Mar
5
Thu
Overdoing Democracy: Robert B. Talisse in conversation with Oliver Burkeman @ CUNY Grad Center, Segal Theater
Mar 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The fate of democracy is increasingly in doubt, in America and around the world. But what if the greatest danger for democratic societies comes from within? In his insightful new book, philosopher Robert B. Talisse reports that he has seen the enemy and it is us: we are overdoing democracy, making every issue a political issue and every human engagement a political interaction. If we hope to save democracy, Talisse argues, we need to put politics in its place. Please join us for this essential discussion as Talisse is joined by The Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman.

Presented by the Gotham Philosophical Society

Co-Sponsored by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences

Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His latest book, Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place, argues that when citizen allow their political divides to infiltrate the entirely of the social worlds, they actually erode their capacities for competent democratic citizenship.

Oliver Burkeman is a New York based columnist for The Guardian and the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.

Apr
2
Thu
Rebecca Mason (University of San Francisco) @ tba
Apr 2 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Presented by SWIP Analytic

Apr
18
Sat
The Long Island Philosophical Society – LIPS 2020 Conference @ Philosophy Dept., Molloy College
Apr 18 all-day

The Long Island Philosophical Society is seeking submissions for its Spring 2020 conference which will be held Saturday, April 18th 2020 on the attractive campus of Molloy College, located in Rockville Centre, NY. 

The Long Island Philosophical Society has been a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas since 1964.  LIPS is an internationally recognized organization that is a valuable philosophical resource for the Greater New York area. Its conferences have drawn scholars from over 30 states and from the international community, including Brazil, Canada, Ukraine, Israel, and Egypt.

Papers can be on any topic of philosophical interest. Presentations are limited to 25-30 minutes, to be followed by a 10-15 minute discussion period. Both professional philosophers (full-time, part-time, unaffiliated) and graduate students are welcome to submit.  Paper submissions are also welcome from those in different disciplines who have an interest in philosophical issues.

The submission deadline is Friday, March 13, 2020

Please submit papers, including contact information and affiliation (if any) to Dr. Glenn Statile at StatileG@stjohns.eduor Dr. Leslie Aarons at  laarons@lipsociety.org.

Apr
22
Wed
Phenomenology as Method @ Philosophy Dept, St. John's U
Apr 22 – Apr 24 all-day

Since its inception, phenomenology has been understood as a method of philosophizing or philosophical attitude rather than a system of philosophy. Husserl encouraged his students to apply this method to all types of philosophical questions and across all fields of research. As a result, phenomenological analysis was used by a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy and psychology to literature, history, sociology, mathematics, cosmology, and religious studies. The phenomenological method itself has been refined according to the insights achieved as a result of its interdisciplinary nature. However, the core tenets of this method and characterization of this attitude have long been a point of debate among phenomenologists.

This conference will explore the nature of the phenomenological method, its interdisciplinary applications, and how research in parallel fields informed the work of the early phenomenologists.

As always, we encourage submissions dealing with the thought of the full spectrum of early phenomenologists (including Edmund Husserl, Franz Brentano, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Lipps, Alexander Pfänder, Max Scheler, Moritz Geiger, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Eugen Fink, Roman Ingarden, Edith Stein, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Adolf Reinach, Martin Heidegger, Maximilian Beck, Jean Hering, et al.) as well as figures who were in conversation with the early phenomenological movement.

Abstracts should be 400-600 words, and include a short bibliography. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent to Charlene Elsby (elsbyc@pfw.edu)

EXTENDED Deadline for submissions is 26 January 2020.

Decisions will be sent out no later than 7 February 2020.

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https://philevents.org/event/show/79866


THE MAX SCHELER SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE

NORTH AMERICA SOCIETY FOR EARLY PHENOMENOLOGY

Theme:
Phenomenology as Attitude and/or Method
St. John’s University — New York, NY
(Queens and/or Manhattan campus)
April 22-24, 2020

The Max Scheler Society of North America (MSSNA) invites members of the international community of scholars to participate in their biannual meeting. The 2020 meeting will take place in conjunction with the North American Society for Early Phenomenology (NASEP), with sessions from each society running concurrently. Each society is having an independent call for papers. Papers and abstracts submitted for the MSSNA should be sent to the contact information below. All submissions for NASEP should be directed to the attention of Dr. Rodney Parker (rodney.k.b.parker@gmail.com).

Broadly construed, the general theme of the meeting is the distinctiveness of Scheler’s phenomenological approach. We are seeking papers that explore the development of Scheler’s understanding of phenomenology and how this development enabled Scheler to test the limits of phenomenology in examining such experiences as religious experiences, aging and death, other “minds” and persons, reality, and the emotions. The MSSNA is particularly interested in papers examining Max Scheler’s contribution to recent investigations related to the continued development of phenomenology.

Participants will have approximately 35 minutes to present their work.  Though completed papers are preferred, abstracts of at least 500 words in length will also be considered.

Deadline for submission is January 15, 2020.

All submissions should be sent electronically to Dr. Zachary Davis (davisz@stjohns.edu). Because all submissions will be reviewed blindly by the selection committee, submissions should have a separate cover sheet with name and contact information.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out by January 31.

Oct
22
Fri
Rebecca Keller – (Endogenous) Perceptual States are Conceptual @ PoPRocks @ ZOOM - see site for details
Oct 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

A number of authors have pointed out that the standard arguments for perception’s having nonconceptual content tell us nothing about the content of a state per se, but only instead about the sorts of capacities a subject must have in order to be in some state (i.e., whether the subject need or need not possess the specifying concepts in order to be in some state). Others have argued in response that the only reason for two states to require different conceptual capacities of the subject is precisely because they have different sorts of contents, and so there is no substantive difference between a ‘content’ view and a ‘state’ view. Here, I present evidence for states that do, in fact, share the same content but differ in the required conceptual capacities: exogenous perceptual states, and endogenous, voluntarily produced perceptual states. I argue that this functional difference—voluntary versus involuntary production—constitutes the difference in concept-dependence. I then look to three possibilities for how this claim could affect our understanding of the relationship between cognition and perception.

Feb
25
Fri
Jennifer Scuro: On labor @ Info Commons Lab, Brookly Public Library
Feb 25 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm

Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience, hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of the best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites, and to provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions that matter to them.

If you’re interested in finding out more, or if you’d like to give a talk, please e-mail Ian Olasov at his first and last name at gmail.com.

Mar
22
Tue
Jonardon Ganeri (Toronto) Can theater teach us about what it’s like to be someone else? @ Zoom
Mar 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

How can we know what it’s like to be someone else? Classical Indian philosophers found the answer in theater, arguing that it’s not just a form of entertainment, but a source of knowledge of other minds. In this talk, I’ll explore how this theme is developed in Śrī Śaṅkuka (c. 850 CE) and examine the reasons his views were rejected in the later tradition. I’ll argue that those reasons are unsound, and that we can see why by turning to contemporary studies of the relationship between knowledge and luck.

Jonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His books include Attention, Not Self (2017), a study of early Buddhist theories of attention; The Concealed Art of the Soul (2012), an analysis of the idea of a search for one’s true self; Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves (2020), an analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s philosophy of self; and Inwardness: An Outsiders’ Guide (2021), a review of the concept of inwardness in literature, film, poetry, and philosophy across cultures. He joined the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2015, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities the same year, the only philosopher to do so.

This series is curated and co-presented by Brooklyn Public Philosophers, aka Ian Olasov.

Apr
22
Fri
Justin Garson: On biological function and mental illness @ Info Commons Lab, Brookly Public Library
Apr 22 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm

Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience, hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of the best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites, and to provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions that matter to them.

If you’re interested in finding out more, or if you’d like to give a talk, please e-mail Ian Olasov at his first and last name at gmail.com.

Apr
30
Sat
Long Island Philosophical Society 2022 Conference @ Malloy College
Apr 30 all-day


Conference Begins 8:00 am

Breakfast/Registration: 8:00 am 9:00 am (Kellenberg Hall Reception Room)

Morning Sessions (9:00 am Noon) (Kellenberg Hall = K)

Session 1: (Philosophy and the Catholic Novel)
Chairperson: Glenn Statile (St. John’s University)

Room = K006

1. Father Robert Lauder (Saint Johns University) [Maritain, Marcel, Haught]: Philosophical
Resources for Analyzing the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene

2. Brother Owen Sadlier O.S.F. (Cathedral Seminary; Saint Francis College emeritus)
Philosophical Reflections on Diary of a Country Priest

3. Glenn Statile (Saint Johns University) Brideshead Revisited: Aesthetic, Theological, and
Philosophical Reflections

Session 2: (Ancient Philosophy)
Chairperson: Chryssoula Gitsoulis (Baruch College CUNY)

Room = K015

1. Chryssoula Gitsoulis (Baruch College CUNY) The Individual vs the State: A Study of
Socrates and Antigone

2. Eric Wickey (Saint Peters College) A Change of Mind

3. Mark Zelcer (Queensborough Community College) Socrates and the Demos

4. Alan Kim (Stony Brook University) Animal Farm

Session 3: (Epistemology, Logic, and the Nature of Philosophy)
Chairperson: Christopher French (SUNY Farmingdale)

Room = K020

1. Joseph Biehl (Saint Johns University) Selling Truth Short

2. Jason Costanzo (Conception Seminary College) The Fourth Observer: Philosophy and its
Epistemic Paths

3. Partha Das (Saint Johns University) On Double Negation

Session 4: (Modern Philosophy, Descartes, Hume)
Chairperson: Robert Delfino (Saint Johns University)

Room K021

1. Sophie Berman (Saint Francis College) Descartes on the Infinite Freedom of the Finite
Mind

2. Rocco Astore (Saint Johns University) Devotion Begins in Freedom: An Analysis of the
Relation Between True Love and Freedom in Descartess Principles of Philosophy and Passions
of the Soul

3. Robert Devall (Independent Scholar) Hume, the Ideal Critic, and the Problem of Taste

Session 5: (Political Philosophy, Cities, Confucius, Dasein, Boredom)
Chairperson: Margaret Cuonzo (LIU Brooklyn)

Room K202

1. Margaret Cuonzo (LIU Brooklyn) A Somewhat Paradoxical Argument for the Rights of
Cities

2. Peter Li (Saint Johns University) Political Confucianism and Global Justice

3. Brandon Kaiser (Boston College) Of Dasein and Discourse: Examining the Everydayness
of the Political

4) Henry Curcio (Western Michigan University) Boredom

Session 6: (Cancer and Brain Death)
Chairperson: John DeCarlo (Hofstra University)

Room = K211

1. Paul Rezkalla (Hillsdale College) Elizabeth Anscombe on Brain Death

2. John DeCarlo (Hofstra University) Consciousness and Cancer: An Interdisciplinary
Dialogue

3. Seth Goldwasser (University of Pittsburgh) Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the
Ascription of Normal Functions to Parts of Cancers

Session 7: (Healing and the Pandemic)
Chairperson: Jennifer Scuro (Molloy College)

Room K211A

1. Jennifer Scuro (Molloy College) Renarrating Care Work in the Wake of a Pandemic

2. Keith Bannerman (Stony Brook University) An Ancient Approach to the Pandemic
Problem

3. Cara Cummings (Johns Hopkins University) Healing Akrasia and Vice

Session 8: (Mental Illness, Humor, Unconscious Morality, Moral Nihilism)
Chairperson: Lewis Williams (Oxford University)

Room K204

1. Heather Rivera (LSU, Shreveport) “America’s Cruel Treatment of the Mentally Ill and
Criminally Insane

2. Maksim Vak (Saint Johns University) To Genealogy of Jokes or on the Dialectic of
Ressentiment

3. Sabina Schrynemakers (Independent Scholar) Unconscious Moral Choices

4. Lewis Williams (Oxford University) Rehabilitating Moral Nihilism

Session 9: (Ethics 1)
Chairperson: David Kaspar (Saint Johns University)

Room = K319

1. Clayton Shoppa (Saint Francis College) SecondGuessing the Good: Discernment and
Moral Realism

2. Charles Duke (University of South Florida) Purposive Evil?: Experience, Virtue, and the
Prospects of Human Flourishing

3. Joe Shin (University of Michigan) Must Blame: Self vs Others

4. Rob Lovering (CUNY College of Staten Island) A Case for Legalizing Recreational Drug
Use

Session 10: (The Sublime and Plasticity)
Chairperson: Leslie Aarons (CUNY Laguardia Community College)

Room K319A

1. Addison Hinton (Stony Brook University) The Function of the Sublime in Spirits Pursuit
of the Ethical

2. Wenshu Zheng (Stony Brook University) Subjectivity and Alterity: Reconciling Derridas
Mourning and the Sublime

3. Michael Barr (Stony Brook University) The Goal of Plasticity: Affects, Signifiers and the
Infinite Judgement from Hegel to Johnston

Afternoon Sessions (2:30 pm 5:00 pm) (Kellenberg Hall)


Session 11: (Science and Modern Philosophy)

Chairperson: Glenn Statile (St. John’s University)

Room = K006

1. Yual Chiek (Saint Johns University) Leibniz on the Contingency of the Laws of Motion:
The Transference Thesis

2. Joel Alvarez (University of South Florida) Interpreting Leibniz Counterpart Theory or
Transworld Identity

3. Glenn Statile (Saint Johns University) Analogy and the Integrity of Science

Session 12: (Darwinism, Evolutionary Psychology, and Autopoiesis)
Chairperson: Lowell Kleiman (SUNY Suffolk Community College)

Room = K015

1. Christopher Petersen (Florida State University) Is Evolutionary Psychology Impossible in
Principle? A Reply to S.E. Smiths Matching Problem Argument

2. Jacob Koval (Florida State University) In Defense of Distortion: A Reply to ShaferLandau
and Vanova

3. Matthew Menchaca (CUNY Graduate Center) Enactive Autopoiesis and the Future of
Dynamic Affective Science

Session 13: (Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature)
Chairperson = Margaret Cuonzo (LIU Brooklyn)

Room = K020

1. Brother Owen Sadlier O.S.F. (Cathedral Seminary; Saint Francis College Emeritus)
The Anatomy of an Artificial Body: Aesthetic Reflections on Hobbes Leviathan

2. Alexia Papigiotis (CUNY Graduate Center) Rooting for the Devil: Relatability Approach
for Sympathy for Immoral Characters

3. Joseph Jordan (Holy Apostles College and Seminary) A Boethian Response to
Machiavelli, Marx, and Jordan Peterson


Session 14: (Indian Philosophy, Rhetoric, Borges)

Chairperson: John F. DeCarlo (Hofstra University)

Room = K021

1. Basilio Monteiro (Saint Johns University) Sadharanikaran: Exploring Indian
Communicative Philosophy

2. Meaghan Dunn (Saint Johns University) Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Curious
Ontological Coupling that Once Was? Or Still Is?

3. Bartholomew Slaninka (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Borges The Aleph and
Problems in Representing Totality


Session 15: (Ethics 2)

Chairperson: Lewis Williams (Oxford University)

Room = K202

1. Paul Gyllenhammer (Saint Johns University) Mill and Sartre on Oppression,
Individuality, and Virtue

2. Daniel Doviak (Muhlenberg College) Moral Pluralism and the Problem Weight of
Determination for Conflicting Duties

3. Miriam Ambrosino (Stony Brook University) Schelers Notion of (Inter) Personal Agency
Founded in Loving

4. John Park (California State University, Sacramento) The Mental and Physical Health
Argument Against Hate Speech


Session 16 : (Holism, Metaphysics, Heidegger)

Chairperson: Henry Curcio (Western Michigan University)

Room = K211

1. Partha Das (Saint Johns University) Holism: A Comparative Study

2. Jake Khawaja (Rutgers University) Actualism, Presentism, and Ontological Commitment
3. Weian Ding (Loyola Marymount University) Become the Becoming: A Heideggerian
Lesson from the Embers and the Stars


Session 17: (Silence, Ethics, Education, Philanthropy)

Chairperson: Christine Salboudis (Saint Johns University)

Room K211A

1. Christine Salboudis (Saint Johns University) On Silence

2. Alina Anjum Ahmed (University of Georgia) DeCentering Power: Arguing for a
Mandatory Undergraduate Course that Teaches AntiOppressive Allyship

3. Lorenzo Francesco Manuali (Stanford University) The Normative Importance of Donor
SelfLegitimation in Philanthropy

4. Josue Miguel Pineiro (University of Georgia) Audiential Injustice and Epistemic
Exclusion


Session 18: (Theism, Aquinas, Rahner. Ecclesiastes, Scotus)

Chairperson: Seth Goldwasser (University of Pittsburgh)

Room K204

1. David Kovacs (Loyola Marymount University) Toward a New Approach to Theism

2. Kevin McShane (Saint Johns University) Aquinas and Rahner

3. Vincent Alexis Peluce (CUNY Graduate Center) Nothing New Under the Sun:
Ecclesiastian Optimism

4. Jay Park (Independent Scholar) Will and Necessity: Reading Scotus Between Ontological
Priority and Ontological Order


Session 19: (Ethics, Boethius, Human Dignity)

Chairperson: Alec Koppers (Western Michigan University)

Room K319

1. Stephen Morris (CUNY College of Staten Island) On the Moral Status of Historic Figures
and the Removal of Public Monuments

2. Matthew Konig (SUNY Suffolk County Community College) The Nature of Moral Facts

3. Arich Hluch (Ohio State University) Human Dignity, Autonomy, and Altruism: Reframing
the Debate on Organ Markets”


Session 20: Room K319A: This room is reserved as a discussion lounge for conference participants

May
21
Sat
Night of Ideas @ Brooklyn Public Library
May 21 @ 5:00 pm – 11:45 pm

NIGHT OF IDEAS is A FREE LATE-NIGHT EVENT featuring top public intellectuals and performers from the U.S., France and around the world, Night of Ideas is co-presented by Villa Albertine and Brooklyn Public Library.

New this year: Start your Night of Ideas with a bus journey from Villa Albertine headquarters in Manhattan to Brooklyn Public Library where you’ll enjoy a private 1:1 discussion with a Night of Ideas artist or speaker sitting next to you. RSVP HERE beginning in early May.

Then, join us for the beloved marathon of philosophical debates, musical performances, screenings, and lively forums at Brooklyn Public Library, headlined by a performance from Patti Smith. Programming includes Goncourt Prize-winning novelist Leila Slimani, public interest lawyer Kathryn Kolbert will speak on the end of Roe and what we must do to save reproductive rights, Chief AI Scientist at Meta Yann LeCun, political scientist Claire Sagan, Koa Beck, Alyssa Quart, Kathryn Todrys and more.

See the full program at nightofideas.org.

 


 

Safety Protocols:

For everyone’s health and safety, this year’s Night of Ideas will be presented to a limited capacity audience. Registration is required. Admission will be conducted on a first come, first serve basis and guests will be admitted on a rolling basis until we’ve reached capacity. Please note that your registration does not guarantee admission.

All participants must present proof of vaccination to enter. Masks are required to attend and must be worn at all times except when actively eating or drinking. Negative Covid test results (PCR or rapid antigen tests) will not be accepted and cannot be shown instead of proof of vaccination.

We also ask that you conduct a self-assessment before arriving and again onsite to ensure that you are not feeling unwell and have not experienced any symptoms attributable to COVID-19, nor had contact with a person suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19 within the last 10 days.

Please keep a responsible physical distance when possible and remember to wash your hands/use hand sanitizer frequently.

Villa Albertine, Brooklyn Public Library, The Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, FACE Foundation, Institut français, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 1014, Consulate General of Estonia in New York, Czech Center, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations – New York, Goethe-Institut New York, FIAF – French Institute Alliance Française, Polish Cultural Institute New York, Romanian Cultural Institute and Ukrainian institute of America.