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Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time
4:00 pm
Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time
@ NYU Professional Studies, room 125
Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Loewer distinguishes two approaches to laws and time: Humean accounts, which deny primitive modality and explain temporal asymmetries in scientific terms, and non-Humean accounts that take temporal asymmetry and modality to be metaphysically fundamental. I’ll argue that Loewer neglects an important third approach: deny metaphysical claims about fundamentality, and explain temporal asymmetries as well as the function of modal entities in scientific terms. This pragmatist approach provides a clear ontology to science, and, and unlike[...]
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Dimitris Vardoulakis on “Authority and Utility in Spinoza: From Epicureanism to Neoliberalism?”
6:00 pm
Dimitris Vardoulakis on “Authority and Utility in Spinoza: From Epicureanism to Neoliberalism?”
@ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Oct 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The paper argues that Spinoza is influenced by epicureanism. This is evident particularly in the conflict between authority—understood as the kind of figure that is impervious to argumentation—and the calculation of utility (phronesis) that is the precondition of action. This conflict is complex because in certain circumstances we may calculate that it is to our utility to allow a person in authority to calculate on our behalf. The paper indicates, in addition, that the way[...]
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Workshop on the Future of the Foundations of Physics
Workshop on the Future of the Foundations of Physics
@ Pupin Hall Theory Center, 8th flr, Columbia U
Oct 26 – Oct 27 all-day
What we are hoping for is a free, open, wide-ranging and informal conversation about a number of topics that people have lately been thinking more and more about – and that seem likely to play increasingly central roles, over the next several years, in the foundations of physics. These include questions of the emergence/fundamentality of space and time, the philosophical analysis and scientific role of chance, the relationship between physics and agency, and the possibility,[...]
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