Mar
8
Thu
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Anneberg 12-15
Mar 8 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.

All speakers:

9/28/2017:
Eric Chwang
/Rutgers University-Camden

11/2/2017:
Phoebe Friesen
/CUNY Graduate Center

12/14/2017:
Adam Kolber
/Brooklyn Law School

2/8/2018:
Paul Cummins
/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

3/8/2018:
Elizabeth Victor
/William Paterson University

4/19/2018:
Melissa Moschella
/Columbia University

5/24/2018:
Camil Golub
/Rutgers University-Newark

JOIN THE WORKING PAPERS MAILING LIST AND RSVP TO:

nada.gligorov@mssm.edu

Mar
15
Thu
Truth in Politics – Louise Antony (UMass Amherst) @ Brooklyn Public Library, Dweck Center
Mar 15 @ 7:30 pm

“Is Truth Dead?” asked Time Magazine last year. Since people clearly care about the truth, at least in mundane matters, truth is alive. If an airline agent tells you the flight to Dallas is leaving from Gate B16, you expect the flight to Dallas to be leaving from Gate B16, and complain sorely if it’s not.

But if the truth does still matter, why do we elect people who don’t seem to care what the truth is?

The answer to this question, argues philosopher Louise Antony, has partly to do with the structure of human knowledge, and partly to do with the structure of our society. We can’t do anything about the first matter, but we can do plenty about the second.

Louise Antony is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of numerous essays on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and feminist theory. She is also a past president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association.

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A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about INNOCENCE @ Las Tapas Bar and Restaurant
Mar 15 @ 8:00 pm

Young and innocent. Innocent until proven guilty. Is the loss (or theft) of innocence a crime? Or is innocence among the mature a vice? Do the innocent make good citizens? Can innocence lost ever be regained? How are our different conceptions of innocence related? Join us in this communal investigation and help us understand.

Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8p.m. At Las Tapas Bar and Restaurant, 808 W 187th Street, New York, NY 10033. (Take the A Train) Admission is $15, which includes one complimentary tapa and drink.  Reservations are recommended. (646.590.0142)

Leo Glickman is a partner in Stoll, Glickman & Bellina, LLP. He has devoted his professional life of over two decades to holding the powerful accountable and obtaining justice for the underserved. As a civil rights litigator, he has successfully represented hundreds of people whose rights have been abused by police and correction officers. He has also upheld the rights of protestors, successfully litigating settlements for high-profile Occupy Wall Street participants.

Jane LeCroy is a poet, performance artist and educator who fronts the band The Icebergs and was a part of Sister Spit, the famed west coast women’s poetry troupe. Since 1997 Jane has been publishing student work and teaching writing, literature and performance to all ages through artist-in-the-schools organizations such as Teachers & Writers Collaborative and DreamYard, and as adjunct faculty at the university level. Her poetry book, Names was published by Booklyn as part of the award winning ABC chapbook series, purchased by the Library of Congress along with her braid!  Signature Play, her multimedia book from Three Rooms Press, features a poem that was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Joseph S. Biehl, earned earned a B.A. in philosophy from St. John’s University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY.  He has written on ethics, meta-ethics, and politics. He has taught philosophy in New York and in Cork, Ireland, and is a member of the Governing Board and former co-director of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs. He is the founder and executive director of the Gotham Philosophical Society and Young Philosophers of New York.

Mar
19
Mon
Magical Art: The Power of Images in Hitchcock’s Vertigo @ Cornelia Street Cafe
Mar 19 @ 6:00 pm

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a brilliant, suspenseful mystery exploring the often dangerous intimacy between love, compulsion, and death.  It is also a profound meditation on the power of art.  While it invites us to go on seeing art as a mimesis – a “representation,” or “imitation” of life – it also cryptically asks whether art objects might do more than merely represent life, even whether they might exercise power over death. James Stewart’s Scotty has been compared to Orpheus in quest of Eurydice; I suggest that he’s worth comparing to Admetus, who wished he could be Orpheus, and who imagines clinging to a statue to recapture his lost wife. The spell cast by Hitchcock in Vertigo shows us just how bewitching art can be when it has us under its sway.

Monday, March 19, 2018 at 6pm. This event is part of the Philosophy Series at The Cornelia Street Café, located at 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014 (near Sixth Avenue and West 4th St.). Admission is $10, which includes the price of one drink. Reservations are recommended (212. 989.9319)

Nickolas Pappas is Professor of Philosophy at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of several books and around 40 articles, mostly on topics in ancient philosophy. His books include the Routledge Philosophical Guidebook to Plato’s Republic, now in its third edition; and most recently The Philosopher’s New Clothes (Routledge, 2016).

Mar
31
Sat
Nietzsche + Visual Art @ Karahan's Loft
Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Discussion with Seth Binsted, Michael Steinmann, and Yunus Tuncel. If you like to attend, Please RSVP by sending email to Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com

Apr
7
Sat
Galen Strawson on “Things That Bother Me” @ Book Culture
Apr 7 @ 7:00 pm

An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson’s writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism.

Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly–in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, “A Fallacy of Our Age” (an inspiration for Vendela Vida’s novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name) takes issue with the commencement-address cliche that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. “The Sense of the Self” offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. “Real Naturalism” argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as a whole (also known as panpsychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s.

Drawing on literature and life as much as on philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.


Galen Strawson is a writer and professor of philosophy. He has published seven books of philosophy and is currently the President’s Chair in Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Apr
12
Thu
A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about Money @ Las Tapas Bar and Restaurant
Apr 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

It makes the world go round. It is the root of all evil. It offers security. It enslaves. It will protect you. It will corrupt you. To have some is necessary, but no amount seems sufficient. It is reputedly unable to buy love, yet the lack of it can destroy relationships. What price would you pay to accumulate as much as you can? And can anyone actually afford to forsake it?

Join us as we try to measure the true cost of money.

Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 8p.m. At Las Tapas Bar and Restaurant, 808 W 187th Street, New York, NY 10033. (Take the A Train) Admission is $15, which includes one complimentary tapa and drink.  Reservations are recommended. (646.590.0142)

Leo Glickman is a partner in Stoll, Glickman & Bellina, LLP. He has devoted his professional life of over two decades to holding the powerful accountable and obtaining justice for the underserved. As a civil rights litigator, he has successfully represented hundreds of people whose rights have been abused by police and correction officers. He has also upheld the rights of protestors, successfully litigating settlements for high-profile Occupy Wall Street participants.

Jane LeCroy is a poet, performance artist and educator who fronts the band The Icebergs and was a part of Sister Spit, the famed west coast women’s poetry troupe. Since 1997 Jane has been publishing student work and teaching writing, literature and performance to all ages through artist-in-the-schools organizations such as Teachers & Writers Collaborative and DreamYard, and as adjunct faculty at the university level. Her poetry book, Names was published by Booklyn as part of the award winning ABC chapbook series, purchased by the Library of Congress along with her braid!  Signature Play, her multimedia book from Three Rooms Press, features a poem that was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Joseph S. Biehl, earned earned a B.A. in philosophy from St. John’s University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY.  He has written on ethics, meta-ethics, and politics. He has taught philosophy in New York and in Cork, Ireland, and is a member of the Governing Board and former co-director of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs. He is the founder and executive director of the Gotham Philosophical Society and Young Philosophers of New York.

Apr
13
Fri
Age and Longevity in the 21st Century: Science, Policy, and Ethics @ Global Bioethics Initiative
Apr 13 – Apr 15 all-day

The three day conference, “Age and Longevity in the 21st Century: Science, Policy, and Ethics”, sponsored by Global Bioethics Initiative, offers a unique opportunity to call attention to the impact of new technologies on the global profile of aging and longevity. By facilitating expert discussion in a unique setting regarding broad-based perspectives on these topics, the conference promotes global thinking, scientific exploration and policy orientation at the individual, social, community and macro-societal level.

Who can present?
Scientists from leading universities, academics, and practitioners with diverse professional backgrounds (biology, biomedical engineering, industry, nursing, medicine, health care administration, ethics, philosophy, theology) who are active in the fields of aging research, regenerative medicine, cryonics and healthy life extension are expected to present at this important conference.

Abstract Proposal Early Deadline: December 15, 2017
Abstract Proposal Regular Deadline: January 15, 2018

Abstract submissions should not exceed 350 words and should include your name, affiliation, a recent photo, and a short biography (150 words). Please send your abstract to alita@globalbioethics.org

Who can attend?
The conference is open to NGO representatives, scientists, the general public, policy-makers, academics, students, activists, and medical professionals from various backgrounds, activists and scientists.

Conference Venue: ONE UN New York Millennium Hotel

ONE UN New York brings the world together with spectacular NYC accommodations and panoramic views. Boasting a 70-million-dollar transformation, the hotel combines a modern aesthetic with form, function, and attention to detail across all 439 guest rooms and suites. Set across from the United Nations Headquarters adjacent to the East River, the hotel’s Midtown East location is simply ideal. Nearby, Manhattan icons such as the Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, the theater district and splendid shopping invite travelers from around the world to explore the city that never sleeps.

Venue Address:
One UN Plaza
New York City, NY 10017

Objectives:

  • To bring together leading experts with a broad range of interests related to diverse aspects of aging and research.
  • To present outcomes of regenerative medicine, genetic engineering, stem-cell research, and current and potential therapies.
  • To critically assess the degree to which such developments impact global health and the status of older persons worldwide.
  • To discuss how national governments can create collaborative regulatory and policy environments that will stimulate investment, lower barriers to entry, and encourage dynamic market-based solutions.

For more information about the conference, please contact:

Ana Lita, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Global Bioethics Initiative
Phone: (212) 687-3324
Fax: (212) 661-4188
Email: alita@globalbioethics.org
Website: conferenceaging.org

Apr
14
Sat
Long Island Philosophical Society Conference @ Malloy College Philosophy Dept.
Apr 14 all-day

CALL FOR PAPERS
LONG ISLAND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

SPRING 2018 CONFERENCE AT MOLLOY COLLEGE

The Long Island Philosophical Society is seeking submissions for its Spring 2018 conference that will be held on Saturday, April 14th, 2018 on the Rockville Centre campus of Molloy College.

The Long Island Philosophical Society has been a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas since 1964. LIPS is an internationally recognized organization that is a valuable philosophical resource for the Greater New York area. Its conferences have drawn scholars from over 30 states and from the international community, including Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Israel, and the Ukraine.

Papers can be on any topic of philosophical interest. Presentations are limited to 25-30 minutes, to be followed by a 10-15 minute discussion period. Both professional philosophers (full-time, part-time, unaffiliated) and graduate students are welcome to submit. Paper submissions are also welcome from those in different disciplines who have an interest in philosophical issues.

The submission deadline is Friday, March 9th, 2018.

Please submit papers, including contact information and affiliation (if any) to Dr. Glenn Statile at StatileG@stjohns.edu or Dr. Leslie Aarons at laarons@lipsociety.org.

Supporting material

LIPSatMolloysp2018CFP.pdf

Apr
19
Thu
NJ Philosophy Students Symposium @ Philosophy Dept. Middlesex College
Apr 19 all-day

The symposium is thought as a moment of reflection/celebration of philosophy and its sister disciplines. Faculty, and Alumni from the community colleges located in NJ are invited to actively participate.

Proposal in all relevant areas of Philosophy are welcomed.

Please Submit your proposal (Pdf or Doc) before February 18th.

Submitters will be notified by March 1st.

Send your submissions to grotolo@middlesexcc.edu

Submission Guidlines:
Submissions can be of two kind:

Free Submission

Submissions are accepted in any area of Philosophy and should be between 1000 and 3000 words. The Submitter will be expected to present for 20 minutes (10 min actual presentation + 10 minutes for discussion).

Panel Submission

Submission are accepted for the Following pre-created panel:

1. Discovering Philosophy (the following and similar topics will be taken in consideration for this Panel: Why do I study philosophy? Examples of interesting philosophical questions/themes that attracted me to philosophy

Submissions should be between 500 and 2000 words. The submitted will be allotted 15 Minutes to present + another 15 Minutes to interact with the other members of the panel and the Audience.

Please notice that the space on this panels is limited, therefore among the accepted submissions we will rigorously follow a first come first serve method.