Colloquium 2023
Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy
September 7th
Bonnie Honig, Brown University
Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell
September 14th
Jeremy Waldron, NYU
September 21st
Alice Crary, The New School
September 28th
David Enoch, University of Oxford
October 5th
Gina Schouten, Harvard University
October 12th
Daryl Levinson, NYU
October 19th
Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University
October 26th
Rob Howse, NYU
November 2nd
Trevor Morrison, NYU
November 9th
John Goldberg, Harvard University
November 16th
Courtney Cox, Fordham University
November 30th
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University
The Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, and Jeremy Waldron, two of whom will host in any given year.
Each week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims, not to pursue any particular subject, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page, and participants are expected to have read it.
History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science,
University of CambridgePhilosophy
9/15: No talk—one-week break
9/22: Janis Karan Hesse
Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley
9/29: Justin Halberda
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
10/6: Jakub Mihalik
Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy of the
Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
10/13: Gregg Caruso
Philosophy, SUNY Corning, Northeastern University London, and
Macquarie University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/20: Edouard Machery
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/27: Heather Browning
Philosophy, University of Southampton
11/3: Panagiota Theodoni
Philosophy, University of Athens
11/10: François Kammerer
Institute for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
11/17: Jonathan Phillips
Cognitive Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and
Philosophy, Dartmouth College
11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break
12/1: Lua Koenig
Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center
Fridays, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom, some hybrid. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com>
Colloquium 2023
Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy
September 7th
Bonnie Honig, Brown University
Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell
September 14th
Jeremy Waldron, NYU
September 21st
Alice Crary, The New School
September 28th
David Enoch, University of Oxford
October 5th
Gina Schouten, Harvard University
October 12th
Daryl Levinson, NYU
October 19th
Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University
October 26th
Rob Howse, NYU
November 2nd
Trevor Morrison, NYU
November 9th
John Goldberg, Harvard University
November 16th
Courtney Cox, Fordham University
November 30th
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University
The Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, and Jeremy Waldron, two of whom will host in any given year.
Each week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims, not to pursue any particular subject, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page, and participants are expected to have read it.
History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science,
University of CambridgePhilosophy
9/15: No talk—one-week break
9/22: Janis Karan Hesse
Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley
9/29: Justin Halberda
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
10/6: Jakub Mihalik
Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy of the
Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
10/13: Gregg Caruso
Philosophy, SUNY Corning, Northeastern University London, and
Macquarie University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/20: Edouard Machery
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/27: Heather Browning
Philosophy, University of Southampton
11/3: Panagiota Theodoni
Philosophy, University of Athens
11/10: François Kammerer
Institute for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
11/17: Jonathan Phillips
Cognitive Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and
Philosophy, Dartmouth College
11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break
12/1: Lua Koenig
Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center
Fridays, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom, some hybrid. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com>
Keynote: Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Pedagogy Workshop Leader: TBA
Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY—New York, New York
Abstracts & Workshop Applications due: July 31st 2023
Responses: August 31st 2023
Organizers: Michael Greer (CUNY), Maria Salazar (CUNY)
Contact email: gscope.committee@gmail.com
The committee for the Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Education (GSCOPE) invites abstracts for papers on the topic of Higher Education, Democracy, and Controversy. The theme of the conference & post-conference pedagogy workshop reflects the difficulty in creating and maintaining respectful discourse in higher-education classrooms, especially surrounding controversial empirical, moral, and political issues. Some argue that this is an equity issue. Undergraduate students who come from rural and/or underprivileged areas are more likely to experience alienation on campus, sometimes because they have never been exposed to certain “politically correct” language or ideas, and sometimes simply because they lack the financial and social capital that their peers have. It seems crucial (and follows from democratic and civic values) to foster safe learning environments for all students, especially those students who are more likely to feel alienated on college campuses and in elite spaces. At the same time, some argue that the aim of higher education is purely epistemological, and not civic or democratic. Proponents of this view might hold that free speech and academic freedom must be properly protected for higher education to perform its proper social function: education. What is the appropriate relationship between higher education, knowledge-production, teaching, free speech, and democracy? How can higher education instructors and professors be effective teachers in the light of these relationships?
Papers must pertain to higher educationbut maybe about anything from interpersonal classroom dynamicstoinstitutional policies to campus controversy. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the following topics:
- Philosophical issues around teaching controversy
- Navigating different identities in the classroom and on campus
- Free speech and controversial issues in classrooms and on campus
- Differential roles of various higher education actors when it comes to protecting free speech (administration, tenured professors, students, residential life)
- Training (or lack thereof) of graduate students to be teachers and the impact of this on teaching in our current political moment
- Theright relationship(s) between democracy, knowledge,free speech, and higher education
- The role of controversy in democracy
- The relationship between controversy and equality
- Teaching as an equity issue – how education might foster or impede different kinds of equity (class equity, racial equity, urban/rural equity, gender equity)
- Disagreement in classrooms
- Epistemological issues around disagreement and understanding
- Trust in classrooms
- Pedagogical tools to cope with disagreement in classrooms
- Philosophical views on coming to understanding from different social locations, epistemic commitments, and material circumstances
We especially welcome contributions that:
- Think about universities outside of the “top 50” and the “top 500” — we want our conversation to reflect issues found across the entire spectrum of international higher ed institutions
- Engage with CUNY-specific issues and offer CUNY-specific solutions
Abstracts should:
– Outline the paper’s principal argument(s).
– Give a good sense of the paper’s philosophical and/or empirical contributions and methods.
– Be anonymized.
Proposal Guidelines:
Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words by midnight EST on Monday, July 31, 2023.
PDF or DOC.X by email to gscope.committee@gmail.com
Post-Conference Pedagogy Workshop
The theme of our conference Higher Education, Democracy, and Controversy is relevant to graduate student educators, who are routinely under-trained and under-equipped to engage with real-life problems they may encounter in the classroom. The lack of training for higher education teachers is a growing iue in philosophy of education.
This workshop attends to this issue by facilitating a space for graduate student educators to reflect on how to foster good teaching environments for controversial issues, and be good interlocutors with each other on controversial issues. The workshop will also touch on promoting equity in classrooms. We will provide workshop participants with a certificate of completion.
https://philevents.org/event/show/112546
Colloquium 2023
Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy
September 7th
Bonnie Honig, Brown University
Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell
September 14th
Jeremy Waldron, NYU
September 21st
Alice Crary, The New School
September 28th
David Enoch, University of Oxford
October 5th
Gina Schouten, Harvard University
October 12th
Daryl Levinson, NYU
October 19th
Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University
October 26th
Rob Howse, NYU
November 2nd
Trevor Morrison, NYU
November 9th
John Goldberg, Harvard University
November 16th
Courtney Cox, Fordham University
November 30th
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University
The Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, and Jeremy Waldron, two of whom will host in any given year.
Each week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims, not to pursue any particular subject, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page, and participants are expected to have read it.
History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science,
University of CambridgePhilosophy
9/15: No talk—one-week break
9/22: Janis Karan Hesse
Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley
9/29: Justin Halberda
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
10/6: Jakub Mihalik
Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy of the
Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
10/13: Gregg Caruso
Philosophy, SUNY Corning, Northeastern University London, and
Macquarie University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/20: Edouard Machery
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/27: Heather Browning
Philosophy, University of Southampton
11/3: Panagiota Theodoni
Philosophy, University of Athens
11/10: François Kammerer
Institute for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
11/17: Jonathan Phillips
Cognitive Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and
Philosophy, Dartmouth College
11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break
12/1: Lua Koenig
Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center
Fridays, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom, some hybrid. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com>
Colloquium 2023
Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy
September 7th
Bonnie Honig, Brown University
Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell
September 14th
Jeremy Waldron, NYU
September 21st
Alice Crary, The New School
September 28th
David Enoch, University of Oxford
October 5th
Gina Schouten, Harvard University
October 12th
Daryl Levinson, NYU
October 19th
Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University
October 26th
Rob Howse, NYU
November 2nd
Trevor Morrison, NYU
November 9th
John Goldberg, Harvard University
November 16th
Courtney Cox, Fordham University
November 30th
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University
The Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, and Jeremy Waldron, two of whom will host in any given year.
Each week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims, not to pursue any particular subject, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page, and participants are expected to have read it.
History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Cognitive Science,
University of CambridgePhilosophy
9/15: No talk—one-week break
9/22: Janis Karan Hesse
Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley
9/29: Justin Halberda
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
10/6: Jakub Mihalik
Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy of the
Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
10/13: Gregg Caruso
Philosophy, SUNY Corning, Northeastern University London, and
Macquarie University
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/20: Edouard Machery
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
** HYBRID: Graduate Center Room 7102 **
10/27: Heather Browning
Philosophy, University of Southampton
11/3: Panagiota Theodoni
Philosophy, University of Athens
11/10: François Kammerer
Institute for Philosophy II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
11/17: Jonathan Phillips
Cognitive Science, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and
Philosophy, Dartmouth College
11/124: No talk—Thanksgiving break
12/1: Lua Koenig
Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center
Fridays, 1-3 pm—all on Zoom, some hybrid. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com>
Colloquium 2023
Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy
September 7th
Bonnie Honig, Brown University
Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell
September 14th
Jeremy Waldron, NYU
September 21st
Alice Crary, The New School
September 28th
David Enoch, University of Oxford
October 5th
Gina Schouten, Harvard University
October 12th
Daryl Levinson, NYU
October 19th
Barbara Levenbook, North Carolina State University
October 26th
Rob Howse, NYU
November 2nd
Trevor Morrison, NYU
November 9th
John Goldberg, Harvard University
November 16th
Courtney Cox, Fordham University
November 30th
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University
The Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, and Jeremy Waldron, two of whom will host in any given year.
Each week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims, not to pursue any particular subject, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page, and participants are expected to have read it.