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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/
DESCRIPTION:Since Plato\, western philosophy has been set down a path paved
by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed material bodies\, and delimite
d aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environment
s separated from the natural world. Such exclusions have left philosophy i
ll-equipped to deal with the various environmental crises we currently fac
e\, as economic rationality and utilitarian logic further de-animate the w
orld and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environme
nt” often\, and ironically\, brings with it implicit anthropocentric assum
ptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separating\, the human as independe
nt from the surrounding world and reinforcing the human/nature divide. As
a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature” and “environment” may make
us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than address\, climate change an
d other environmental catastrophes. To avoid ambiguities and clarify our u
nderstanding\, we must ask: what role does Nature play within our theories
and practices concerning so-called Environmental Philosophy? Furthermore\
, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broade
n our understanding of “environment” to include a more robust conceptualiz
ation of the natural world and how the human being ought to be contextuali
zed within it?\nThis conference asks how we might reorient the language an
d practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequately respon
d to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propose a need
to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “nature\,” and “environment\,” as wel
l as the reciprocal relations that constitute them. To recognize humans as
natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the material\, and
the aesthetic and the roles they play in our attempts to construct\, under
stand\, and preserve our environment(s). How should we make sense of our p
ractices and our relations to those with whom we share our surroundings? H
ow can we re-situate the human with/in the environment? Do we have the rig
ht tools to guide these investigations? How might philosophy look beyond i
tself—to literature\, architecture\, music\, film\, design—to better bring
Environment\, and thus the world\, into view? In the spirit of this\, we
invite paper as well as project submissions from current graduate students
in any discipline.\nPossible Topics:\n● Environmental Aesthetics:
Re-Considering Beauty + the Sublime\n● Environmental Justice + Rest
orative Justice + Transformative Justice\n● Environmental Ethics +
Sustainable Practices\n● Diversity + Biodiversity\n● Capital
ism and Climate\n● Eco-phenomenology\n● Eco-deconstruction\n
● Environmental Racism/Racist Environments\n● Ecofeminist co
nceptions of nature\n● Land Rights and Property Relations\n●
Posthumanism + Object Ontologies\n● Afrofuturism + Technological U
topias\n● Environmental Ethics In Narratives\n● Mastery of N
ature in Philosophy\n● Anarcho-primitivism\n● Queer and Tran
s Ecologies\n● Local and Global Ecologies\n● Regionalisms an
d Globalisms in the Ecological Imagination\n \nConfirmed Conference Keynot
es:\nSandra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York\nEmanuele Coccia\,
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)\, Paris\nDates and Lo
cation:\nThis conference will be held at the New School for Social Researc
h in New York City from Thursday\, April 14\, to Saturday\, April 16. Whil
e we (tentatively) plan to hold the conference primarily in-person we woul
d also like to provide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to parti
cipate remotely. Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all par
ticipants and attendees are invited to participate in a conference hike in
Cold Spring\, NY (about an hour and a half north of NYC and accessible by
the Metro North commuter train).\nCall for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\nPlease submit complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abstract of 250
words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or P
DF to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com. Please prepare your submission for bli
nd review by removing any identifying information from the body of the pap
er. In your email please include your name\, affiliation\, and paper title
. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15.\nCall for Project
s: Submission Procedure:\nPlease submit a project description (Word Limit:
1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) to WithInE
nvironments@gmail.com\, as well as:\nFor Visual Arts projects: submit 5 im
ages of your work as .jpeg.\nFor Performing Arts projects: submit video/ a
udio of your work in .mp4 format\nPlease prepare your submission for blind
review by removing any identifying information. In your email please incl
ude your name\, affiliation\, and project title. Notification of acceptanc
e will be sent by January 15.\nIf you have any questions please email With
InEnvironments@gmail.com\n https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/ \n\n
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\, USA
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Since Plato\, western philosophy has been set down a path pave
d by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed material bodies\, and delimit
ed aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environmen
ts separated from the natural world. Such exclusions have left philosophy
ill-equipped to deal with the various environmental crises we currently fa
ce\, as economic rationality and utilitarian logic further de-animate the
world and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environm
ent” often\, and ironically\, brings with it implicit anthropocentric assu
mptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separating\, the human as independ
ent from the surrounding world and reinforcing the human/nature divide. As
a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature” and “environment” may make
us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than address\, climate change a
nd other environmental catastrophes. To avoid ambiguities and clarify our
understanding\, we must ask: what role does Nature play within our theorie
s and practices concerning so-called Environmental Philosophy? Furthermore
\, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broad
en our understanding of “environment” to include a more robust conceptuali
zation of the natural world and how the human being ought to be contextual
ized within it?
\n
This conference asks how we might reorient the lan
guage and practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequatel
y respond to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propos
e a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “nature\,” and “environment\,
” as well as the reciprocal relations that constitute them. To recognize h
umans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the materia
l\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play in our attempts to construct
\, understand\, and preserve our environment(s). How should we make sense
of our practices and our relations to those with whom we share our surroun
dings? How can we re-situate the human with/in the environment? Do we have
the right tools to guide these investigations? How might philosophy look
beyond itself—to literature\, architecture\, music\, film\, design—to bett
er bring Environment\, and thus the world\, into view? In the spirit of th
is\, we invite paper as well as project submissions from current graduate
students in any discipline.
\n
Possible Topics:
\n
● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Considering Beauty + the Sublim
e
\n
● Environmental Justice + Restorative Justice + Transform
ative Justice
\n
● Environmental Ethics + Sustainable Practice
s
\n
● Diversity + Biodiversity
\n
● Capitalism an
d Climate
\n
● Eco-phenomenology
\n
● Eco-deconstr
uction
\n
● Environmental Racism/Racist Environments
\n
●
Ecofeminist conceptions of nature
\n
● Land Rights and
Property Relations
\n
● Posthumanism + Object Ontologies
\n
● Afrofuturism + Technological Utopias
\n
● Enviro
nmental Ethics In Narratives
\n
● Mastery of Nature in Philoso
phy
\n
● Anarcho-primitivism
\n
● Queer and Trans
Ecologies
\n
● Local and Global Ecologies
\n
● Reg
ionalisms and Globalisms in the Ecological Imagination
\n
strong>
\n
Confirmed Conference Keynotes:
\n
Sa
ndra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York
\n
Emanuele Coccia\,
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)\, Paris
\n
Dates and Location:
\n
This conference will be held at th
e New School for Social Research in New York City from Thursday\, April 14
\, to Saturday\, April 16. While we (tentatively) plan to hold the confere
nce primarily in-person we would also like to provide a hybrid option for
those who would prefer to participate remotely. Following the conference\,
on Sunday\, April 17\, all participants and attendees are invited to part
icipate in a conference hike in Cold Spring\, NY (about an hour and a half
north of NYC and accessible by the Metro North commuter train).
\n
<
strong>Call for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\n
Please subm
it complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abstract of 250 words or less
by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or PDF to WithInEnvironments@g
mail.com. Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing
any identifying information from the body of the paper. In your email plea
se include your name\, affiliation\, and paper title. Notification of acce
ptance will be sent by January 15.
\n
Call for Projects: Subm
ission Procedure:
\n
Please submit a project description (Wo
rd Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) t
o WithInEnvir
onments@gmail.com\, as well as:
\n
For Visual Arts projects: subm
it 5 images of your work as .jpeg.
\n
For Performing Arts projects: s
ubmit video/ audio of your work in .mp4 format
\n
Please prepare your
submission for blind review by removing any identifying information. In y
our email please include your name\, affiliation\, and project title. Noti
fication of acceptance will be sent by January 15.
\n
If you have any
questions please email WithInEnvironments@gmail.com
\n
\n
\n
\n\n
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CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea
t.detail/2022/05/13/637/-/workshop-on-michael-moore-s-mechanical-choices
DESCRIPTION:Contact TBA\nTBA\nLocation Rutgers University Inn & Conference
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CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/Calendar/events/fall-2022/arts-a
nd-pragmatism-.html
DESCRIPTION:Advance Registration Required\; RSVP details coming soon\nLa Ma
ison Française is pleased to host the second symposium of Arts and Pragmat
ism. Join us for two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the inter
section of philosophy and artistic practice under the direction of Sandra
Laugier and Yann Toma.\nwith the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University\,
Politique scientifique program\, Global Works and Society\, Liberal Studi
es\, and La Maison Française at New York University.\nFull program details
to follow.\n*We are so excited to welcome the general public back to most
events at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Instructions for attending events i
n-person will be confirmed shortly before each event. Please note that NYU
requires all visitors to provide official proof (in English) that they ar
e fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Additional details to fol
low.
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pleased to host the second symposium of Arts and Pragmatism. Join us for
two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the intersection of philos
ophy and artistic practice under the direction of Sandra Laugier and Yann
Toma.
\nwith the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University\, Politique
scientifique program\, Global Works and Society\, Liberal Studies\, and La
Maison Française at New York University.
\nFull program details to
follow.
\n*We are so excited to welcome the general public back to m
ost events at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Instructions for attending event
s in-person will be confirmed shortly before each event. Please note that
NYU requires all visitors to provide official proof (in English) that they
are fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Additional details to
follow.
\n
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/visualphicon/
DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosophy a
nd the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of hum
anities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wid
e variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines\, including painting\,
photography\, and literature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion. R
ather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study\, this confe
rence will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philosoph
y and art\, exploring how each can become the object of the other and how
the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpened o
r blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the “visual” and “movemen
t” element in art of\, and in everyday life and theorize it – both philoso
phically and critically.\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for
Social Research and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; University
Student Senate and Graduate Faculty Student Senate\nSchedule and Location
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New York City.\nOn
March 24th\, we will meet in room B500 at 65 W 11 Street.\nOn March 25th\,
we will meet in Starr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center (63 Fift
h Avenue).\nFollowing is the schedule for both days\, (please see the webs
ite for details on panels and speakers):\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker present
ations.\n12:00 pm Panel 1 roundtable and audience Q&A.\n1:15 pm Lunch brea
k.\n2:15 pm Panel 2 Speaker presentations.\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and
audience Q&A.\n4:30 pm Evening reception with free food and drinks for at
tendees!
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LOCATION:B500 @ The New School for Liberal Arts\, 65 W 11th St\, New York\,
NY 10011\, USA
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ces will meet with artists and scholars from a wide variety of visual and
visual artistic disciplines\, including painting\, photography\, and liter
ature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion. Rather than taking art as
a mere object of philosophical study\, this conference will explore the m
anifold confluences and intersections of philosophy and art\, exploring ho
w each can become the object of the other and how the boundary between the
philosophical and the artistic can be sharpened or blurred. The motive is
specifically to explore the “visual” and “movement” element in art of\, a
nd in everyday life and theorize it – both philosophically and critically.
\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for Social Research
and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; University Student Senate an
d Graduate Faculty Student Senate
\nSchedule and Location
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New Yo
rk City.
\nOn March 24th\, we will meet in room B500 at 65 W 11 Stre
et.
\nOn March 25th\, we will meet in Starr Foundation Hall UL105 at
University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).
\nFollowing is the schedule fo
r both days\, (please see the website for details on panels and speakers):
\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker presentations.
\n12:00 pm Panel 1
roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n1:15 pm Lunch break.
\n2:15 pm
Panel 2 Speaker presentations.
\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and audi
ence Q&A.
\n4:30 pm Evening reception with free food and drinks for
attendees!
\n
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CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/newschool.edu/visualphicon/
DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosophy a
nd the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of hum
anities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wid
e variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines\, including painting\,
photography\, and literature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion. R
ather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study\, this confe
rence will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philosoph
y and art\, exploring how each can become the object of the other and how
the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpened o
r blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the “visual” and “movemen
t” element in art of\, and in everyday life and theorize it – both philoso
phically and critically.\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for
Social Research and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; University
Student Senate and Graduate Faculty Student Senate\nSchedule and Location
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New York City.\nOn
March 24th\, we will meet in room B500 at 65 W 11 Street.\nOn March 25th\,
we will meet in Starr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center (63 Fift
h Avenue).\nFollowing is the schedule for both days\, (please see the webs
ite for details on panels and speakers):\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker present
ations.\n12:00 pm Panel 1 roundtable and audience Q&A.\n1:15 pm Lunch brea
k.\n2:15 pm Panel 2 Speaker presentations.\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and
audience Q&A.\n4:30 pm Evening reception with free food and drinks for at
tendees!
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visual artistic disciplines\, including painting\, photography\, and liter
ature\, as well as travel\, dance\, and fashion. Rather than taking art as
a mere object of philosophical study\, this conference will explore the m
anifold confluences and intersections of philosophy and art\, exploring ho
w each can become the object of the other and how the boundary between the
philosophical and the artistic can be sharpened or blurred. The motive is
specifically to explore the “visual” and “movement” element in art of\, a
nd in everyday life and theorize it – both philosophically and critically.
\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for Social Research
and School of Art & Design History & Theory\; University Student Senate an
d Graduate Faculty Student Senate
\nSchedule and Location
\nThe conference will meet on The New School campus in New Yo
rk City.
\nOn March 24th\, we will meet in room B500 at 65 W 11 Stre
et.
\nOn March 25th\, we will meet in Starr Foundation Hall UL105 at
University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).
\nFollowing is the schedule fo
r both days\, (please see the website for details on panels and speakers):
\n11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker presentations.
\n12:00 pm Panel 1
roundtable and audience Q&A.
\n1:15 pm Lunch break.
\n2:15 pm
Panel 2 Speaker presentations.
\n3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and audi
ence Q&A.
\n4:30 pm Evening reception with free food and drinks for
attendees!
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CONTACT:
DESCRIPTION:Our friends from Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne return f
or a third installment of their symposium Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary
Aesthetics to Post Creation. \nThis day-long symposium will be chaired by
Yann Toma and Sandra Laugier. From the organizers:\nWe have noticed it du
ring the two previous symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy a
nd in particular Dewey defends the idea that aesthetics must not only be c
onsidered as the search for truths about art and its creations but also as
what concerns the experience of the persons with an artwork (a sensitive
and active experience). The reception would thus be the dynamic experience
of an incarnated observer\, acting\, feeling in his senses and his affect
s what is the work and what it makes him feel.\n\nThe political stake of t
he pragmatist aesthetics is to make sure that the strong aesthetic experie
nces remain open and accessible to the largest public and become even a «m
atter of ordinary conversation». It is then a matter of thinking about sha
red experience as a transmission of values\, an important phenomenon for t
he moral\, political\, “educational” reflection of adults» (Cavell 1979\,
1981\, Shusterman\, Laugier 2019\, 2023\, Gerrits 2020). Thus\, this quest
ion of pragmatism addresses societal issues that concern all audiences\, n
ot just from a broadcast/transmission perspective. By focusing on experien
ce and agency\, this way of approaching pragmatism involves the cultural a
udience in a broad way to the point where it engages mediums such as telev
ision and in general digital cultures.\nThe concept of Post-Creation\, ins
ofar as it plays a form of exteriority to an original Creation\, has all i
ts place in a world where the strong aesthetic experiences remain open and
accessible to a wider public. It is a question of placing the creation be
yond what is biased\, in the heart of a form of Third State of the artisti
c act in charge of a heuristic and critical potential\, towards a form ext
racted from the zone of influence of the world of the art as such. The ide
a of Post-Creation tends towards the universal that would be the fact of c
onceiving the creation beyond any not institutionalized academism. We will
see how a possible emulation between the ordinary aesthetic and the share
d experience of the Post-Creation is articulated and played\, where the ex
perience of the creation produces knowledge and transforms what is out of
the specific field of perception of the art in so many new acting and refl
exive spaces. In that\, the influence of the artistic creation on whole se
ctions of the society\, domains of perception until now inaccessible\, bec
omes a stake of opening which results from the transformation of a form of
ordinary aesthetics in a Post-Creation freed from the aesthetic channels
of the contemporary art.\nRead the statement in French\nProgram:\n10:30AM
: Opening Yann Toma\, Sandra Laugier and François Noudelmann\n11:00AM – 1:
00PM : Panel I Pragmatism and the Project of an Ordinary Aesthetics\nChair
: Yann Toma\nAndrew Brandel (Penn State University) From the Aesthetics o
f the Everyday Life to Ordinary Aesthetics.\nBarbara Formis (Panthéon-Sorb
onne University) Doings and redoings of the Identical.\nSandra Laugier (Pa
nthéon-Sorbonne) Ordinary Creation and Shared Culture.\nEmmanuel Kattan (C
olumbia University) What happens when nothing happens: Chantal Akerman\, F
rancis Ponge\, Marisa Merz and the emergence of time.\n \n1:00PM – 3:00PM
: Lunch Break\n \n3:00PM – 6:00PM : Panel II Pragmatism\, Post-Creation\nC
hair : Sandra Laugier\nYann Toma (Artist/Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Pos
t-Creation\, a new way of making creation\nThe example of L’Or bleu.\nJung
Hee Choi (artist and author of «Manifest Unmanifest») Dream House.\nDa
n Thomas (United Nations Global Compact)\, The importance of Art and Perce
ption in the Diplomatic Way.\nWarren Neidich (Artist and Founding Director
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art) The Brain Without Organs and the Ecocen
e.\nThis event is organized with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéo
n-Sorbonne\, Politique scientifique program\, and La Maison Française at N
ew York University\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-pragmatism-
from-ordinary-aesthetics-to-post-creation-tickets-596140822247.
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f their symposium Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post C
reation.
\nThis day-long symposium will be chaired by Yann Toma
and Sandra Laugier. From the organizers:
\nWe have noticed it du
ring the two previous symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy a
nd in particular Dewey defends the idea that aesthetics must not only be c
onsidered as the search for truths about art and its creations but also as
what concerns the experience of the persons with an artwork (a sensitive
and active experience). The reception would thus be the dynamic experience
of an incarnated observer\, acting\, feeling in his senses and his affect
s what is the work and what it makes him feel.
\n
\nThe
political stake of the pragmatist aesthetics is to make sure that the stro
ng aesthetic experiences remain open and accessible to the largest public
and become even a «matter of ordinary conversation». It is then a matter o
f thinking about shared experience as a transmission of values\, an import
ant phenomenon for the moral\, political\, “educational” reflection of adu
lts» (Cavell 1979\, 1981\, Shusterman\, Laugier 2019\, 2023\, Gerrits 2020
). Thus\, this question of pragmatism addresses societal issues that conce
rn all audiences\, not just from a broadcast/transmission perspective. By
focusing on experience and agency\, this way of approaching pragmatism inv
olves the cultural audience in a broad way to the point where it engages m
ediums such as television and in general digital cultures.
\n
The concept of Post-Creation\, insofar as it plays a form of exteriority t
o an original Creation\, has all its place in a world where the strong aes
thetic experiences remain open and accessible to a wider public. It is a q
uestion of placing the creation beyond what is biased\, in the heart of a
form of Third State of the artistic act in charge of a heuristic and criti
cal potential\, towards a form extracted from the zone of influence of the
world of the art as such. The idea of Post-Creation tends towards the uni
versal that would be the fact of conceiving the creation beyond any not in
stitutionalized academism. We will see how a possible emulation between th
e ordinary aesthetic and the shared experience of the Post-Creation is art
iculated and played\, where the experience of the creation produces knowle
dge and transforms what is out of the specific field of perception of the
art in so many new acting and reflexive spaces. In that\, the influence of
the artistic creation on whole sections of the society\, domains of perce
ption until now inaccessible\, becomes a stake of opening which results fr
om the transformation of a form of ordinary aesthetics in a Post-Creation
freed from the aesthetic channels of the contemporary art.
\nRead the statement in Frenc
h
\nProgram:
\n10:30AM : Opening Yann Toma\, Sandra Lau
gier and François Noudelmann
\n11:00AM – 1:00PM : Panel I Pra
gmatism and the Project of an Ordinary Aesthetics
\nChair : <
/u>Yann Toma
\nAndrew Brandel (Penn State Unive
rsity) From the Aesthetics of the Everyday Life to Ordinary Aesthetics.
\nBarbara Formis (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Doings and redo
ings of the Identical.
\nSandra Laugier (Panthéon-Sorbonne) O
rdinary Creation and Shared Culture.
\nEmmanuel Kattan (Colum
bia University) What happens when nothing happens: Chantal Akerman\, Franc
is Ponge\, Marisa Merz and the emergence of time.
\n
\n1:0
0PM – 3:00PM : Lunch Break
\n
\n3:00PM – 6:00PM : Pane
l II Pragmatism\, Post-Creation
\nChair : Sandra La
ugier
\nYann Toma (Artist/Panthéon-Sorbonne Universit
y) Post-Creation\, a new way of making creation
\nThe example of L’O
r bleu.
\nJung Hee Choi (artist and author of «Manifest Unman
ifest») Dream House.
\nDan Thomas (United Nations Global C
ompact)\, The importance of Art and Perception in the Diplomatic Way.
\nWarren Neidich (Artist and Founding Director Saas-Fee Summer I
nstitute of Art) The Brain Without Organs and the Ecocene.
\nThis ev
ent is organized with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\
, Politique scientifique program\, and La Maison Française at New York Uni
versity
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CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/philosophy/events/fall-2021/virtual-department-c
olloquium--Meena-Krishnamurthy.html
DESCRIPTION:Unlike its moral and intellectual counterparts\, the virtue of
aesthetic humility has been widely neglected. In order to begin filling in
this gap\, I argue that Kant’s view is a promising resource for developin
g a model of aesthetic humility. However\, prima facie\, Kant’s aesthetics
may seem like an unpromising starting point for this endeavor. At the ver
y least\, aesthetic humility has not been discussed as part of his aesthet
ic framework. What is more\, some have worried that far from promoting aes
thetic humility\, Kant’s approach promotes aesthetic arrogance instead. Ne
vertheless\, I claim that a closer look at Kant’s position provides a comp
elling model of aesthetic humility that sheds light not only on the self-
and other-directed attitudes it involves\, but also on how aesthetic humil
ity can serve as a corrective to the vices of aesthetic arrogance and aest
hetic servility.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Information\n\n\n\nRegistrati
on is free but required. A registration link will be posted and shared clo
ser to the event date.
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SUMMARY:Samantha Matherne (Harvard) Aesthetic Humility: A Kantian Model
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/samantha-matherne-harvar
d-aesthetic-humility-a-kantian-model/
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Unlike its moral and intellectual counterparts\, the virtue of aesthe
tic humility has been widely neglected. In order to begin filling in this
gap\, I argue that Kant’s view is a promising resource for developing a mo
del of aesthetic humility. However\, prima facie\, Kant’s aesthetic
s may seem like an unpromising starting point for this endeavor. At the ve
ry least\, aesthetic humility has not been discussed as part of his aesthe
tic framework. What is more\, some have worried that far from promoting ae
sthetic humility\, Kant’s approach promotes aesthetic arrogance instead. N
evertheless\, I claim that a closer look at Kant’s position provides a com
pelling model of aesthetic humility that sheds light not only on the self-
and other-directed attitudes it involves\, but also on how aesthetic humi
lity can serve as a corrective to the vices of aesthetic arrogance and aes
thetic servility.
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CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/robert-iliffe-thousan
d-fictions-cultism-and-delusional-metaphysics-newton-leibniz-disputes
DESCRIPTION:The rich philosophical and mathematical disputes that took plac
e between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz at the start of the eighteent
h century have received more historical attention than any other exchange
in the history of philosophy. Nevertheless\, in this talk\, Robert Iliffe
discusses a prominent but neglected aspect of their disagreement\, namely
the mutual claim that their opponents’ conceptual foundations were fiction
al\, and were the product both of diseased thinking and of illegitimately
organized intellectual structures. Newton assailed Leibniz’s allegedly deb
ased metaphysics in various prominent places\, and mobilized allies such a
s Roger Cotes and John Keill to do the same. Nevertheless\, by far the mos
t sophisticated critique of illicit philosophical assumptions was launched
against Newton by Leibniz in his correspondence with Samuel Clarke. In th
e 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 t
he rational romances of writers in the previous century. Although Leibniz
saved his most potent intellectual weapons for his final letter to Clarke\
, Robert Iliffe suggests that his attack on the fictional status of Newton
’s work was no mere codicil to his general critique of Newton’s philosophy
\, but instead lay at the heart of it. This famous debate\, while of cours
e somewhat sui generis\, is indicative of more general and dynamic feature
s of intellectual debate.\nEvent Speaker\nRobert Iliffe\, Professor of the
History of Science at the University of Oxford\nEvent Information\nThis e
vent is free and open to the public\; Registration required. Please contac
t scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.\nThis event is part o
f the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T180000
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SUMMARY:Robert Iliffe – ‘A Thousand Fictions’: Cultism and Delusional Metap
hysics in the Newton-Leibniz Disputes
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/robert-iliffe-a-thousand
-fictions-cultism-anrobert-iliffe-a-thousand-fictions-cultism-and-delusion
al-metaphysics-in-the-newton-leibniz-disputesd-delusional-me/
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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
.
\nEvent Speaker
\nRobert Iliffe\, Professor of the History of Science at the Unive
rsity of Oxford
\nEvent Information
\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.
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CONTACT:https://nyphilsci.wordpress.com/
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws o
f nature is between Humeans who think that laws merely describe the distri
bution of matter and non-Humeans who think that laws govern it. The metaph
ysics can place demands on the proper formulations of physical theories. I
t is sometimes assumed that the governing view requires a fundamental / in
trinsic direction of time: to govern\, laws must be dynamical\, producing
later states of the world from earlier ones\, in accord with the fundament
al direction of time in the universe. In this paper\, we propose a minimal
primitivism about laws of nature (MinP) according to which there is no su
ch requirement. On our view\, laws govern by constraining the physical pos
sibilities. Our view captures the essence of the governing view without ta
king on extraneous commitments about the direction of time or dynamic prod
uction. Moreover\, as a version of primitivism\, our view requires no redu
ction / analysis of laws in terms of universals\, powers\, or dispositions
. Our view accommodates several potential candidates for fundamental laws\
, including the principle of least action\, the Past Hypothesis\, the Eins
tein equation of general relativity\, and even controversial examples foun
d in the Wheeler-Feynman theory of electrodynamics and retro-causal theori
es of quantum mechanics. By understanding governing as constraining\, non-
Humeans who accept MinP have the same freedom to contemplate a wide variet
y of candidate fundamental laws as Humeans do.\nThe talk will take place o
ver Zoom. I will send out the Zoom link closer to the meeting.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T190000
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD) and Sheldon Goldstein (Rutgers)\, “Governin
g Without A Fundamental Direction of Time: Minimal Primitivism about Laws
of Nature”
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/eddy-keming-chen-ucsd-an
d-sheldon-goldstein-rutgers-governing-without-a-fundamental-direction-of-t
ime-minimal-primitivism-about-laws-of-nature/
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Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws of nature is between Hume
ans who think that laws merely describe the distribution of matter and non
-Humeans who think that laws govern it. The metaphysics can place demands
on the proper formulations of physical theories. It is sometimes assumed t
hat the governing view requires a fundamental / intrinsic direction of tim
e: to govern\, laws must be dynamical\, producing later states of the worl
d from earlier ones\, in accord with the fundamental direction of time in
the universe. In this paper\, we propose a minimal primitivism about laws
of nature (MinP) according to which there is no such requirement. On our v
iew\, laws govern by constraining the physical possibilities. Our view cap
tures the essence of the governing view without taking on extraneous commi
tments about the direction of time or dynamic production. Moreover\, as a
version of primitivism\, our view requires no reduction / analysis of laws
in terms of universals\, powers\, or dispositions. Our view accommodates
several potential candidates for fundamental laws\, including the principl
e of least action\, the Past Hypothesis\, the Einstein equation of general
relativity\, and even controversial examples found in the Wheeler-Feynman
theory of electrodynamics and retro-causal theories of quantum mechanics.
By understanding governing as constraining\, non-Humeans who accept MinP
have the same freedom to contemplate a wide variety of candidate fundament
al laws as Humeans do.
\nThe talk will take place over Zoom. I will
send out the Zoom link closer to the meeting.
\n
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/art-brain-beholder
DESCRIPTION:What can science teach us about how we perceive and understand
art? How can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this even
t\, the Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains a
nd the artistic world\, finding connections and parallels between art and
science.\nEvent Speakers\nPlease visit the event webpage to view the speak
er list.\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public\, registration is
required by January 28\, 2022. This event will also be live-streamed. Ple
ase email zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu with any questions.\nThis talk i
s part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hos
ted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and
supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\nTickets
: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKsoLFSuOXr1-x3
rGT5g.
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Art in the Brain of the Beholder
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/art-in-the-brain-of-the-
beholder/
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What can science teach us about how we perceive and understand art? H
ow can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this event\, th
e Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains and the
artistic world\, finding connections and parallels between art and scienc
e.
\n
Event Speakers
\n
Please visit the event webpage to view the spe
aker list.
\n
Event Information
\n
Free and open to the public
\, registrat
ion is required by January 28\, 2022. This event will also be live-str
eamed. Please email zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu<
/a> with any questions.
\n
This talk is part of the Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hosted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and su
pported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
\n
\n
\n
\n
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ttps://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-TjKsoLFSuOXr1-x3rGT
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/elly-truitt-structure
-scientific-progress-case-roger-bacon
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the importance of the medieval period and ni
neteenth-century medievalism to the invention of modern science by placing
the work of thirteenth-century Franciscan\, polymath\, and scholastic nat
ural philosopher Roger Bacon (ca. 1214-1292) into conversation with later
scholars\, especially William Whewell (1794-1866). Elly Truitt argues that
Bacon’s work and reputation became central to a narrative about the devel
opment of science that insisted on Europe as the only possible place of or
igin. Furthermore\, Truitt argues that this narrative was constructed\, in
part\, by ignoring large parts of Bacon’s corpus and erasing his deep eng
agement with medieval scholars working in the Arabic tradition\, and by re
lying instead on a narrative structure that emerged in the context of late
antique and medieval Christianity.\nEvent Speaker\nElly Truitt\, Associat
e Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Penns
ylvania\nEvent Information\nThis event is free and open to the public\; Re
gistration required. Please contact scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with an
y questions.\nThis event is part of the New York History of Science Lectur
e Series.\nSponsoring Organizations:\n\nThe University Seminars at Columbi
a University\nColumbia University in the City of New York\nNYU Gallatin Sc
hool of Individualized Study\nThe Graduate Center\, City University of New
York\nThe New York Academy of Medicine\nThe New York Academy of Sciences
\n\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to ac
commodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommo
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us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 days in
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ssibility webpage.\n\n\n\n\n\nregister
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SUMMARY:Elly Truitt – The Structure of Scientific Progress: The Case of Rog
er Bacon
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/elly-truitt-the-structur
e-of-scientific-progress-the-case-of-roger-bacon/
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This talk explores the importance of the medieval period and nineteen
th-century medievalism to the invention of modern science by placing the w
ork of thirteenth-century Franciscan\, polymath\, and scholastic natural p
hilosopher Roger Bacon (ca. 1214-1292) into conversation with later schola
rs\, especially William Whewell (1794-1866). Elly Truitt argues that Bacon
’s work and reputation became central to a narrative about the development
of science that insisted on Europe as the only possible place of origin.
Furthermore\, Truitt argues that this narrative was constructed\, in part\
, by ignoring large parts of Bacon’s corpus and erasing his deep engagemen
t with medieval scholars working in the Arabic tradition\, and by relying
instead on a narrative structure that emerged in the context of late antiq
ue and medieval Christianity.
\n
Event Speaker
\n
Elly Truitt\, Associate Professor of History and So
ciology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania
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ation
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\n- The New York Academy of
Medicine
\n- The New York Academy of Sciences
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CONTACT:https://nyphilsci.wordpress.com/2022/02/15/upcoming-maps-talks-spri
ng-2022/
DESCRIPTION:The current pandemic has focused attention on the techniques us
ed by epidemiologists and other non-experimental scientists to infer causa
l hypotheses from correlational data. I have previously argued* that we ne
ed to explain these techniques by reducing causal relationships to depende
ncies in systems of structural equations with probabilistically independen
t exogenous variables. In this talk I shall aim to use this account to cas
t light on (a) single-case counterfactual dependence and actual causation\
, (b) the content and practical relevance of generic causal claims like “s
moking causes cancer”\, (c) the temporal asymmetry of causation\, and (d)
the proper understanding of rational action under risk.\n*In particular\,
I’ve argued this in http://weebly-file/1/8/5/5/18551740/stat_nat_csn_monis
t.pdf. I will also be giving a talk on it at the CUNY Logic and Metaphysic
s workshop on Monday 7 March 1615-1815.\nThe talk will be on Zoom. All are
welcome to attend!\nThe zoom link will be distributed through the MAPS ma
iling list. If you are not on the MAPS mailing list and would like to rece
ive the Zoom link for the talk\, please email nyphilsci@gmail.com.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T163000
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Causal Structure of Reality\, David Papineau (KCL)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-causal-structure-of-
reality-david-papineau-kcl/
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andemic has focused attention on the techniques used by epidemiologists an
d other non-experimental scientists to infer causal hypotheses from correl
ational data. I have previously argued* that we need to explain these tech
niques by reducing causal relationships to dependencies in systems of stru
ctural equations with probabilistically independent exogenous variables. I
n this talk I shall aim to use this account to cast light on (a) single-ca
se counterfactual dependence and actual causation\, (b) the content and pr
actical relevance of generic causal claims like “smoking causes cancer”\,
(c) the temporal asymmetry of causation\, and (d) the proper understanding
of rational action under risk.
\n*In particular\, I’ve argued this
in http://weebly-file/1/8/5/5/185517
40/stat_nat_csn_monist.pdf. I will also be giving a talk on it at the
CUNY Logic and Metaphysics workshop on Monday 7 March 1615-1815.
\nT
he talk will be on Zoom. All are welcome to attend!
\nThe zoom link
will be distributed through the MAPS mailing list. If you are not on the M
APS mailing list and would like to receive the Zoom link for the talk\, pl
ease email nyphilsci@gmail.com.
\n
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CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/department-calendar
DESCRIPTION:LTF Event: Olivia Branscum\,“Fairness\, Objectivity\, and Gradi
ngMultimodal Assessments.”
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Olivia Branscum\, “Fairness\, Objectivity\, and Grading Multimodal
Assessments.”
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/olivia-branscum-fairness
-objectivity-and-grading-multimodal-assessments/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent
CONTACT:https://bkpp.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the
greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience\, hos
ted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of the
best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to
provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the phi
losophical questions that matter to them.\nIf you’re interested in finding
out more\, or if you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian Olasov at
his first and last name at gmail.com.
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SUMMARY:Justin Garson: On biological function and mental illness
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/justin-garson-on-biologi
cal-function-and-mental-illness/
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al questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to provide a civil space wh
ere Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions tha
t matter to them.
\nIf you’re interested in finding out more\, or if
you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian Olasov at his first and las
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CONTACT:https://bkpp.tumblr.com/
DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the
greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience\, hos
ted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of the
best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to
provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the phi
losophical questions that matter to them.\nIf you’re interested in finding
out more\, or if you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian Olasov at
his first and last name at gmail.com.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220527T193000
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Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Olufemi Taiwo: On climate colonialism
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/olufemi-taiwo-on-climate
-colonialism/
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al questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to provide a civil space wh
ere Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions tha
t matter to them.
\nIf you’re interested in finding out more\, or if
you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian Olasov at his first and las
t name at gmail.com.
\n
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY
CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks
DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM\, 1-3\, NYC TIMEAll are hosted by Rebecca
Keller and Ryan McElhaneyZoom links are all announced on the Cognitive Sc
ience email listTo subscribe to that list\, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.co
mSome sessions—not all—are recorded for later access\n9/16: Michael A. Coh
enPsychology and Neuroscience\, Amherst College9/23: Alon ZivonyPsychologi
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Hopkins University10/7: Steven FlemingExperimental Psychology and Neuroim
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College and Columbia University10/21: Michael SnodgrassCognition & Cogniti
ve Neuroscience\, University of Michigan10/28: Jamal WilliamsPsychology\,
University of California San Diego11/4: Ian PhillipsPhilosophy and Psychol
ogical and Brain Sciences\, Johns Hopkins11/11: Paweł ZiębaInstitute of Ph
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eries meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,Fridays\, 1-3 pm\, NYC tim
e—currently on Zoom. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talksFor additional
information e-mail David Rosenthal
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers
CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/rutgers-lectures-in-philosoph
y/217-general/rutgers-lectures-in-philosophy/1346-timothy-williamson
DESCRIPTION:Professor Williamson will give 3 lectures: September 19\, 21\,
and 23. All will take place in AB-2400 [East Wing] from 4:30-6:30pm.\nThe
lectures will discuss problems in the methodology of contemporary philosop
hy. Although philosophy without use of counterexamples would be a disaster
\, the way they are currently handled is naïve. In particular\, it is too
vulnerable to fake counterexamples generated by more or less universal hum
an heuristics.\nLecture One: Heuristics [9/19]\nHuman cognition\, from sen
se perception to abstract reflection\, frequently employs heuristics\, qui
ck\, easy\, efficient\, and imperfectly reliable ways of solving problems.
To a neglected extent\, philosophical problems and paradoxes from relianc
e on the outputs of fallible heuristics. This will be illustrated with exa
mples involving vagueness\, conditionals\, belief ascription\, truth and f
alsity\, and reasons aggregation. Potential lessons for philosophical meth
od will be discussed.\nLecture Two: Overfitting [9/21]\nOverfitting is a w
ell-recognized methodological problem in natural science\, where use of mo
dels with too many degrees of freedom leads to unstable theorizing and fai
lure to detect errors in the data. Overfitting is also a major but ill-rec
ognized methodological problem in philosophy\, exacerbated by its reliance
on heuristics. General intellectual tendencies conducive to overfitting i
n philosophy will be discussed.\nLecture Three: Hyperintensionality [9/23]
\nThe ‘hyperintensional revolution’ proclaims that central metaphysical di
stinctions cannot be captured in modal terms since they are sensitive to d
ifferences between necessary equivalents. Such hyperintensionalism fits th
e profile of overfitting. It is motivated by case judgments that are expli
cable as results of a fallible heuristic and it leads to models with too m
any degrees of freedom.
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LOCATION:AB-2400 [East Wing] CAC Rutgers U @ 15 Seminary Pl\, New Brunswick
\, NJ 08901\, USA
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T163000
RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T163000
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rutgers-lectures-in-phil
osophy-timothy-williamson/
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liamson will give 3 lectures: September 19\, 21\, and 23. All will take pl
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\nThe lectures will dis
cuss problems in the methodology of contemporary philosophy. Although phil
osophy without use of counterexamples would be a disaster\, the way they a
re currently handled is naïve. In particular\, it is too vulnerable to fak
e counterexamples generated by more or less universal human heuristics.
\nLecture One: Heuristics [9/19]
\nHuman cognition\, from sens
e perception to abstract reflection\, frequently employs heuristics\, quic
k\, easy\, efficient\, and imperfectly reliable ways of solving problems.
To a neglected extent\, philosophical problems and paradoxes from reliance
on the outputs of fallible heuristics. This will be illustrated with exam
ples involving vagueness\, conditionals\, belief ascription\, truth and fa
lsity\, and reasons aggregation. Potential lessons for philosophical metho
d will be discussed.
\nLecture Two: Overfitting [9/21]
\nOve
rfitting is a well-recognized methodological problem in natural science\,
where use of models with too many degrees of freedom leads to unstable the
orizing and failure to detect errors in the data. Overfitting is also a ma
jor but ill-recognized methodological problem in philosophy\, exacerbated
by its reliance on heuristics. General intellectual tendencies conducive t
o overfitting in philosophy will be discussed.
\nLecture Three: Hyp
erintensionality [9/23]
\nThe ‘hyperintensional revolution’ proclai
ms that central metaphysical distinctions cannot be captured in modal term
s since they are sensitive to differences between necessary equivalents. S
uch hyperintensionalism fits the profile of overfitting. It is motivated b
y case judgments that are explicable as results of a fallible heuristic an
d it leads to models with too many degrees of freedom.
\n
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU
CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/Calendar/events/fall-2022/gaston
-bachelard-colloquium-.html
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce a public talk featuring Elie During
as part of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s 60th death anniversary. O
n the face of it\, The Dialectic of Duration\, Gaston Bachelard’s 1936 ess
ay\, is a pungent—if often unfair—criticism of the Bergsonian doctrine of
time and creative evolution. The constructive side of this Anti-Bergson ha
s received less attention: it implies a genuine poetics of time based on t
he intuition of the sporadic and oscillatory nature of becoming. Bachelard
’s rhythmic theme is consistent with the idea of “surrationalism” introduc
ed that same year as a formal counterpart to the surrealist experiments ca
rried out on the fringes of conscious experience. Inspired by the explosiv
e potential of scientific revolutions already celebrated in Le Nouvel Espr
it Scientifique\, the surrationalist project can be interpreted as that of
a poetics of reason. André Breton believed it would “act simultaneously a
s a stimulant and restraining influence” (“Crisis of the Object”). Insight
s from the scientific investigation of time as well as poetic and musical
experience will help us see how this double action is in keeping with the
eruptive dynamics of imagination and reason\, as much as with Bachelard’s
ideal of “self-surveillance”.\nElie During is an Associate Professor of Ph
ilosophy at the University of Paris Ouest. His research focuses on the phi
losophical implications of relativity theory. His publications include an
introduction to Poincaré’s philosophy of science (La Science et l’Hypothès
e\, 2001)\, an essay on the nature of time (The Future does not Exist\, 20
14)\, two critical editions of Bergson\, a coedited volume on contemporary
metaphysics of realism (Choses en soi\, 2018\, English translation forthc
oming from Edinburgh University Press)\, and most recently a critical edit
ion of Bachelard’s Dialectique de la durée (2021).\nOrganized by\nJulie Be
auté\, Aix-Marseille Université\, ADES (France)\nAlexander Campolo\, Durha
m University (UK)\nJeanne Etelain\, New York University (USA)\nSam Kellogg
\, New York University (USA)\nAlexander Miller\, Ghent University (Belgium
)\nPierre Schwarzer\, New York University (USA)\nMeg Wiessner\, New York U
niversity (USA)\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gaston-bachelard-co
lloquium-public-talk-with-elie-during-tickets-412317431537.
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\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Anti-Bergson: Bachelard’s “Surrationalist” Moment and The Poetics o
f Time
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/anti-bergson-bachelards-
surrationalist-moment-and-the-poetics-of-time/
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d to announce a public talk featuring Elie During as part of French philos
opher Gaston Bachelard’s 60th death anniversary. On the face of it\, Th
e Dialectic of Duration\, Gaston Bachelard’s 1936 essay\, is a pungent
—if often unfair—criticism of the Bergsonian doctrine of time and creative
evolution. The constructive side of this Anti-Bergson has received less a
ttention: it implies a genuine poetics of time based on the intuition of t
he sporadic and oscillatory nature of becoming. Bachelard’s rhythmic theme
is consistent with the idea of “surrationalism” introduced that same year
as a formal counterpart to the surrealist experiments carried out on the
fringes of conscious experience. Inspired by the explosive potential of sc
ientific revolutions already celebrated in Le Nouvel Esprit Scientifiqu
e\, the surrationalist project can be interpreted as that of a poet
ics of reason. André Breton believed it would “act simultaneously as a
stimulant and restraining influence” (“Crisis of the Object”). Insights f
rom the scientific investigation of time as well as poetic and musical exp
erience will help us see how this double action is in keeping with the eru
ptive dynamics of imagination and reason\, as much as with Bachelard’s ide
al of “self-surveillance”.
\nElie During is an Associate Prof
essor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Ouest. His research focuses
on the philosophical implications of relativity theory. His publications
include an introduction to Poincaré’s philosophy of science (La Science
et l’Hypothèse\, 2001)\, an essay on the nature of time (The Futur
e does not Exist\, 2014)\, two critical editions of Bergson\, a coedit
ed volume on contemporary metaphysics of realism (Choses en soi\, 2
018\, English translation forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press)\, a
nd most recently a critical edition of Bachelard’s Dialectique de la du
rée (2021).
\nOrganized by
\nJulie Beauté\, Aix-Marseille
Université\, ADES (France)
\nAlexander Campolo\, Durham University (
UK)
\nJeanne Etelain\, New York University (USA)
\nSam Kellogg
\, New York University (USA)
\nAlexander Miller\, Ghent University (
Belgium)
\nPierre Schwarzer\, New York University (USA)
\nMeg
Wiessner\, New York University (USA)
\nTickets: https://www.event
brite.com/e/gaston-bachelard-colloquium-public-talk-with-elie-during-ticke
ts-412317431537.
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CONTACT:https://nyphilsci.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/upcoming-maps-talks-fall
-2022/
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Metro Area Philosophers of Science
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t\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA
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SUMMARY:Indefinite Causal Ordering. Elise Crull (CUNY)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/indefinite-causal-orderi
ng-elise-crull-cuny/
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/how-ai-changing-artis
tic-creation
DESCRIPTION:Generative art made with algorithms has existed since the early
days of computing in the 1960s. In recent years\, a new strand of generat
ive art has emerged: AI-generated art\, which leverages the recent progres
s of artificial intelligence to create artworks. Unlike old-fashioned gene
rative art\, AI-generated art is not produced with an explicit set of prog
ramming instructions provided by human artists\; instead\, it involves tra
ining an algorithm on a dataset so that it can later produce artworks (ima
ges\, music\, or video clips) using its own internal parameters that have
not been explicitly defined by a human. This process raises fascinating qu
estions at the intersection of computer science\, art history\, and the ph
ilosophy of art. At a superficial level of analysis\, AI-generated art see
ms to offload much of the creative impetus of art production to the machin
e\, requiring minimal intervention from the artist. On closer inspection\,
however\, it involves a novel process of curation at two key stages: upst
ream in the selection of the dataset on which the algorithm is trained\, a
nd downstream in the selection of the outputs that should qualify as artwo
rks. Instead of replacing human artists with computers\, AI-generated art
can be understood as a new kind of collaboration between mind and machine\
, both of which contribute to the aesthetic value of the final artwork.\nT
his seminar will bring together AI artists and philosophers to explore the
significance of this new mode of art production. It will discuss the impl
ications of AI-generated art for the definition of art\, the nature of the
relationship between artists and tools\, the process of digital curation\
, and whether AI systems can be as creative as humans.\nEvent Speakers\n\n
Sougwen Chung\, artist and researcher\nHelena Sarin\, visual artist\nAnne
Spalter\, digital mixed-media artist\nKatherine Thomson-Jones\, Professor
of Philosophy at Oberlin College\nModerated by Raphaël Millière\, Presiden
tial Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University\n\nEvent I
nformation\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required via Even
tbrite. Registered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the
seminar begins.\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Soc
iety and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
series.\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort
to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability ac
commodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please con
tact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 da
ys in advance of the event. For more information\, please visit the campus
accessibility webpage.\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai-is-c
hanging-artistic-creation-tickets-404716165947.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T153000
GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973
LOCATION:Online @ New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:How AI Is Changing Artistic Creation
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-ai-is-changing-artis
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t made with algorithms has existed since the early days of computing in th
e 1960s. In recent years\, a new strand of generative art has emerged: AI-
generated art\, which leverages the recent progress of artificial intellig
ence to create artworks. Unlike old-fashioned generative art\, AI-generate
d art is not produced with an explicit set of programming instructions pro
vided by human artists\; instead\, it involves training an algorithm on a
dataset so that it can later produce artworks (images\, music\, or video c
lips) using its own internal parameters that have not been explicitly defi
ned by a human. This process raises fascinating questions at the intersect
ion of computer science\, art history\, and the philosophy of art. At a su
perficial level of analysis\, AI-generated art seems to offload much of th
e creative impetus of art production to the machine\, requiring minimal in
tervention from the artist. On closer inspection\, however\, it involves a
novel process of curation at two key stages: upstream in the selection of
the dataset on which the algorithm is trained\, and downstream in the sel
ection of the outputs that should qualify as artworks. Instead of replacin
g human artists with computers\, AI-generated art can be understood as a n
ew kind of collaboration between mind and machine\, both of which contribu
te to the aesthetic value of the final artwork.
\nThis seminar will
bring together AI artists and philosophers to explore the significance of
this new mode of art production. It will discuss the implications of AI-ge
nerated art for the definition of art\, the nature of the relationship bet
ween artists and tools\, the process of digital curation\, and whether AI
systems can be as creative as humans.
\nEvent Speakers
\n\nEvent Information
\nFree and open to the publi
c.
Registration is required via Eventbrite. Registered attendees will rec
eive an event link shortly before the seminar begins.
\nThis event i
s hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neurosc
ience as part of the S
eminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
\nThe Center for Sci
ence and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals
with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Ce
nter for Science and Society event\, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212
) 853-1612 at least 10 days in advance of the event. For more information\
, please visit the campus accessibility we
bpage.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai-is-changing-artistic-creati
on-tickets-404716165947.
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CONTACT:
DESCRIPTION:Seen from a distance\, competing views of laws of nature attend
to different aspects of their target concept. The Best System Analysis (‘
BSA’) focuses on the role of laws in systematizing our thoughts about part
icular facts\, while non-Humean (‘realist’) views focus on whatever it is
– N-relations among universals\, powers – that pushes the universe from on
e state to another. Nothing stops us from combining these views: with the
BSA\, we can restrict the laws of science to summarizing particulars\, whi
le at the same time\, with our preferred realism\, positing a ‘driver’ tha
t makes those particulars as they are.\nSo far\, there have been only a fe
w attempts to hybridize the BSA with some form of realism\, and then only
with the powers view. I argue that there is a deep assumption woven into t
he fabric of realism from Descartes’s time on: that the laws of a science
report on facts\, which in turn either are or involve the realist’s chosen
driver. I argue that the best-known attempt to hybridize the BSA with a p
ower’s view – Heather Demarest’s potency-BSA – still makes this Cartesian
assumption\, and faces significant objections as a result. The lesson is t
hat anyone attempting to create hybrids should abandon that assumption ent
irely. After formulating what I take to be a more defensible powers-BSA hy
brid\, I go on to show how one might cross-breed the BSA with primitivism
and with the universals view. By abandoning the Cartesian assumption\, we
can create hybrids that are considerably more defensible than their realis
t parents.\nLocation: Plaza View Room\, 12th Floor\, Lowenstein Building o
f Fordham Lincoln Center (113 W 60th St).\nDirections: Enter at the corner
of 60th and Columbus\, and have a university ID ready. Please tell the se
curity that you are attending an event hosted by the philosophy department
. To get the Plaza View Room\, take the escalators one floor up to find th
e elevators. Only some elevators go up to the 12th floor\; for those that
only go to the 11th floor\, go to 11 and turn to the center of the main ha
llway to see a stairway to 12. Upon arriving at the 12th floor\, take a ri
ght and walk all the way to the end through the doors. Please email Peter
Tan (ptan8@fordham.edu) for any issues.\nDue to technical limitations\, th
e talk will be in-person only.
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LOCATION:Plaza View Room\, 12th Floor\, @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60
th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA
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SUMMARY:How to Breed Hybrid Accounts of Laws of Nature. Walter Ott (UVA)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-to-breed-hybrid-acco
unts-of-laws-of-nature-walter-ott-uva/
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istance\, competing views of laws of nature attend to different aspects of
their target concept. The Best System Analysis (‘BSA’) focuses on the rol
e of laws in systematizing our thoughts about particular facts\, while non
-Humean (‘realist’) views focus on whatever it is – N-relations among univ
ersals\, powers – that pushes the universe from one state to another. Noth
ing stops us from combining these views: with the BSA\, we can restrict th
e laws of science to summarizing particulars\, while at the same time\, wi
th our preferred realism\, positing a ‘driver’ that makes those particular
s as they are.
\nSo far\, there have been only a few attempts to hybr
idize the BSA with some form of realism\, and then only with the powers vi
ew. I argue that there is a deep assumption woven into the fabric of reali
sm from Descartes’s time on: that the laws of a science report on facts\,
which in turn either are or involve the realist’s chosen driver. I argue t
hat the best-known attempt to hybridize the BSA with a power’s view – Heat
her Demarest’s potency-BSA – still makes this Cartesian assumption\, and f
aces significant objections as a result. The lesson is that anyone attempt
ing to create hybrids should abandon that assumption entirely. After formu
lating what I take to be a more defensible powers-BSA hybrid\, I go on to
show how one might cross-breed the BSA with primitivism and with the unive
rsals view. By abandoning the Cartesian assumption\, we can create hybrids
that are considerably more defensible than their realist parents.
\nLocation: Plaza View Room\, 12th Floor\, Lowenstein Buil
ding of Fordham Lincoln Center (113 W 60th St).
\nDirections
: Enter at the corner of 60th and Columbus\, and have a universit
y ID ready. Please tell the security that you are attending an event hoste
d by the philosophy department. To get the Plaza View Room\, take the esca
lators one floor up to find the elevators. Only some elevators go up to th
e 12th floor\; for those that only go to the 11th floor\, go to 11 and tur
n to the center of the main hallway to see a stairway to 12. Upon arriving
at the 12th floor\, take a right and walk all the way to the end through
the doors. Please email Peter Tan (ptan8@fordham.edu) for any issues.
\n
Due to technical limitations\, the talk will be in-person only.
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CONTACT:https://nyphilsci.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/maps-schedule-fall-2022-
and-spring-2023/
DESCRIPTION:For those interested\, here is the schedule for the rest of the
Fall 2022 semester and Spring 2023 semester. All the talks will happen be
tween 4:30pm and 6:30pm EST unless stated otherwise.\nArmin Schulz (Univer
sity of Kansas)\nTuesday Jan 24 2023\nTBA\nGlenn Shafer (Rutgers Universit
y)\nTuesday Feb 14 2023 RESCHEDULE\nTBA\nSean Carroll (Johns Hopkins)\nTue
sday Feb 28 2023\nTBA\nKareem Khalifa (Middlebury College)\nTuesday Mar 21
2023\nTBA\nAny updates on the schedule\, as well as information about the
talks will be announced through the MAPS mailing list. To be added to the
mailing list please message Diego Arana (da689@rutgers.edu) and Barry Loe
wer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu).
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SUMMARY:Metro Area Philosophy of Science
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/metro-area-philosophy-of
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Spring 2023 semester. All the talks will happen between 4:30pm and 6:30pm
EST unless stated otherwise.
\nArmin Schulz (University of Kansas)
\nTuesday Jan 24 2023
\nTBA
\nGlenn Shafer (Rutgers University)\nTuesday Feb 14 2023 RESCHEDULE
\nTBA
\nSean Carroll (Johns Hopkins)
\nTuesday Feb
28 2023
\nTBA
\nKareem Khalifa (Middl
ebury College)
\nTuesday Mar 21 2023
\nTBA
\nAny
updates on the schedule\, as well as information about the talks will be a
nnounced through the MAPS mailing list. To be added to the mailing list pl
ease message Diego Arana (da689@rutgers.edu) and Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu).
\n
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.org/naturally-universal-how-aristotle-expla
ins-the-success-of-medieval-french-song
DESCRIPTION:Poets and singers in a number of medieval vernacular languages
reached non-native audiences and inspired speakers of other languages to c
ompose in theirs\; and many imagined their compositions enjoying a univers
ality similar to that of cosmopolitan languages like Latin and Arabic. An
interesting rationalization of these aspirations can be discerned in a sho
rt verse narrative of a well-known episode in the youth of Alexander the G
reat\, conqueror of India\, together with his tutor\, the philosopher Aris
totle. Not only does it involve Greeks and Indians singing French songs an
d cosplaying French lovers\, but the philosopher is induced to pretend to
be a horse and then justifies his behavior as “natural\,” with far-reachin
g implications which this talk will explore.\nSarah Kay is Professor Emeri
ta in the Department of French Literature\, Thought and Culture at New Yor
k University and Life Fellow at Girton College\, University of Cambridge.
In Spring 2023\, she is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Columbia Soc
iety of Senior Scholars.\nThis talk is presented by the Columbia Maison Fr
ançaise\, Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities\, The So
ciety of Senior Scholars\, the Department of Music\, and Medieval and Rena
issance Studies. \nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naturally-univers
al-a-lecture-by-sarah-kay-tickets-516765338037.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T183000
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LOCATION:Maison Française East Gallery @ Buell Hall\, 515 W 116th St\, New
York\, NY 10027\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Naturally Universal: How Aristotle Explains the Success of Medieval
French Song. Sarah Kay
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/naturally-universal-how-
aristotle-explains-the-success-of-medieval-french-song-sarah-kay/
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ts and singers in a number of medieval vernacular languages reached non-na
tive audiences and inspired speakers of other languages to compose in thei
rs\; and many imagined their compositions enjoying a universality similar
to that of cosmopolitan languages like Latin and Arabic. An interesting ra
tionalization of these aspirations can be discerned in a short verse narra
tive of a well-known episode in the youth of Alexander the Great\, conquer
or of India\, together with his tutor\, the philosopher Aristotle. Not onl
y does it involve Greeks and Indians singing French songs and cosplaying F
rench lovers\, but the philosopher is induced to pretend to be a horse and
then justifies his behavior as “natural\,” with far-reaching implications
which this talk will explore.
\nSarah Kay is Professor Emerita in the Department of French Literature\, Thought an
d Culture at New York University and Life Fellow at Girton College\, Unive
rsity of Cambridge. In Spring 2023\, she is Distinguished Visiting Scholar
in the Columbia Society of
Senior Scholars.
\nThis talk is presented by the
Columbia Maison Française\, Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the H
umanities\, The Society of Senior Scholars\, the Department of Music\, and
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/
e/naturally-universal-a-lecture-by-sarah-kay-tickets-516765338037.
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CONTACT:https://www.cruzdavis.com/method-theory-reality/upcoming-events
DESCRIPTION:The representational theory of measurement provides a collectio
n of results that specify the conditions under which an attribute admits o
f numerical representation. The original architects of the theory interpre
ted the formalism operationally and explicitly acknowledged that some aspe
cts of their representations are conventional. There have been a number of
recent efforts to reinterpret the formalism to arrive at a more metaphysi
cally robust account of physical quantities. In this paper we argue that t
he conventional elements of the representations afforded by the representa
tional theory of measurement require careful scrutiny as one moves toward
such an interpretation. To illustrate why\, we show that there is a sense
in which the very number system in which one represents a physical quantit
y such as mass or length is conventional. We argue that this result does n
ot undermine the project of reinterpreting the representational theory of
measurement for metaphysical purposes in general\, but it does undermine a
certain class of inferences about the nature of physical quantities that
some have been tempted to draw.\n\n\nTALK LINK — Email for the passcode cr
uzdavis umass.edu or jrc2266 columbia.edu
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:The Conventionality of Real-Valued Quantities. Marissa Bennett (Tor
onto)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-conventionality-of-r
eal-valued-quantities-marissa-bennett-toronto/
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ational theory of measurement provides a collection of results that specif
y the conditions under which an attribute admits of numerical representati
on. The original architects of the theory interpreted the formalism operat
ionally and explicitly acknowledged that some aspects of their representat
ions are conventional. There have been a number of recent efforts to reint
erpret the formalism to arrive at a more metaphysically robust account of
physical quantities. In this paper we argue that the conventional elements
of the representations afforded by the representational theory of measure
ment require careful scrutiny as one moves toward such an interpretation.
To illustrate why\, we show that there is a sense in which the very number
system in which one represents a physical quantity such as mass or length
is conventional. We argue that this result does not undermine the project
of reinterpreting the representational theory of measurement for metaphys
ical purposes in general\, but it does undermine a certain class of infere
nces about the nature of physical quantities that some have been tempted t
o draw.
\n\n
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CONTACT:
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce the upcoming MAPS Symposium on the P
hilosophy of Quantum Mechanics\, taking place at NYU on April 25th from 3p
m-7pm. The event will feature talks from Eddy Chen\, Emily Adlam\, and Tim
Maudlin. Further details can be found below.\nTalks:\n\nEddy Chen (UCSD):
“The Wentaculus”\nEmily Adlam (Rotman Institute UWO): “The Temporal Asymm
etry of Influence is Not Statistical.”\nTim Maudlin (NYU): “Nonlocality”\n
\nPlease note that while all are welcome to attend\, non-NYU attendees mus
t RSVP by emailing Diego Arana (da689@rutgers.edu) and Barry Loewer (loewe
r@philosophy.rutgers.edu) to ensure their names are added to the entry lis
t for the NYU building. For any further information\, please contact us th
rough the emails just provided.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T190000
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LOCATION:NYU room 307 @ 194 Mercer Street\, New York\, NY 10012\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophical-foundation
s-of-quantum-mechanics/
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d to announce the upcoming MAPS Symposium on the Philosophy of Quantum Mec
hanics\, taking place at NYU on April 25th from 3pm-7pm. The event will fe
ature talks from Eddy Chen\, Emily Adlam\, and Tim Maudlin. Further detail
s can be found below.
\nTalks:
\n\n- Eddy
Chen (UCSD): “The Wentaculus”
\n- Emily Adlam (Rotman Institute UWO)
: “The Temporal Asymmetry of Influence is Not Statistical.”
\n- Tim
Maudlin (NYU): “Nonlocality”
\n
\nPlease note that while all ar
e welcome to attend\, non-NYU attendees must RSVP by emailing Diego Arana
(da689@rutgers.edu) and Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu) to en
sure their names are added to the entry list for the NYU building. For any
further information\, please contact us through the emails just provided.
\n
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CONTACT:
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Metro Area Philosophers of Science\nDirections: En
ter the Philosophy building at 5 Washington Place\, and have a university
ID and vaccination card ready. For any questions\, please contact Diego Ar
ana (da689@rutgers.edu)\, Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu) and
Jack Mikuszewski (jhm378@nyu.edu).\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T153000
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LOCATION:202 NYU Philosophy Dept. @ 5 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\,
USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Why de Broglie-Bohm and only de Broglie-Bohm? Or\, Towards a Nosolo
gy of Quantum Interpretations. Jean Bricmont (UCLouvain)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/why-de-broglie-bohm-and-
only-de-broglie-bohm-or-towards-a-nosology-of-quantum-interpretations-jean
-bricmont-uclouvain/
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Metro Area Philosophers of Science
\nDirections: Enter the Philosoph
y building at 5 Washington Place\, and have a university ID and vaccinatio
n card ready. For any questions\, please contact Diego Arana (da689@rutger
s.edu)\, Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu) and Jack Mikuszewski
(jhm378@nyu.edu).
\n
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent
CONTACT:https://nightinthelibrary.com/comingsoon
DESCRIPTION:2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop\, and t
he beginning of a sonic\, cultural and socio-political revolution that cha
nged the U.S. and the world. To commemorate the anniversary\, Brooklyn Pub
lic Library will present NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HIP-HOP
on Saturday\, June 17th\, from 7 pm – 2 am at Central Library.\nJoin us fo
r this FREE event that will take over the entire Central Library building
to celebrate hip-hop culture past\, present and future\, with keynote addr
esses\, live DJs\, film screenings\, discussions\, debates and contemplati
ve engagements. BPL invites you to celebrate hip-hop and spend a NIGHT IN
THE LIBRARY.\nCo-curated by LeBrandon Smith and Kelly Harrison. The Dilemm
a Series is curated by April R. Silver\, founder of AKILA WORKSONGS.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230617T190000
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Night in the Library: The Philosophy of Hip-Hop
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/night-in-the-library-the
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e 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop\, and the beginning of a sonic\
, cultural and socio-political revolution that changed the U.S. and the wo
rld. To commemorate the anniversary\, Brooklyn Public Library will present
NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HIP-HOP on Satu
rday\, June 17th\, from 7 pm – 2 am at Central Library.
\nJoin us fo
r this FREE event that will take over the entire Central
Library building to celebrate hip-hop culture past\, present and future\,
with keynote addresses\, live DJs\, film screenings\, discussions\, debate
s and contemplative engagements. BPL invites you to celebrate hip-hop and
spend a NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY.
\nCo-curated by LeBra
ndon Smith and Kelly Harrison. The Dilemma Series is curated by April R. S
ilver\, founder of AKILA WORKSONGS.
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DESCRIPTION:Metro Area Philosophers of Science is pleased to announce the f
ollowing confirmed talks this semester:\nHeinrich Päs (TU Dortmund Univers
ity)\n4:00 p.m. EST\, Sept 6th\nLocation: 6th-floor lounge\, Philosophy De
partment\, NYU\, 5 Washington Place\nTitle: TBA\nEric Y Ling (University o
f Copenhagen)\n4:00 p.m. EST\, Sept 26th *\nLocation: TBA\nTitle: Spacetim
e extensions of the big bang\nLev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University)\nTitle: TB
A\nFurther details to be announced.\nIsaac Willhelm (National University o
f Singapore)\nTitle: TBA\nFurther details to be announced.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T180000
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LOCATION:NYU room 6th floor lounge @ 5 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\
, USA
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Heinrich Päs (TU Dortmund University)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/heinrich-pas-tu-dortmund
-university/
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this semester:
\nHeinrich Päs (TU Dortmund University)
\n4:00 p.m. EST\, Sept 6th
\nLocation: 6th-floor lounge\, P
hilosophy Department\, NYU\, 5 Washington Place
\nTitle: TBA
\n
Eric Y Ling (University of Copenhagen)
\n4:00 p.m. E
ST\, Sept 26th *
\nLocation: TBA
\nTitle: Spacetime extensions o
f the big bang
\nLev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University)<
br />\nTitle: TBA
\nFurther details to be announced.
\n
Isaac Willhelm (National University of Singapore)
\nTitle: T
BA
\nFurther details to be announced.
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CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign
DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, I explore the role that metaphor plays in the d
evelopment of new scientific models. My goal is to illustrate metaphor’s f
ecundity in this regard\, the way in which it extends our understanding in
surprisingly diverse ways. As Mary Hesse put this point\, “it is precisel
y in its extension that the fruitfulness of the model may lie” (1980\, 114
).\n \nThe particular focus of my paper is on the history of what John Hau
geland called mind design: the use of mechanical models to reverse-enginee
r how minds work (1997\, 1). My history focuses on two such models: the cl
ockwork model and the computer model. In each case\, I show how a metaphor
ical understanding of the model led to conceptual innovation in two distin
ct ways. First\, it provided an interpretive frame that guided new researc
h by offering an abstract\, hypothesized structure to be later filled in b
y empirical research (Camp 2020). Second\, it provided a concrete exemplar
to contrast with human minds (Daston 1994). For instance\, while on the o
ne hand Descartes invoked the clockwork model to explain how color vision
works (Adams 2015)\, he also invoked it as a vivid illustration of how hum
an reasoning does not work (Riskin 2016).\n \nIt is this second source of
conceptual innovation that is the real core of the paper\; it reveals what
I call the dialectic of mind design. This dialectic is especially evident
in our tendency to redefine what it is to be human in response to new tec
hnological developments. For instance\, it is evident when we take somethi
ng that was previously assumed to be paradigmatic of mental acuity\, such
as the ability to play chess\, and redefine it as something merely mechani
cal (Ensmenger 2012). But it is equally well evident when we take somethin
g that was previously taken to be mechanical—such as color vision—and rede
fine it as paradigmatically mental (Chalmers 1997\; cf. Adams and Browning
2020). The concept of mindedness is\, in this sense\, a constantly moving
goalpost that is perennially being redefined in response to new technolog
ical developments.\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofmin
ddesign#rsvp.
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SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: The Dialectic of Mind Design. Zed Adams (NSS
R)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-th
e-dialectic-of-mind-design-zed-adams-nssr/
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\, I explore the role that metaphor plays in the development of new scient
ific models. My goal is to illustrate metaphor’s fecundity in this regard\
, the way in which it extends our understanding in surprisingly diverse wa
ys. As Mary Hesse put this point\, “it is precisely in its extension that
the fruitfulness of the model may lie” (1980\, 114).
\n
\nThe
particular focus of my paper is on the history of what John Haugeland cal
led mind design: the use of mechanical models to reverse-engineer how mind
s work (1997\, 1). My history focuses on two such models: the clockwork mo
del and the computer model. In each case\, I show how a metaphorical under
standing of the model led to conceptual innovation in two distinct ways. F
irst\, it provided an interpretive frame that guided new research by offer
ing an abstract\, hypothesized structure to be later filled in by empirica
l research (Camp 2020). Second\, it provided a concrete exemplar to contra
st with human minds (Daston 1994). For instance\, while on the one hand De
scartes invoked the clockwork model to explain how color vision works (Ada
ms 2015)\, he also invoked it as a vivid illustration of how human reasoni
ng does not work (Riskin 2016).
\n
\nIt is this second source
of conceptual innovation that is the real core of the paper\; it reveals
what I call the dialectic of mind design. This dialectic is especially evi
dent in our tendency to redefine what it is to be human in response to new
technological developments. For instance\, it is evident when we take som
ething that was previously assumed to be paradigmatic of mental acuity\, s
uch as the ability to play chess\, and redefine it as something merely mec
hanical (Ensmenger 2012). But it is equally well evident when we take some
thing that was previously taken to be mechanical—such as color vision—and
redefine it as paradigmatically mental (Chalmers 1997\; cf. Adams and Brow
ning 2020). The concept of mindedness is\, in this sense\, a constantly mo
ving goalpost that is perennially being redefined in response to new techn
ological developments.
\nTickets: https:
//event.newschool.edu/thedialecticofminddesign#rsvp.
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CONTACT:http://bit.ly/cs-talks
DESCRIPTION:ALL TALKS ON ZOOM\nSOME ALSO IN PERSON (SEE ROOMS BELOW)\nTalks
organized andhosted by Ryan McElhaney\nTo get Zoom links\, email davidros
enthal1@gmail.com\nSome—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access
\n9/8: Martina Helina\nHistory and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of
Cognitive Science\,\nUniversity of CambridgePhilosophy\n9/15: No talk—one
-week break\n9/22: Janis Karan Hesse\nNeuroscience\, University of Califor
nia at Berkeley\n9/29: Justin Halberda\nPsychological and Brain Sciences\,
Johns Hopkins University\n10/6: Jakub Mihalik\nDepartment of Analytic Phi
losophy\, Institute of Philosophy of the\nCzech Academy of Sciences in Pra
gue\n10/13: Gregg Caruso\nPhilosophy\, SUNY Corning\, Northeastern Univers
ity London\, and\nMacquarie University\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 71
02 **\n10/20: Edouard Machery\nHistory and Philosophy of Science\, Univers
ity of Pittsburgh\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **\n10/27: Heather
Browning\nPhilosophy\, University of Southampton\n11/3: Panagiota Theodon
i\nPhilosophy\, University of Athens\n11/10: François Kammerer\nInstitute
for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum\n11/17: Jonathan Phillips
\nCognitive Science\, Psychological and Brain Sciences\, and\nPhilosophy\,
Dartmouth College\n11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break\n12/1: Lua Koenig\n
Neuroscience Institute\, NYU Langone Medical Center\n** HYBRID: Graduate C
enter Room 7102 **\n\nThe CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets week
ly at the CUNY Graduate Center\,\nFridays\, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom\, some hybr
id. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks\nFor additional information e-
mail David Rosenthal
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SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Speaker Series
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-speake
r-series-20/
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9/8: Marti
na Helina
\nHistory and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cogni
tive Science\,
\nUniversity of CambridgePhilosophy
\n9/15: No ta
lk—one-week break
\n9/22: Janis Karan Hesse
\nNeuroscience\, Uni
versity of California at Berkeley
\n9/29: Justin Halberda
\nPsyc
hological and Brain Sciences\, Johns Hopkins University
\n10/6: Jakub
Mihalik
\nDepartment of Analytic Philosophy\, Institute of Philosoph
y of the
\nCzech Academy of Sciences in Prague
\n10/13: Gregg Ca
ruso
\nPhilosophy\, SUNY Corning\, Northeastern University London\, a
nd
\nMacquarie University
\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102
**
\n10/20: Edouard Machery
\nHistory and Philosophy of Science
\, University of Pittsburgh
\n** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
\n10/27: Heather Browning
\nPhilosophy\, University of Southamp
ton
\n11/3: Panagiota Theodoni
\nPhilosophy\, University of Athe
ns
\n11/10: François Kammerer
\nInstitute for Philosophy II of t
he Ruhr-Universität Bochum
\n11/17: Jonathan Phillips
\nCognitiv
e Science\, Psychological and Brain Sciences\, and
\nPhilosophy\, Dar
tmouth College
\n11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break
\n12/1: Lua
Koenig
\nNeuroscience Institute\, NYU Langone Medical Center
\n<
div>** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
\n\nThe C
UNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Cen
ter\,
\nFridays\, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom\, some hybrid. This file is at:
http://bit.ly/cs-talks
\nFor additional information e-mail David Rose
nthal
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DESCRIPTION:The controversial issue of information transfer in quantum tele
portation procedure is analyzed in the framework of the many-worlds interp
retation of quantum mechanics. In contrast to the claims of Deutsch & Hayd
en 2000\, it is argued that quantum information\, considered as a measurab
le property for an observer in a particular world\, is transferred in a no
nlocal way in the teleportation process. This\, however\, does not lead to
action at a distance on the level of the universe which includes all para
llel worlds. Preprint: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21447/
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SUMMARY:Transfer of quantum information in teleportation. Lev Vaidman
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/transfer-of-quantum-info
rmation-in-teleportation-lev-vaidman/
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sial issue of information transfer in quantum teleportation procedure is a
nalyzed in the framework of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mech
anics. In contrast to the claims of Deutsch & Hayden 2000\, it is argued t
hat quantum information\, considered as a measurable property for an obser
ver in a particular world\, is transferred in a nonlocal way in the telepo
rtation process. This\, however\, does not lead to action at a distance on
the level of the universe which includes all parallel worlds. Preprint: <
a href='https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21447/'>https://philsci-archive.p
itt.edu/21447/
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CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega
DESCRIPTION:María Lugones theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of th
e notion of “trespassing\,” through which “active subjectivity” has the po
ssibility of problematizing normative practices and redrawing maps of powe
r. In this presentation\, I highlight the importance of the aesthesic or t
he perceptual in Lugones’s view of resistance as developed before her turn
to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which this
account of resistance is dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by th
e work of Gloria Anzaldúa. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic tr
espassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses the i
ntimacy between the perceiver and the perceived.\nTickets: https://event.n
ewschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp.
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USA
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SUMMARY:The Intimacies of Perception and Aesthetic Trespassing. Mariana Ort
ega (PSU)
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-intimacies-of-percep
tion-and-aesthetic-trespassing-mariana-ortega-psu/
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nMaría Lugones
theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of the notion of “trespassing
\,” through which “active subjectivity” has the possibility of problematiz
ing normative practices and redrawing maps of power. In this presentation\
, I highlight the importance of the aesthesic or the perceptual in Lugones
’s view of resistance as developed before her turn to decolonial feminism.
In doing so\, I point to the manner in which this account of resistance i
s dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by the work of Gloria Anzaldú
a. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic trespassing in connection
to the perception of artworks that discloses the intimacy between the perc
eiver and the perceived.
\nTickets: https://event.n
ewschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp.
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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research
CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYC Wittgenstein Workshop\nIf you will be visi
ting from outside the New School\, email the workshop to inform the securi
ty desk.\nRoom 1101\, 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003
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GEO:+40.736924;-73.992688
LOCATION:Room 1101 @ Albert and Vera List Academic Center\, New York\, NY 1
0003\, USA
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SUMMARY:Television with Cavell in Mind: the Ethics and Politics of Popular
Series. Sandra Laugier
URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/television-with-cavell-i
n-mind-the-ethics-and-politics-of-popular-series-sandra-laugier/
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the NYC Wittgenstein Workshop
\nIf you will be visiting from outside
the New School\, email the workshop to inform the security desk.
\n
Room 1101\, 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003
\n
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