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
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
Saul Kripke announced his possible world semantics in 1959, and published his proof of axiomatic completeness for the standard modal logics of the time in 1963. It is very unlike the standard completeness proof used today, which involves a Lindenbaum/Henkin construction and produces canonical models. Kripke’s proof involved tableaus, in a format that is difficult to follow, and uses tableau construction algorithms that are complex and somewhat error prone to describe. I will first discuss Kripke’s proof, then the historical origins of the modern version. Then I will show that completeness, proved Kripke style, could actually have been done in the Lindenbaum/Henkin way, thus simplifying things considerably. None of this is new but, with the parts collected together it is an interesting story. “In my end is my beginning”.
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
The sender-receiver model was developed by David Lewis to tackle the question of the conventionality of meaning. But many people who cared about the conventionality of meaning did so because they thought it was intimately connected to the conventionality of logic. Since Lewis’s work, only a few attempts have been made to say anything about the nature of logic and inference from the perspective of the sender-receiver model. This talk will look at the what’s been said in that regard, by Skyrms and others, and suggest a few general lessons.
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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
What we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated, in a certain guise, by Peirce around 1885 and championed, albeit in idiosyncratic form, by Zermelo in papers from the 1930s. We characterize such logics model- and proof-theoretically and argue that they constitute exploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent generality. Whereas a logic, or family of such, can be of interest for any of a variety of reasons, we suggest that one of those reasons might be that said logic fosters some clarification regarding just what qualifies as a logical concept, a logical operation, or a logical law.
Note: The published paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12382.
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
Western metaphysics is based on the opposition between reality and appearance. This construction essentially rests on a visual model, or more exactly on some staging of what visual experience is.
I am going to question the basis of this metaphysics, by taking into account the reality of appearances and reflecting on their various uses, in particular artistic ones. This path will be taken in the first place by shifting the focus of philosophical analysis from visual to acoustic models. Thus, I will envisage a realism of echoes, as opposed to the metaphysics of shadows.
Biography:
Jocelyn Benoist, born in 1968, is Professor at the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches Contemporary Philosophy, and currently a member of the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’. He has dedicated his early work to phenomenology and the bridges between phenomenology and early Analytic philosophy. For some time he was the Director of the Husserl Archive of Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Then, he developed a personal investigation into the meaning of realism in philosophy. He has published many books, including recently: Toward a Contextual Realism, H.U.P., 2021, and Von der Phänomenologie zum Realismus, Mohr Siebeck, 2022.
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
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
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
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