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Inconsistency and the Sorites Paradox (Otávio Bueno)
4:15 pm
Inconsistency and the Sorites Paradox (Otávio Bueno)
@ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 1 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
The Sorites paradox offers an unsettling situation in which, in light of its premises and the apparent validity of the argument, one may be inclined to take the argument to be sound. But this entails that vague concepts, ubiquitous and indispensable to express salient features of the world, are ultimately inconsistent, or at least the application conditions of these concepts seem to lead one directly into contradiction. In what follows, I argue that this inconsistent[...]
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Philosophy in the Library: How Philosophical Conceptions of Engineering Shape the World Around Us
7:30 pm
Philosophy in the Library: How Philosophical Conceptions of Engineering Shape the World Around Us
@ Brooklyn Public Library
Oct 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
There are numerous books about the philosophy of science, but relatively few focus on the philosophy of engineering. Why has the philosophy of engineering been undeveloped in contrast to science? While many engineers prefer to build new things rather than philosophize, a key explanation for the neglect of engineering is an unjustified misconception about the importance of abstract theoretical and scientific knowledge versus engineering knowledge. The speaker will talk about his experiences in engineering and[...]
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Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21: Andreas Keller Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University “The Structure of Olfactory Appearance” September 28: Cristina Borgoni Philosophy, University of Bayreuth “Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge” October 5: Antonia Peacocke Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness New York University “Content Plurality in Mental Action” October 12: Çağlan Çinar Dilek Philosophy, Central European University and Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center “On the Nature of Representational Relation in the[...]
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Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21: Andreas Keller Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University “The Structure of Olfactory Appearance” September 28: Cristina Borgoni Philosophy, University of Bayreuth “Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge” October 5: Antonia Peacocke Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness New York University “Content Plurality in Mental Action” October 12: Çağlan Çinar Dilek Philosophy, Central European University and Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center “On the Nature of Representational Relation in the[...]
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Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss
4:15 pm
Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss
@ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 15 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
n his seminal work Counterfactuals, David Lewis presents a family of systems of conditional logic—his V-family—which includes both his preferred logic of counterfactuals (VC/C1) and Stalnaker’s conditional logic (VCS/C2). Graham Priest posed the problem of finding systems of (labeled) tableaux for logics from Lewis’s V-family in his Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2008, p. 93). In this talk, I present a solution to this problem: sound and complete (labeled) tableaux for Lewis’s V-logics. Errors and shortcomings in recent work on this problem[...]
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The variety of scientism and the limits of science – Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY)
4:30 pm
The variety of scientism and the limits of science – Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY)
@ tbd
Oct 16 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Abstract: Science is by far the most powerful approach to the investigation of the natural world ever devised. Still, it has limits, and there are many areas and questions where the scientific approach is ill suited, or at best provides only pertinent information rather than full answers. The denial of this modest attitude about science is called scientism, which declares science to be the only form of human knowledge and understanding, attempting to subsume everything[...]
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Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 19 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21: Andreas Keller Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University “The Structure of Olfactory Appearance” September 28: Cristina Borgoni Philosophy, University of Bayreuth “Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge” October 5: Antonia Peacocke Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness New York University “Content Plurality in Mental Action” October 12: Çağlan Çinar Dilek Philosophy, Central European University and Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center “On the Nature of Representational Relation in the[...]
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Ontological Reductions of First Order Models, Alfredo Freire
4:15 pm
Ontological Reductions of First Order Models, Alfredo Freire
@ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 22 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Since the discovery of the Loweinheim-Skolem theorem, it has been largely held that there is no purely formal way of fixing a model for any first order theory. Because of this, many have focused on having a relative account of models, establishing the expressive power of one model in its ability to internalize models for other theories. One can, for instance, define a plurality of models for PA from a given model for ZF, and[...]
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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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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,[...]
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21: Andreas Keller Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University “The Structure of Olfactory Appearance” September 28: Cristina Borgoni Philosophy, University of Bayreuth “Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge” October 5: Antonia Peacocke Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness New York University “Content Plurality in Mental Action” October 12: Çağlan Çinar Dilek Philosophy, Central European University and Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center “On the Nature of Representational Relation in the[...]
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Ground and Paradox, Boris Kment (Princeton)
4:15 pm
Ground and Paradox, Boris Kment (Princeton)
@ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
This paper discusses a cluster of interrelated paradoxes, including the semantic and property-theoretic paradoxes (such as the paradox of heterologicality), as well as the set-theoretic paradoxes and the Russell-Myhill paradox. I argue that an independently motivated theory of metaphysical grounding provides philosophically satisfying treatments of these paradoxes. It yields as corollaries a version of the iterative conception of set and an analogous solution to Russell-Myhill. Moreover, it generates a paracomplete solution to the property-theoretic paradoxes.[...]
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