Calendar – Blog of Noah Greenstein

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All-day					Finding the Way to Truth: Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition @ Buell Hall, Columbia U Finding the Way to Truth: Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition @ Buell Hall, Columbia U Feb 1 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”[...]	Finding the Way to Truth: Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition @ Buell Hall, Columbia U Finding the Way to Truth: Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition @ Buell Hall, Columbia U 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”[...]
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm 2:00 pm Meeting 57: Does God exist? @ Justine's apartment Meeting 57: Does God exist? @ Justine's apartment Jan 27 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Philosophy-in-Manhattan Sunday, January 27 at 2:00 PM CUNY philosophy PhD candidate Liam Ryan will lead this discussion. One of the oldest philosophical questions is: does God exist? This week we will exa… Price: 14.00 USD https://www.meetup.com/Philosophy-in-Manhattan/events/256364490/	11:30 am Gauge theory and boundaries: A complicated relationship, Henrique Gomes (Perimeter) @ Columbia University, Pupin Hall 705 Gauge theory and boundaries: A complicated relationship, Henrique Gomes (Perimeter) @ Columbia University, Pupin Hall 705 Jan 28 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets I argue that we do not understand gauge theory as well as we think we do, when boundaries are present. I will briefly explain the conceptual and technical issues that arise at the boundary. I will then propose a tentative resolution, which requires us to think of theories not in space-time, but in field-space. 6:30 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Jan 28 @ 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[...]	7:00 pm Game Theory with Mathematics Faculty Member Daniel King @ Wrexham Living Room Game Theory with Mathematics Faculty Member Daniel King @ Wrexham Living Room Jan 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Daniel King (BS, Lafayette College. MS, PhD, University of Virginia) is a mathematics scholar with special interests in mathematics education, game theory, history and philosophy of mathematics, and the outreach of mathematics to the social sciences and the humanities. He currently teaches an undergraduate course, Game Theory: The Study of Strategy and Conflict. In this talk, King will focus on two particularly intriguing “games:” Newcomb’s Problem and the Prisoners’ Dilemma. The analysis of both games[...]	4:00 pm Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Jan 30 @ 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,[...]	3:00 pm Brian Epstein, Tufts @ Rutgers Philosophy Dept Brian Epstein, Tufts @ Rutgers Philosophy Dept Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Department Colloquium Prof. Brian Epstein, Tufts Thursday, January 31, 2019, 03:00pm – 05:00pm	6:00 pm Philosophy Film Club: Blade Runner @ Dorothy Hirshon Suite, I 203 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	◢ 7:00 pm Night of Philosophy and Ideas @ Brooklyn Public Library Night of Philosophy and Ideas @ Brooklyn Public Library Feb 2 @ 7:00 pm – Feb 3 @ 12:00 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[...]

Week of January 27