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Liberalism & Democracy Past, Present, Prospects
Liberalism & Democracy Past, Present, Prospects
@ John L. Tishman Auditorium, New School
Feb 7 – Feb 8 all-day
Liberal democratic values seem embattled as never before in the United States, and around the world. The time is right for a serious and wide-ranging exploration of the prospects for liberal democracies in a context that acknowledges the historical and contemporary tensions between democracy and liberal values, both in theory and in practice. This conference convenes a varied group of scholars, journalists, policy expert and veteran public servants, we hope to stage a real meeting[...]
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Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism
Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism
@ Deutsches Haus, NYU
Feb 15 – Feb 17 all-day
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will jointly present the conference “Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism,” to be held at Deutsches Haus at NYU, from February 15-17. Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III will deliver one of the keynote speeches. For a detailed conference schedule, please click here. Across the globe the liberal logic of capitalism and technocracy has seemingly triumphed, and with it a culture of secularism,[...]
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Matters of Love: A Conference
Matters of Love: A Conference
@ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Feb 22 all-day
9:15 – 9:30 Coffee & Opening Remarks 9:30 – 10:50 Anna Katsman: Freighted Love 11:00 – 12:20 Federica Gregoratto: Eros and Freedom Today 12:20 – 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 – 2:50 Sara Macdonald: The Art of Friendship: Hegel and Plato 3:00 – 4:20 Gal Katz, “Love’s Rage Is Shame”: Hegel on Sex 4:20 – 4:45 Break 4:45 – 6.05 Paul Kottman: Love as Human Freedom New York German Idealism Workshop A joint undertaking of[...]
Buddha versus Popper: Do we live in the present or do we plan for the future? Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
4:10 pm
Buddha versus Popper: Do we live in the present or do we plan for the future? Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
Feb 22 @ 4:10 pm
There are two approaches to life. The first one, which we are identifying with Sir Karl Popper, is to think before we act and to let our hypotheses die in our stead when the overall outcome is likely to be negative. We act now for a better future, and we think now which action will bring the best future. Both decision theory and backward induction are technical versions of this train of thought. The second[...]
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Bryce Huebner: “Meditating and hallucinating: A socially situated and neuro-Yogācarin perspective”
6:00 pm
Bryce Huebner: “Meditating and hallucinating: A socially situated and neuro-Yogācarin perspective”
@ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Feb 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
A number of philosophers working on Buddhist traditions have recently explored similarities between the cultivated experience of not-self, and the clinical experience of depersonalization. In this talk, I will offer some reflections on this theme. But my primary aim will be to push a similar kind of exploratory project one step further. Drawing on tools from cognitive and computational neuroscience, as well as insights from Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy, I will explore some of the most[...]
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