Professor Alan Bass (New School for Social Research) will deliver a talk entitled: “A Reading of On the Cult of Fetish Gods by Charles de Brosses (1760)”
Alan Bass, PhD, Licensed Psychoanalyst, is in the private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and supervision in Manhattan. He is Training and Supervising Analyst and faculty member at the Contemporary Freudian Society, IPTAR, and NPAP. He is author of Interpretation and Difference (Stanford University Press, 2006), and Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), as well as numerous articles and book reviews, and has presented at many psychoanalytic institutes. He is also well known for his translations of works by Jacques Derrida.
The New York German Idealism Workshop is happy to announce our fall conference: A Symposium on Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right.
In conjunction with Cambridge University Press, we have invited several speakers to work through this sometimes overlooked masterpiece of German Idealism.
Our speakers include: Angelica Nuzzo (City University of New York), Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard College and Columbia University), James A. Clarke (The University of York), Paul Franks (Yale University), Gabriel Gottlieb (Xavier University), Michelle Kosch (Cornell University), Wayne Martin (University of Essex), Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University), Michael Nance (University of Maryland Baltimore County), John Russon (University of Guelph), Jean-Christophe Merle (Universität Vechta).
We invite you to join us from October 2nd to the 4th for what looks to be a provocative event. If you plan to attend the workshop, and would like to receive the papers prior to the conference, then feel free to email NYGIW.
24-26 October (Friday-Sunday)
32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS)
Lowenstein Building
Lincoln Center Campus
Contact: Daryl Tress
Ross Poole (Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, NSSR), will give a lecture entitled “Recovering the Human in Human Rights”
From the abstract:
“In this paper, I defend the old-fashioned idea that humans have rights in virtue of being human. I suggest that this claim requires, not a metaphysical and certainly not a religious conception of human nature, but rather an ethical understanding of what it is to be human amongst other humans. However, this ethical understanding is inadequate on its own. It requires a legal and political form: that of a right attributed to each and every human.”
Conceptions of unstructured content take contents to be sets of possibilities, or circumstances, or conditions (or functions from such things to truth values). In recent years, a great variety of new conceptions of unstructured content have been developed and applied, often with great formal ingenuity. Debates on relativism and context-sensitivity more generally, on expressivism, de se attitudes, counterfactual attitudes, vagueness, truthmaker semantics, and many more bear witness to these developments. At the same time, not as much attention has been paid to the philosophical foundations of unstructured conceptions.
In sharp contrast, proponents of structured propositions have recently spent a great amount of their time developing and clarifying the foundations of their conceptions in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. This conference encourages new reflexion on the foundations of unstructured conceptions of content, the availability of existing foundational stories to new technical conceptions, the competitiveness of unstructured conceptions vis-a-vis structured conceptions as well as the relationship between the two conceptions. It also aims to establish renewed dialogue between, on the one hand, proponents of structured conceptions and of unstructured conceptions and, on the other hand, between proponents of the various conceptions and applications of unstructured content.
Speakers:
In addition to invited talks, there will be a CFA for 2-4 further talks.
(Non-exhaustive) list of topics:
- Foundations in philosophy of mind of conceptions of unstructured content
- Kinds of unstructured content \& the nature of representation
- Philosophical and / vs formal motivations for unstructured content
- What are the relationships between structured and unstructured conceptions of content? Competition? Complementation?
- Promiscuity on permissible sets of n-tuples: anything goes? (worlds-hyperplans, worlds-languages, worlds-standards of taste, …)
- What is it that gets characterised, or modelled, by a set of possibilities, or circumstances, or conditions?
- What are outstanding problems of fineness of grain?
- What progress has been made on the the problems of deduction / logical omniscience as they arise for unstructured content?
- The role of (unstructured) content in semantic theory
- Truthmaker semantics
- Notions of hyperintensionality with unstructured content
- Mental fragmentation/compartmentalisation
- Metaphysical foundations of unstructured content
- Possible worlds/points in the possibility-space: primitive or construed (e.g. out of structured things/sentences)?
Organisers: Andy Egan (Rutgers), Dirk Kindermann (University of Graz)
Please direct all queries to dirk.kindermann@uni-graz.at. If you’d like to attend the event, please informally register at dirk.kindermann@uni-graz.at.
We invite junior career researchers and advanced graduate students to submit their work for consideration in our upcoming interdisciplinary conference. We are especially interested in papers that explore the relevance of psychological studies for epistemological questions and the prospects of successful inquiry. Submissions should be fewer than 3000 words in length and prepared for anonymous review. Submissions must be received by: 15 March 2016. Decisions will be made by the first week of April. Please direct inquiries or paper submissions to: nyc.epistpsych.conference@gmail.com.
Invited participants include:
- Emily Balcestis (NYU)
- Jason D’Cruz (SUNY Albany)
- David Dunning (Michigan)
- Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
- Yael Granot (NYU)
- Frank Keil (Yale)
- Kristi Lockhart (Yale)
- Hilary Kornblith (UM Amherst)
- Deanna Kuhn (Columbia)
- Michael Lynch (UConn)
- Hugo Mercier (Neuchâtel)
- Emily Pronin (Princeton)
- Roy Sorensen (WashU)
- Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff)
- Phillip Tetlock (UPenn)
- Chris Tucker (William and Mary).
This event has been supported by the John Templeton Foundation and Fordham University.