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Metaphysics in higher-order languages Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
Metaphysics in higher-order languages Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
May 20 all-day
Call for Papers: NYIP Workshop on “Higher Order Metaphysics” Submissions are invited for presentation at a forthcoming New York Institute of Philosophy workshop on “higher order metaphysics”, concerned with questions of metaphysics which can be posed in higher order languages. Higher order languages allow for variables having different syntactic categories — for example, variables that are predicates, and variables that are formulae (open sentence) — and for quantifiers that can bind such variables. Sentences of[...]
The Cost of Freedom: Debt and Slavery @ Brooklyn College
The Cost of Freedom: Debt and Slavery @ Brooklyn College
May 20 all-day
The aim of this conference is to bring scholars from numerous disciplines into conversation across the historical timeline. Just as freedom and liberty are slippery concepts, so are ideas of debt, value, and payment. But rather than simply viewing these terms as rhetorical devices that make freedom seem worthwhile, we deploy debt, value,and payment as analytical tools for understanding how freedom works – while also keeping in mind that these are concepts that themselves demand[...]
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