Fordham’s Metaphysics and Mind Group workshops papers by NYC-area philosophers and beyond. All our meetings are held on Tuesday evenings at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus from 5:30-6:45pm in the 12th Floor Plaza View Room. If you want to join us – or for more information about the group – please email me at jvukov ‘at’ fordham ‘dot’ edu. Our Fall 2015 schedule is as follows:
September 22 – Elise Crull [The City College of New York]
November 3 – John Drummond [Fordham University]
December 1 – S. Matthew Liao [New York University]
Check back soon for our Spring 2016 schedule!
Fordham’s Metaphysics and Mind Group workshops papers by NYC-area philosophers and beyond. All our meetings are held on Tuesday evenings at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus from 5:30-6:45pm in the 12th Floor Plaza View Room. If you want to join us – or for more information about the group – please email me at jvukov ‘at’ fordham ‘dot’ edu. Our Fall 2015 schedule is as follows:
September 22 – Elise Crull [The City College of New York]
November 3 – John Drummond [Fordham University]
December 1 – S. Matthew Liao [New York University]
Check back soon for our Spring 2016 schedule!
Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham) will deliver a lecture entitled “The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads: A Case for Intellectual Humility” in the Bateman Conference Room (2nd floor) of the Fordham University School of Law. This event is free and open to the public, though attendees are asked to preregister. Reception to follow.
Fordham’s Metaphysics and Mind Group workshops papers by NYC-area philosophers and beyond. All our meetings are held on Tuesday evenings at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus from 5:30-6:45pm in the 12th Floor Plaza View Room. If you want to join us – or for more information about the group – please email me at jvukov ‘at’ fordham ‘dot’ edu. Our Fall 2015 schedule is as follows:
September 22 – Elise Crull [The City College of New York]
November 3 – John Drummond [Fordham University]
December 1 – S. Matthew Liao [New York University]
Check back soon for our Spring 2016 schedule!
FORDHAM-RUTGERS
METAPHYSICS OF MIND CONFERENCE
February 13-14, 2016
Hosted by
Fordham University
New York, NY
and
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Speakers
Kenneth Aizawa
Rutgers University
Carl Gillett
Northern Illinois University
John Heil
Washington University, St. Louis
William Jaworski
Fordham University
Barbara Montero
CUNY Graduate Center
Susanna Schellenberg
Rutgers University
Lawrence Shapiro
University of Wisconsin, Madison
This two-day conference in the heart of Manhattan explores the metaphysical foundations of theories in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind.
A conference featuring early-career women in metaphysics and fostering publication of their work will be held at the Law School on Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus on April 30 and May 1. The conference is supported in part by the American Philosophical Association as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Fordham’s Philosophy Department. For further information, contact Amy Seymour.
CALL FOR PAPERS
7th Annual New York City Workshop
in Early Modern Philosophy
Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus
12th Floor Lounge
May 13-14, 2017
Keynote Speakers:
François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal)
Christia Mercer (Columbia)
Anja Jauernig (NYU)
The workshop aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. We welcome presentations of papers on any topic in early modern philosophy (roughly covering the period 1600-1800).
Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than January 15, 2017.
Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus is located on the western side of Manhattan at 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, about two blocks from Columbus Circle at the southwest corner of Central Park. More details about the program, accommodation options, and other practical matters will be made available On This Website.
Conference Organizers:
Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan (ohadnachtomy@mac.com)
Reed Winegar, Fordham (bwinegar@fordham.edu)
The 2017 Departmental Faculty Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Giorgio Pini on September 12 at 4:30 pm in Flom Auditorium of the Walsh Family Library. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Society for the Metaphysics of Science
3rd Annual Conference
Fordham University
After its successful first meeting at Rutgers University, Newark in 2015, and even more successful second meeting at the University of Geneva in 2016, the Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be holding its third annual conference on October 5-7, 2017 at Fordham University.
Our keynote speaker will be
Michael Strevens (NYU)
In addition, Jessica Wilson (U Toronto) will deliver a presidential address.
All other sessions will comprise submitted papers.
As well as various presentations, the conference will also feature an organizational meeting of the Society which will elect officers, continue to make various policies, plan future conferences, etc. Both those interested in presenting papers and/or participating in the Society are invited to the conference.
For more information on the society, see the Society for the Metaphysics of Science web page. SMS also has a faceboook page.
At the conference, presentations will be 30 minutes, with a 10 minutes comment, 5 min reply, and 15 minutes for Q&A. Submissions should be on a topic in the metaphysics of science broadly construed, of no more than 4,500 words and should include an abstract of ~150 words and a word count. All papers must employ gender-neutral language and be prepared for blind review.
Submissions must be made using the EasyChair online submission system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sms2017
The submission deadline is March 1, 2017. Notifications of acceptance
will be delivered by May 15, 2017. Selected speakers should confirm
their participation before May 22, 2017. The conference will have a $50 registration fee for faculty and post-docs, $10 for graduate students, $1 for emeritus faculty.
The Society would like to thank the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University for support.
Contact mkistler at the domain univ-paris1.fr for further information.
Valia Allori (Northern Illinois U)
Laura Franklin-Hall (New York U)
Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois U)
Thomas Pradeu (CNRS and U Bordeaux)
Johanna Wolff (LMU Munich)
Local Arrangements Chair:
The workshop, which is now in its 9th year, aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. This year’s workshop will focus on the topic of “Freedom and Evil” in Early Modern Philosophy (roughly the period from 1600-1800).
We welcome submissions on the conference topic, which may be broadly construed to include the problem of free will, theodicy, political and social liberty, and evil practices and institutions. For consideration, please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2018.