Calendar – Blog of Noah Greenstein

September 2023

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					1 First Conference of the Society for Philosophers of the Pandemic Generation First Conference of the Society for Philosophers of the Pandemic Generation @ CUNY Grad Center Sep 1 – Sep 2 all-day Tickets After the stimulating discussion at the Conference on Philosophy in the Pandemic Generation, participants decided then and there to begin something bigger: The Society for Philosophers of the Pandemic Generation. This group is open to any and all who feel that the pandemic influenced them during their formative years of philosophical training. The First Conference of the Society for Philosophers of the Pandemic Generation welcomes abstracts: That explicitly engage with the role of pandemics, epidemics,[...]	2
3	4	5	6 Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi 4:00 pm Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi @ NYU room 801 Sep 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the project Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning, and various other[...] Heinrich Päs (TU Dortmund University) 4:00 pm Heinrich Päs (TU Dortmund University) @ NYU room 6th floor lounge Sep 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Metro Area Philosophers of Science is pleased to announce the following confirmed talks this semester: Heinrich Päs (TU Dortmund University) 4:00 p.m. EST, Sept 6th Location: 6th-floor lounge, Philosophy Department, NYU, 5 Washington Place Title: TBA Eric Y Ling (University of Copenhagen) 4:00 p.m. EST, Sept 26th * Location: TBA Title: Spacetime extensions of the big bang Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University) Title: TBA Further details to be announced. Isaac Willhelm (National University of Singapore)[...]	7 Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th flr Sep 7 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Colloquium 2023 Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy September 7th Bonnie Honig, Brown University Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell September 14th Jeremy Waldron, NYU September 21st Alice Crary, The New School September 28th David Enoch, University of Oxford October 5th Gina Schouten, Harvard University October 12th Daryl Levinson, NYU October 19th Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University October 26th Rob Howse, NYU November 2nd Trevor Morrison, NYU November 9th John Goldberg, Harvard University November[...] Philosophy Colloquium: The Dialectic of Mind Design. Zed Adams (NSSR) 6:00 pm Philosophy Colloquium: The Dialectic of Mind Design. Zed Adams (NSSR) @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103 Sep 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In this paper, I explore the role that metaphor plays in the development of new scientific models. My goal is to illustrate metaphor’s fecundity in this regard, the way in which it extends our understanding in surprisingly diverse ways. As Mary Hesse put this point, “it is precisely in its extension that the fruitfulness of the model may lie” (1980, 114). The particular focus of my paper is on the history of what John[...]	8 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ Zoom & CUNY Grad Center 7102 Sep 8 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets ALL TALKS ON ZOOM SOME ALSO IN PERSON (SEE ROOMS BELOW) Talks organized andhosted by Ryan McElhaney To get Zoom links, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com Some—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access 9/8: Martina Helina History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science, University of CambridgePhilosophy 9/15: No talk—one-week break 9/22: Janis Karan Hesse Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley 9/29: Justin Halberda Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University 10/6: Jakub Mihalik Department[...]	9
10	11 Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds @ Starr Foundation Hall (UL102) Sep 11 – Sep 15 all-day Tickets Join us for a series of keynote presentations as part of the 2023 Institute for Philosophy and New Humanities: Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds. Artifacts are a primary object of study in the humanities. They are products and, thus, manifestations of human thought, action, and self-determination without which they cannot be understood. At the same time, human mindedness depends on artifacts, and as well as other objects – a dependence that is manifest in the form[...] Logic and Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm Logic and Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 4419 Sep 11 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets This semester, we will meet as usual on Mondays, 4.15-6.15, followed by a trip to the pub for all those who would like to go. The room is yet to be determined. Meetings will be face to face only. Below is the provisional program for the semester. Details of each meeting will be announced on a weekly basis, as usual. Note that the first meeting will be on September 11. Unfortunately we lose several Mondays[...] Philosophy of Language Workshop 5:00 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ 103 NYU Linguistics Dept. Sep 11 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 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. During Fall 2023, we will meet on Mondays, 5:00–7:00pm in room 103 of the NYU Linguistics Building (10 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome. September 11 Kate Ritchie (UC Irvine) September 18 (no workshop)[...]	12	13 CUNY Colloquia 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquia @ CUNY Grad Center 9205/6 Sep 13 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Fall 2023 Wednesdays, 4:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M, Room 9205/9206 9/13 Rachell Powell Professor of Philosophy, Boston University “Social norms and superorganisms: The normative foundations of ultracooperation” 9/20 Jason D’Cruz Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany “Trust, Intimacy, and Courage” 9/27 Sukaina Hirji Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania “Towards a Relational Stance” 10/4 No colloquium 10/11 Tania Lombrozo Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology, Princeton University “A[...]	14 Anxiety: A Phenomenological Investigation. Stefano Micali (K U Leuven) 6:00 pm Anxiety: A Phenomenological Investigation. Stefano Micali (K U Leuven) @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103 Sep 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets When is anxiety justified? When does anxiety cease to function as an effective and reasonable signal preventing imminent threats, and when does it become an invasive projection of our own ghosts? My talk is divided into three sections. First, I will emphasize the anthropological relevance of anxiety: in various theoretical frameworks, the difference between free-floating anxiety and fear directed at a specific danger even serves as a criterion for distinguishing human beings from animals. Second,[...]	15 War and Shame –A Debate on the Appropriate Response to Insults between the Confucians and their Interlocutors. Jing Hu (Concordia University) 5:30 pm War and Shame –A Debate on the Appropriate Response to Insults between the Confucians and their Interlocutors. Jing Hu (Concordia University) @ Philosophy Hall, Room 716 Sep 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets What is an appropriate response to humiliating treatments such as insults? This question is not only relevant to today’s discourse but has also piqued the curiosity of thinkers in classical Chinese philosophy. The Warring States period debate regarding whether one’s inner sense of shame can shield one from insulting situations and from experiencing shame is frequently presented as a one-sided narrative that focuses on the Confucian texts. Meanwhile, the views of their rival thinkers, such[...]	16
17	18 Logic and Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm Logic and Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 4419 Sep 18 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets This semester, we will meet as usual on Mondays, 4.15-6.15, followed by a trip to the pub for all those who would like to go. The room is yet to be determined. Meetings will be face to face only. Below is the provisional program for the semester. Details of each meeting will be announced on a weekly basis, as usual. Note that the first meeting will be on September 11. Unfortunately we lose several Mondays[...]	19	20 CUNY Colloquia 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquia @ CUNY Grad Center 9205/6 Sep 20 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Fall 2023 Wednesdays, 4:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M, Room 9205/9206 9/13 Rachell Powell Professor of Philosophy, Boston University “Social norms and superorganisms: The normative foundations of ultracooperation” 9/20 Jason D’Cruz Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany “Trust, Intimacy, and Courage” 9/27 Sukaina Hirji Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania “Towards a Relational Stance” 10/4 No colloquium 10/11 Tania Lombrozo Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology, Princeton University “A[...] Designing Space 6:30 pm Designing Space @ Havemeyer Hall (Room 309) & Online Sep 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets How do we experience space? And what does this mean for the spaces we design? We explore these questions by bringing together speakers from Architecture, Neuroscience, and Virtual Reality, with two specific aims: First, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn from each other, as two distinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spatial experience has long been a central question of Architecture, Virtual Reality is only beginning to grapple with these questions, as[...]	21 Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th flr Sep 21 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Colloquium 2023 Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy September 7th Bonnie Honig, Brown University Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell September 14th Jeremy Waldron, NYU September 21st Alice Crary, The New School September 28th David Enoch, University of Oxford October 5th Gina Schouten, Harvard University October 12th Daryl Levinson, NYU October 19th Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University October 26th Rob Howse, NYU November 2nd Trevor Morrison, NYU November 9th John Goldberg, Harvard University November[...]	22 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ Zoom & CUNY Grad Center 7102 Sep 22 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets ALL TALKS ON ZOOM SOME ALSO IN PERSON (SEE ROOMS BELOW) Talks organized andhosted by Ryan McElhaney To get Zoom links, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com Some—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access 9/8: Martina Helina History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science, University of CambridgePhilosophy 9/15: No talk—one-week break 9/22: Janis Karan Hesse Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley 9/29: Justin Halberda Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University 10/6: Jakub Mihalik Department[...] Perfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom 4:30 pm Perfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom @ Columbia University tbd Sep 22 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Presented by the New York German Idealism Workshop Perfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. With response from Francey Russell. @Columbia 22 September Hegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel. @New School 6 October The Argument of Kant’s Groundwork. Pauline Kleingeld. With response by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 October Nathan DuFord tbd. With response by Chris O’Kane. @New School 10 November	23 Twin Conferences in Tribute to The Philosophy of Joseph Raz Twin Conferences in Tribute to The Philosophy of Joseph Raz @ Columbia Law School Sep 23 – Sep 24 all-day Tickets Professor Joseph Raz, to many of us a lifelong mentor, colleague and dear friend, passed away on May 2nd, 2022. In recognition of Raz’s enormous influence in philosophy and legal theory, organizers of the twin conferences in tribute to his work invite you to attend one or both conferences and to participate in the discussions. The papers will be made available for download in advance of each conference, and participants will be assumed to have[...] Brooklyn Public Philosophers on Cencorship 5:00 pm Brooklyn Public Philosophers on Cencorship @ Center for Fiction Sep 23 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets “Hello friend of talkPOPc! I would like to invite you to our amazing happenings on the weekend of Sept 23th and Sept 24th. On both nights we are holding one-to-one philosophy conversations about censorship in our talkPOPc tent; these become episodes on our podcast. The Saturday, Sept 23rd event is at the Center for Fiction in downtown Brooklyn (@courtyard), and Montez Radio will be live streaming that one. Which is super cool! That’s from 5[...]
24 Brooklyn Public Philosophers on Cencorship 2:00 pm Brooklyn Public Philosophers on Cencorship @ Tomato Mouse Gallery Sep 24 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets “Hello friend of talkPOPc! I would like to invite you to our amazing happenings on the weekend of Sept 23th and Sept 24th. On both nights we are holding one-to-one philosophy conversations about censorship in our talkPOPc tent; these become episodes on our podcast. The Saturday, Sept 23rd event is at the Center for Fiction in downtown Brooklyn (@courtyard), and Montez Radio will be live streaming that one. Which is super cool! That’s from 5[...]	25	26	27 Katherine Brading (Duke University) 12:00 pm Katherine Brading (Duke University) @ NYU room 302 Sep 27 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Title TBA presented by SWIP-NYC CUNY Colloquia 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquia @ CUNY Grad Center 9205/6 Sep 27 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Fall 2023 Wednesdays, 4:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M, Room 9205/9206 9/13 Rachell Powell Professor of Philosophy, Boston University “Social norms and superorganisms: The normative foundations of ultracooperation” 9/20 Jason D’Cruz Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany “Trust, Intimacy, and Courage” 9/27 Sukaina Hirji Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania “Towards a Relational Stance” 10/4 No colloquium 10/11 Tania Lombrozo Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology, Princeton University “A[...]	28 Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th flr Sep 28 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Colloquium 2023 Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy September 7th Bonnie Honig, Brown University Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell September 14th Jeremy Waldron, NYU September 21st Alice Crary, The New School September 28th David Enoch, University of Oxford October 5th Gina Schouten, Harvard University October 12th Daryl Levinson, NYU October 19th Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University October 26th Rob Howse, NYU November 2nd Trevor Morrison, NYU November 9th John Goldberg, Harvard University November[...] Writing Other Earth Beings into Ethics in the Age of Climate Catastrophe. Danielle Celermajer 6:00 pm Writing Other Earth Beings into Ethics in the Age of Climate Catastrophe. Danielle Celermajer @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103 Sep 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The violence already systematically inflicted on other earth beings (animals and the environment), and intensifying today intensified through ecological collapse and climate change, is ‘in plain sight’. Yet entrenched epistemic and institutional barriers impede its being registered in ways proportionate to its gravity. While in recent years, philosophers and social theorists have done a good job at explaining why, to use two familiar example, glass walls to abattoirs don’t stop people eating meat, and data[...]	29 Nature’s Vicissitudes: Richard J. Bernstein’s final pragmatic naturalism Nature’s Vicissitudes: Richard J. Bernstein’s final pragmatic naturalism @ Fordham University at Lincoln Center Sep 29 – Sep 30 all-day Tickets Richard J. Bernstein first encountered John Dewey’s pragmatist naturalism as a graduate student at Yale University, where “Dewey’s naturalistic vision of the relation of experience and nature—how human beings as natural creatures are related to the rest of nature—spoke deeply to me.” This early enthusiasm for Dewey’s naturalistic vision never left him. During the final years of his long life, Bernstein finished two books that return to issues of pragmatist naturalism. · His Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living[...] Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ Zoom & CUNY Grad Center 7102 Sep 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets ALL TALKS ON ZOOM SOME ALSO IN PERSON (SEE ROOMS BELOW) Talks organized andhosted by Ryan McElhaney To get Zoom links, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com Some—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access 9/8: Martina Helina History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science, University of CambridgePhilosophy 9/15: No talk—one-week break 9/22: Janis Karan Hesse Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley 9/29: Justin Halberda Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University 10/6: Jakub Mihalik Department[...] The Availability of the Non-Ideal: to an Engaged Philosophy of Language. Nikki Ernst (U Pittsburgh) 4:00 pm The Availability of the Non-Ideal: to an Engaged Philosophy of Language. Nikki Ernst (U Pittsburgh) @ Room 1101 Sep 29 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets still scheduled, but zoom link for those who can’t travel: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/8479688193 Throughout the 21st century, philosophers of language have increasingly concerned themselves with the hateful, coercive, dehumanizing, and deadly. In particular, ‘non-ideal’ philosophers of language question whether received conceptual toolkits from philosophy of language manage to make contact with our non-ideal world at all. This paper takes up that methodological interest from a Wittgensteinian perspective. Drawing on critical interventions by Nancy Bauer, Avner Baz, Alice[...] Philosophy Film Club Screening: ‘Millennium Actress’ 6:00 pm Philosophy Film Club Screening: ‘Millennium Actress’ @ M104/The Bark Room Sep 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The Philosophy Film Club at The New School is hosting a screening of ‘Millennium Actress’ (dir. Satoshi Kon). You are invited to join us in squaring this gorgeously animated circle, as we explore questions of memory, perspective, and narrative. Pre- and post-film discussion will be facilitated by none other than PJ Gorre (Director of Curricular Affairs + Implementation at Parsons and PhD Candidate in Philosophy). This semester, an international lineup will take us on[...]	30

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