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-7768@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://nyphilsci.wordpress.com/2022/04/20/free-will-implications-f rom-physics-and-metaphysics/ DESCRIPTION:Free WillImplications from Physics and Metaphysics\nThe worksho p will be hybrid\, and anyone interested can participate through Zoom\, al though there will be limited spots for in-person participants. If you are interested in attending in-person\, please reply to this email or write to loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu.\nBarry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.e du) Assistant: Diego Arana (diego.arana@rutgers.edu)Program (All times are EST)\nZoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/freewillzoom\niCal: https://tinyurl. com/freewillical\nMay 1110:00am Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame\, Duke)Ginet ’s Principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to thegiven past.11:30am J ohn Perry (Stanford)Causation\, Entailment and Freedom3:00pm Barry Loewer (Rutgers)The Consequence Argument Meets the Mentaculus4:30pm Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille\, UWO)Free will: Back to Reichenbach\nMay 1210:00am Kadri Vihvelin (USC)Why We can’t Change the Past11:30am Valia Allori (NIU)Freedo m from the Quantum?3:00pm Tim O’Connor (Indiana\, Baylor)Top-Down and Inde terministic Agency: Why?4:30pm Jessica Wilson (Toronto)Two Routes to the E mergence of Free Will DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220513 GEO:+40.500841;-74.447417 LOCATION:Rutgers & Zoom @ New Brunswick\, NJ\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Free Will Workshop: Implications from Physics and Metaphysics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/free-will-workshop-impli cations-from-physics-and-metaphysics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nFree Will
Implications from Physics and Metaphysics
The workshop will be hybrid\, and anyone interested can particip ate through Zoom\, although there will be limited spots for in-person part icipants. If you are interested in attending in-person\, please reply to t his email or write to loewe r@philosophy.rutgers.edu.
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Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu) Assistant: Diego Arana (diego.aran
a@rutgers.edu)
Program (All times are EST)
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/freewillzoom
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May 11
10:00am Peter van Inwagen (
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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
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4:30pm Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille\, UWO)
Free will: Back to Reichen
bach
May 12
10:00am Kadri Vihvelin (USC)
11:30am Valia Allori (NIU)
Freedom from the Quantum?
3:00pm Ti
m O’Connor (Indiana\, Baylor)
Top-Down and Indeterministic Agency: Why?4:30pm Jessica
Wilson (Toronto)
Two Routes to the Emergence of Free Will
Susan Neiman develops in Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosop hy (2002\, Princeton: Princeton University Press) a watershed perspec tive on the longstanding problem of evil\, the perniciously difficult to s atisfy “need to find order within those appearances so unbearable that the y threaten reason’s ability to go on.” The book thereby also presents a ra dically new perspective on traditional debates within metaphysics. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary\, we gather to celebrate her accompl ishment and to advance the research program it reflects. Participants will include\, in addition to Neiman herself: Annalise Acorn\, Frederick Beise r\, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer\, Omri Boehm\, Dan Brudney\, Caroline Bynum\, Lor raine Daston\, Michael Della Rocca\, Wendy Doniger\, Wolfram Ellenberger\, John Faithful Hamer\, Carey Harrison\, Patricia Kitcher\, Philip Kitcher\ , Christia Mercer\, Cornel West\, Allen Wood\, and James Wood.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:evil\,metaphysics\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7879@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/ DESCRIPTION:A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organ ized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York Univers ity) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New Yor k University.\nAbout\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI res earch from a philosophical perspective\, with particular attention to rece nt work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, a nd their relationship to human cognition.\nThe conference will focus espec ially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on top ics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:\n\nWhat c ognitive capacities\, if any\, do current deep learning systems possess?\n What cognitive capacities might future deep learning systems possess?\nWha t kind of representations can we ascribe to artificial neural networks?\nC ould a large language model genuinely understand language?\nWhat do deep l earning systems tell us about human cognition\, and vice versa?\nHow can w e develop a theoretical understanding of deep learning systems?\nHow do de ep learning systems bear on philosophical debates such as rationalism vs e mpiricism and classical vs. nonclassical views of cognition.\nWhat are the key obstacles on the path from current deep learning systems to human-lev el cognition?\n\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackl e the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for meanin g and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browning (New York Universi ty)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York Universi ty)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI).\nConference speake rs\n\nCameron Buckner (University of Houston)\nRosa Cao (Stanford Universi ty)\nIshita Dasgupta (DeepMind)\nNikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia Universit y)\nBrenden Lake (New York University / Meta AI)\nGrace Lindsay (New York University)\nTal Linzen (New York University / Google AI)\nRaphaël Millièr e (Columbia University)\nNicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy\, Universi ty of London)\n\nCall for abstracts\nWe invite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the confe rence. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).\n \nh ttps://philevents.org/event/show/106406\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.c om/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327 GEO:+40.729513;-73.996461 LOCATION:Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness @ New York\, NY 10012\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Deep Learning URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-philosophy-of-deep-l earning/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nA two-day con ference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia Uni versity)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscien ce program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, a nd Consciousness at New York University.
\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI research from a phi losophical perspective\, with particular attention to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, and their relatio nship to human cognition.
\nThe conference will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:
\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackle the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for m eaning and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browni ng (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York University)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown U niversity / Google AI).
\nWe i nvite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the conference. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com a> by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).
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\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosop hy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfa\,cognitive science\,conf erence\,language\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conf erence-tickets-453924730087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/curiosity-creativity- and-complexity DESCRIPTION:How does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisio ns when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?\nThe conference showcases cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscie nce and Psychology (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exploration\, decision-making\, information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artificial intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic motivation) an d Economics (decision making and information demand). Alongside formal pre sentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions among facult y\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poster presenta tions.\nSubmissions for poster presentations and travel awards are due Feb ruary 15\, 2023. Please visit the call for submissions for complete requir ements.\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public. Registration is r equired and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow Columbi a’s COVID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email even ts@zi.columbia.edu with any questions. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230526 GEO:+40.816847;-73.957958 LOCATION:Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) @ 3227 Br oadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Curiosity\, Creativity and Complexity Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/curiosity-creativity-and -complexity-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nHow does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?
\nThe conference showca ses cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscience and Psycholog y (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exploration\, decision-making\ , information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artifici al intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic motivation) and Economics (deci sion making and information demand). Alongside formal presentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions among faculty\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poster presentations.
\nSu bmissions for poster presentations and travel awards are due February 15\, 2023. Please visit the call fo r submissions for complete requirements.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow Columbia’s COV ID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 va ccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email events@zi.columbia.edu with any quest ions.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,decision theory\,mind\,psych ology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7986@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2023/index.html DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series h as established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscie nce\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main proble ms that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatics r esearch.\nThe 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) p rovides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and pr actitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research resu lts\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical de velopment experiences on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired techn ologies and brain/mental health applications.\nThe key theme of the confer ence is “Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper an d abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:\n \nTrack 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science\nTrack 2: Human Information Processing Systems\nTrack 3: Brain Big Data Analytic s\, Curation and Management\nTrack 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research\nTrack 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Insp ired Computing\n\nKeynote Speakers\nProfessor Emery N. Brown\nMIT\, Massac husetts General Hospital\, USA\nProfile: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachuse tts General Hospital (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and prof essor of computational neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Instit ute for Medical Engineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard– MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 ind ividuals who has been elected to all three branches of the National Academ ies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first Africa n American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three Natio nal Academies.\nProfessor Bin He\nCarnegie Mellon University\, USA\nProfil e: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor o f the Neuroscience Institute\, and Professor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. He has made signi ficant research and education contributions to the field of neuroengineeri ng and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noni nvasive brain-computer interface (BCI)\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped transforming electroencephalography fro m a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modali ty. His lab demonstrated for the first time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinking about it using a noninvasive BCI. H e is an elected Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Enginee ring (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He se rved as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology S ociety\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineerin g from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the International Academy of Medical and B iological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAI N Initiative Multi-Council Working Group from 2014-2019.\nProfessor John N gai\nNIH BRAIN Initiative\, USA\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Di rector of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechn ologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor’s degree in chemi stry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, California\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasade na. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at the Columbia Univer sity College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty positi on at the University of California at Berkeley. During more than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 undergraduate stude nts\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows in addition to teac hing well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His work has led to the p ublication of more than 70 scientific articles in some of the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international patents. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation\, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. As a faculty member \, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided exte nsive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steering groups\, inclu ding as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consorti um Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strategy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.\nProfessor Helen M ayberg\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA\nProfile: Helen Mayb erg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circ uits in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain stimulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born and raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology fro m UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained in Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a re search fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acad emic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scie nces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neu ropsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Cha ir in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now the Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medi cine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Aca demy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\nProfessor Vi nod Goel\nYork University\, Canada\nProfile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitive science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral t raining in neuroscience at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\, Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made signi ficant empirical contributions to our understanding of the roles of prefro ntal cortex in real-world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asym metry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodo logies of fMRI and lesion studies. He has most recently completed a book r econstructing the role of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason a nd Less: Pursuing Food\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His c urrent project is to explore the implications of this work on our understa nding of reason and legal responsibility.\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski\nCornel l University\, USA\nProfile: Amy Kuceyeski is an Associate Professor of Ma thematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cornell University. She is the directo r of the Computational Connectomics (CoCo) Laboratory and the Machine Lear ning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been w orking to understand the human brain using quantitative modeling approache s\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological chara cteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we can devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to support natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersection of biological and artificial ne ural networks that aims to understand how human brains process incoming vi sual information.\nProfessor Patrick Purdon\nHarvard Medical School\, USA \nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Anaest hesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospita l. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard Coll ege in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1998\, and hi s Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Purdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthesia\, Alzheimer’ s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologies for brain mo nitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications\, is an inve ntor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New In novator Award.\nImportant Dates\n\n15 April 2023: Full paper submission de adline\n\n\n20 April 2023: Workshop proposal deadline\n\n\n10 May 2023: Ab stract presentation submission deadline\n\n\n30 May 2023: Final paper and abstract acceptance notification\n\n\n20 Jun 2023: Accepted paper and abst ract registration deadline\n\n\n1-3 Aug 2023: The Brain Informatics Confer ence\n\nPaper Submission and Publications\nFull Paper (Regular):\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedings format(https://www.springer.com/u s/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Over length pa pers will be charged for 100$ per page.\n2. All papers will be peer-review ed and accepted based on originality\, significance of contribution\, tech nical merit\, and presentation quality.\n3. All papers accepted (and all w orkshop & special sessions’ full-length papers) will be published by Sprin ger as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series( https://link.springer.com/conference/brain).\nAbstract (Only for Workshops /Special Sessions):\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepte d for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentat ion format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.\nJournal Opport unities:\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-t rack review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https://br aininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, inter disciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference p aper authors.\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:\nWorkshop/special ses sion organizers and BI conference session chairs may consider and can be i nvited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for possible book publ ication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (htt ps://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Info rmatics Journal.\nPoster-Conference Publication\n1. Accepted full papers w ill be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. \n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/). \n3. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepa re a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and He alth book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).\n \nhttps://phile vents.org/event/show/109301 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804 GEO:+40.744623;-74.025399 LOCATION:Stevens Institute of Technology @ 1 Castle Point Terrace\, Hoboken \, NJ 07030\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c onference-on-brain-informatics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Internati onal Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series has established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is a n emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that com bines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscience\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communi cation Technology (ICT) to explore the main problems that lie in the inter play between human brain studies and informatics research.
\nThe 16t h International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experie nces on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired technologies and brain /mental health applications.
\nThe key theme of the conference is “< strong>Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.
\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
\nKeynote Speakers
\nProfessor Emery N. Bro wn
\nMIT\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, USA
\nPro file: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor o f Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospit al (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edwa rd Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computati onal neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical En gineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Hea lth Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 individuals who has b een elected to all three branches of the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first African American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three National Academies.
\nProfessor Bin He
\nCarnegie Mellon University\ , USA
\nProfile: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor of the Neuroscience Institute\, and Pr ofessor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mel lon University. Dr. He has made significant research and education contrib utions to the field of neuroengineering and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI )\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped tr ansforming electroencephalography from a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality. His lab demonstrated for the firs t time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinkin g about it using a noninvasive BCI. He is an elected Fellow of Internation al Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Instit ute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He served as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the I nternational Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Gr oup from 2014-2019.
\nProfessor John Ngai
\nN IH BRAIN Initiative\, USA
\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Inn ovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor ’s degree in chemistry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, Calif ornia\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech) in Pasadena. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at t he Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty position at the University of California at Berkeley. During m ore than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 u ndergraduate students\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows i n addition to teaching well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His wor k has led to the publication of more than 70 scientific articles in some o f the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international pate nts. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation \, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. A s a faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neu roscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided extensive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steer ing groups\, including as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Ce ll Census Consortium Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strat egy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.< /p>\n
Professor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of M edicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile: Helen Maybe rg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circu its in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain s timulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born a nd raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology from UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained i n Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a res earch fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acade mic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scien ces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neur opsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Chai r in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now t he Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medic ine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Acad emy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
\nYork University\, Canada
\nP rofile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscien ce at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitiv e science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral training in neuroscie nce at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\ , Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made significant empirical con tributions to our understanding of the roles of prefrontal cortex in real- world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asymmetry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodologies of fMRI and l esion studies. He has most recently completed a book reconstructing the ro le of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason and Less: Pursuing Fo od\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His current project is to explore the implications of this work on our understanding of reason and legal responsibility.
\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski
\nCornell University\, USA
\nProfile: Amy Kuceye ski is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cor nell University. She is the director of the Computational Connectomics (Co Co) Laboratory and the Machine Learning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been working to understand the human brain us ing quantitative modeling approaches\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological characteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we ca n devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to suppo rt natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersect ion of biological and artificial neural networks that aims to understand h ow human brains process incoming visual information.
\nProfe ssor Patrick Purdon
\nHarvard Medical School\, USA
\nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Prof essor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims E ndowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences fr om Harvard College in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT i n 1998\, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Pu rdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthes ia\, Alzheimer’s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologi es for brain monitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publicatio ns\, is an inventor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the America n Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won nu merous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Di rector’s New Innovator Award.
\nImportant Dates
\nPaper Submission and Publications
\nF ull Paper (Regular):
\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the
regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedi
ngs format(https://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-pr
oceedings-guidelines). Over length papers will be charged for 100$ per pag
e.
\n2. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on origin
ality\, significance of contribution\, technical merit\, and presentation
quality.
\n3. All papers accepted (and all workshop & special session
s’ full-length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the Sp
ringer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series(https://link.springer.com
/conference/brain).
Abstract (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions) :
\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for prese ntations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abs tract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conf erence proceedings to be published by Springer.
\nJournal Opportunit ies:
\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fas t-track review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https:/ /braininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, in terdisciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conferenc e paper authors.
\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:
\nWor kshop/special session organizers and BI conference session chairs may cons ider and can be invited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for p ossible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal.
\nPoster-Conference Public ation
\n1. Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision.
\n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics c onference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/).
\n3. The org anizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book pr oposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible bo ok publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and Health book se ries (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
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https://philevents.org/event/show/ 109301
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfp\,cognitive science\,comm unication\,conference\,information\,mind\,neuroscience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8048@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z 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-8006@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/111406 DESCRIPTION:Ideas about “identity” and “difference” proliferate in the news media\, in higher education\, in political disputations\, and in critical theories of society. Claims about “identity” and “difference” can readil y be found at work in a wide variety of typologies\, including those of ra ce\, class\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, religion\, nationality\, pol itical affiliation\, ability and disability\, animality and humanity\, etc . But what exactly do we mean when we speak of “identity” or “difference” ? And if we achieve greater clarity about the metaphysical presupposition s and implications of “identity” and “difference\,” what difference would that make?\nA serious metaphysical examination of “identity” and “differen ce” will expectedly generate a wide variety of questions. Is discourse ab out what is “identical” reducible to discourse about what is “the same”? Is discourse about what is “different” reducible to discourse about what i s “other”? Can something be “the same” without being “identical\,” and ca n something be “other” without being “different”? When we speak about “be ing\,” does our speaking about it have many different senses (is it spoken of analogically)\, or instead does our speaking about being always have t he same sense (is it spoken of univocally)? Does the “identity” of a thin g depend mainly on the thing’s status as an individual\, or does it depend instead on the thing’s membership in a general kind? Does an understandi ng of identity depend 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 combination of both? Is it possible for a knower to discern real differences between things without discerning intelligible differences\, or does the indiscernibility of intelligible differences imply that there are no real differences at all but rather an identity? Does difference de pend on negation\, or can one assert that there is difference without havi ng to assert that something is “not”? Does it make sense to speak of an o ntological difference\, i.e.\, a difference between Being and beings\, or is it senseless – maybe even useless – to speak of a difference between B eing and beings? Is “being” different from “nothing\,” or is it possible for differences to exist only among beings (in which case there apparently cannot be a difference between “being” and “nothing”)?\nIn spite of the v irtual ubiquity of discourses about identity and difference\, there is a d earth of discourse about the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of “identity and difference.” With its choice of conference theme for 20 24 (“Identity\, Difference\, and the Difference that Metaphysics Makes”)\, the Metaphysical Society of America wishes to provoke deeper thinking abo ut the metaphysics of identity and difference\, with the hope that such de eper thinking will make a meaningful difference in both theory and practic e.\nProposals for papers on the conference theme are especially encouraged \, but papers on other metaphysical topics are also welcome. Please note: when selecting which submissions to accept for this conference\, the Prog ram Committee will regard “relevance to theme” as one important criterion among others.\n****************************************\nGuidelines for th e Submission of Abstracts\, and for Aristotle and Plato Prize Candidates\n Abstracts of approximately 500 words should be submitted electronically by September 30\, 2023\, to: secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.\nAristotle P rize: Those wishing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize of the Metaph ysical Society should submit full papers along with their abstracts. Elig ibility for the Aristotle Prize extends only to persons who have not yet e arned a Ph.D.. Those wishing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize sho uld express this wish clearly in the email note that accompanies their sub mission. Papers submitted for the Aristotle Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word limit applies to the body of the text to be read a t the meeting\, and not to footnotes or other supporting material. The Ar istotle Prize carries a cash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, an d assistance with the costs associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Aristotle Prize\, full papers and abstracts must be sub mitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.\nPlato Prize: Those wishing to be considered for the Plato Prize of the Metaphys ical Society should submit full papers along with their abstracts. Eligib ility for the Plato Prize extends only to persons who received a Ph.D. deg ree within six years of the conference submission date (i.e.\, persons who hold a Ph.D. degree which was conferred after September 30\, 2017). Thos e wishing to be considered for the Plato Prize should express this wish cl early in the email note that accompanies their submission. Papers submitt ed for the Plato Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word limi t applies to the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not to f ootnotes or other supporting material. The Plato Prize carries a cash awa rd of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the costs asso ciated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Plato Prize\, full papers and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:sec retary@metaphysicalsociety.org.\nTravel Grants: Thanks to the generous sup port of past presidents of the MSA and a grant from the Hocking-Cabot Fund for Systematic Philosophy\, the Metaphysical Society is pleased to be abl e to offer reimbursements for travel expenses up to $350 to graduate stude nts whose papers are selected for the conference program (those wishing to receive such reimbursements must provide the Metaphysical Society with al l relevant expense-receipts).\nThose who submit abstracts\, and those who submit full papers plus abstracts for the Aristotle Prize or Plato Prize\, will receive notice of the Program Committee’s decision on their submissi on no later than December 1\, 2023.\nhttps://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2 024/2024_meeting.htm\nTickets: https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/20 24_meeting.htm. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240311 GEO:+40.77103;-73.985096 LOCATION:Lowenstein Building\, Fordham University\, Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Metaphysical Society of America Conference: Identity\, Difference\, and the Difference that Metaphysics Makes URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/metaphysical-society-of- america-conference-identity-difference-and-the-difference-that-metaphysics -makes/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIdeas 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.
\n****************************************
\nAbstracts of approximately 500 words sh ould be submitted electronically by September 30\, 2023\, to: secretary@me taphysicalsociety.org.
\nAristotle Prize: Those wishing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize of the Metaphysical Society should sub mit full papers along with their abstracts. Eligibility for the Aristotle Prize extends only to persons who have not yet earned a Ph.D.. Those wis hing to be considered for the Aristotle Prize should express this wish cle arly in the email note that accompanies their submission. Papers submitte d for the Aristotle Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word l imit applies to the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not t o footnotes or other supporting material. The Aristotle Prize carries a c ash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the cos ts associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Aristo tle Prize\, full papers and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@metaphysicalsociety.org.
\nPlato Prize: Tho se wishing to be considered for the Plato Prize of the Metaphysical Societ y should submit full papers along with their abstracts. Eligibility for t he Plato Prize extends only to persons who received a Ph.D. degree within six years of the conference submission date (i.e.\, persons who hold a Ph. D. degree which was conferred after September 30\, 2017). Those wishing t o be considered for the Plato Prize should express this wish clearly in th e email note that accompanies their submission. Papers submitted for the Plato Prize are subject to a 3\,750 word limit\; this word limit applies t o the body of the text to be read at the meeting\, and not to footnotes or other supporting material. The Plato Prize carries a cash award of $500\ , inclusion in the program\, and assistance with the costs associated with attending the meeting. To be considered for the Plato Prize\, full paper s and abstracts must be submitted by September 30\, 2023 to:secretary@meta physicalsociety.org.
\nTravel Grants: Thanks to the generous support of past presidents of the MSA and a grant from the Hocking-Cabot F und for Systematic Philosophy\, the Metaphysical Society is pleased to be able to offer reimbursements for travel expenses up to $350 to graduate st udents whose papers are selected for the conference program (those wishing to receive such reimbursements must provide the Metaphysical Society with all relevant expense-receipts).
\nThose who submit abstracts\, and those who submit full papers plus abstracts for the Aristotle Prize or Pla to Prize\, will receive notice of the Program Committee’s decision on thei r submission no later than December 1\, 2023.
\n\nTickets: https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/2024_meeting.htm.< /p> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,identity\,metaphysics X-COST:$70-120 X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/2024/2024_meeting.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8126@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/month.cal endar/2024/04/09/- DESCRIPTION:Social Metaphysics Workshop – location tbd DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240429 GEO:+40.49747;-74.44717 LOCATION:Rutgers Philosophy @ The Gateway\, 106 Somerset St\, New Brunswick \, NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Social Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/social-metaphysics-works hop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nSocial Metaph ysics Workshop – location tbd
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:metaphysics\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7660@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:Abstract: It is widely recognized by proponents of the notion t hat grounding can be\, indeed is\, overdetermined. Further to this\, it s eems safe to suppose that something of a consensus has emerged: grounding is overdetermined and there is nothing about it\, either conceptually or m etaphysically\, that we ought to find concerning. But from a small sampli ng of alleged cases no such conclusions can responsibly be drawn. This pa per aims to demonstrate that there is nothing obvious or straightforward a bout grounding overdetermination and that the topic is deserving of much m ore serious philosophical attention.\nThe Logic and Metaphysics Workshop w ill be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time) entirely online\, un less otherwise noted. The provisional schedule is as follows:\nSep 13. Ric ki Bliss (Lehigh University)\nSep 20. Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion Un iversity)\nSep 27. Rashed Ahmad (University of Connecticut)\nOct 4. Yale W eiss (CUNY GC)\nOct 11. NO MEETING\nOct 18. Rohit Parikh (CUNY GC)\nOct 25 . Noah Friedman-Biglin (San José State University)\nNov 1. Thomas Macaulay Ferguson (University of Amsterdam)\nNov 8. Roman Kossak (CUNY GC)\nNov 15 . Sara Uckelman (Durham University)\nNov 22. Konstantinos Georgatos (John Jay)\nNov 29. Martin Pleitz (Münster)\nDec 6. Dirk Batens (University of G hent)\nDec 13. Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210913T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210913T181500 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Metaphysical Overdetermination (Ricki Bliss) @ Logic & Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/metaphysical-overdetermi nation-ricki-bliss-logic-metaphysics-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\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-7713@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z 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-7870@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:With responses from Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)\n ABSTRACT: Buddhist philosophers often draw a distinction between two diffe rent kinds of truth: conventional truth (saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinction in terms of an ontological distinction between two diffe rent kinds of entities: ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conv entionally real entities (saṃvṛti-sat). Similar to contemporary philosophi cal discussions about ordinary objects\, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological status of conventional entities and the semantics of discourse concerning them. Mark Siderits (2015\, 2021\, 2022) has influentially arg ued for an eliminitivist position he calls “Buddhist reductionism” that in terprets the Abhidharma position as one that denies conventional entities exist but that retains discourse involving apparent reference to them. How ever\, in a recent article Kris McDaniel (2019)\, a prominent defender of ontological pluralism\, challenges that view by proposing that the Abhidha rma Buddhist distinction between conventional truth and ultimate truth be “defined up” from a more basic distinction between two different ways an e ntity can exist: conventionally or ultimately. In this paper I argue that Saṃghabhadra’s account of conventional reality and truth does lends itself well to McDaniel’s proposal but I will also argue that the account of con ventional and ultimate truth that results differs in important ways from t he models he offers. I will end by offering a modification of McDaniel’s a ccount of conventional truth that is derived from Saṃghabhadra’s pluralist ontology. That view will\, unlike the views suggested by both Siderits an d McDaniel\, allow for there to be ultimate truths about what is conventio nally true.\n \nDinner will be kindly offered by the Columbia University S eminars. \nRSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating r equirements at lm3335@columbia.edu. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Gue rrero (William & Mary) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/buddhist-conventional-tr uth-and-ontological-pluralism-laura-p-guerrero-william-mary/ 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:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z 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-7976@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:This talk will develop the idea that racial identities are best understood as formed through large scale historical events\, and that thi s genesis can only be obscured by disavowals of racial categories as conce ptually mistaken and inevitably morally pernicious. In this sense\, races are formed not simply as ideas\, or ideologies and policies\, as many soc ial constructivists about race argue\, but as forms of life with associate d patterns of subjectivity including\, as a wealth of social psychology ha s shown\, presumptive attitudes and behavioral dispositions (Jeffers 2019\ ; Steele 2010\; Sullivan 2005). Because they are historical formations\, r acial identities are thoroughly social\, contextual\, variegated internall y\, and dynamic. It is history that will alter them\, not merely policy ch anges. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 5318 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-historical-formation -of-races-linda-alcoff/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis talk wil l develop the idea that racial identities are best understood as formed th rough large scale historical events\, and that this genesis can only be ob scured by disavowals of racial categories as conceptually mistaken and ine vitably morally pernicious. In this sense\, races are formed not simply a s ideas\, or ideologies and policies\, as many social constructivists abou t race argue\, but as forms of life with associated patterns of subjectivi ty including\, as a wealth of social psychology has shown\, presumptive at titudes and behavioral dispositions (Jeffers 2019\; Steele 2010\; Sullivan 2005). Because they are historical formations\, racial identities are thoroughly social\, contextual\, variegated internally\, and dynamic. It is history that will alter them\, not merely policy changes.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:history\,race\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7982@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z 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.)
\n\n
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iac ona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 S pecial event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bo chum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7990@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:What we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated\ , in a certain guise\, by Peirce around 1885 and championed\, albeit in id iosyncratic form\, by Zermelo in papers from the 1930s. We characterize s uch logics model- and proof-theoretically and argue that they constitute e xploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent gener ality. Whereas a logic\, or family of such\, can be of interest for any o f a variety of reasons\, we suggest that one of those reasons might be tha t said logic fosters some clarification regarding just what qualifies as a logical concept\, a logical operation\, or a logical law.\n \nNote: The p ublished paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382.\nHi\ , All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semes ter. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)\n \nFeb 27 Lio nel Shapiro\, UConn\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nApr 3 Thomas Ferg uson\, Prague\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting\nApr 17 Branden Fitelson\, Northeastern\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin\nMay 1 Samara Burns\, Columbia \nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session wil l run all afternoon:\nMarc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\ , Daniel Skurt (Bochum)\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 1001 6\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:First-order logics over fixed domain. Gregory Taylor (CUNY) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/first-order-logics-over- fixed-domain-gregory-taylor-cuny/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWhat we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated\, in a certain guise\, b y Peirce around 1885 and championed\, albeit in idiosyncratic form\, by Ze rmelo in papers from the 1930s. We characterize such logics model- and pr oof-theoretically and argue that they constitute exploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent generality. Whereas a logic\ , or family of such\, can be of interest for any of a variety of reasons\, we suggest that one of those reasons might be that said logic fosters som e clarification regarding just what qualifies as a logical concept\, a log ical operation\, or a logical law.
\n\n
Note: Th e published paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382.
\nHi\, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this comi ng semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Ro om 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
\n< p> \nFeb 27 Lionel Shapiro\, UConn
\nMar 6 Gary Ostertag\, GC
\nMar 13 Mel Fitting GC
\nMar 20 Shawn Simpson
\nMar 27 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany
\nApr 3 Thomas Ferguson\, Prague
\nApr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
\nApr 17 Branden Fite lson\, Northeastern
\nApr 24 Andrea Iacona\, Turin
\nMay 1 Sam ara Burns\, Columbia
\nMay 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
\nM arc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)\, Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
\nMay 15 Maciej Sendłak\, Warsaw
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:logic\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7941@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z 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-8019@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://logic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ DESCRIPTION:This semester\, we will meet as usual on Mondays\, 4.15-6.15\, followed by a trip to the pub for all those who would like to go. The roo m is yet to be determined. Meetings will be face to face only. Below is th e provisional program for the semester. Details of each meeting will be an nounced on a weekly basis\, as usual.\nNote that the first meeting will be on September 11. Unfortunately we lose several Mondays towards the start of the semester because of CUNY holidays. There is nothing currently sche duled for Nov 20 or Dec 11. Whether we fill those slots is a decision yet to be made\; but if you would like one of them\, let us know.\n \nSept 4. GC closed. No meeting\nSept 11 Francesco Paoli\, Cagliari\nSept 18 Will Na va\, NYU\nSept 25 GC closed. No meeting\nOct 2 Brett Topey\, Saltzburg\nOc t 9 GC closed. No meeting.\nOct 16 Yale Weiss\, GC\nOct 23 Melissa Fusco\, Columbia\nOct 30 Brad Armour-Garb\, SUNY Albany\nNov 6 Alex Citkin\, Priv ate Researcher\nNov 13 Alex Skiles\, Rutgers\nNov 20 [GP in Germany]\nNov 27 Mircea Dumitru\, Bucharest\nDec 4 James Walsh\, NYU\nDec 11 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T181500 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 4419 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230918T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T161500 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T161500 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Logic and Metaphysics Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/logic-and-metaphysics-wo rkshop-19/ 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-8060@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.facebook.com/brooklynpublicphilosophers/ DESCRIPTION:“Hello friend of talkPOPc!\n\n\nI would like to invite you to o ur amazing happenings on the weekend of Sept 23th and Sept 24th. On both n ights we are holding one-to-one philosophy conversations about censorship in our talkPOPc tent\; these become episodes on our podcast.\n\n\nThe Satu rday\, Sept 23rd event is at the Center for Fiction in downtown Brooklyn ( @courtyard)\, and Montez Radio will be live streaming that one. Which is s uper cool! That’s from 5 pm – 7 pm.\n\n\nOn Sunday\, Sept 24th\, the happe ning is at Tomato Mouse Gallery\, it will be the more full talkPOPc experi ence. This includes the visual artworks and text on the same topic of cens orship (derived from my book Cover Up the Dirty Parts! Cambridge Scholars Press). There will also be of course the always-present talkPOPc conversat ion tent\, with two separate philosophers – Nicholas Whittaker and myself\ , Dena Shottenkirk. The times are 2 pm – 6 pm.\n\n\nThe puppet of course m akes an appearance at both events!\n\n\nIt would be wonderful if you could make either (or both!) of these events. Please sign up for a time on our website. We are sure you would find it both fun and rewarding.\n\n\nHope t o see you!” DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T190000 GEO:+40.686898;-73.978588 LOCATION:Center for Fiction @ 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11217\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Brooklyn Public Philosophers on Cencorship URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/brooklyn-public-philosop hers/ 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:20240328T195045Z 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:20240328T195045Z 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.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8140@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T195045Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara DESCRIPTION:This talk reads contemporary debates about structural racism an d US history from the perspective of philosophical questions about identit y and difference. While many people have argued that America needs to come to terms with or “work through” the racism in its history that has shaped and continues to shape its present structures\, it remains difficult to e xplain what connects this past and the present. Are we talking about one r acism with many different past and present forms? Or are there multiple ra cisms that only share some similar features? In this talk\, I draw attenti on to how these divisions play out particularly in contemporary Black Stud ies and argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resources for thinking about these questions through his discussions of repetition. I argue that understanding our conversations about structural racism and history as conversations about a racism that repeats\, can help us to bett er understand why racism seems to reappear\, how to think its disparate fo rms together\, and what presuppositions operate in many attempts to “work through” the past.\nBio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and research explores the relatio nships between 20th Century Continental Philosophy\, Critical Philosophy o f Race\, and Queer Theory. His work has appeared in Theory and Event\, Pu ncta\, Philosophy Today\, Critical Philosophy of Race\, Political Theology \, and other venues. His current research project is particularly interest ed in engaging work in Continental Philosophy\, Queer Theory\, and Black S tudies to address questions of identity and difference amongst concepts of race\, forms of racism\, and forms of anti-racism. How can we better acco unt for the relations between at times radically disparate concepts\, stru ctures\, and practices such that they can all specifically and recognizabl y be called racial? What might our account of these relations say about ou r ability to address racism’s harms?\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu /eyoewara. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Strange Returns: Racism\, Repetition and Working Through the Past presented by Eyo Ewara URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/strange-returns-racism-r epetition-and-working-through-the-past-presented-by-eyo-ewara/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis talk rea ds contemporary debates about structural racism and US history from the pe rspective of philosophical questions about identity and difference. While many people have argued that America needs to come to terms with or “work through” the racism in its history that has shaped and continues to shape its present structures\, it remains difficult to explain what connects thi s past and the present. Are we talking about one racism with many differen t past and present forms? Or are there multiple racisms that only share so me similar features? In this talk\, I draw attention to how these division s play out particularly in contemporary Black Studies and argue that the p hilosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resources for thinking about thes e questions through his discussions of repetition. I argue that understand ing our conversations about structural racism and history as conversations about a racism that repeats\, can help us to better understand why racism seems to reappear\, how to think its disparate forms together\, and what presuppositions operate in many attempts to “work through” the past.
\nBio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and research explores the relatio nships between 20th Century Continental Philosophy\, Critical Philosophy o f Race\, and Queer Theory. His work has appeared in Theory and Event\, Pu ncta\, Philosophy Today\, Critical Philosophy of Race\, Political Theology \, and other venues. His current research project is particularly interest ed in engaging work in Continental Philosophy\, Queer Theory\, and Black S tudies to address questions of identity and difference amongst concepts of race\, forms of racism\, and forms of anti-racism. How can we better acco unt for the relations between at times radically disparate concepts\, stru ctures\, and practices such that they can all specifically and recognizabl y be called racial? What might our account of these relations say about ou r ability to address racism’s harms?
\nTickets: https://event .newschool.edu/eyoewara.
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