Contact Stephen Grimm for more information.
February 5
Hayley Clatterbuck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Learning Incommensurable Concepts”
February 19
Andy Egan (Rutgers University)
“What Kind of Relativism is Right for You?”
February 26
Benjamin Vilhauer (City College, CUNY)
“Free Will and the Asymmetrical Justifiability of Holding Morally Responsible”
March 4 · Marx Wartofsky Memorial Lecture
Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
“What’s Wrong with the Prison-Industrial Complex? Profit, Privatization, and the Circumstances of Injustice”
Note: colloquium held in Martin E. Segal Theatre, GC
March 11 · Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
“Fragmentation and Singular Propositions”
March 18
Steve Ross (Graduate Center, Hunter College, CUNY)
“Two Conceptions of Objectivity, and How Morality is Objective When It Is”
March 25
Karen Green (University of Melbourne)
“Did Tarski Refute Frege?”
April 1
Prospective Students Day
TBA
April 22
Hagop Sarkissian (Graduate Center, Baruch College, CUNY)
“Self-Knowledge and Effective Moral Agency”
April 29
Iakovos Vasiliou (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Eudaimonism and Moral Theory”
May 6
Serena Parekh (Northeastern University)
“Global Refugee Crisis as a Structural Injustice”
May 13
Shannon Spaulding (Oklahoma State University)
“Beliefs and Biases”
Download a PDF version of the schedule here.
Reading and discussing Orientalism by Edward Said
The Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Transit Building, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor at 3:00 p.m. Please see the Department Calendar for scheduled speakers and more details.
- 01/08 – 01/11 Eastern APA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 02/13 Mesthene Lecture-Prof. Jennifer Saul (Sheffield)
- 02/26 Jay Garfield, 3:00-5:00 pm
- 02/26 – 02/29 Central APA, Chicago, Illinois
- 02/27 Break It Down Lecture, José Eduardo Porcher, “Delusion”
- 03/26 Sanders Lecture, Kris McDaniel (Syracuse), TBD
- 04/08 – 04/11 Pacific APA, San Francisco, California
- 04/10 – 04/11 Alec Walen & Doug Husak Conference, location TBD
- 04/16 Class of 1970’s Lecture presents Prof. Susan Neiman (Potsdam) Alexander Teleconf. Lecture Hall, 4:30-7:30 pm
- 04/17 5th Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (Zimmerman) 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Brower Commons Conference Rooms A & B, 145 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
- 04/23 Workshop on Laws (Loewer) 1:00-6:00 pm
- 04/24 Workshop on Laws (Loewer) 9:00 am-6:00 pm
- 04/25 Rutgers Day; No events to be scheduled on this date
- 04/30 Shamik Dasgupta (UC Berkeley) TBA
- 05/07 Climate Lecture, Prof. Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside) 05:30 – 07:30 pm
Contact Professor Gooding-Williams for more info.
Philosophy-in-Manhattan
Sunday, March 15 at 2:00 PM
CUNY philosophy PhD candidate Liam Ryan will lead us. Existentialism is a term for those philosophers concerned with the nature and experience of the …
Price: 16.00 USD
For over a hundred years econometricians, epidemiologists, educational sociologists and other non-experimental scientists have used asymmetric correlational patterns to infer directed causal structures. It is odd, to say the least, that no philosophical theories of causation cast any light on why these techniques work. Why do the directed causal structures line up with the asymmetric correlational patterns? Judea Pearl says that the correspondence is a “gift from the gods”. Metaphysics owes us a better answer. I shall attempt to sketch the outline of one.
Logic and Metaphysics Workshop
Feb 3 Hartry Field, NYU
Feb 10 Melissa Fusco, Columbia
Feb 17 GC CLOSED NO MEETING
Feb 24 Dongwoo Kim, GC
Mar 2 Alex Citikin, Metropolitan Telecommunications
Mar 9 Antonella Mallozzi, Providence
Mar 16 David Papineau, GC
Mar 23 Jenn McDonald, GC
Mar 30 Mircea Dimitru, Bucharest
Apr 6 ? Eoin Moore, GC
Apr 13 SPRING RECESS NO MEETING
Apr 20 Michał Godziszewski, Munich
Apr 27 Michael Glanzberg, Rutgers
May 4 Matteo Zichetti, Bristol
May 11 Lisa Warenski,GC
May 18 PROBABLY NO MEETING
February 5
Hayley Clatterbuck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Learning Incommensurable Concepts”
February 19
Andy Egan (Rutgers University)
“What Kind of Relativism is Right for You?”
February 26
Benjamin Vilhauer (City College, CUNY)
“Free Will and the Asymmetrical Justifiability of Holding Morally Responsible”
March 4 · Marx Wartofsky Memorial Lecture
Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
“What’s Wrong with the Prison-Industrial Complex? Profit, Privatization, and the Circumstances of Injustice”
Note: colloquium held in Martin E. Segal Theatre, GC
March 11 · Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
“Fragmentation and Singular Propositions”
March 18
Steve Ross (Graduate Center, Hunter College, CUNY)
“Two Conceptions of Objectivity, and How Morality is Objective When It Is”
March 25
Karen Green (University of Melbourne)
“Did Tarski Refute Frege?”
April 1
Prospective Students Day
TBA
April 22
Hagop Sarkissian (Graduate Center, Baruch College, CUNY)
“Self-Knowledge and Effective Moral Agency”
April 29
Iakovos Vasiliou (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Eudaimonism and Moral Theory”
May 6
Serena Parekh (Northeastern University)
“Global Refugee Crisis as a Structural Injustice”
May 13
Shannon Spaulding (Oklahoma State University)
“Beliefs and Biases”
Download a PDF version of the schedule here.
Who?
Will Nava, NYU, ‘Expressability and the (Un)Paradoxicality Paradoxes’
Brian Porter, GC, ‘Paraconsistent and Paracomplete Solutions to the Validity Curry Paradox’
Chris Scambler, NYU, ‘Metainferences and Paradox’
Open to? All interested
Queries? Graham Priest, priest.graham@gmail.com
The workshop is sponsored by the Kripke Center.
2/7: Uriah Kriegel Philosophy, Rice University
2/21: Megan Peters Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine
2/28: Iris Berent Psychology, Northeastern University
3/6: Michael Glanzberg Philosophy, Rutgers University
3/20: Sam Coleman Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
4/3: Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini Philosophy, Rutgers University
4/26: Nicholas Shea Institute of Philosophy, University of London Philosophy, University of Oxford
5/8: Diana Raffman Philosophy, University of Toronto