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All-day				How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century: A Conference in Memory of Erik Olin Wright @ Wolff Conference Room How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century: A Conference in Memory of Erik Olin Wright @ Wolff Conference Room Sep 26 all-day Tickets ERIK OLIN WRIGHT spent the last years of his life thinking about ways to challenge and transform capitalist societies. He distilled his thinking in a book, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century (Verso, 2019). The symposium is designed to launch a debate about the strengths and weaknesses of Wright’s approach. We seek to both honor our colleague’s memory and assure that his ideas become part of current discussions of socialism and socialist[...]		Isaac Levi Conference and Memorial @ Columbia University, Philosophy rm tba Isaac Levi Conference and Memorial @ Columbia University, Philosophy rm tba Sep 28 all-day Tickets Conference Schedule 10AM Teddy Seidenfeld – Conditional Probability, Conditionalization, and Total Evidence 11AM Eleonora Cresto – Beyond Indeterminate Utilities. The Case of Neurotic Cake-Cutting 11:20AM Ignacio Ojea Quintana – Unawareness and Levi’s Consensus as Common Ground 11:40AM Rush Stewart – Uncertainty, Equality, Fraternity 1PM Nils-Eric Sahlin – Levi’s Decision Theory: Lessons Learned 1:45PM Wilfried Sieg – Scientific Theories as Set-Theoretic Predicates? 2:45PM Panel Discussion – Learning[...]
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How do we come to know mathematical trut… Price: 14.00 USD https://www.meetup.com/Philosophy-in-Manhattan/events/259632655/	4:15 pm Existence, Verbal Disputes and Equivocation (Alessandro Rossi) @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Existence, Verbal Disputes and Equivocation (Alessandro Rossi) @ CUNY Grad Center, 7314 Sep 23 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Noneism is the theory according to which some things do not exist. Following an established convention, I will call allism the negation of noneism (every thing exists). Lewis [1990] and, more recently, Woodward [2013] argued that the allism/noneism dispute turns on an equivocation about the meaning of ‘exists’ and would thereby be merely verbal. These arguments have been attacked by Priest [2005, 2011, 2013], who took the dispute to be genuine. In this paper, I will present[...] 6:30 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302 Sep 23 @ 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. Sept 9 Donka Farkas (Santa Cruz) Sept 16 John Maackay (U Wisconsin–Madison) Sept 23 Andrew Bacon (USC) Sept 30 Eleonore Neufeld (USC) Oct 7 Eli Alshanetsky (Temple) Oct 21 Gabe Dupre (UCLA) Oct 28 Dorit Bar-On (UConn) Nov 4 Sam[...]	4:00 pm Dramaturgy and Dialectic at The Endgame: Hegel and Beckett @ Wolff Conference Room, D1106 Dramaturgy and Dialectic at The Endgame: Hegel and Beckett @ Wolff Conference Room, D1106 Sep 24 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Rebecca Comay, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, The University of Toronto discusses Hegel and Beckett followed by a response from Paul Kottman of The New School for Social Research. 5:30 pm Social and Political Philosophy Workshop @ Lowenstein, Plaza View Room (12th Floor) Social and Political Philosophy Workshop @ Lowenstein, Plaza View Room (12th Floor) Sep 24 @ 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 on the 12th floor of the 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, swhitney@fordham.edu, or jeflynn@fordham.edu. 2019-20 September 24 – Rosaura Martínez (UNAM) “Alterability and Writing. Rethinking an Ontology of Dependency” October 15 – Jesús Luzardo (Fordham) “The Wages of the Past: Whiteness, Nostalgia, and[...]	4:15 pm CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9205/6 CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9205/6 Sep 25 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9205/9206 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here. September 11 • Jonathan Adler Memorial Lecture Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) “Progress in the Sciences—and in the Arts” September 18 • Note: colloquium will begin at 5:45pm Jason Stanley (Yale University) “Hustle: The Politics[...] 6:15 pm Critique 2/13: Horkheimer and Adorno with Axel Honneth @ Columbia Maison Française, Buell Hall Critique 2/13: Horkheimer and Adorno with Axel Honneth @ Columbia Maison Française, Buell Hall Sep 25 @ 6:15 pm – 8:45 pm Tickets The second seminar in the Critique 13/13 Seminar Series. About this Event Wednesday, September 25, 2019 6:15-8:45 pm at Columbia University Professor Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt discussing the early Frankfurt School, specifically Max Horkheimer’s 1937 essay, “Traditional and Critical Theory,” and Theodor Adorno’s 1931 essay, “The Actuality of Philosophy.” This event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française. Readings include: Horkheimer, Max. “Traditional and Critical Theory, in Horkheimer, Max. Critical Theory: Selected Essays.[...]	4:00 pm A Theory of Skilled Action Control. Ellen Fridland (King’s College London) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 A Theory of Skilled Action Control. Ellen Fridland (King’s College London) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 Sep 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets In this talk, I will sketch a theory of skill, which puts control at the center of the account. First, I present a definition of skill that integrates several essential features of skill that are often ignored or sidelined on other theories. In the second section, I spell out how we should think of the intentions involved in skilled actions and in the third section, I discuss why deliberate practice and not just experience, repetition,[...]	6:00 pm NYC Nietzsche Group: Michael Begun (Fordham) @ Plaza View Room (12th Floor) NYC Nietzsche Group: Michael Begun (Fordham) @ Plaza View Room (12th Floor) Sep 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Presented by Fordham Philosophy	7:00 pm Effective Altruism: Will MacAskill on the Ethics of the Next Billion Years @ Grand Hall, NYU Effective Altruism: Will MacAskill on the Ethics of the Next Billion Years @ Grand Hall, NYU Sep 28 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets Effective Altruism at NYU is privileged to host Will MacAskill, Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Oxford and author of Doing Good Better, for a talk on The Ethics of the Next Billion Years. The event is open to the public, and members of Effective Altruism NYC, Columbia Effective Altruism, and other groups are welcome to attend. Society is currently taking actions whose impact goes far beyond the present generation. These impacts are vast[...]

Week of September 22