2.15 Chaz Firestone
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins
“What Do the Inattentionally Blind See? Evidence from 10,000 Subjects”
2.22 Robin Dembroff
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yale
“Erecting Real Men”
3.1 Harvey Lederman
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton
TBD
3.8 Alison Jaggar
Professor Emerita and College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Marx Wartofsky Annual Lecture
TBD
3.15 Delia Baldassarri
Professor of Sociology, NYU
“How Does Prosocial Behavior Extend Beyond In–Group Boundaries in
Complex Societies?”
3.22 Myrto Mylopolous
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University
CUNY Alumni Lecture
“Skilled Action Guidance: A Problem for Intellectualism about Skill”
3.29 Josh Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCLA
“The Social Origins of Language”
4.19 Denise Vigani
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Seton Hall
“Improvisation, Love, and Virtue”
4.26 Naomi Zack
Professor of Philosophy, Lehman College
“Metaphysical Racism and Racist Populism”
5.3 Sean Kelly
Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
TBD
Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s, Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)
Speakers:
Gwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR)
Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR)
Nicholas Pappas (CUNY)
Thinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s tenuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito’s implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’s sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader’s access to the dialogue’s mysteries.
Talks hosted by Ryan McElhaney
To get Zoom links, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
Some—but not all—sessions are recorded for later access
2/3: Justin Sytsma
Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington
2/10: Jonathan Birch
Philosophy, London School of Economics
2/17: No talk—one-week break
2/24: Miguel Ángel Sebastián
Philosophy, National Autonomous University of Mexico
3/3: Claudia Passos Ferreira
Philosophy, New York University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
3/10: Jonathan Morgan
Philosophy, Montclair State University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
3/17: Derek Brown
Philosophy, University of Glasgow
3/24: Robert Kentridge
Psychology and Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition, University of Durham
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
3/31: Josh Weisberg
Philosophy, University of Houston
** HYBRID: Room TBA **
4/7, 4/14: Spring break—no talks
4/21: Michal Polák
Philosophy, University of West Bohemia
The CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center,
Fridays, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom, some hybrid. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com>
15 Feb, 4pm:
James Kreines (Claremont McKenna)
From Shapeless Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously
@ The New School
Feb 24:
Georg Spoo (Freiburg)
Grounds and Limits of Immanent Critique: Kant, Hegel, Marx
@ Columbia
Mar 3:
Heikki Ikaheimo
Hegel, Humanity, and Social Critique
@ Zoom
Mar 24:
Stephen Howard (KU Leuven)
Kant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum
@ Columbia
Apr 11:
Karin de Boer
Does Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason Amount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?
@ Columbia
Apr 15, 4pm:
Eva von Redecker
Co-sponsored by the New School Graduate Student Conference
@ The New School
Apr 21:
Giulia Battistoni
NAture, Life, Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in Jonas’ Philosophical Biology
@ The New School
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.
During Spring 2023, we will meet on Mondays, 6-8pm in room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building, at 5 Washington Place. Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.
February 6
Ailís Cournane (NYU)
February 13
Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
February 27
Janek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS)
March 6
Dan Hoek (Virginia Tech)
March 20
Matt Moss (Vassar)
March 27
Will Merrill (NYU)
April 3
Devin Morse (Columbia)
April 10
Florian Schwarz (Penn)
April 17
Andrea Iacona (Turin)
April 24
Tyler Knowlton (Penn)
May 1
Andy Egan (Rutgers)
May 8
Prerna Nadathur (OSU)
RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID, and if you haven’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name, email address, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu no later than 10am on the morning of the talk. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. When you arrive, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and boosters at the request of the security guard.
Neopragmatists seek to sidestep metaphysical puzzles by shifting the target of philosophical explanation from the objects we think and talk about to the functions of expressions and concepts in our cognitive economy. Logical vocabulary can serve as a target for neopragmatist inquiry, and it has also posed obstacles to neopragmatist accounts of other vocabulary. I will argue that the obstacles can be addressed by adopting a neopragmatist perspective toward logical relations, such as logical consequence, and toward propositional content. Doing so calls into question two purported constraints on explanations of the functions of logical connectives. I will sketch an account made possible by rejecting those constraints, one according to which logical connectives serve to express dialectical attitudes. The proposal is deflationary in two ways: it rests on an extension of deflationism from truth to logical relations, and it aims to deflate some of neopragmatists’ theoretical ambitions.
Hi, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester. Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)
Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro, UConn
Mar 6 Gary Ostertag, GC
Mar 13 Mel Fitting GC
Mar 20 Shawn Simpson
Mar 27 Brad Armour-Garb, SUNY Albany
Apr 3 Thomas Ferguson, Prague
Apr 10 Spring recess. No meeting
Apr 17 Branden Fitelson, Northeastern
Apr 24 Andrea Iacona, Turin
May 1 Samara Burns, Columbia
May 10 Special event. Note that this is a Wednesday and the session will run all afternoon:
Marc Colyvan (Sydney) and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum), Daniel Skurt (Bochum)
May 15 Maciej Sendłak, Warsaw
For those interested, here is the schedule for the rest of the Fall 2022 semester and Spring 2023 semester. All the talks will happen between 4:30pm and 6:30pm EST unless stated otherwise.
Armin Schulz (University of Kansas)
Tuesday Jan 24 2023
TBA
Glenn Shafer (Rutgers University)
Tuesday Feb 14 2023 RESCHEDULE
TBA
Sean Carroll (Johns Hopkins)
Tuesday Feb 28 2023
TBA
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College)
Tuesday Mar 21 2023
TBA
Any updates on the schedule, as well as information about the talks will be announced through the MAPS mailing list. To be added to the mailing list please message Diego Arana (da689@rutgers.edu) and Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu).
2.15 Chaz Firestone
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins
“What Do the Inattentionally Blind See? Evidence from 10,000 Subjects”
2.22 Robin Dembroff
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yale
“Erecting Real Men”
3.1 Harvey Lederman
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton
TBD
3.8 Alison Jaggar
Professor Emerita and College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Marx Wartofsky Annual Lecture
TBD
3.15 Delia Baldassarri
Professor of Sociology, NYU
“How Does Prosocial Behavior Extend Beyond In–Group Boundaries in
Complex Societies?”
3.22 Myrto Mylopolous
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University
CUNY Alumni Lecture
“Skilled Action Guidance: A Problem for Intellectualism about Skill”
3.29 Josh Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCLA
“The Social Origins of Language”
4.19 Denise Vigani
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Seton Hall
“Improvisation, Love, and Virtue”
4.26 Naomi Zack
Professor of Philosophy, Lehman College
“Metaphysical Racism and Racist Populism”
5.3 Sean Kelly
Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
TBD
Keynote: Naomi Zack (Lehman College, CUNY)
One of philosophy’s original questions still plagues us: to what extent are beings the same and to what extent do they differ? Arising in thinkers as diverse as Parmenides, Aquinas, and De Beauvoir and in arenas from social and political philosophy to phenomenology and metaphysics. This conference aims to gather graduate student scholars from a variety of specializations to discuss their work on identity and difference. Some of the many questions we may pursue together are the following:
What constitutes identity and difference? What makes someone who they are? How do we understand ourselves to be alike enough to communicate, yet different enough that we must work to understand another’s point of view? How do identity and difference shape belonging–within a community, within a social institution, within a political structure? Similarly, how do differences among the members of a group enrich the identity of that collective? How might overlapping identities of an individual give rise to one’s sense of self? How does identity inform a given group’s philosophical thought? How might one form their identity and sense of self when, as in the case of many marginalized groups/ minorities, the “self” is oppressed?
These questions additionally motivate ontological considerations. To what extent can we describe two objects that are in fact identical? What grants an object’s or a person’s identity over time: metaphysical characteristics, temporal continuity, or certain brain states? Upon what aspects of an entity do we predicate differences? When are two things metaphysically or logically identical? Are mereological composites more than the sum of their parts? Are they identical to matter? To what extent do beings differ from Being? How might experiences or acts of reason help ground an identity claim such as A=A?
Other questions broadly related to “Identity and Difference” are also welcome.
Please submit a 300-500 word abstract prepared for blind review to fordhamgradconference@gmail.com in PDF format. In the body of the email, please include:
- Name
- Paper title
- Institutional Affiliation
Submissions are due by Friday, December 30, 2022. After anonymous review, applicants will be notified by Tuesday, January 17, 2023. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.
The conference will take place in person on March 3-4, 2023 on Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus located at 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458.
For questions, please contact the conference organizers at fordhamgradconference@gmail.com
Centered around the theme How Much More?, the New York edition of Night of Ideas, co-presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Institute of Fine Arts – NYU, and Villa Albertine, interrogates the over-stimulation and excess of our physical and digital realities. Conversely, what aspects of our contemporary existence are being neglected and need urgent attention? The event examines how we cope with our chaotic present — from the climate crisis, to the proliferation of content online, to political polarization in post-Roe America — and what vision young people, in particular, have of our uncertain future.
Come explore Afrofuturism at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, women’s rights at the Villa Albertine headquarters, environmental challenges and land rights at the Institute of Fine Arts, technology and social media in the information age at the Ukrainian Institute of America.
Fabiola Jean-Louis
A Haitian artist and photographer with a love of Afro-futurism, science fiction, history, and folklore. Her series, Rewriting History opened as a solo exhibition at Smithsonian affiliates to critical acclaim. Her paper dress sculpture, “Justice of Ezili”, is currently on view as part “Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room” at The Met.
Teen programming will start at 4:30pm in the Afrofuturist Period Room followed by a virtual talk with artist Fabiola Jean-Louis.
Date Night at The Met will feature live music across the Museum, drinks, and light fare; and a final gallery walkthrough of the Afrofuturist Period Room will conclude the evening.
Joe Baker
A member of the Simon Whiteturkey family and direct line descendent of Captain White Eyes, War Chief of the Lenape, who negotiated the first Indian treaty with the new United States establishing an all Lenape 14th state.
Baker is co-founder, executive director of Lenape Center in Manhattan, and an artist, educator, curator, and activist who has been working in the field of Native Arts for the past 30 years. Baker is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of Social Work in New York.
He will be speaking about how “Manhattan is a Lenape Cultural Space” at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU at 6:30pm.
Bruno Patino
President of French-German TV channel ARTE, as well as an analyst and thought-leader of digital society.
He has held numerous executive positions in the French media sector, serving as Chairman and Editor in Chief of LeMonde.fr (2000-2008), chairman and Publisher of Telerama (2003-2008), director of the French public radio France Culture (2008-2010) and Senior executive Vice President, Programs & Digital Strategy (2010-2015) at France Télévisions.
He will be speaking on the topic “Bombarded with Information” at the Ukrainian Institute of America at 9:00pm.
Mona Eltahawy
Award-winning journalist and social commentator Mona Eltahawy is based in Cairo and New York City. She has written essays and op-eds for publications worldwide on Egypt and the Islamic world, on topics including women’s rights, patriarchy, and Muslim political and social affairs.
She is the author of “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution,” published in 2015, and is a contributor to the New York Times opinion pages.
She will be participating in the live reading of Annie Ernaux’s “Happening” starting at 9:00pm at Villa Albertine.