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					1 Finding the Way to Truth: Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition Finding the Way to Truth: Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition @ Buell Hall, Columbia U Feb 1 – Feb 2 all-day Tickets How is the ancient exhortation to “know thyself” related to consolation, virtue, and the study of nature? How did the commitment to self-knowledge shift over the centuries in writings by Islamic, Jewish, Christian, and early modern natural philosophers? How did medieval women contribute to modern notions of self, self-knowledge, and knowledge of nature? This conference explores the meditative “reflective methodology” from its ancient roots, through medieval Christian, Muslim, and Jewish traditions to the so-called “new”[...] 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 Tickets 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	2 Night of Philosophy and Ideas 7:00 pm Night of Philosophy and Ideas @ Brooklyn Public Library Feb 2 @ 7:00 pm – Feb 3 @ 7:00 am Tickets A NIGHT OF PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS is an all-night marathon of philosophical debate, performances, screenings, readings, and music. Join us and be a part of this FREE 12-HOUR EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, featuring top philosophers from around the world. FROM SATURDAY February 2 AT 7PM TO SUNDAY February 3, 2019 AT 7AM at Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY Co-presented by Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Check back[...]
3	4 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 Tickets 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:[...] Bilattices and Strict Tolerant Logics (Melvin Fitting) 4:15 pm Bilattices and Strict Tolerant Logics (Melvin Fitting) @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Feb 4 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Strict/tolerant logic is a formally defined logic that has the same consequence relation as classical logic, though it differs from classical logic at the metaconsequence level. Specifically, it does not satisfy a cut rule. It has been recommended for use in work on theories of truth because it avoids some objectionable features arising from the use of classical logic. Here we are not interested in applications, but in the formal details themselves. We show that[...] Philosophy of Language Workshop 6:30 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Feb 4 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language. 28 January Luca Incurvati (ILLC/Amsterdam) 4 February Dan Hoek (NYU) 11 February Peter Klecha (Swarthmore) 25 February Ginger Schultheis (NYU/Chicago) and David Boylan (Rutgers) 4 March Chris Tancredi (Keio University, Tokyo) 11 March TBD 25 March Yael Sharvit (UCLA) 1[...]	5 RESCHEDULED: The variety of scientism and the limits of science, Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY) 4:30 pm RESCHEDULED: The variety of scientism and the limits of science, Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY) @ CUNY Grad Center, 5307 Feb 5 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Massimo Pigliucci’s talk has been rescheduled, for personal reasons outside of his control. It will be rescheduled for a later date: here. 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[...]	6 Mind and Language Seminar 4:00 pm Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Feb 6 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets 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,[...] CUNY Colloquium 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 Feb 6 @ 4:15 pm Tickets Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here. February 6 • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture Ned Block (New York University) “Perception is Non-Propositional, Non-Conceptual and Iconic” February 13 Francesco Pupa (Nassau Community College) “Determiners are Phrases” February 20 Robert Rupert (University of[...] The Extended Self: Autonomy and Technology in the Age of Distributed Cognition, Ethan Hallerman (Stony Brook) 7:30 pm The Extended Self: Autonomy and Technology in the Age of Distributed Cognition, Ethan Hallerman (Stony Brook) @ Brooklyn Public Library Feb 6 @ 7:30 pm Tickets In Philosophy in the Library, philosophers from around the world tackle the big questions. In February, we hear from Ethan Hallerman. None of us today can avoid reflecting on the way our thoughts and habits relate to the tools we use, but interest in how technologies reshape us is both older and broader than contemporary concerns around privacy, distraction, addiction, and isolation. For the past hundred years, scholars have investigated the historical role of everyday[...]	7 Liberalism & Democracy Past, Present, Prospects Liberalism & Democracy Past, Present, Prospects @ John L. Tishman Auditorium, New School Feb 7 – Feb 8 all-day Tickets 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[...] Rutgers Philosophy Dept. Colloquia 3:00 pm Rutgers Philosophy Dept. Colloquia @ Seminar Room, Gateway Transit Building, 5th flr Feb 7 @ 3:00 pm Tickets The Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Transit Building, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor at 3:00 p.m. Please see the Department Calendar for scheduled speakers and more details. 01/31 Department Colloquium-Prof. Brian Epstein (Tufts) 02/07 Inclusive Pedagogy by Prof. Zoë Johnson-King (NYU) 02/28 Climate Lecture-Prof. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University) 03/14 Mesthene Lecture-Prof. Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley) 03/28 Break It Down Lecture-Prof. Paul Pietroski, “Human Languages: What are They?”[...] Reality is Not As It Seems 7:00 pm Reality is Not As It Seems @ The New York Academy of Sciences Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Despite remarkable strides across virtually all scientific disciplines, the nature of the relationship between our brain and our conscious experience—the “mind-body problem”—remains perhaps the greatest mystery confronting science today. Most neuroscientists currently believe that neural activity in the brain constitutes the foundation of our reality, and that consciousness emerges from the dynamics of complicated neural networks. Yet no scientific theory to date has been able to explain how the properties of such neurons or neural[...]	8 Bioethics Colloquium: Hanna Pickard on The Puzzle of Addiction 4:00 pm Bioethics Colloquium: Hanna Pickard on The Puzzle of Addiction @ NYU, rm tba Feb 8 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets The orthodox conception of drug addiction is a neurobiological disease characterised by compulsive drug use despite negative consequences. But this conception depends on three core ideas that are rarely clarified: disease, compulsion, and negative consequences. Pickard argues that it is only when the significance of negative consequences is appreciated that the puzzle of addiction comes clearly into view; and she discusses some conceptual and empirical grounds supporting scepticism about the claim that addiction can be[...] Logic, Probability, and Games Seminar 4:00 pm Logic, Probability, and Games Seminar @ Faculty House, Columbia U Feb 8 @ 4:00 pm Tickets The seminar is concerned with applying formal methods to fundamental issues, with an emphasis on probabilistic reasoning, decision theory and games. In this context “logic” is broadly interpreted as covering applications that involve formal representations. The topics of interest have been researched within a very broad spectrum of different disciplines, including philosophy (logic and epistemology), statistics, economics, and computer science. The seminar is intended to bring together scholars from different fields of research so as[...] German Idealism Workshop 4:30 pm German Idealism Workshop @ Columbia University, Philosophy rm 716 Feb 8 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets 8 February @Columbia Patricia Kitcher: The Fact of Reason in Kant’s Moral Psychology Response: Jessica Tizzard 22 February @NSSR Matters of Love: A Conference 5 April @Columbia Beatrice Longuenesse: Residues of First Nature 19 April @NSSR Angelica Nuzzo: Approaching Hegel’s Logic Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett Response: David Carlson 10 May @Columbia Amy Allen: Turning Dead Ends into Through Streets: Psychoanalysis and the Idea of Progress	9 Ask a Philosopher Booth 2:00 pm Ask a Philosopher Booth @ City Point Shopping Center, near Dekalb B/Q Feb 9 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Come, ask a philosopher what you will, or just discuss big ideas with your fellow New Yorkers!
10	11 Logic & Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Feb 11 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 in room 7314 of the Graduate Center, CUNY (365 5th Avenue). The (provisional) schedule is as follows: Feb 4. Melvin Fitting, CUNY Feb 11. Benjamin Neeser, Geneva Feb 18. GC CLOSED. NO MEETING Feb 25. Achille Varzi, Columbia Mar 4. Eric Bayruns Garcia, CUNY Mar 11. Jeremy Goodman, USC Mar 18. Romina Padro, CUNY Mar 25. Kit Fine, NYU Apr 1. Elena[...] Stages in Spacetime: The Languages of Persistence 4:15 pm Stages in Spacetime: The Languages of Persistence @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Feb 11 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Motivated by considerations from relativity theory, philosophers have recently contended that talk about an object’s existence in time should not be taken as fundamental, but rather analysed in the language of a formal theory of location in spacetime. This suggestion has important consequences for the debate about persistence: how do ordinary objects exist at different times? It has triggered a program of recovery whereby the main views from the classical debate, previously expressed using the language of[...] Philosophy of Language Workshop 6:30 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Feb 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language. 28 January Luca Incurvati (ILLC/Amsterdam) 4 February Dan Hoek (NYU) 11 February Peter Klecha (Swarthmore) 25 February Ginger Schultheis (NYU/Chicago) and David Boylan (Rutgers) 4 March Chris Tancredi (Keio University, Tokyo) 11 March TBD 25 March Yael Sharvit (UCLA) 1[...]	12 Social and Political Philosophy Workshop 5:30 pm Social and Political Philosophy Workshop @ Law School rm 8-01 Feb 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets Meetings are held on Tuesdays at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan in the Plaza View Room, 12th Floor, Lowenstein Building (113 W. 60th St). We meet from 5:30 to 6:45 and papers are read in advance. If interested in attending, contact sahaddad@fordham.edu or jeflynn@fordham.edu. September 18 – Cristina Beltrán (NYU) October 9 – Jennifer Scuro (New Rochelle) – “Mapping Ableist Biases: Diagnoses and Prostheses” November 6 – Lillian Cicerchia (Fordham) March 12 – Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt) April 9 – Ann Murphy (New Mexico),[...]	13 Mind and Language Seminar 4:00 pm Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Feb 13 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets 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,[...] CUNY Colloquium 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 Feb 13 @ 4:15 pm Tickets Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here. February 6 • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture Ned Block (New York University) “Perception is Non-Propositional, Non-Conceptual and Iconic” February 13 Francesco Pupa (Nassau Community College) “Determiners are Phrases” February 20 Robert Rupert (University of[...]	14 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 Tickets 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[...]	15 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 Tickets 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,[...] Brown Bag Series 12:00 pm Brown Bag Series @ Philosophy Conference Room, Collins Hall, Room 139 Feb 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets A presentation of ongoing research by Fordham Philosophers; bring your own lunch, light refreshments will be provided. All meetings are from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Philosophy Department Conference Room in Collins Hall. Contact: Stephen Grimm Stephen Grimm – September 14, 2018 Andrew Jampol-Petzinger – October 26, 2018 Lauren Kopajtic – November 16, 2018 Nicholas Smyth – February 15, 2019 Brian Johnson – March 15, 2019 Crina Gschwandtner – April 5, 2019 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Spring 2019 2/15: Andrew Lee, Philosophy, New York University 2/22: William Robinson, Philosophy, Iowa State University 3/1: Wesley Sauret, Philosophy, University of Bayreuth 3/8: Jean-Paul Noel, Center for Neural Science, New York University 3/15: Santiago Echeverri, Philosophy, New York University 3/22: TBA 3/29: TBA 4/5: No Cognitive Science talk: CUNY Graduate-Student Conference https://2019cunyphilosophyconference.weebly.com/ 4/12: TBA 4/19, 4/26: No talks; Spring Break 5/3: TBA Additional information at: http://bit.ly/cscitalks or e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com>	16
17	18	19	20 Mind and Language Seminar 4:00 pm Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Feb 20 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets 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,[...] CUNY Colloquium 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 Feb 20 @ 4:15 pm Tickets Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here. February 6 • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture Ned Block (New York University) “Perception is Non-Propositional, Non-Conceptual and Iconic” February 13 Francesco Pupa (Nassau Community College) “Determiners are Phrases” February 20 Robert Rupert (University of[...] NYC Minorities and Philosophy Workshop 6:00 pm NYC Minorities and Philosophy Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm tba Feb 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) chapters of Columbia, NYU, Rutgers, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, invite submissions to the Spring 2019 NY-MAPWorks: a workshop series featuring the work of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on topics in critical social philosophy and non-canonical areas of philosophy. Topics include, but are not limited to: social philosophy (including intersections with epistemology, language, and metaphysics), feminist philosophy and philosophy of sex and gender, philosophy of race, queer philosophy, non-western[...]	21 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 Tickets 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[...]	22 Matters of Love: A Conference Matters of Love: A Conference @ Wolff Conference Room, D1103 Feb 22 all-day Tickets 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[...] Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Spring 2019 2/15: Andrew Lee, Philosophy, New York University 2/22: William Robinson, Philosophy, Iowa State University 3/1: Wesley Sauret, Philosophy, University of Bayreuth 3/8: Jean-Paul Noel, Center for Neural Science, New York University 3/15: Santiago Echeverri, Philosophy, New York University 3/22: TBA 3/29: TBA 4/5: No Cognitive Science talk: CUNY Graduate-Student Conference https://2019cunyphilosophyconference.weebly.com/ 4/12: TBA 4/19, 4/26: No talks; Spring Break 5/3: TBA Additional information at: http://bit.ly/cscitalks or e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com> Kate Manne (Cornell) 3:30 pm Kate Manne (Cornell) @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Feb 22 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Title and abstract forthcoming. Reception to follow. 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 Tickets 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[...] 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 Tickets 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[...] German Idealism Workshop 4:30 pm German Idealism Workshop @ Columbia University, Philosophy rm 716 Feb 22 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets 8 February @Columbia Patricia Kitcher: The Fact of Reason in Kant’s Moral Psychology Response: Jessica Tizzard 22 February @NSSR Matters of Love: A Conference 5 April @Columbia Beatrice Longuenesse: Residues of First Nature 19 April @NSSR Angelica Nuzzo: Approaching Hegel’s Logic Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett Response: David Carlson 10 May @Columbia Amy Allen: Turning Dead Ends into Through Streets: Psychoanalysis and the Idea of Progress	23
24 Meeting 58: Consciousness 2:00 pm Meeting 58: Consciousness @ Justine's apartment Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Philosophy-in-Manhattan Sunday, February 24 at 2:00 PM CUNY philosophy PhD candidate Liam Ryan will lead. The alleged hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining the difference between consc… Price: 14.00 USD https://www.meetup.com/Philosophy-in-Manhattan/events/257432852/	25 Identity, Indeterminacy, and Supervaluationism- Achille Varzi (Columbia) 4:15 pm Identity, Indeterminacy, and Supervaluationism- Achille Varzi (Columbia) @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Feb 25 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets I am a friend of supervaluationism. A statement lacks a determinate truth value if, and only if, it comes out true on some admissible precisifications of the relevant vocabulary and false on others. In this talk I want to focus on the special cases of identity statements. There is, I think, a potentially devastating objection that can be raised against the supervaluationist treatment of such statements—in fact two objections. Luckily, both can be resisted. But[...] Logic & Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Feb 25 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 in room 7314 of the Graduate Center, CUNY (365 5th Avenue). The (provisional) schedule is as follows: Feb 4. Melvin Fitting, CUNY Feb 11. Benjamin Neeser, Geneva Feb 18. GC CLOSED. NO MEETING Feb 25. Achille Varzi, Columbia Mar 4. Eric Bayruns Garcia, CUNY Mar 11. Jeremy Goodman, USC Mar 18. Romina Padro, CUNY Mar 25. Kit Fine, NYU Apr 1. Elena[...] Philosophy of Language Workshop 6:30 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Feb 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language. 28 January Luca Incurvati (ILLC/Amsterdam) 4 February Dan Hoek (NYU) 11 February Peter Klecha (Swarthmore) 25 February Ginger Schultheis (NYU/Chicago) and David Boylan (Rutgers) 4 March Chris Tancredi (Keio University, Tokyo) 11 March TBD 25 March Yael Sharvit (UCLA) 1[...]	26 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) @ NYU, rm 110 Feb 26 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets 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 else,[...] Epistemology and Ethics Workshop 5:30 pm Epistemology and Ethics Workshop @ Plaza View Room, 12th Floor Feb 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets AY 2018 – 19 Workshop Schedule September 25th – Avery Archer (GWU) October 16th – Daniel Singer (Penn) November 13th – Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany) February 26th – Vita Emery (Fordham) March 26th – Kathryn Tabb (Columbia) April 23rd – Carol Hay (UMass Lowell) The Epistemology and Ethics group is composed of faculty and graduate students at Fordham and other nearby universities. Papers are read in advance, so the majority of the time is devoted[...]	27 Mind and Language Seminar 4:00 pm Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Feb 27 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets 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,[...] CUNY Colloquium 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 Feb 27 @ 4:15 pm Tickets Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here. February 6 • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture Ned Block (New York University) “Perception is Non-Propositional, Non-Conceptual and Iconic” February 13 Francesco Pupa (Nassau Community College) “Determiners are Phrases” February 20 Robert Rupert (University of[...] Marrying Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Knowledge: Reimagining the Human Place in Nature 6:30 pm Marrying Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Knowledge: Reimagining the Human Place in Nature @ Union Theological Seminary Feb 27 @ 6:30 pm Tickets Join us for a conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer as she helps us rethink, reimagine and, renarrate our relationship to the sacred and the natural world. Can the objective, data-driven approach of science be enriched by non-anthropocentric spiritual worldviews? As a botanist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Dr. Kimmerer draws on both indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge to enrich and animate our understanding of the natural world. This expansive way of seeing and[...]	28 Rutgers Philosophy Dept. Colloquia 3:00 pm Rutgers Philosophy Dept. Colloquia @ Seminar Room, Gateway Transit Building, 5th flr Feb 28 @ 3:00 pm Tickets The Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Transit Building, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor at 3:00 p.m. Please see the Department Calendar for scheduled speakers and more details. 01/31 Department Colloquium-Prof. Brian Epstein (Tufts) 02/07 Inclusive Pedagogy by Prof. Zoë Johnson-King (NYU) 02/28 Climate Lecture-Prof. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University) 03/14 Mesthene Lecture-Prof. Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley) 03/28 Break It Down Lecture-Prof. Paul Pietroski, “Human Languages: What are They?”[...] 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 Tickets 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[...] Kate Pendoley, Philosophy of Psychology Workshop 7:00 pm Kate Pendoley, Philosophy of Psychology Workshop @ e's bar, btw 112/113th Feb 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets PoPRocks (formerly known as ‘WoPoP’) is an ongoing series in the NYC area for early career researchers – typically grad students, postdocs, people who got their PhD within the last few years, advanced undergrads etc. – working on philosophy of psychology/mind/perception/cognitive science/neuroscience/… . We usually meet roughly once every 2-3 weeks to informally discuss a draft paper by one of our members. Typically presenters send a copy of their paper around 1 week in advance,[...]

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