Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2
3
4
Symposium on Visual Intelligence
Symposium on Visual Intelligence @ Columbia U.
Mar 4 all-day
We are pleased to announce the second symposium at Columbia University, Saturday, March 4, 2017, Keynote Speakers: Dr. John Morrison, Department of Philosophy at Columbia University/Barnard College Professor Morrison is currently working on three projects.   The first is about how we manage to perceive secondary qualities, such as redness. He argues that we perceive them in virtue of perceiving the differences and similarities between objects, thereby reversing the traditional order of explanation.  He then develops similar[...]
5
6
7
8
Burning Issues in African Philosophy 7:00 pm
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 – 7:00pm – April 19, 2017 – 9:00pm Location: Heyman Common Room Free and open to the public  |  ID required Burning Issues in African Philosophy[...]
9
Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series 5:30 pm
Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series @ Grace Dodge Hall 179
Mar 9 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (A&HF 5600) is intended for all masters and doctoral students in the program in Philosophy and Education. Others who are interested in attending a session should contact the coordinator, Professor Megan Laverty. January 26 Chu Hsi’s Ethics of Reading: for the Recovery of Humanistic Pedagogies of Learning Duck-Joo Kwak, Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National University, South Korea & Wsiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, CU February 9 A Quest for[...]
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series 5:30 pm
Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series @ Grace Dodge Hall 179
Mar 23 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (A&HF 5600) is intended for all masters and doctoral students in the program in Philosophy and Education. Others who are interested in attending a session should contact the coordinator, Professor Megan Laverty. January 26 Chu Hsi’s Ethics of Reading: for the Recovery of Humanistic Pedagogies of Learning Duck-Joo Kwak, Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National University, South Korea & Wsiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, CU February 9 A Quest for[...]
24
An Epistemic Generalization of Rationalizability – Rohit Parikh 4:10 pm
An Epistemic Generalization of Rationalizability – Rohit Parikh @ Faculty House, Columbia U
Mar 24 @ 4:10 pm
Rationalizability, originally proposed by Bernheim and Pearce, generalizes the notion of Nash equilibrium. Nash equilibrium requires common knowledge of strategies. Rationalizability only requires common knowledge of rationality. However, their original notion assumes that the payoffs are common knowledge. I.e. agents do know what world they are in, but may be ignorant of what other agents are playing. We generalize the original notion of rationalizability to consider situations where agents do not know what world they[...]
25
26
27
28
29
30
Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series 5:30 pm
Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series @ Grace Dodge Hall 179
Mar 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (A&HF 5600) is intended for all masters and doctoral students in the program in Philosophy and Education. Others who are interested in attending a session should contact the coordinator, Professor Megan Laverty. January 26 Chu Hsi’s Ethics of Reading: for the Recovery of Humanistic Pedagogies of Learning Duck-Joo Kwak, Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National University, South Korea & Wsiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, CU February 9 A Quest for[...]
31
Gary Ostertag (CUNY Graduate Center | Nassau Community College) 5:30 pm
Gary Ostertag (CUNY Graduate Center | Nassau Community College) @ Room 101
Mar 31 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: February 2, 2017–Matthew T. Kapstein (Univ of Chicago & École pratique des hautes études) February 24, 2017: Christopher Gowans (Fordham University) March 31, 2017: Gary Ostertag (CUNY Graduate Center | Nassau Community College) May 5, 2017: Warren Frisina (Hofstra University)