Dec
9
Fri
Elizabeth Miller (Yale), Jonathan Bain (NYU): What Explains the Spin-Statistics Connection? @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 101
Dec 9 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Metro Area Philosophy of Science Presents:

Elizabeth Miller (Yale),

Title: TBA.

Jonathan Bain (NYU)

What Explains the Spin-Statistics Connection?

The spin-statistics connection plays an essential role in explanations of non-relativistic phenomena associated with both field-theoretic and non-field-theoretic systems (for instance, it explains the electronic structure of solids and the behavior of Einstein-Bose condensates and superconductors). However, it is only derivable within the context of relativistic quantum field theory (RQFT) in the form of the Spin-Statistics Theorem; and moreover, there are multiple, mutually incompatible ways of deriving it. This essay attempts to determine the sense in which the spin-statistics connection can be said to be an essential property in RQFT, and how it is that an essential property of one type of theory can figure into fundamental explanations offered by other, inherently distinct theories.

Jan
25
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Feb
8
Wed
The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa – Souleymane Bachir Diagne @ Common Room, Heyman Center
Feb 8 @ 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm

The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, in discussion with Gary Wilder and Mamadou Diouf

To RSVP, please click here.
*Please note that this event will take place in Common Room, Heyman Center, on Columbia’s East Campus. For a map, please click here.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne talks about his book, The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, recently translated into English, in a panel discussion with Gary Wilder and Mamadou Diouf.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Professor of Philosophy and French and the Chair of the Department of French at Columbia University.  His areas of expertise include history of logic, history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, and African philosophy and literature.  Mamadou Diouf is a Professor of History and African Studies at Columbia.  Gary Wilder is Associate Professor of Anthropology at CUNY.

This event is co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Maison Française.

Feb
22
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Feb 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Mar
8
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Apr
19
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Apr 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

May
13
Sat
7th Annual NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy @ Fordham Philosophy Dept.
May 13 – May 14 all-day

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Annual New York City Workshop
in Early Modern Philosophy
Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus
12th Floor Lounge
May 13-14, 2017

Keynote Speakers:

François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal)
Christia Mercer (Columbia)
Anja Jauernig (NYU)

The workshop aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. We welcome presentations of papers on any topic in early modern philosophy (roughly covering the period 1600-1800).

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than January 15, 2017.

Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus is located on the western side of Manhattan at 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, about two blocks from Columbus Circle at the southwest corner of Central Park. More details about the program, accommodation options, and other practical matters will be made available On This Website.

Conference Organizers:
Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan (ohadnachtomy@mac.com)
Reed Winegar, Fordham (bwinegar@fordham.edu)

Nov
10
Fri
“Idealism”: The Fourteenth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy @ NYU Philosophy Dept. Room 914
Nov 10 – Nov 11 all-day

Margaret Atherton
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

William Bristow
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Michael Friedman
Stanford University

James Kreines
Claremont McKenna College

Samantha Matherne
University of California, Santa Cruz

Kris McDaniel
Syracuse University

Ian Proops
University of Texas, Austin

Sam Rickless
University of California, San Diego

Dorothy Rogers
Montclair State University

Eric Watkins
University of California, San Diego

Organisers:

Don Garrett
New York University

Anja Jauernig
New York University

Béatrice Longuenesse
New York University

John Richardson
New York University

Nov
9
Fri
NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: Philosophy’s Use of Its History @ Kimmel Center, Room 914
Nov 9 – Nov 10 all-day

Fourteenth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

17th/18th Century Philosophy
19th Century Philosophy
20th Century Philosophy

November 9, 2018 – November 10, 2018
Department of Philosophy, New York University

60 Washington Square South
New York 10012
United States

https://philevents.org/event/show/38258

Mar
2
Sat
NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy: Freedom and Evil @ Fordham Lincoln Center
Mar 2 – Mar 3 all-day

The workshop, which is now in its 9th year, aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. This year’s workshop will focus on the topic of “Freedom and Evil” in Early Modern Philosophy (roughly the period from 1600-1800).

We welcome submissions on the conference topic, which may be broadly construed to include the problem of free will, theodicy, political and social liberty, and evil practices and institutions. For consideration, please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2018.

Keynote speakers:

(unaffiliated)
Boston University

Organisers:

(unaffiliated)
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Fordham University