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Can we adopt a new logic? If so, how? In unpublished talks, Saul Kripke has presented a certain message about this that Romina Padro has vigorously defended in What the Tortoise Said to Kripke—the Adoption Problem (2015). Padro contends certain basic logical principles cannot be adopted: “if a subject already infers in accordance with basic logical principles, no adoption is needed, and if the subject does not infer in accordance with them, no adoption is…possible.” Michael Devitt has taken up Kripke and Padro’s challenge in an unpublished paper, “The Adoption Problem in Logic: A Quinean Picture” (2016). Devitt argues for a Quinean solution to the adoption problem, concluding it is possible in principle for someone who does not reason by basic inferences to come to do so as a result of adopting the basic logical principles and training. I simply ask—does his solution work? I contend that Devitt’s attempted solution is critically flawed in a way that sheds new light on the problem.
The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that Jillian Rose Roberts (MA student, Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center) will deliver the fifth Saul Kripke Center Young Scholars Series talk on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, from 2:00 to 4:00 in room C201 of the CUNY Graduate Center.
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
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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.
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
A recent spate of critical engagements with Giorgio Agamben’s construction of the zōē, /bios distinction calls for renewed evaluation of the political valence of zōē in Aristotle’s political theory. While there may be ways of responding to these criticisms from within Agamben’s work, I am more interested in proposing an alternative account of zōē, one that better accommodates the breadth of Aristotle’s thinking about living beings, the context of ancient Greek conceptions of life, and a genealogical task that could be of service to a variety of strands of contemporary critical theory. Taking Aristotle’s treatment of zōē as an object of desire as my point of origin, I locate this orientation toward life within a broader conception of power as generativity and an alienated approach to the material conditions of human birth. I then trace the model of politics, zōē-politics, that arises from this framework.
Bio:
Sara Brill is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Fairfield University. She works on the psychology, politics, and zoology of Plato and Aristotle as well as contemporary feminist and political theory. She is the author of Plato on the Limits of Human Life (Indiana 2013), Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life (forthcoming from Oxford University press in May 2020), co-editor of Antiquities beyond Humanism (Oxford 2019), and has published numerous articles on Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, and the Hippocratic corpus.
Luca Corti (University of Padua) – March 6
Amy Allen (Penn State) – March 27
Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley) – April 3
Alberto Siani (University of Pisa) – May 8
We are delighted to announce our Spring meeting dates for the Comparative Philosophy seminar. Please save these dates!
January 24 – Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana University)
February 28 – Karsten Struhl (John Jay College, CUNY)
March 27 – Jin Y Park (American University)
May 1 – Sin yee Chan (University of Vermont)
PopRocks is a read-ahead, works-in-progress workshop for graduate students and postdocs in the philosophy of cognitive science and mind. We meet on Fridays to hear and discuss a paper, and try to keep a low-pressure, constructive environment. If that sounds useful to you please get in touch and sign up to present!
Feb 21 – Juliette Vazard
Mar 6 – Stephan Pohl
Mar 27 – David Udell
Apr 3 – Simon Brown
Apr 10 – David Barack
Apr 17 – Kathryn Pendoley
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
We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language. Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome!
3 February
Paul Pietroski (Rutgers)
10 February
Brian Leahy (Harvard)
17 February
No Workshop
24 February
Elizabeth Coppock (Boston)
2 March
Maria Biezma (UMass)
9 March
Jenn McDonald (CUNY)
16 March
No Workshop
23 March
Liina Pylkannen (NYU)
30 March
Bob Beddor (NUS)
6 April
Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers Newark)
13 April
Masha Esipova (Princeton)
20 April
Nate Charlow (Toronto)
27 April
Eric Tracy (City College)
4 May
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
11 May
Jim Pryor (NYU)