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.
The extraordinary power of music to communicate complex emotions and thoughts has fascinated scholars for centuries. Music taps into cognitive mechanisms that govern our daily interactions with the world, such as expectations and violations of these expectations, and appears to have much in common with language. In addition, music plays social and ethical functions that can be understood from philosophical, historical, and cultural perspectives.
Join us for a discussion with three renowned scholars from the humanities and cognitive science who will show how these modes of inquiry bear on each other – and explain what makes music mean.
Speakers:
David Huron, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, School of Music & Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ohio State University
Aniruddh D. Patel, Professor of Psychology, Tufts University
Elizabeth Tolbert, Professor of Musicology, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Moderators:
Andrew Goldman, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University
Jacqueline Gottlieb, Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University
The event is co-sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies and Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience. Free and open to the public.