Sep
17
Thu
Axel Honneth – Three, not Two, Concepts of Liberty: A Proposal to Enlarge our Moral Self-Understanding @ CUNY Grad Center Room 5409
Sep 17 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Axel Honneth, Columbia University and University of Frankfurt, “Three, not Two, Concepts of Liberty: A Proposal to Enlarge our Moral Self-Understanding”; Thursday, September 17, 2015 @ 4:30pm, Room 5409

 

Sep
28
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Sep 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Nov
2
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Nov 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Dec
9
Fri
Elizabeth Miller (Yale), Jonathan Bain (NYU): What Explains the Spin-Statistics Connection? @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 101
Dec 9 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Metro Area Philosophy of Science Presents:

Elizabeth Miller (Yale),

Title: TBA.

Jonathan Bain (NYU)

What Explains the Spin-Statistics Connection?

The spin-statistics connection plays an essential role in explanations of non-relativistic phenomena associated with both field-theoretic and non-field-theoretic systems (for instance, it explains the electronic structure of solids and the behavior of Einstein-Bose condensates and superconductors). However, it is only derivable within the context of relativistic quantum field theory (RQFT) in the form of the Spin-Statistics Theorem; and moreover, there are multiple, mutually incompatible ways of deriving it. This essay attempts to determine the sense in which the spin-statistics connection can be said to be an essential property in RQFT, and how it is that an essential property of one type of theory can figure into fundamental explanations offered by other, inherently distinct theories.

Jan
25
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Feb
8
Wed
The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa – Souleymane Bachir Diagne @ Common Room, Heyman Center
Feb 8 @ 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm

The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, in discussion with Gary Wilder and Mamadou Diouf

To RSVP, please click here.
*Please note that this event will take place in Common Room, Heyman Center, on Columbia’s East Campus. For a map, please click here.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne talks about his book, The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, recently translated into English, in a panel discussion with Gary Wilder and Mamadou Diouf.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Professor of Philosophy and French and the Chair of the Department of French at Columbia University.  His areas of expertise include history of logic, history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, and African philosophy and literature.  Mamadou Diouf is a Professor of History and African Studies at Columbia.  Gary Wilder is Associate Professor of Anthropology at CUNY.

This event is co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Maison Française.

Feb
22
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Feb 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Mar
8
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Apr
19
Wed
Burning Issues in African Philosophy @ Heyman Common Room
Apr 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Insitute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Michael Monahan, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon.
Date:
September 28, 2016 – 7:00pmApril 19, 2017 – 9:00pm
Location:
Heyman Common Room

Free and open to the public  |  ID required

Burning Issues in African Philosophy builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. Indeed, the very definition of these fundamental philosophical conceptions is both challenged and enriched. In this way, African philosophy is not only crucial in understanding what constitutes its uniqueness but also in providing us with new and innovative ways to think about some of the most burning issues of our time as far reaching as what is the meaning of being human to how we can effectively challenge climate change. The aim of this seminar then is not simply to bring some of the most important African philosophers to participate so that their work can be known, but perhaps more importantly that they can bring African philosophy into the political and ethical debates about what it might mean to have a more just future. The series begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

All Seminars are held on Wednesday evening (7-9PM) in the Heyman Common Room.

Wednesday September 28, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Discussant: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday January 25, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY-Binghampton

Discussant: Doug Ficek, University of New Haven

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday February 22, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University

Discussant: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Univeriste Paris 8

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Location: 208 Knox Hall

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Presenter: Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut-Storrs

Discussants: Max Hantel, Dartmouth College and Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

Location: Heyman Common Room

 

This series is made possible by financial support from the Provost Office and Arts & Sciences at Columbia University and the Partnership University Fund (PUF) of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE). The venue for this series is provided by the Heyman Center for Humanities. 

Oct
19
Thu
Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism – Eric Schliesser @ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Oct 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

In this paper I draw attention to Sophie de Grouchy’s 1798 distinction between negative and positive right, which, upon examination, prefigures the famous distinction between positive and negative liberty. I analyse her treatment, and I argue that she should be accorded a significant place in the discussions of the tradition(s) of reflection on the famous distinction.

First, I frame my discussion by revisiting Isaiah Berlin’s famous lecture and a recent editorial by Jason Stanley and Vesla Weaver; I note the presence of a paternal liberal tradition going back to Constant which gets invoked alongside the famous distinction between the two concepts of liberty. Insofar as a tradition can be conceived as a lineage or an offspring, it is striking that the matriarchs are absent from it.

Second, I discuss De Grouchy’s neo-Lockean analyses of justice and property rights, which form the context in which she introduces her distinction between positive and negative right. I illuminate her views by way of comparison with the writings of Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Third, I offer evidence and analysis of De Grouchy’s version of the distinction and show how it can be mapped onto the more famous distinction. Fourth, I close by arguing that if there is a liberal tradition worth reviving and extending, De Grouchy ought to have an honoured place in it.

Eric Schliesser (PhD, Philosophy, The University of Chicago 2002) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He publishes widely on early modern philosophy (especially Spinoza and Hume) and science (including political economy, especially Newton and Smith), philosophy economics, the history of feminism, and so-called meta-philosophy.  He has just published Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker (OUP) and edited numerous volumes, including most recently Sympathy: A History of a Concept and Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy (both with OUP).

Presented by The New School for Social Research (NSSR) Philosophy Department.