Social Metaphysics Workshop – location tbd
Facts about the increasing collective human influence on biological systems, from local ecosystems to planetary-level Earth systems, support the proposal that we now live in the Anthropocene. What do such facts imply, if anything, about norms and values guiding land management and conservation practices going forward? Do facts about anthropogenic drivers that can result in undesirable and irreversible changes to ecological and Earth systems license further intentional interventions and underwrite calls for “planetary management”? What would appropriate respect for wildness look like on a human-dominated planet? If human influence on environmental systems pushes them over thresholds into radically new states, are received Western or Indigenous ideologies sufficient to guide an appropriate response? How should we think about responding to such radical environmental change? How, if at all, should environmental ethics adapt to the Anthropocene?
CANCELLED – RESCHEDULED FOR NEXT SEMESTER
ABSTRACT: Spurred partly by recent attempts to ethically assess various negative effects of the attention economy, philosophers have begun to pay more attention to the role that attention plays in our ethical lives. This has included some more general discussion of the ethics of attention. In this talk, I add to this recent discussion by outlining a proposal for a comprehensive ethics of attention. On my proposal, an ethics of attention includes norms that stem from the role that attention plays in the formation of our character, in constituting our relationships and social roles, and in our other ethical decision making and behavior. Because of attention’s nature as a finite resource, and because our various roles and relationships involve interpersonal expectations for how others allocate their attention, an ethics of attention should provide norms that govern how we collectively allocate our attention among these morally important purposes. Because these morally important purposes are all competing for our attention, one goal of an ethics of attention should be to find practices that help to synergize how people meet these demands. I call such a set of practices a “social-attentional scheme”, and propose that the ultimate goal of an ethics of attention is to find an optimal social-attentional scheme. I conclude by discussing the various ways in which we can understand early Confucian ethics as providing us with one such social-attentional scheme, and propose some lessons we can take from this Confucian example as we try to continue developing a contemporary ethics of attention.
With responses from Elizabeth Edenberg (CUNY Baruch)
Presented by THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
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RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR DINNER:. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information. RSVPs are limited.
The 6th ELSI Congress welcomes all with an interest in the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics. Researchers, scholars, practitioners, trainees, policymakers, journalists, and the general public are invited to share and explore the latest ELSI research at ELSIcon2024.
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press, 2024) and a conversation with the book’s editor Paul North (Yale University) and translator Paul Reitter (Ohio State University), which will be moderated by Emily Apter (NYU). The first new English translation in fifty years – and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself – produces a critical edition of Capital for our time, one that faithfully preserves the vitality and directness of Marx’s German prose and renders his ideas newly relevant to modern readers.
Please RSVP for in-person attendance here.
About the book:
Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself, the only version that can be called authoritative, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy. At once precise and boldly readable, this translation captures the momentous scale and sweep of Marx’s thought while recovering the elegance and humor of the original source.
For Marx, our global economic system is relentlessly driven by “value”—to produce it, capture it, trade it, and, most of all, to increase it. Lifespans are shortened under the demand for ever-greater value. Days are lengthened, work is intensified, and the division of labor deepens until it leaves two classes, owners and workers, in constant struggle for life and livelihood. In Capital, Marx reveals how value came to tyrannize our world, and how the history of capital is a chronicle of bloodshed, colonization, and enslavement.
About the participants:
Emily Apter (moderator) is Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her books include: Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the Impolitic (Verso, 2018); Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2013); Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (co-edited with Barbara Cassin, Jacques Lezra and Michael Wood) (2014); and The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006). The current project What is Just Translation? takes up questions of racial justice, reparative translation, and the limits of translation as a medial form.
Paul North writes and teaches in the tradition of critical theory, emphasizing Jewish thought, emancipatory strains in the history of philosophy, and European literatures. He has written books on the concept of distraction, on Franz Kafka, and on likeness in culture and thought. Currently he is co-editing an edition Marx’s Capital volume 1 with a new translation, which will appear from Princeton University Press in 2024 and writing a monograph entitled “The Standpoint of Marx’s Capital.” He co-edits the book series IDIOM: thinkingwritingtheory at Fordham University Press and co-directs the international exchange, Critical Theory in the Global South, in collaboration with faculty at the Universidad Metropolitana de Sciencias de la Educación in Santiago, Chile.
Paul Reitter earned his PhD at UC Berkeley and teaches in the German department at Ohio State University. He’s written many books, including a widely discussed history of crisis thinking in the academic humanities. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other venues. His most recent translation, The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon, was shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award.
Attendance information:
While NYU has ended COVID-19 related restrictions and policies, we continue to remind and recommend to members of the NYU community that they stay up-to-date on their boosters and stay home if they feel sick. Masks are always welcome.
Please RSVP for in-person attendance here.
“Karl Marx’s ‘Capital:’ An Evening with Paul North, Paul Reitter, and Emily Apter” is funded by the DAAD from funds of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).
- September 17 – Willy Moka (Université Loyola Du Congo; Visiting Loyola Chair, Fordham)
- October 22 – Annette Martín (UIC/Princeton UCHV 2024-25)
- November 19 – Nancy Fraser (New School)
- Spring: David Owen (Southampton/IAS Visiting Professor 2024-25)
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University