During Spring 2020, we’ll meet online on Mondays from 3pm until 5pm (Eastern Time). Details and zoom links will be posted on this site. Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome!
September 20th (special time: 4:30–6pm)
Diego Feinmann (ENS, Jean Nicod, Paris)
September 27th
TBD
October 4th
Najoung Kim (Jonhs Hopkins)
October 18th
Cian Dorr (NYU)
October 25th
Zoltán Szabó (Yale)
November 1st (special time: 4:30–6pm)
Richard Moore (Warwick)
November 8th
Yimei Xiang (Rutgers)
November 15th
TBD
November 22nd
Ryan Nefdt (Cape Town)
November 29th
TBD
December 6th
TBD
December 13th
Kit Fine (NYU)
During Spring 2020, we’ll meet online on Mondays from 3pm until 5pm (Eastern Time). Details and zoom links will be posted on this site. Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome!
September 20th (special time: 4:30–6pm)
Diego Feinmann (ENS, Jean Nicod, Paris)
September 27th
TBD
October 4th
Najoung Kim (Jonhs Hopkins)
October 18th
Cian Dorr (NYU)
October 25th
Zoltán Szabó (Yale)
November 1st (special time: 4:30–6pm)
Richard Moore (Warwick)
November 8th
Yimei Xiang (Rutgers)
November 15th
TBD
November 22nd
Ryan Nefdt (Cape Town)
November 29th
TBD
December 6th
TBD
December 13th
Kit Fine (NYU)
The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that James Shaw (Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh) will deliver a talk on Thursday, February 17th, 2022, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (NY time) via Zoom. The talk is free and open to all, but those interested in attending should email the Saul Kripke Center in advance to register if they are not part of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Philosophy Program or are not on the Saul Kripke Center’s mailing list.
Title: Kripkean Necessities, Imaginative Kripke Puzzles, and Semantic Transparency
Abstract: Kripke (1980) famously argued that some a posteriori statements are necessary when true. I begin by exploring an unusual technique to try to learn these necessities merely through imagination that I call “Semantic Imaginative Transfer”. I explore an idealized instance of this technique which I suggest leads to an imaginative variant of Kripke’s (1979) puzzle about belief. I note that on some widespread assumptions (including that propositional idiom can be maintained in the face of Kripke puzzles), the idealized example restricts the space for accommodating Kripkean necessities to two families of views: familiar, broadly Guise-Theoretic approaches to propositional attitudes, and unconventional and largely unexplored views embracing semantic transparency principles. I briefly review some of the history of transparency principles, make some conjectures as to why they went out of fashion following the work of semantic externalists (including Kripke), and make a plea for exploring the consequences of their adoption. Along the way I note the significance of doing so: the transparency principles render Kripkean necessities a priori.
During Fall 2022, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Philosophy Building, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is below.
RSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID, you will have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vaccination. We have made a single RSVP form where you can RSVP for all of the semester’s workshops at once, or for as many as you think you might attend. (Hopefully you will also only have to upload your proof of vaccination once, but we’re not sure.) So, if you don’t have an NYU ID, you can RSVP now!
Fall 2022 Speakers
September 19
Tal Linzen (NYU)
October 3
Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
October 10
Craige Roberts (OSU)
October 17
Justin Khoo (MIT)
October 24
Josh Knobe (Yale)
November 7
Sadhwi Srinivas (William & Mary)
November 14
Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
November 21
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
November 28
Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth)
December 5
Andrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbon Nova)
December 12
Gretchen Ellefson (Southern Utah)
During Fall 2022, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Philosophy Building, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is below.
RSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID, you will have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vaccination. We have made a single RSVP form where you can RSVP for all of the semester’s workshops at once, or for as many as you think you might attend. (Hopefully you will also only have to upload your proof of vaccination once, but we’re not sure.) So, if you don’t have an NYU ID, you can RSVP now!
Fall 2022 Speakers
September 19
Tal Linzen (NYU)
October 3
Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
October 10
Craige Roberts (OSU)
October 17
Justin Khoo (MIT)
October 24
Josh Knobe (Yale)
November 7
Sadhwi Srinivas (William & Mary)
November 14
Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
November 21
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
November 28
Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth)
December 5
Andrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbon Nova)
December 12
Gretchen Ellefson (Southern Utah)
During Fall 2022, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Philosophy Building, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is below.
RSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID, you will have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vaccination. We have made a single RSVP form where you can RSVP for all of the semester’s workshops at once, or for as many as you think you might attend. (Hopefully you will also only have to upload your proof of vaccination once, but we’re not sure.) So, if you don’t have an NYU ID, you can RSVP now!
Fall 2022 Speakers
September 19
Tal Linzen (NYU)
October 3
Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
October 10
Craige Roberts (OSU)
October 17
Justin Khoo (MIT)
October 24
Josh Knobe (Yale)
November 7
Sadhwi Srinivas (William & Mary)
November 14
Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
November 21
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
November 28
Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth)
December 5
Andrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbon Nova)
December 12
Gretchen Ellefson (Southern Utah)
The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program is thrilled to be hosting a talk by David Chalmers on whether large language models can be sentient.
About the talk
Artificial intelligence systems—especially large language models, giant neural networks trained to predict text from the internet—have recently shown remarkable abilities. There has been widespread discussion of whether some of these language models might be sentient. Should we take this idea seriously? David Chalmers will discuss the underlying issue and try to break down the strongest reasons for and against.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place on October 13 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm ET. The in-person location will be Jurow Lecture Hall (inside the Silver Center at 32 Waverly Place), and the virtual location will be Zoom (you can sign up to receive a link by clicking “Register here” below). There will also be a light reception from 6:30-7:30pm in the Silverstein Lounge (immediately outside of the Jurow Lecture Hall).
– If you plan to attend in person, please be prepared to show proof of full vaccination.
– If you plan to attend virtually, please check your email for a link in advance of the event.
About the speaker
David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (1996), Constructing the World (2010), and Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the PhilPapers Foundation. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem, and for the idea of the “extended mind,” which says that the tools we use can become parts of our minds.
Thank you to our co-sponsors for your generous support of this event:
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NYU Center for Bioethics
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NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
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NYU Minds, Brains, and Machines Initiative
During Fall 2022, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Philosophy Building, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is below.
RSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID, you will have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vaccination. We have made a single RSVP form where you can RSVP for all of the semester’s workshops at once, or for as many as you think you might attend. (Hopefully you will also only have to upload your proof of vaccination once, but we’re not sure.) So, if you don’t have an NYU ID, you can RSVP now!
Fall 2022 Speakers
September 19
Tal Linzen (NYU)
October 3
Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
October 10
Craige Roberts (OSU)
October 17
Justin Khoo (MIT)
October 24
Josh Knobe (Yale)
November 7
Sadhwi Srinivas (William & Mary)
November 14
Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
November 21
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
November 28
Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth)
December 5
Andrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbon Nova)
December 12
Gretchen Ellefson (Southern Utah)
Abstract:
As a specific form of rights insecurity the revocability of reproductive rights manifests contradictory understandings (privative and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.
I ask how and why we should understand reproductive rights as revocable, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability,” and suggesting a conjoined vocabulary that includes conditionality, exceptionality, and disqualifying qualification.
I ask: what kind of grammar might help us understand more specifically how the concurrent action of conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty, discipline, security, necropower, and neoliberal expectation) coordinate together in relation to reproductive rights-bearing, and how heterogeneous combinations of power also produce a mutual disruptiveness, even auto-critique, manifesting as conflictual embodiment.
External visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.
Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible), ID, and remain masked at all times.
During Fall 2022, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Philosophy Building, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is below.
RSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID, you will have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vaccination. We have made a single RSVP form where you can RSVP for all of the semester’s workshops at once, or for as many as you think you might attend. (Hopefully you will also only have to upload your proof of vaccination once, but we’re not sure.) So, if you don’t have an NYU ID, you can RSVP now!
Fall 2022 Speakers
September 19
Tal Linzen (NYU)
October 3
Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht)
October 10
Craige Roberts (OSU)
October 17
Justin Khoo (MIT)
October 24
Josh Knobe (Yale)
November 7
Sadhwi Srinivas (William & Mary)
November 14
Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and Iceland)
November 21
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
November 28
Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth)
December 5
Andrés Soria Ruiz (Lisbon Nova)
December 12
Gretchen Ellefson (Southern Utah)