The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)
Feb 12. NO MEETING
Feb 19. NO MEETING
Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)
Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)
Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)
Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)
Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)
Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)
Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)
Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)
Apr 22. NO MEETING
Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)
May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
ALL TALKS AVAILABLE ON ZOOM
SOME ALSO IN PERSON (Graduate Center room 7102)
Talks organized and hosted by Ryan McElhaney
To get Zoom links: Email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
2/2: Edward Elliott
Philosophy, University of Leeds; soon to be at Notre Dame
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
2/9: Sami R. Yousif
Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
2/16: Susan E. Carey
Psychology, Harvard University
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
2/23: Amy Kind
Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
3/1: Johannes Fahrenfort
Neuroscience, Conscious Brain Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
and Universiteit van Amsterdam
3/8: Sam Coleman
Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
3/15: Christopher Hill
Philosophy, Brown University
3/22: Nicholas Humphrey
Neuropsychology, London School of Economics and Darwin College Cambridge
3/29: No talk—Easter weekend
4/5: James R. O’Shea
Philosophy, University College Dublin
4/12: Daniel Stoljar
Philosophy, Australian National University
4/19 and 4/26: No talks—CUNY spring break
5/3: Willem A. deVries
Philosophy, University of New Hampshire
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
5/10: Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn
Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
ABSTRACT: Spurred partly by recent attempts to ethically assess various negative effects of the attention economy, philosophers have begun to pay more attention to the role that attention plays in our ethical lives. This has included some more general discussion of the ethics of attention. In this talk, I add to this recent discussion by outlining a proposal for a comprehensive ethics of attention. On my proposal, an ethics of attention includes norms that stem from the role that attention plays in the formation of our character, in constituting our relationships and social roles, and in our other ethical decision making and behavior. Because of attention’s nature as a finite resource, and because our various roles and relationships involve interpersonal expectations for how others allocate their attention, an ethics of attention should provide norms that govern how we collectively allocate our attention among these morally important purposes. Because these morally important purposes are all competing for our attention, one goal of an ethics of attention should be to find practices that help to synergize how people meet these demands. I call such a set of practices a “social-attentional scheme”, and propose that the ultimate goal of an ethics of attention is to find an optimal social-attentional scheme. I conclude by discussing the various ways in which we can understand early Confucian ethics as providing us with one such social-attentional scheme, and propose some lessons we can take from this Confucian example as we try to continue developing a contemporary ethics of attention.
With responses from Elizabeth Edenberg (CUNY Baruch)
Presented by THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
NOTE ON ENTRY FOR NON-COLUMBIA GUESTS: The door to Philosophy Hall will only open with a Columbia University ID card. If you do not have this card please arrive early where someone will be standing outside until the meeting begins. If you arrive late, you can ask someone walking nearby to let you in or contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu. Please only contact Cole as a final resource so as not to interrupt the talk.
RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR DINNER:. Dinner will take place at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cole at cf2798@columbia.edu for further information. RSVPs are limited.
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)
Feb 12. NO MEETING
Feb 19. NO MEETING
Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)
Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)
Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)
Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)
Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)
Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)
Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)
Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)
Apr 22. NO MEETING
Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)
May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
ALL TALKS AVAILABLE ON ZOOM
SOME ALSO IN PERSON (Graduate Center room 7102)
Talks organized and hosted by Ryan McElhaney
To get Zoom links: Email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
2/2: Edward Elliott
Philosophy, University of Leeds; soon to be at Notre Dame
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
2/9: Sami R. Yousif
Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
2/16: Susan E. Carey
Psychology, Harvard University
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
2/23: Amy Kind
Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
3/1: Johannes Fahrenfort
Neuroscience, Conscious Brain Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
and Universiteit van Amsterdam
3/8: Sam Coleman
Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
3/15: Christopher Hill
Philosophy, Brown University
3/22: Nicholas Humphrey
Neuropsychology, London School of Economics and Darwin College Cambridge
3/29: No talk—Easter weekend
4/5: James R. O’Shea
Philosophy, University College Dublin
4/12: Daniel Stoljar
Philosophy, Australian National University
4/19 and 4/26: No talks—CUNY spring break
5/3: Willem A. deVries
Philosophy, University of New Hampshire
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
5/10: Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn
Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
*** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 ***
The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that James Walsh (Assistant Professor, Philosophy, NYU) will deliver a talk on Friday, May 10th, 2024, from 4:15 to 6:15 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 9207). The talk is free and open to all.
Title: Modal definability and Kripke’s theory of truth
Abstract: In Outline of a Theory of Truth, Kripke introduces some of the central concepts of the logical study of truth and paradox. He informally defines some of these–such as groundedness and paradoxicality–using modal locutions. We introduce a modal language for regimenting Kripke’s informal definitions and characterize the modally definable sets. Though groundedness and paradoxicality are expressible in the modal language, we prove that intrinsicality–which Kripke emphasizes but does not define modally–is not.