The 21st Annual CUNY Graduate Philosophy Conference will take place on March 23rd, 2018 at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue). This year’s theme is “Self and Other”, broadly construed. The program below features Dr. Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia) and Dr. Daniel Kolak (William Paterson University) as keynote speakers. Eight graduate students from departments across the U.S. and abroad will give 30-minute talks spanning a broad array of philosophical research areas.
Click the links to download PDFs of the the conference flyer and schedule of talks.
Time / Title / Speaker / Affiliation
8:30-9 AM / BREAKFAST
9-9:30 AM / Embedded Love: What it Means for / Love to Structure Your Will / Hunter Gentry / University of Houston
9:30-10 AM / Animal Intimacy: Intra-Species connectivity and care in the Touch / Stephanie Mieko Struble / Western Connecticut State University
10-10:30 AM / BREAK
10:30-11AM / Foundations of Loyalty: Transcending Self and Other / Sara Pope / Fordham University
11-11:30 AM / Self as Other: On the Interpretation of Mirror Self-Recognition / Pengbo Liu / University of Massachusetts
11:30 AM -12:30 PM / LUNCH
12:30-1:30 PM / Keynote
Inquiry and Academic Freedom: Philosophical Reflections on Current Controversies on Campuses
Akeel Bilgrami
Columbia University
1:30-1:45 PM / BREAK
1:45-2:15 PM / Other Minds in Other Traditions: The Problem of Other Minds in Plantinga and Heidegger / Ben Koons / Oxford University, Oriel College
2:15-2:45 PM / The intrinsic epistemic value of primitive introspection / Anna Giustina / Institut Jean Nicod/Ecole Normale Supérieure/PSL Research University
2:45-3 PM / BREAK
3-3:30 PM / Who Do You Speak For? And How? The Management of Identities in Online Abuse / Michael Barnes / Georgetown University
3:30-4 PM / Hospitality and the Political Economy of Care / Lisa M. Madura / Vanderbilt University
4-4:30 PM / BREAK
4:30-5.30 PM / Keynote
Open Individualism: the Five Ways
Daniel Kolak
William Paterson University
5:30 PM / RECEPTION
The 18th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy
The graduate students and faculty of the Columbia and NYU Philosophy Departments invite graduate submissions in any area of philosophy for a conference to be held on Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at Columbia University.
Keynote Speaker:
Richard Moran
Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Submission Guidelines
- Submissions Deadline: Please make your submissions by following the
instructions provided at ColumbiaNYU.wordpress.com by December 17th,
2017 (Notification by February 1st, 2018). - Papers must meet the following requirements:
- All papers must be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length, suitable for
a presentation of 30-40 minutes to a general philosophical audience. - Submit papers with a separate cover sheet in .pdf format that includes the
following information: name, home institution, contact details, area of
paper (e.g., metaphysics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, etc.), and an
abstract of no longer than 300 words. - Papers must be submitted in .pdf and blind-review format.
Organizing Committee
Martina Botti, Olivia Branscum, Anthony Garruzzo, Chuyu Tian, Helen Zhao (Columbia), Alan Barat, Banafsheh Beizaei, Sophie Cote, Clara Lingle, Stephan Pohl (NYU)
Please note that only submissions by current graduate students will be considered.
Submissions by mail will NOT be accepted. Please email further questions to:
columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com
Feb 26 Martin Pleitz, Muenster
Mar 5 Vera Flocke, NYU
Mar 12 Roy Sorensen, WUSTL
Mar 19 Alex Citkin, Private Researcher
Mar 26 Chris Scambler, NYU
Apr 2 SPRING RECESS. NO MEETING
Apr 9 Greg Restall, Melbourne
Apr 16 Daniel Nolan, Notre Dame
Apr 23 Mel Fitting, CUNY
Apr 30 Sungil Han, Seoul National
May 7 Andreas Ditter, NYU
May14 Rohit Parikh
In this talk I will defend a view according to which certain mathematical facts depend counterfactually on certain historical facts. Specifically, I will sketch an alternative possible history for us in which (I claim) the proposition ordinarily expressed by the English sentence “there is a universal set” is true, despite its falsity in the actual world.
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop
Feb 26 Martin Pleitz, Muenster
Mar 5 Vera Flocke, NYU
Mar 12 Roy Sorensen, WUSTL
Mar 19 Alex Citkin, Private Researcher
Mar 26 Chris Scambler, NYU
Apr 2 SPRING RECESS. NO MEETING
Apr 9 Greg Restall, Melbourne
Apr 16 Daniel Nolan, Notre Dame
Apr 23 Mel Fitting, CUNY
Apr 30 Sungil Han, Seoul National
May 7 Andreas Ditter, NYU
May14 Rohit Parikh
29 January
Gillian Russell (UNC)
5 February
Mandy Simons (CMU)
12 February
(No Workshop)
19 February
(No Workshop)
26 February
Daniel Rothschild (UCL)
5 March
Chris Kennedy (UChicago)
12 March
Rachel Sterken (Oslo)
19 March
No Workshop (NYU Spring Break)
26 March
Andreas Stokke (Uppsala)
2 April
Rebekah Baglini (Stanford)
9 April
Henry Schiller (UT Austin)
16 April
Gary Ostertag (CUNY)
23 April
Manuel Križ (Jean Nicod)
30 April
Maria Aloni (ILLC/Amsterdam)
7 May
Alexis Wellwood (USC)
Two CUNY Philosophy professors (Noël Carroll and Jesse Prinz) will present research alongside PhD student Zoe Cunliffe and alumna Laura Di Summa-Knoop in the upcoming Workshop on “Naturalized Aesthetics of Film”, taking place March 27th from 2-6pm in GC Room 5307. Additional presenters include Joerg Fingerhut (postdoc, Berlin School of Mind and Brain) and Murray Smith (University of Kent). The workshop celebrates Smith’s new monograph Film, Art, and the Third Culture, which defends an interdisciplinary approach to film studies.
See the poster below for additional details (including the workshop schedule).
Click here to download it as a PDF.
Our topic for Spring 2018 will be Formal Frameworks for Semantics and Pragmatics. We’ll be investigating a range of questions in semantics and/or pragmatics which involve or are relevant to the choice between different kinds of overall structure for theories in these areas.
In most sessions, the members of the seminar will receive a week in advance, copies of recent work, or work in progress from a thinker at another university. After reading this work, students discuss it with one of the instructors on the day before the colloquium. Then at the Tuesday colloquium, the instructors give a summary review and raise criticisms or questions about the work. The author responds to these, and also to questions from the audience.
Meetings
The main seminar meetings are on Tuesday from 4-7, in the second floor seminar room of the Philosophy Department. Additionally, there will be a supplementary meeting open to all students participating in the seminar (whether enrolled or not) on Mondays from 4-5, in the same location in the fifth-floor seminar room.
This seminar is open to all interested parties.
There is a googlegroups mailing list for the class. If you want to receive announcements, please add yourself to that list. (To be able to access the mailing list’s web interface, you’ll need to log into Google’s systems using an identity Google recognizes, like a Gmail address, or a NYU email address because of how NYU’s authentication systems are connected to Google. But there’s no real need to see the mailing list’s web interface. You just need some email address to be added to list, then any messages we send to the list will get forwarded to all the email addresses then registered on the list. If you want us to add an address to the list that you can’t log into Google’s systems with, just send us a message with the address you want registered.)
Schedule and Papers
Papers will be posted here as they become available. Some may be password-protected; the password will be distributed in class.
- 23 Jan
- Introductory session (no meeting on Monday 22 Jan), Jim’s handoutSome people asked for more background reading. Here are two useful textbooks: Heim & Kratzer, then von Fintel & Heim. Here is a survey article about different treatments of pronoun anaphora. Here is a course page with links to more reading.
- 30 Jan
- Jim Pryor (NYU, web, mail), “De Jure Codesignation“
- 6 Feb
- Mandy Simons (CMU, web, mail), “Convention, Intention, and the Conversational Record” and (with Kevin Zollman) “Natural Conventions and the Semantics/Pragmatics Divide“(Mandy is also speaking in the NYPL on Monday 5 Feb at 6:30.)
- 13 Feb
- Paul Pietroski (Rutgers, mail), “Semantic Typology and Composition“
- 20 Feb
- Karen Lewis (Columbia/Barnard, web, mail)
- 27 Feb
- Daniel Rothschild (UCL, web, mail)(Daniel is also speaking in the NYPL on Monday 26 Feb at 6:30.)
- 6 Mar
- John Hawthorne (USC, mail)
- 13 Mar
- Spring Break
- 20 Mar
- Lucas Champollion (NYU, web, mail)
- 27 Mar
- Matthew Mandelkern (Oxford, web, mail)
- 3 Apr
- Paolo Santorio (UC-San Diego, web, mail)
- 10 Apr
- Una Stojnić (Columbia, web, mail)
- 17 Apr
- Seth Yalcin (UC-Berkeley, web, mail)
- 24 Apr
- Stephen Schiffer (NYU, web, mail)
- 1 May
- Maria Aloni (ILLC and Philosophy/Amsterdam, web, mail)(Maria is also speaking in the NYPL on Monday 30 Apr at 6:30.)
Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information.
February 7th • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture
David Papineau (CUNY Graduate Center | King’s College London)
“Kinds and Essences: Taming Metaphysical Modality”
February 14th
Jane Friedman (NYU)
“The Epistemic and the Zetetic”
February 21st
Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York U)
“Are Sexes Natural Kinds?”
February 28th
Laurie Paul (UNC)
“De Se Truth and Epistemic Revolution”
March 7th • Marx Wartofsky Memorial Lecture
Steven Lukes (NYU)
Title TBD
March 14th
Collin O’Neill (CUNY Lehman College)
“Consent and Third-Party Coercion in Medicine and Research”
March 21st
Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh)
TBD
March 28th
Greg Restall (Melbourne)
“Accommodation, Inference, Generics and Pejoratives”
April 4th: No Colloquium (Spring Recess)
April 11th: No Colloquium (CUNY Friday Schedule)
April 18th
Shaun Nichols (Arizona)
“The Wrong and the Bad: On the Rational Acquisition of Moral Rules”
April 25th
Quayshawn Spencer (UPenn)
“A Radical Solution to the Race Problem”
May 2nd
Tim Crane (CEU)
“Putnam’s Ant: On the Reduction of Meaning and Intentionality”
May 9
Kathryn Tabb (Columbia)
“Locke on the Complexity of Ideas and the Ethics of Belief”
Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here.