Sep
21
Fri
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Sep 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller
Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
“The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”

 

September 28 Cristina Borgoni
Philosophy, University of Bayreuth
“Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”

 

October 5 Antonia Peacocke
Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
New York University
“Content Plurality in Mental Action”

 

October 12 Çağlan Çinar Dilek
Philosophy, Central European University and
Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center
“On the Nature of Representational Relation in the
Higher-Order Thought Theory:  Extrinsicality,
Directness and Transitivity”

 

October 19 Chad Kidd
Philosophy, City College of New York, CUNY
“Transparency and Cognitive Phenomenology”
 **NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM THIS ONE DAY:  9-206**

 

October 26 Kathryn Pendoley
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA

 

November 2 Umrao Sethi
Philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY
“Sensible Over-Determination”

 

November 9 Stephen Andrew Spencer
Music, CUNY Graduate Center
“Graphical Representations of Timbre Similarity:
Problems and Prospects”

 

November 16 Rachel Denison
Psychology and the Center for Neural Science,
New York University
“The Dynamics of Temporal Attention”

November 23No talk—Thanksgiving

November 30: Joseph Bendaña
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA
Sep
28
Fri
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Sep 28 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller
Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
“The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”

 

September 28 Cristina Borgoni
Philosophy, University of Bayreuth
“Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”

 

October 5 Antonia Peacocke
Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
New York University
“Content Plurality in Mental Action”

 

October 12 Çağlan Çinar Dilek
Philosophy, Central European University and
Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center
“On the Nature of Representational Relation in the
Higher-Order Thought Theory:  Extrinsicality,
Directness and Transitivity”

 

October 19 Chad Kidd
Philosophy, City College of New York, CUNY
“Transparency and Cognitive Phenomenology”
 **NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM THIS ONE DAY:  9-206**

 

October 26 Kathryn Pendoley
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA

 

November 2 Umrao Sethi
Philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY
“Sensible Over-Determination”

 

November 9 Stephen Andrew Spencer
Music, CUNY Graduate Center
“Graphical Representations of Timbre Similarity:
Problems and Prospects”

 

November 16 Rachel Denison
Psychology and the Center for Neural Science,
New York University
“The Dynamics of Temporal Attention”

November 23No talk—Thanksgiving

November 30: Joseph Bendaña
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA
Oct
4
Thu
The Gift and Weight of Genomic Knowledge: In Search of the Good Biocitizen @ Feil Hall, Forchelli Conference Center, 22nd Floor
Oct 4 – Oct 5 all-day
This knowledge is irrevocable.” So reads an opening line in the terms-of-service agreement for 23andMe, a leading direct-to-consumer genetic testing company. This remarkable phrase attests to an increasing recognition of the role genomic knowledge plays in shaping human life. On the one hand, genomic knowledge is a gift, creating novel insights into the genetic drivers of disease and into the geographical paths of our ancestors. On the other, it is a weight, creating new obligations, new forms of social classification, and new forms of surveillance. Thus, we are faced with a fundamental question: how can we live well in the face of knowledge that can change the criteria, conditions, and lived experience of life? Or, as we formulate that question for this conference, what is a good biocitizen?
This conference aims to take a step back and ask: In what ways can genomic knowledge promote human flourishing, and in what ways might it thwart it?  What are the conditions that shape the biocitizen today, and how ought one act in light of these? Heeding not only the lessons of this history, but also our contemporary socio-political context, we wish to gain clarity on how genomics has shaped and is shaping lived experience. How, against the background of such knowledge, might we leverage genomic knowledge toward a life lived well in health for all?

DATES:

October 4 and 5, 2018

LOCATION:

Feil Hall, Forchelli Conference Center, 22nd Floor, 205 State Street Brooklyn, New York

Sponsored by The Hastings Center and Brooklyn Law School’s Center for Health, Science and Public Policy; co-sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics

Access the conference flyer here.


SPEAKERS: 

Catherine Bliss (University of California, San Francisco) Alondra Nelson (Columbia University)
Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton University) Carolyn Neuhaus (The Hastings Center)
Eva Kittay (SUNY Stony Brook) Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz)
Melinda Hall (Stetson University) Sandra Soo-Jin Lee (Stanford University)
Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) Joe Stramondo (San Diego State University)
Leslie Larkin (Northern Michigan University) Jessica Kolopenuk (University of Alberta)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Thursday, October 4, 8:15 am – 5:00 pm

REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: 8:15-9:00

SHORT BREAK: 10:20-10:40

  • 10:40-11:40 Lesley Larkin “On Contemporary Literature and the ‘Good Bionarrative Citizen”

LUNCH: 11:40-1:00

  • 1:00-1:50 Sandra Soo-Jin Lee “How Is Social Networking and Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Shaping The Choices and Conundrums of the Biocitizen?”
  • 1:50-2:40 Melinda Hall “On The Language of Risk and the Marginalization of Bodies”

BREAK: 2:40-3:10

  • 3:10-4:00 Catherine Clune-Taylor  “What Does The History of Medicine Teach about the Advent of Genomics as “Truth” Concerning Categories of Embodiment such as Sex and Sexuality?”
  • 4:00-5:00 Joseph Stramondo “How Does Genomics Shape Categories of Disability and How Might the Virtuous Biocitizen Respond?”

Friday, October 5, 2018, 8:15 am – 5:00 pm

REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: 8:15-9:00

  • 9:00-9:50 Jessica Kolopenuk “How Does Colonialism and Racism Inform Genomic Knowledge and How Might Such Legacies Be Undermined?”
  • 9:50-10:40 Catherine Bliss “Given Genomics’ Potential for Reinscription of Erroneous Notions of Race, How Should One Think about Race Ethically in the Genomic Age?”

SHORT BREAK: 10:40-11:00

  • 11:00-11:50 Eva Kittay “How Much of a Gift or Weight Is Genomics from the Perspective of Care?”

LUNCH 11:50-1:00

  • 1:00-1:50 Carolyn Neuhaus “On the Rhetoric that Exaggerates the Weight and Elides the Gift”
  • 1:50-2:40 Alondra Nelson “The Politics of Genomics in the USA: the OSTP and the PMI”

SHORT BREAK: 2:40-3:00

  • 3:00-4:00 Jenny Reardon “How Should We Understand the Relationship between Genomics, Justice, and Democracy?”
  • 4:00-5:00 Roundtable Discussion

REGISTER HERE


This conference will have live on-screen captioning and will be livestreamed. Send inquiries about the conference and any accessibility-related requests to reynoldsj@thehastingscenter.org. Requests for a reasonable accommodation based on a disability to attend this event should also be made to Louise Cohen, the BLS Reasonable Accommodations Coordinator, at louise.cohen@brooklaw.edu or (718) 780-0377. 

Oct
5
Fri
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller
Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
“The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”

 

September 28 Cristina Borgoni
Philosophy, University of Bayreuth
“Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”

 

October 5 Antonia Peacocke
Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
New York University
“Content Plurality in Mental Action”

 

October 12 Çağlan Çinar Dilek
Philosophy, Central European University and
Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center
“On the Nature of Representational Relation in the
Higher-Order Thought Theory:  Extrinsicality,
Directness and Transitivity”

 

October 19 Chad Kidd
Philosophy, City College of New York, CUNY
“Transparency and Cognitive Phenomenology”
 **NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM THIS ONE DAY:  9-206**

 

October 26 Kathryn Pendoley
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA

 

November 2 Umrao Sethi
Philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY
“Sensible Over-Determination”

 

November 9 Stephen Andrew Spencer
Music, CUNY Graduate Center
“Graphical Representations of Timbre Similarity:
Problems and Prospects”

 

November 16 Rachel Denison
Psychology and the Center for Neural Science,
New York University
“The Dynamics of Temporal Attention”

November 23No talk—Thanksgiving

November 30: Joseph Bendaña
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA
Oct
11
Thu
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology @ Icahn School @Mount Sinai, Annenberg 12-16
Oct 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.

Upcoming Speakers:

11 Oct: Jordan Mackenzie, NYU

8 Nov: Susana Nuccetelli, St. Cloud State

13 Dec: Michael Brownstein, John Jay

14 Mar: Kyle Ferguson, CUNY

18 Apr: Jeff Sebo, NYU

23 May: Johann Frick, Princeton

Oct
12
Fri
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller
Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
“The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”

 

September 28 Cristina Borgoni
Philosophy, University of Bayreuth
“Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”

 

October 5 Antonia Peacocke
Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
New York University
“Content Plurality in Mental Action”

 

October 12 Çağlan Çinar Dilek
Philosophy, Central European University and
Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center
“On the Nature of Representational Relation in the
Higher-Order Thought Theory:  Extrinsicality,
Directness and Transitivity”

 

October 19 Chad Kidd
Philosophy, City College of New York, CUNY
“Transparency and Cognitive Phenomenology”
 **NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM THIS ONE DAY:  9-206**

 

October 26 Kathryn Pendoley
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA

 

November 2 Umrao Sethi
Philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY
“Sensible Over-Determination”

 

November 9 Stephen Andrew Spencer
Music, CUNY Graduate Center
“Graphical Representations of Timbre Similarity:
Problems and Prospects”

 

November 16 Rachel Denison
Psychology and the Center for Neural Science,
New York University
“The Dynamics of Temporal Attention”

November 23No talk—Thanksgiving

November 30: Joseph Bendaña
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA
Oct
15
Mon
Embodied Cognition and Prosthetics: Are Our Tools Part of Our Bodies and Minds? @ Heyman Center Second Floor Common Room
Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Embodied cognition theorists emphasize the role of the body and the environment in constituting mental processes. By examining how our brains interact with the rest of our bodies and how our entire bodies interact with the environment, we can learn much about human behavior and the human mind. Tools can be understood as extensions of the body, and in some cases as becoming part of the body. Does our mind extend to our tools? How does this change our world? How should we understand this relationship? In order to help us think through these fascinating questions, we will hear from an archaeologist who has theorized about the evolution of this human capacity, a biomedical engineer who uses computers to make robotic prostheses more fluidly extend human bodies, and a music theorist who shows how musical instruments become part of our bodies.

This event is free and open to the public, however, registration is required via Eventbrite.

Speakers:

Lambros Malafouris (Johnson Research and Teaching Fellow in Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture; University of Oxford)
Sunil Agrawal (Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Rehabilitation/Regenerative Medicine; Columbia University)
Jonathan De Souza (Assistant Professor of Music Theory; University of Western Ontario)

Respondent:

Lan Li (Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Center for Science & Society)

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Science and Society and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Oct
19
Fri
Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 19 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller
Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
“The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”

 

September 28 Cristina Borgoni
Philosophy, University of Bayreuth
“Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”

 

October 5 Antonia Peacocke
Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
New York University
“Content Plurality in Mental Action”

 

October 12 Çağlan Çinar Dilek
Philosophy, Central European University and
Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center
“On the Nature of Representational Relation in the
Higher-Order Thought Theory:  Extrinsicality,
Directness and Transitivity”

 

October 19 Chad Kidd
Philosophy, City College of New York, CUNY
“Transparency and Cognitive Phenomenology”
 **NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM THIS ONE DAY:  9-206**

 

October 26 Kathryn Pendoley
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA

 

November 2 Umrao Sethi
Philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY
“Sensible Over-Determination”

 

November 9 Stephen Andrew Spencer
Music, CUNY Graduate Center
“Graphical Representations of Timbre Similarity:
Problems and Prospects”

 

November 16 Rachel Denison
Psychology and the Center for Neural Science,
New York University
“The Dynamics of Temporal Attention”

November 23No talk—Thanksgiving

November 30: Joseph Bendaña
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA
Oct
26
Fri
A Conference in Memory of Peter Kivy @ Teleconference room, 4th Floor of Alexander Library
Oct 26 all-day

Over the course of his 49 year career (48 years of which were spent at Rutgers), Peter established himself as a giant in the field of aesthetics, especially in the philosophy of music. Sadly, Peter passed away in 2017.  To honor his memory, the Rutgers Philosophy Department is hosting a one-day conference on October 26, 2018, celebrating his life’s philosophical work.

The Conference will include talks by Christy Mag Uidhir (Houston), Jenefer Robinson (Cincinnati), Jerrold Levinson  (Maryland), and David Davies (McGill).  In addition, Aaron Meskin (Leeds) will introduce and read Peter Kivy’s unpublished ‘The Case of (Digital) Wagner.’ Finally, there will be a time set aside for remembrances from Peter’s friends and colleagues.

All are welcome to attend the conference. There is no registration fee; however, attendees are encouraged to pre-register (so that we have an accurate headcount for the lunch and reception). To pre-register, please email us at kivymemorial@philosophy.rutgers.edu

Conference Information
October 26, 2018
9:30 am – 5:00 pm – Conference
5:00 am – 6:15 pm – Reception

The conference and reception will take place at the Teleconference Room on the 4th Floor of Alexander Library (169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ).  In addition to the reception at the close of the conference, a catered lunch will be served.

The exact conference schedule will be posted soon.
Questions can be directed to kivymemorial@philosophy.rutgers.edu

Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Oct 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 21:  Andreas Keller
Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
“The Structure of Olfactory Appearance”

 

September 28 Cristina Borgoni
Philosophy, University of Bayreuth
“Persons, First-Person Authority, and Self-Knowledge”

 

October 5 Antonia Peacocke
Philosophy and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
New York University
“Content Plurality in Mental Action”

 

October 12 Çağlan Çinar Dilek
Philosophy, Central European University and
Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center
“On the Nature of Representational Relation in the
Higher-Order Thought Theory:  Extrinsicality,
Directness and Transitivity”

 

October 19 Chad Kidd
Philosophy, City College of New York, CUNY
“Transparency and Cognitive Phenomenology”
 **NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM THIS ONE DAY:  9-206**

 

October 26 Kathryn Pendoley
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA

 

November 2 Umrao Sethi
Philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY
“Sensible Over-Determination”

 

November 9 Stephen Andrew Spencer
Music, CUNY Graduate Center
“Graphical Representations of Timbre Similarity:
Problems and Prospects”

 

November 16 Rachel Denison
Psychology and the Center for Neural Science,
New York University
“The Dynamics of Temporal Attention”

November 23No talk—Thanksgiving

November 30: Joseph Bendaña
Cognitive Science and Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA