics of shadows. \nBiography:\nJocelyn Benoist\, born in 1968\, is Professor at the univers ity Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, where he teaches Contemporary Philosophy\, and currently a member of the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’. He has dedicated his early work to phenomenology and the bridges between phenomen ology and early Analytic philosophy. For some time he was the Director of the Husserl Archive of Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Then\, he de veloped a personal investigation into the meaning of realism in philosophy . He has published many books\, including recently: Toward a Contextual Re alism\, H.U.P.\, 2021\, and Von der Phänomenologie zum Realismus\, Mohr Si ebeck\, 2022. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Echoes. Beyond the opposition between appearance and reality. Jocel yn Benoist URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/echoes-beyond-the-opposi tion-between-appearance-and-reality-jocelyn-benoist/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWestern metap
hysics is based on the opposition between reality and appearance. This con
struction essentially rests on a visual model\, or more exactly on some st
aging of what visual experience is.
\nI am going to question the basi
s of this metaphysics\, by taking into account the reality of appearances
and reflecting on their various uses\, in particular artistic ones. This p
ath will be taken in the first place by shifting the focus of philosophica
l analysis from visual to acoustic models. Thus\, I will envisage a realis
m of echoes\, as opposed to the metaphysics of shadows.
Jocelyn Benoist\, born in 1968\, is Pro fessor at the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\, where he teaches Cont emporary Philosophy\, and currently a member of the ‘Institut Universitair e de France’. He has dedicated his early work to phenomenology and the bri dges between phenomenology and early Analytic philosophy. For some time he was the Director of the Husserl Archive of Paris at the Ecole Normale Sup érieure. Then\, he developed a personal investigation into the meaning of realism in philosophy. He has published many books\, including recently: < em>Toward a Contextual Realism\, H.U.P.\, 2021\, and Von der Phänomen ologie zum Realismus\, Mohr Siebeck\, 2022.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8023@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z 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-8022@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS ON ZOOM\nSOME ALSO IN PERSON (SEE ROOMS BELOW)\nTalks organized andhosted by Ryan McElhaney\nTo get Zoom links\, email davidros enthal1@gmail.com\nSome—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access \n9/8: Martina Helina\nHistory and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science\,\nUniversity of CambridgePhilosophy\n9/15: No talk—one -week break\n9/22: Janis Karan Hesse\nNeuroscience\, University of Califor nia at Berkeley\n9/29: Justin Halberda\nPsychological and Brain Sciences\, Johns Hopkins University\n10/6: Jakub Mihalik\nDepartment of Analytic Phi losophy\, Institute of Philosophy of the\nCzech Academy of Sciences in Pra gue\n10/13: Gregg Caruso\nPhilosophy\, SUNY Corning\, Northeastern Univers ity London\, and\nMacquarie University\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 71 02 **\n10/20: Edouard Machery\nHistory and Philosophy of Science\, Univers ity of Pittsburgh\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **\n10/27: Heather Browning\nPhilosophy\, University of Southampton\n11/3: Panagiota Theodon i\nPhilosophy\, University of Athens\n11/10: François Kammerer\nInstitute for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum\n11/17: Jonathan Phillips \nCognitive Science\, Psychological and Brain Sciences\, and\nPhilosophy\, Dartmouth College\n11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break\n12/1: Lua Koenig\n Neuroscience Institute\, NYU Langone Medical Center\n** HYBRID: Graduate C enter Room 7102 **\n\nThe CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets week ly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,\nFridays\, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom\, some hybr id. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks\nFor additional information e- mail David Rosenthal DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T150000 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:Zoom & CUNY Grad Center 7102 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T130000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T130000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake r-series-20/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis semester \, we will meet as usual on Mondays\, 4.15-6.15\, followed by a trip to th e pub for all those who would like to go. The room is yet to be determine d. Meetings will be face to face only. Below is the provisional program fo r the semester. Details of each meeting will be announced on a weekly basi s\, as usual.
\nNote that the first meeting will be on September 11. Unfortunately we lose several Mondays towards the start of the semester b ecause of CUNY holidays. There is nothing currently scheduled for Nov 20 or Dec 11. Whether we fill those slots is a decision yet to be made\; but if you would like one of them\, let us know.
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Sept 4. GC closed. No meeting
\nSept 11 Francesco Paoli\, Cagliari
\nSept 18 Will Nava\, NYU
\nSept 25 GC closed. No meeting
\nOct 2 Brett Topey\, Saltzburg
\nOct 9 GC closed. No me eting.
\nOct 16 Yale Weiss\, GC
\nOct 23 Melissa Fusco\, Columbia
\nOct 30 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nNov 6 Alex Citkin\, Private Researcher
\nNov 13 Alex Skiles\, Rutgers
\nN ov 20 [GP in Germany]
\nNov 27 Mircea Dumitru\, Bucharest p>\n
Dec 4 James Walsh\, NYU
\nDec 11
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8025@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/designing-space DESCRIPTION:How do we experience space? And what does this mean for the spa ces we design? We explore these questions by bringing together speakers fr om Architecture\, Neuroscience\, and Virtual Reality\, with two specific a ims: First\, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn fr om each other\, as two distinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spa tial experience has long been a central question of Architecture\, Virtual Reality is only beginning to grapple with these questions\, as technology transitions from 2D screens to 3D spatial interfaces. Second\, we explore the nature of spatial experience itself\, with two approaches to understa nding the human mind. Whilst contemporary Architecture is influenced by Ph ilosophy (specifically the “Phenomenological” tradition)\, the tools of Ne uroscience are increasingly being applied to questions of Architecture as well. Through this multidisciplinary exchange we hope to deepen our unders tanding of spatial experience\, and how it informs the physical and virtua l spaces we design.\nEvent Speakers\n\nNitzan Bartov\, Designer at Meta Re ality Labs Research\nAnjan Chatterjee\, Professor of Neurology\, Psycholog y\, and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania\nSteven Holl\, Prof essor of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation at Columbia University \nModerated by Paul Linton\, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscie nce and Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at C olumbia University\n\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public. Regi stration is required via Eventbrite. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link from Eventbrite. Please email presidentialscholars@columbia.edu with any questions.\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Socie ty and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience se ries. Co-sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University.\nThe Center for Scienc e and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals wit h disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Cente r for Science and Society event\, please contact us at scienceandsociety@c olumbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at least 10 days in advance of the event. Fo r more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.\nTicke ts: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-space-tickets-681760884157. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T200000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Havemeyer Hall (Room 309) & Online @ 116th and Broadway\, New York \, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Designing Space URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/designing-space/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHow do we exp erience space? And what does this mean for the spaces we design? We explor e these questions by bringing together speakers from Architecture\, Neuros cience\, and Virtual Reality\, with two specific aims: First\, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn from each other\, as two d istinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spatial experience has long been a central question of Architecture\, Virtual Reality is only beginni ng to grapple with these questions\, as technology transitions from 2D scr eens to 3D spatial interfaces. Second\, we explore the nature of spatial e xperience itself\, with two approaches to understanding the human mind. Wh ilst contemporary Architecture is influenced by Philosophy (specifically t he “Phenomenological” tradition)\, the tools of Neuroscience are increasin gly being applied to questions of Architecture as well. Through this multi disciplinary exchange we hope to deepen our understanding of spatial exper ience\, and how it informs the physical and virtual spaces we design.
\nFree and open to the pu blic. Registration i s required via Eventbrite. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link from Eventbrite. Please email presidentialscholars@columbia.edu with any questions.
\nThis e vent is hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Society and N euroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series. Co-sponsored by the< a class='external' href='https://italianacademy.columbia.edu/' target='_bl ank' rel='noopener'> Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America a nd the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia Univer sity.
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable ef fort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disabili ty accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, pleas e contact us at scienceand society@columbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at least 10 days in advance of the event. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-space-tickets -681760884157.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:mind\,neuroscience\,phenomenology X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-space-tickets-68176088 4157 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8079@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philosophydayatccny.org/events/ DESCRIPTION:The speaker will be Prof. Lewis Gordon of the University of Con necticut\, on “From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the B lack World with Questions for the 21st Century.” Gordon will talk about wo rldliness and public aspects of philosophy\, placing them in the context o f Harlem both at City College and the public world of Africana philosophy from Du Bois to Malcolm X to contemporaries such as Nathalie Etoke. He wil l conclude with a set of questions for 21st century philosophy to consider .\nLewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy a t UCONN-Storrs\; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Stud ies\; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes Universi ty\, South Africa\; and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable PJ Pa tterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies\, Mona. He co-edits the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs\, th e Rowman & Littlefield book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought\, and the Routledge-India book series Academics\, Politics and Society in the P ost-Covid World. He is the author of many books\, including\, most recentl y\, Freedom\, Justice\, and Decolonization (Routledge\, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover\, NY: Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2022\; i n the UK\, London: Penguin Books\, 2022)\, Picador paperback 2023. He is t he 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies division of the International Studies Association. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T191500 GEO:+40.820047;-73.949272 LOCATION:North Academic Building\, rm 1/201 @ 160 Convent Ave\, New York\, NY 10031\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the Black Wor ld with Questions for the 21st Century. Lewis Gordon (UConn) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-harlem-to-the-world -philosophy-from-a-center-of-the-black-world-with-questions-for-the-21st-c entury-lewis-gordon-uconn/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\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-8124@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/events DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thinking podca st. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral stat us of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global priorities research.\n \nAbout the speakers\n \nJeff Sebo is Associate Pr ofessor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics\, Med ical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. P rogram\, Director of the Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy Program\, and Co-Direc tor of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He is the a uthor of Saving Animals\, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpan zee Rights (2018) and Food\, Animals\, and the Environment (2018). He is a lso an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection\, a board member at Minding Animals International\, an a dvisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, a senior res earch fellow at the Legal Priorities Project\, and a mentor at Sentient Me dia.\n \nSpencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a foc us on improving human well-being. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\ , which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisi ons and improve their lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wave\, an organization that conducts psychology research and builds psychology-related products design ed to help benefit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, with a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by numerous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Jour nal\, the Independent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.\n \nThank you to Effective Altruism New York City for their generous support of thi s event.\nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueN ASskgr5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000 GEO:+40.730098;-73.995693 LOCATION:Jurow Hall\, Silver Center @ 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 1000 3\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Moral Status of Insects and AI Systems\, and Other Thorny Quest ions in Global Priorities Research. Jeff Sebo and Spencer Greenberg URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-moral-status-of-inse cts-and-ai-systems-and-other-thorny-questions-in-global-priorities-researc h-jeff-sebo-and-spencer-greenberg/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nJoin us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thi nking podcast. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral status of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global priorities research. p>\n
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Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a focus on improving human well-bei ng. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\, which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisions and improve thei r lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wa ve\, an organization that conducts psycho logy research and builds psychology-related products designed to help bene fit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, w ith a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by nu merous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Journal\, the Indep endent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.
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Thank you to Effect ive Altruism New York City for their generous support of this event.
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr 5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8136@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T162359Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays f rom 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as fo llows:\nFeb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)\nFeb 12. NO MEETING\nFeb 19. NO MEETING \nFeb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)\nMar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)\nMar 11. Otávi o Bueno (Miami)\nMar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)\nMar 25. Dan Marshal l (Lingnan)\nApr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)\nApr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)\nA pr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)\nApr 22. NO MEETING\nApr 29. Anandi Hatt iangadi (Stockholm)\nMay 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T181500 GEO:+40.748815;-73.984102 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 7395 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240311T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20240506T161500 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Logic & Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-metaphysics-worksh op-4/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mond ays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in -person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisi onal schedule is as follows:
\nFeb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)
\nFe b 12. NO MEETING
\nFeb 19. NO MEETING
\nFeb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)
\nMar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)
\nMar 11. Otávio Bueno (M iami)
\nMar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)
\nMar 25. Dan Mar shall (Lingnan)
\nApr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)
\nApr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)
\nApr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)
\nApr 22. NO MEETING
\nApr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)
\nMay 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
\nVerity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy\, with particular research interests in ancient metaphysics\, epistemology and psychology\, especially of Plat o and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The M etaphysics of Structure\, and is the editor of several important book s on ancient philosophy.
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