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All-day					Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Conference rm. BC Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Conference rm. BC May 3 all-day Tickets The REC is a pre-read conference. The papers will be made available on April 15. Friday, May 3, 2019 1:30 – 3:15 pm Alex Byrne (MIT) Chair: TBD Coffee Break 3:45 – 5:30 pm Susanna Rinard (Harvard) Chair: TBD Dinner 7:30 – 9:15 pm Jonathan Kvanvig (Washington University St Louis) Chair: TBD Reception 9:30 – 11:00 PM Saturday, May 4, 2019 9:30 – 11:15 am Anil Gupta (University[...] The Ethics of Donor Conception @ Kimmel Center, Room 802 The Ethics of Donor Conception @ Kimmel Center, Room 802 May 3 all-day Tickets There are no reliable statistics on how many children are created in the United States from donated gametes. The CDC, which collects statistics on in vitro fertilization, reported that roughly 9,000 children were born from IVF with donated eggs in 2015. But according to the Donor Sibling, Registry, a survey of such parents found that 40% of those responding were never asked to report the birth of their child. And most births from donated sperm[...] Workshop on Emotions @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 Workshop on Emotions @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 May 3 all-day Tickets This workshop will provide a forum for researchers doing work on emotions and related states. The goal is to share new ideas and lines of inquiry, to develop new reflections, and to foster communication between those of us who are investigating emotions in the New York area, and beyond. *** The event is free but registration is required for those attending on Saturday. To register, send an email with your name by May 2, to Sarah[...]	Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Conference rm. BC Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Conference rm. BC May 4 all-day Tickets The REC is a pre-read conference. The papers will be made available on April 15. Friday, May 3, 2019 1:30 – 3:15 pm Alex Byrne (MIT) Chair: TBD Coffee Break 3:45 – 5:30 pm Susanna Rinard (Harvard) Chair: TBD Dinner 7:30 – 9:15 pm Jonathan Kvanvig (Washington University St Louis) Chair: TBD Reception 9:30 – 11:00 PM Saturday, May 4, 2019 9:30 – 11:15 am Anil Gupta (University[...] The Ethics of Donor Conception @ Kimmel Center, Room 802 The Ethics of Donor Conception @ Kimmel Center, Room 802 May 4 all-day Tickets There are no reliable statistics on how many children are created in the United States from donated gametes. The CDC, which collects statistics on in vitro fertilization, reported that roughly 9,000 children were born from IVF with donated eggs in 2015. But according to the Donor Sibling, Registry, a survey of such parents found that 40% of those responding were never asked to report the birth of their child. And most births from donated sperm[...] Workshop on Consciousness, Memory, and the Freudian Unconscious @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Workshop on Consciousness, Memory, and the Freudian Unconscious @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 May 4 all-day Tickets Program details forthcoming.
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	1:30 pm Mapping the Moral Realm: The Philosophy of Stefan Bernard Baumrin @ CUNY Grad Center, C197 Mapping the Moral Realm: The Philosophy of Stefan Bernard Baumrin @ CUNY Grad Center, C197 Apr 29 @ 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets STEFAN BERNARD BAUMRIN was a husband, father, philosopher, lawyer, colleague, teacher, and friend. As a professional philosopher, Baumrin wrote sparingly, but incisively, on moral and political philosophy, medical ethics, the history of philosophy, and on matters of both theoretical and practical import. We, his students, colleagues, and most importantly friends, celebrate his memory with this symposium on his philosophy. THE PROGRAM Welcome Professors David Rosenthal and Manfred Philipp Session I I. “Baumrin’s Hobbes”: Rosamond Rhodes II.[...] 4:15 pm A Mechanistic Conception of Metaphysical Grounding- Tommy Kivatinos. Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 A Mechanistic Conception of Metaphysical Grounding- Tommy Kivatinos. Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Apr 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets A dominant theoretical framework in philosophy of science employs the notion of mechanistic dependence to elucidate how higher-level, less fundamental phenomena depend upon and arise out of lower-level, more fundamental phenomena. To elucidate the same thing, literature in metaphysics employs the notion of grounding. As I argue, regardless of whether the notion of mechanistic dependence or the notion of grounding is used to theoretically portray how higher-level phenomena arise out of lower-level phenomena, what is[...] 6:30 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Apr 29 @ 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[...]		4:00 pm Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Mind and Language Seminar @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 May 1 @ 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,[...] 4:15 pm CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 May 1 @ 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[...]	5:30 pm On Being Abstract – Pete Mandik (William Patterson) @ Philosophy Dept. Schmitt 104 On Being Abstract – Pete Mandik (William Patterson) @ Philosophy Dept. Schmitt 104 May 2 @ 5:30 pm Tickets In this session, Mandik will expand on his idea that persons are abstract things. To do this, he will discuss recent philosophical issues about personal identity, mind-uploading, and whether you could upload your mind to a piece of technology and survive. https://philevents.org/event/show/72442 6:30 pm Cultural Relativism (Introduction to Ethics series) @ Justine's apartment Cultural Relativism (Introduction to Ethics series) @ Justine's apartment May 2 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Philosophy-in-Manhattan Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 PM Justine Borer, adjunct philosophy professor at John Jay College, will lead this meeting. Using the ancient clash between the Callatians (who ate their… Price: 18.00 USD https://www.meetup.com/Philosophy-in-Manhattan/events/260137443/	1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 May 3 @ 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> 4:00 pm Nuno Venturinha (Nova University of Lisbon) — Autobiographical Writing, Self-knowledge, and the Religious Point of View @ New School, rm D1106 Nuno Venturinha (Nova University of Lisbon) — Autobiographical Writing, Self-knowledge, and the Religious Point of View @ New School, rm D1106 May 3 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets NY Wittgenstein Workshop presents: Nuno Venturinha (Nova University of Lisbon) — Autobiographical Writing, Self-knowledge, and the Religious Point of View The updated schedule is as follows: 4/19 — Nickolas Pappas (CUNY) — “Plato on the Opposite of Philosophy” 4/26 — Larry Jackson (The New School) 5/03 — Nuno Venturinha (Nova University of Lisbon) — “Autobiographical Writing, Self-knowledge, and the Religious Point of View.” 5/10 — Pierre-Jean Renaudi (Lyon) 5:00 pm Debate: Is Psychoanalysis Relevant to Neuroscience? @ Cantor Film Center Debate: Is Psychoanalysis Relevant to Neuroscience? @ Cantor Film Center May 3 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Speakers: Cristina Alberini (NYU, Neural Science) Heather Berlin (Mt. Sinai, Psychiatry) Mark Solms (Cape Town, Neuropsychology) Robert Stickgold (Harvard, Psychiatry)

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