Feb
21
Fri
Philosophy of Psychology Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Feb 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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
24
Mon
A Truthmaker Semantics for Modal Logics. Dongwoo Kim @ CUNY Grad Center, 7395
Feb 24 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

This paper attempts to provide an exact truthmaker semantics for a family of normal modal propositional logic. The new semantics can be regarded as an “exactification” of the Kripke semantics in the sense of Fine (2014). For it offers an account of the accessibility relation on worlds in terms of the banning and allowing relations on states. The main idea is that an exact truthmaker for “Necessarily P” is a state that bans the exact falsifiers of P from obtaining, and an exact truthmaker for “Possibly P” is a state that allows the exact verifiers of P to obtain.


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 Mircea Dimitru, Bucharest

Mar 23 Jenn McDonald, GC

Mar 30 David Papineau, GC

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

Cancelled- Logic and Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center, 7395
Feb 24 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

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

Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Feb 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

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)

Feb
26
Wed
Jay Garfield @ Seminar Rm, Gateway Transit Building, 5th flr
Feb 26 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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
CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9205/6
Feb 26 @ 4:15 pm

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.

Feb
28
Fri
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, 7102
Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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

Claire Kirwin (U Chicago) @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
Feb 28 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Title and abstract forthcoming. Reception to follow.

The difficulty of Being between Cora Diamond and Martin Heidegger. Filippo Casati (Lehigh) @ New School 1101
Feb 28 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

NYC Wittgenstein presents:

Filippo Casati (Lehigh University) on  “The difficulty of Being between Cora Diamond and Martin Heidegger”
As usual, we will being serve refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there.
Comparative Philosophy Seminar @ Columbia University Religion Dept. 101
Feb 28 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

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)