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Philosophy Film Club: Blade Runner
6:00 pm
Philosophy Film Club: Blade Runner
@ Dorothy Hirshon Suite, I 203
Feb 1 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Movie snacks and post-film discussion hosted by Professor Zed Adams Questions? email: veronica@newschool.edu Friday, February 1st 2019 at 55 W 13 Street Room I 203 6:00-9:00 PM This event is sponsored by the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research
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Feminism for the 99% and the New Feminist Wave
4:00 pm
Feminism for the 99% and the New Feminist Wave
@ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Feb 4 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
In preparation for the next transnational feminist strike on March 8th, we will have a discussion about the new feminist wave with some of its protagonists and organizers from around the world and a conversation around Arruzza, Bhattacharya, Fraser, “Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto” (Verso 2019). Program: 4:00 p.m.: Welcome and Opening Remarks: William Milberg (Director of the Heilbroner Center for Capitalist Studies) and Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) 4:15–6:00 p.m.: The New Feminist Wave Speakers:[...]
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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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Carl Sachs: “Avoiding Foundationalism And Idealism: How Sellarsian Picturing Overcomes the Myth of the Given”
6:00 pm
Carl Sachs: “Avoiding Foundationalism And Idealism: How Sellarsian Picturing Overcomes the Myth of the Given”
@ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Feb 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) is well-known for his “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind” (EPM) in which he criticizes empiricist theories of knowledge acquisition. Empiricism, he argues there, relies on what he calls “the Myth of the Given.” The Myth of the Given is often understood as a dilemma for epistemological foundationalism. However, Sellars also remarks that not even Kant and Hegel (“that great foe of immediacy” EPM §1) were entirely free of “the entire framework[...]
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New Fascism Mass Psychology & Financialization
10:00 am
New Fascism Mass Psychology & Financialization
@ Wolff Conference Room, NSSR, D1103/ UL104
Feb 21 @ 10:00 am – 1:30 pm
What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s ‘new fascisms’ through the prism of financialization? This one-day workshop brings together scholars from across disciplines to debate these key questions for our understanding of contemporary capitalism. The workshop is part of Public Seminar’s Imaginal Politics initiative and is organised jointly with the Department of Social Science, University College London. The workshop will include three panel discussions[...]
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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[...]
NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents Zed Adams on the digital/analogue distinction.
4:00 pm
NYC Wittgenstein Workshop presents Zed Adams on the digital/analogue distinction.
@ New School, rm D1106
Feb 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
The New York City Wittgenstein Workshop has the following workshops scheduled for this semester and more planned workshops to be announced soon. This is a reminder that Zed Adams will be presenting at the workshop this Friday, the 22nd from 4 to 6 pm on the history of the digital/analogue distinction in philosophy. We will be meeting in room D 1106 in 6 E 16th St, New York, NY 10003. Please join us for a great conversation! As[...]
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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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