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Mind and Language Research Seminar 4:00 pm
Mind and Language Research Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
Jan 23 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Our topic for Spring 2018 will be Formal Frameworks for Semantics and Pragmatics. We’ll be investigating a range of questions in semantics and/or pragmatics which involve or are relevant to the choice between different kinds of overall structure for theories in these areas. In most sessions, the members of the seminar will receive a week in advance, copies of recent work, or work in progress from a thinker at another university. After reading this work,[...]
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Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture: Nomy Arpaly (Brown), “On Benevolence” 3:30 pm
Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture: Nomy Arpaly (Brown), “On Benevolence” @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
Jan 26 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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“It is widely agreed that benevolence is not the whole of the moral life, but it is not as widely appreciated that benevolence is an irreducible part of that life. This paper argues that Kantian efforts to characterize benevolence, or something like it, in terms of reverence for rational agency fall short. Such reverence, while credibly an important part of the moral life, is no more the whole of it than benevolence.”
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Gillian Russell on Speech Acts and Speaking Up 6:30 pm
Gillian Russell on Speech Acts and Speaking Up @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Jan 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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When people encounter speech that they judge to inappropriately denigrate others, they often feel both a desire and an obligation to respond with more speech—a response that I’ll call “speaking up.” When we hear our colleagues unfairly put down, racist or sexist jokes told, or misleading aspersions cast on victims, many of us wonder whether we should speak up, and some people speak up more readily and with more confidence than others. But whether we[...]
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Mind and Language Research Seminar 4:00 pm
Mind and Language Research Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
Jan 30 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Our topic for Spring 2018 will be Formal Frameworks for Semantics and Pragmatics. We’ll be investigating a range of questions in semantics and/or pragmatics which involve or are relevant to the choice between different kinds of overall structure for theories in these areas. In most sessions, the members of the seminar will receive a week in advance, copies of recent work, or work in progress from a thinker at another university. After reading this work,[...]
Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series 7:00 pm
Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
Jan 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
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7:00-7:50: Helios Bajwa (New School), “The Violence of Inclusion: Borders, Ideology and Migrant Labor in Singapore” 7:55-8:45: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (Princeton), “Gatekeeping Generics: How Our Utterances Shape the Social World” 8:45-9:30: Food & Beverage Reception (6th Floor Lounge) The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapters of Columbia, The New School, Rutgers, CUNY, NYU, and Princeton invite submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups for a workshop series (NY-MAPWorks) in spring 2018. Dates: Jan[...]
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