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.
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
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).
Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy.
Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu, sahaddad@fordham.edu, eislekel@fordham.edu, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent out prior to each meeting.
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
- 03/09 Prof. Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY), TBD, 3:00-5:00pm
- 03/23 Rutgers Climate Lecture, Prof. Julie Walsh (Wellesley), 3:00-5:00pm
- 04/13 Prof. Elizabeth Miller (Brown), TBD, 3:00-5:00pm
- 04/20 Class of 1970 Annual Lecture, Prof. Tim Maudlin (NYU), TBD, 3:00-5:00pm
- 04/27 Prof. Susanne Bobzien (All Souls College), TBD, 3:00-5:00pm
- 10/19 Prof. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah), TBD, 3:00-5:00pm
The representational theory of measurement provides a collection of results that specify the conditions under which an attribute admits of numerical representation. The original architects of the theory interpreted the formalism operationally and explicitly acknowledged that some aspects of their representations are conventional. There have been a number of recent efforts to reinterpret the formalism to arrive at a more metaphysically robust account of physical quantities. In this paper we argue that the conventional elements of the representations afforded by the representational theory of measurement require careful scrutiny as one moves toward such an interpretation. To illustrate why, we show that there is a sense in which the very number system in which one represents a physical quantity such as mass or length is conventional. We argue that this result does not undermine the project of reinterpreting the representational theory of measurement for metaphysical purposes in general, but it does undermine a certain class of inferences about the nature of physical quantities that some have been tempted to draw.
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TALK LINK — Email for the passcode cruzdavis <at> umass.edu or jrc2266 <at> columbia.edu
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisciplinary, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focused on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meaning in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated.
From this forum for engaged scholarship, a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversation and constructive debate, including last year’s Political Concepts Graduate Conference. Organized by students of the Departments of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Political Concepts invites graduate students from all fields of study to participate in our upcoming graduate student conference in Spring 2023. Held at NSSR over March 24-5, the conference will serve as a workshop of ideas on the multiplicity of powers, structures, problems, and orientations that shape our collective life.
Because Political Concepts does not predetermine what does or does not count as political, the conference welcomes essays that fashion new political concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be taken as politically significant. Papers should be dedicated to a single political concept, like an encyclopedia entry, but the analysis of the concept does not have to abide to traditional approaches. Some of the concepts contended with in last year’s vibrant conference included abolition, survival, statistics, solitude, resentment, statistics, dependence, imaginary, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published papers on thePolitical Concepts website.
The conference will take the format of a series of panels across two days. Panels will contain two presenters whose papers are thematically and theoretically related — creating a space for critical engagement between the authors, as well as with other attendees. Each presenter will have 25 minutes to present their paper, along with 40 minutes for discussion at the end. This year, there will be a faculty roundtable with NSSR professors serving on the Political Concepts editorial board, namely, Ann Laura Stoler, Jay M. Bernstein, and Andreas Kalyvas.
Abstracts should be no longer than 750 words in a pdf format, and prepared for blind review, so please ensure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Abstracts must be submitted through this google form by December 15, 2022 EST. Any inquiries can be sent to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.
Applicants must be advanced graduate students and their concept must be a central part of a longer-term project in order to be accepted. Results will be informed in January.
This conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosophy and the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of humanities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wide variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines, including painting, photography, and literature, as well as travel, dance, and fashion. Rather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study, this conference will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philosophy and art, exploring how each can become the object of the other and how the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpened or blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the “visual” and “movement” element in art of, and in everyday life and theorize it – both philosophically and critically.
Co-sponsored by: Office of Deans: New School for Social Research and School of Art & Design History & Theory; University Student Senate and Graduate Faculty Student Senate
Schedule and Location
The conference will meet on The New School campus in New York City.
On March 24th, we will meet in room B500 at 65 W 11 Street.
On March 25th, we will meet in Starr Foundation Hall UL105 at University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).
Following is the schedule for both days, (please see the website for details on panels and speakers):
11:00 am Panel 1 Speaker presentations.
12:00 pm Panel 1 roundtable and audience Q&A.
1:15 pm Lunch break.
2:15 pm Panel 2 Speaker presentations.
3:15 pm Panel 2 roundtable and audience Q&A.
4:30 pm Evening reception with free food and drinks for attendees!
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>