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All-day				Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and Religion @ Union Theological Seminary Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and Religion @ Union Theological Seminary Jan 30 all-day Tickets “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and Religion” is an exciting one-day conference to be held on January 30, 2020, at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York, in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), the Riverside Church and the Greater Good Initiative. New technologies are transforming our world every day, and the pace of change is only accelerating. In coming years, human beings will create machines capable of out-thinking us and potentially taking[...]		A Night of Philosophy & Ideas @ Brooklyn Public Library A Night of Philosophy & Ideas @ Brooklyn Public Library Feb 1 all-day Tickets A Night of Philosophy & Ideas, at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, is an all-night marathon of philosophical debate, performances, screenings, readings, music, and virtual reality experiences takes over the entirety of the iconic Central Library. This year’s participants will consider humanity’s relationship to the world, to nature, to other living beings and species, and to technology. They will ask: What is the meaning of life? How do we live our lives[...]
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			4:00 pm Legal Theory Workshop with Miranda Fricker (CUNY) @ Fordham Law School, rm tba Legal Theory Workshop with Miranda Fricker (CUNY) @ Fordham Law School, rm tba Jan 29 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Contact John Drummond for more information. 6:15 pm Seyla Benhabib and Bernard E. Harcourt on Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition @ Columbia Maison Française, Buell Hall Seyla Benhabib and Bernard E. Harcourt on Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition @ Columbia Maison Française, Buell Hall Jan 29 @ 6:15 pm – 8:45 pm Tickets Reading and discussing The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt		3:30 pm The Truth of Logic and the Univocity of p. Irad Kimhi @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 The Truth of Logic and the Univocity of p. Irad Kimhi @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202 Jan 31 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets The notion of an occurrence of a proposition in discourse is the subject of the following observation: (O) A proposition may occur in discourse, now asserted, now unasserted, and yetbe recognizably the same proposition. I shall argue that the true significance of this observation is utterly distorted by Geach’s manner of construing of it — a construal widely known today as “the Frege-Geach point”. Though it serves as a basis for a contemporary understanding of logical form, strictly thought through, this way[...] 6:00 pm Jamieson Webster & Adrienne Harris on “Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis” @ New School, Wolff Conference rm D1103 Jamieson Webster & Adrienne Harris on “Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis” @ New School, Wolff Conference rm D1103 Jan 31 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets “Being dragged into the orbit of Webster’s mind is like entering the Magic Mountain: you go in as a visitor, and stay as a patient” — Tom Mcarthy, author of Remainder and Satin Island “Jamieson Webster’s new work reflects upon that aspect of hysteria—or conversion disorder—that has eluded the attention of most commentators: the indifference of the subject at the very moment that the symptom is most clearly enacted. This point of departure allows Webster to think about[...]

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