Keynote speaker:
Japa Pallikkathayil, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Organizers:
Please email questions to: columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com
Please register by sending an email to kitcherfest@gmail.com.
Confirmed Speakers:
Michael Bishop, “The Ethical Project and the Normativity Challenge”
Max Hayward, “Objectivity and Progress: on Kitcher’s Pragmatist Ethics”
Alex Levine, “Individuation From Numbers to Creatures, or the Deep Kitcherian Kinship between Mathematics and Biology”
Matthew Slater & Marco Nathan, “On the Plurality of Pluralisms”
Arnon Keren, “Testimonial Skepticism and the Division of Cognitive Labor”
Michael Fuerstein, “Kitcher on science and democracy”
Mike Dietrich, “Automation and the Duties of Experts: The Case of DNA Evolution”
Katie Tabb, “Darwin’s Dues: An Episode in the History of the Ethical Project.”
C. Kenneth Waters, “Morgan’s Achievement”
Todd Jones, “Defending the humanities from scientific barbarian hordes. Should we follow Kitcher in following Steiner?”
Ignacio Ojea, “Technology in a Democratic Society”
Peter Godfrey-Smith, “Kitcher and Keller on Climate Change”
Chris Haufe, “The Garbage Man”
Michael Weisberg, “Kitcher on Objectivity in Science”
Jessica Pfeifer, “Disunifying Unification”
Contact Professor Wolfgang Mann for more info.
NYU/ Columbia Annual Graduate Conference
Eva Bockenheimer . Frederica Gregoratto . Thimo Heisenberg . Axel Honneth . Rahel Jaeggi . Gal Katz . Frederick Neuhouser . Andreja Novakovic . Angelica Nuzzo . Johannes-Georg Schülein . Italo Testa
Eva Bockenheimer. Frederica Gregoratto. Thimo Heisenberg. Axel Honneth. Rahel Jaeggi. Gal Katz. Frederick Neuhouser. Andreja Novakovic. Angelica Nuzzo. Johannes-Georg Schülein. Italo Testa.
April 22-23 Time TBA
*In-person event
Keynote speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Location: Zoom
Organizers: Giovanni and Joe Han
Please email questions to columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com
Kitcherfest In honor of John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Philip Kitcher
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The graduate students and faculty of Columbia University and New York University invite graduate students* to submit papers to present at the 24th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy, to be held March 30th, 2024!
The keynote speaker for this event will be Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh).
The conference will take place in person at Columbia University.
This conference is a generalist conference. Any topic suitable for presentation for a general philosophical audience is welcome!
Requirements for submission. Papers submitted should be:
(1) 3,000 to 5,000 words in length, suitable for a presentation of 30 to 40 minutes.
(2) Prepared for blind review, in PDF format.
(3) Accompanied with a separate cover sheet with the author’s name, home institution, contact information, topic area(s) of the paper, and an abstract of approximately 300 words.
Submissions should be sent to forms.gle/tVo3jhHUY2LyyeUD7. The deadline is 01/15/2024. Decisions will be sent out by 02/12/2024.
For any further information or inquiries, please contact columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com.
*Submissions from graduate students at NYU and Columbia will not be considered for acceptance.