Talk: 5-7 PM, Room 5414
Mixer: 7-8 PM, Room 7113
Professor Jessica Moss (NYU) will present at SWIP-Analytic Monday, September 8th from 5:00-7:00 PM at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Room 5414. Her talk title is “Dual Systems in 400 BC: Plato and the Origins of Contemporary Psychology“.
Abstract: Proponents of contemporary Dual Systems psychology – the view that we have in some sense two minds, one responsible for automatic, associative, intuitive processing, and the other for controlled, inferential, deliberative processing – have sometimes recognized that there are ancient roots to their view. I will argue that we should in fact credit Plato with anticipating this contemporary view in striking, almost comprehensive detail, and also that the contemporary view both illuminates and vindicates Plato’s much-misunderstood notions of parts of the soul and of rationality.
Listen to Jessica Moss interview “Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will” on Philosophy Bites
Mixer: Our first presentation of the fall by Jessica Moss will be followed by a SWIP-Analytic Fall Kickoff Mixer featuring philosophy songs written and performed by Vivian Feldblyum. Vivian will be visiting us from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where she is a philosophy student. We will also have a special prize to give away at the mixer generously provided by Oxford University Press.
Everyone (men & women, philosophers & non-philosophers) is welcome at our public events.
Thursday, March 5th
Artist Panel with Audience Q&A
5:30-7:30pm
Engineering Building, Room 307
ELBOW-TOE (Brian Adam Douglas)
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Leon Reid IV
HOTTEA
Friday, March 6th
At Pratt Institute
Film/Video Building, Room 102
Session I 10:00-11:15am
Christiane Merritt (Washington University, St. Louis)
“Political Art and Street Art Definitions”
Session II 11:30-12:45pm
Shelby Moser (University of Kent)
“Street Art & Deception”
Session III 2:30-3:45pm
Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota)
“The Lego Minifigure in Urban Art”
Session IV 4:00-5:15pm
Tony Chackal (University of Georgia)
“On The Illegality Condition in Street Art”
*Winner of the Graduate Student Travel Prize
Keynote Address 5:30-6:30pm
Professor Alison Young (University of Melbourne)
“Mainstreaming the Street: The Cultural Value of Illicit Street Art”
abstract and bio
Saturday, March 7th
At New York University
5 Washington Place, 1st Floor Auditorium
Session V 10:00-11:15am
Christopher Nagel (University of Minnesota)
“Signature Counterexamples to the Institutional Theory of Art”
Session VI 11:30-12:45pm
Alison Lanier, Angela Sun, & Erich Hatala Matthes (Wellesley College)
“Saving the Writing on the Wall: Two Models for Street Art and its Preservation”
Session VII 3:00-4:15pm
Mary Beth Willard (Weber State)
“A Softer, Gentler Street Art: Two Incongruities of Yarn-bombing”
Session VIII 4:30-5:45pm
Sondra Bacharach (Victoria University)
“Domesticating the Streets: Feminist Street Art”
NYU Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
NYU Department of Philosophy, 5 Washington Place, Room 202
May 15-16, 2015
Friday, May 15
10:00–11:30 Wolfgang Mann (Columbia): “Gorgias and the Weakness of logos”
11:45–1:15 Jessica Moss (NYU): “Being and Truth in Plato’s Theaetetus”
1:15–3:00 Lunch
3:00–4:30 Whitney Schwab (UMBC): “Understanding Episteme in Plato’s Republic”
4:45–6:15 Sarah Broadie (St Andrews/NYU): “The Transcendent Good in Plato’s Republic”
7:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, May 16
10:00–11:30 Marko Malink (NYU): “Aristotle on Principles as Elements”
11:45–1:15 Simona Aimar (Oxford/Columbia): “Necessity and Efficient Causation in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics”
1:15–3:00 Lunch
3:00–4:30 Iakovos Vasiliou (CUNY): “Aristotle and the Varieties of Eudaimonism”
4:45–6:15 Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton): “Character-virtue as a Non-rational State in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics”
Sponsored by the New York Institute of Philosophy.
For any questions, please contact Marko Malink (mm7761@nyu.edu).
The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts
Presents:
Cinzia Arruzza
New School for Social Research
Sara Brill
Fairfield University
Andrea Capra
State University of Milan
Burt Hopkins
Seattle University
Elizabeth Jelinek
Christopher Newport University
Michael Naas
DePaul University
Noburu Notomi
Yokohama National University
Nicholas Rynearson
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Marylou Sena
Seattle University
Thomas Thorp
Saint Xavier University
Organisers:
Nickolas Pappas
CUNY Graduate Center
Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzqJK3SK3JjZbTBQY0d3ZnIxWUU/view?usp=sharing
Crafting Ancient Identities: Mythological and Philosophical Approaches to the Self and Society in Antiquity
Tenth Annual Graduate Conference in Classics
Friday, March 31, 2017
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kathryn Morgan, UCLA
In Greek and Roman antiquity, mythology and philosophy helped individuals understand their world and define their place in society. From the supernatural exploits in Homer to the etiological accounts of Ovid, mythology humanized natural phenomena and preserved cultural history. Philosophy, meanwhile, reflects an effort to systematize knowledge and answer questions about our place in the world. Both mythological narratives and philosophic thought participated in the crafting of ancient identities, whether as individuals, communities, or nations. The Romans, for example, turned to mythology to identify themselves as the descendants of Aeneas, just as the Athenian philosophers attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen.
The PhD/MA Program in Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites graduate students in Classics or related fields to submit abstracts of papers that explore how mythology and philosophy contribute to the development of identity in the Greco-Roman world.
Possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Etiological myths
- Autochthony and migration stories
- Philosophic schools and communities
- Philosophical poetry and the Presocratics
- Reception and transformation of myth in antiquity
- Hero cults and religious communities
- The role of myth in philosophical discourse
Please send an anonymous abstract of approximately 300 words as an email attachment to cunyclassicsconference@gmail.com by January 16, 2017. Please include, in the body of the email, your name, university affiliation, and the title of the presentation. Speakers will have 15 minutes to present. Selected applicants will be notified in early February. Submissions and questions will be received by conference co-organizers Federico Di Pasqua and Thomas Moody.
Even though ancient philosophy and rhetoric have many overlapping interests (education, persuasion, politics, etc.), their relationship has long been a contentious subject, especially among ancient philosophers. Contemporary scholarship on the topic is equally divided: philosophers tend to approach the topic primarily through the works of Plato and Aristotle and regard rhetoric (and rhetorical compositions) as a second-rate notion/discipline which has little interest in shedding light on philosophically relevant questions about human nature and society, whereas classicists research oratorical compositions to get a better understanding of Greek prose style, historical details and context, but often shy away from philosophical questions that the texts might hint at. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on ancient rhetoric and argumentative techniques on the one hand, and scholars working on ancient philosophy, on the other in order to open up a space for a constructive engagement with philosophy/rhetoric, one which might enrich our understanding of ancient texts as well as the context in which they were produced.
Confirmed speakers: Jamie Dow (Leeds), Richard Hunter (Cambridge), Joel Mann (St Norbert), Jessica Moss (NYU), Usha Nathan (Columbia), James Porter (Berkeley), Edward Schiappa (MIT), Nancy Worman (Barnard). All papers will be followed by a response and general discussion.
Attending the workshop is free, but in order to have an idea of numbers it would be greatly appreciated if those interested in participating in the event would email the organizers, Laura Viidebaum and Toomas Lott.
This Workshop is generously sponsored by the Department of Philosophy (NYU), Department of Classics (NYU) and NYU Center for Ancient Studies.
The full program can be viewed here.
The workshop will bring together philosophers working in ancient epistemology with those working in contemporary epistemology to discuss issues relevant to the debates in both fields.
It was assumed until recently that the distinction between doxa and epistêmê, key players in ancient epistemology, maps directly onto the contemporary distinction between knowledge and belief. Recent interpreters of Plato and Aristotle have challenged this assumption. Some argue that epistêmê is closer to understanding than to knowledge because (for example) it requires explanation rather than justification, cannot be transmitted by testimony, is hard to come by, and can only be had of a restricted range of objects. Others argue that doxa is narrower than belief, perhaps closer to opinion, because (for example) doxa is excluded by epistêmê while belief is entailed by knowledge, doxa is imprecise and unclear while these are not essential features of belief, and doxa too has a restricted range of objects.
Contemporary epistemology tackles issues that are related to the debates above. Is knowledge to be distinguished from understanding and if so, which one should be seen as the proper goal of inquiry? Does understanding have value over and above the value of knowledge? Much like Plato and Aristotle, epistemologists aim to elucidate the conceptual relations between knowledge, understanding, justification, explanation, epistemic authority, and testimony. In addition, contemporary epistemologists sometimes produce fictional genealogies of epistemic concepts to arrive at an improved understanding of our epistemic practices. If epistêmê and doxa are distinct from knowledge and belief in a way indicated above, then it seems appropriate to raise the question whether the actual history of epistemic concepts can help to improve these fictional genealogies.
The presentations are followed by a response and a general discussion.Papers by speakers who specialize in Ancient epistemology will be assigned to commentators who specialize in contemporary epistemology and vice versa.
Presenters: Gail Fine (Cornell), Richard Foley (NYU), Jane Friedman (NYU), Allison Hills (Oxford), Robert Pasnau (Colorado), Whitney Schwab (Baltimore/NYU), Katja Vogt (Columbia), Ralph Wedgwood (USC).
Respondents: John Bengson (Harvard), Hugh Benson (Oklahoma), Paul Boghossian (NYU), Toomas Lott (NYU/Tartu), Jessica Moss (NYU), James Pryor (NYU), Michael Strevens (NYU).
Organisers:
September 7, 2017, 7:00pm EST
email tl1972 at nyu
Philosophers have employed two different varieties of felt necessity to explain central aspects of agency in addiction and love, respectively. In the case of addiction, the relevant felt need is often described in terms of an appetite, whereas love is characterized by necessities arising from a particular kind of caring. On Dr. Wonderly’s view, the extant literature offers an instructive, but incomplete picture of the roles of felt necessity in addiction and love. Dr. Wonderly argues that a third form of felt necessity – attachment necessity – often better captures central aspects of agency in love and addiction. Recognizing the role of attachment necessity will not only illuminate how felt necessity can impact the value of certain relationships, but it will also allow us to discern important features of addiction and love that remain obscured on extant approaches.
Monique Wonderly is the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics. She is primarily interested in puzzles at the intersection of ethics and the nature of emotions. She has published in the areas of applied ethics, philosophy of emotion, and history of philosophy. Her current research focuses on emotional attachment – and in particular, on questions concerning moral agency and ethical treatment that arise when considering certain attachment-related pathologies, including psychopathy and (some forms of) addiction. For more, visit here.
Reception to follow.
Critiques of beauty in art and in everyday life assume the traditional idea that aesthetic value is a kind of power to please. An entirely new picture comes from a close look at intricately structured networks of agents who interact with each other in aesthetic enterprises. Aesthetic values give us reasons to act in the context of social practices. The “network theory” explains why, despite the critiques, beauty never disappeared from art, why it’s as humanly important as ever, and how it can be harnessed to address pressing social problems.
Introduction by Noël Carroll, CUNY Graduate Center
a lecture by Dominic McIver Lopes
Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, the author of Understanding Pictures, Sight and Sensibility, Computer Art, Beyond Art, Four Arts of Photography, and Being for Beauty (in progress).
6pm, Wednesday, 27 September
Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College
(North Building, 4th Floor)
Sponsored by the departments of
Art and Philosophy
Two CUNY Philosophy professors (Noël Carroll and Jesse Prinz) will present research alongside PhD student Zoe Cunliffe and alumna Laura Di Summa-Knoop in the upcoming Workshop on “Naturalized Aesthetics of Film”, taking place March 27th from 2-6pm in GC Room 5307. Additional presenters include Joerg Fingerhut (postdoc, Berlin School of Mind and Brain) and Murray Smith (University of Kent). The workshop celebrates Smith’s new monograph Film, Art, and the Third Culture, which defends an interdisciplinary approach to film studies.
See the poster below for additional details (including the workshop schedule).
Click here to download it as a PDF.