With response by John Hare (Yale)
Presented by the NY German Idealism Workshop.
This talk examines the instruments suggested by the key policy document driving sustainable finance in the European Union, the Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth. It uses a reflexive law approach coupled with insights from epistemology. The chapter first discusses the Action Plan and the concept of reflexive law (which focuses on such epistemic instruments as disclosure, reporting, and labelling). It discusses a number of challenges the plan faces (about, e.g., investor ignorance, long-termism, scenario analysis, accounting standards). It then introduces an alternative to reflexive law (called “epistemic law”), and argues that disclosure, reporting, and labelling improve by taking into account insights from epistemology and social science concerning the form and content of information. The talk’s recommendation is, in a slogan, to provide different information, and to provide information differently.
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new and thought-provoking interview series: “In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance”. The series kicks off with a selection of esteemed contributors to the recently published book, The Philosophy of Money and Finance (OUP, 2024).
Each interview will be followed by a live debate, encouraging active audience participation. The sessions (interview plus debate) will be 30 minutes long.
chair: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome)
organization: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome); Joakim Sandberg (University of Gothenburg); Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)
info: phinancenet@gmail.com; lwarenski@gc.cuny.edu ; emiliano.ippoliti@uniroma1.it
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 4419). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sep 2. NO MEETING
Sep 9. Hartry Field (NYU)
Sep 16. Mel Fitting (CUNY)
Sep 23. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Sep 30. Roundtable Discussion and Dinner celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Workshop (details TBA)
Oct 7. Cian Dorr (NYU)
Oct 14. NO MEETING
Oct 21. Thomas M. Ferguson (Rensselaer)
Oct 28. Sam Burns (Columbia)
Nov 4. Elena Ficara (Paderborn)
Nov 11. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS)
Nov 18. Damiano Costa (Lugano)
Nov 25. Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires)
Dec 2. ?
Dec 9. ?
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 4419). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sep 2. NO MEETING
Sep 9. Hartry Field (NYU)
Sep 16. Mel Fitting (CUNY)
Sep 23. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Sep 30. Roundtable Discussion and Dinner celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Workshop (details TBA)
Oct 7. Cian Dorr (NYU)
Oct 14. NO MEETING
Oct 21. Thomas M. Ferguson (Rensselaer)
Oct 28. Sam Burns (Columbia)
Nov 4. Elena Ficara (Paderborn)
Nov 11. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS)
Nov 18. Damiano Costa (Lugano)
Nov 25. Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires)
Dec 2. ?
Dec 9. ?
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 4419). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sep 2. NO MEETING
Sep 9. Hartry Field (NYU)
Sep 16. Mel Fitting (CUNY)
Sep 23. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Sep 30. Roundtable Discussion and Dinner celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Workshop (details TBA)
Oct 7. Cian Dorr (NYU)
Oct 14. NO MEETING
Oct 21. Thomas M. Ferguson (Rensselaer)
Oct 28. Sam Burns (Columbia)
Nov 4. Elena Ficara (Paderborn)
Nov 11. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS)
Nov 18. Damiano Costa (Lugano)
Nov 25. Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires)
Dec 2. ?
Dec 9. ?
The author argues that the credit system may improve distributive justice, but only indirectly, via job creation and government spending. The reason for this is that cheap credit on commercial terms is only available to people in the upper half of the wealth distribution. By contrast, the forms of credit available more widely are too expensive to make taking out credit a realistic option to escape poverty for most. However, credit can improve distributive justice indirectly, if entrepreneurs and corporations borrow for purposes that create jobs, or states spend borrowed funds on programs that address poverty or inequality. For these reasons, the author suggests that improving access to credit is less important from the perspective of distributive justice than how the credit system interacts with the tax system and labor laws.
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new and thought-provoking interview series: “In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance”. The series kicks off with a selection of esteemed contributors to the recently published book, The Philosophy of Money and Finance (OUP, 2024).
Each interview will be followed by a live debate, encouraging active audience participation. The sessions (interview plus debate) will be 30 minutes long.
chair: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome)
organization: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome); Joakim Sandberg (University of Gothenburg); Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)
info: phinancenet@gmail.com; lwarenski@gc.cuny.edu ; emiliano.ippoliti@uniroma1.it
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 4419). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sep 2. NO MEETING
Sep 9. Hartry Field (NYU)
Sep 16. Mel Fitting (CUNY)
Sep 23. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Sep 30. Roundtable Discussion and Dinner celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Workshop (details TBA)
Oct 7. Cian Dorr (NYU)
Oct 14. NO MEETING
Oct 21. Thomas M. Ferguson (Rensselaer)
Oct 28. Sam Burns (Columbia)
Nov 4. Elena Ficara (Paderborn)
Nov 11. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS)
Nov 18. Damiano Costa (Lugano)
Nov 25. Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires)
Dec 2. ?
Dec 9. ?
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 4419). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sep 2. NO MEETING
Sep 9. Hartry Field (NYU)
Sep 16. Mel Fitting (CUNY)
Sep 23. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Sep 30. Roundtable Discussion and Dinner celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Workshop (details TBA)
Oct 7. Cian Dorr (NYU)
Oct 14. NO MEETING
Oct 21. Thomas M. Ferguson (Rensselaer)
Oct 28. Sam Burns (Columbia)
Nov 4. Elena Ficara (Paderborn)
Nov 11. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS)
Nov 18. Damiano Costa (Lugano)
Nov 25. Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires)
Dec 2. ?
Dec 9. ?
The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that Kit Fine (Silver Professor and University Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at NYU) will deliver the 6th Saul Kripke Lecture on October 31st, 2024, from 4:00 to 6:30 pm. The talk is free and open to all, and will be held in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room C198).
Title: The Myth of the Ungiven
Abstract: The notion of a borderline case has been thought to be central to our understanding of vagueness. I shall argue that there is no intelligible notion that can play this role and that an alternative framework for understanding vagueness needs to be found.
With response by Susan Shell (Boston)
Presented by the NY German Idealism Workshop.