Various programmes and results in the philosophy/foundations of spacetime theories illustrate themes from reductionism and functionalism in general philosophy of science. I will focus on some programmes and results about how the physics of matter contributes to determining, or even determines, or even explains, chrono-geometry. I hope to say something about most of the following examples: in the philosophical literature, Robb (1914), and Mundy (1983); and in the physics literature: Barbour and Bertotti (1982); Hojman, Kuchar and Teitelboim (1976); Dull, Schuller et al. (2012, 2018); and Gomes & Shyam (2016).
Presented by Metro Area Philosophers of Science
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Armin Schulz (University of Kansas)
Details: 4:30-6:30pm Wednesday Oct 9; 3rd floor seminar room, 5 Washington Place (NYU).
Title: TBD.
Abstract: TBD.
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Christopher Weaver (University of Illinois)
Details: 4:30-6:30pm Wednesday Nov 13; 3rd floor seminar room, 5 Washington Place (NYU).
Title: TBD.
Abstract: TBD.
I will argue, pace a great many of my contemporaries, that there’s something right about Boltzmann’s attempt to ground the 2nd law of thermodynamics in deterministic time-reversal invariant classical dynamics, and that in order to appreciate what’s right about (what was at least at one time) Boltzmann’s explanatory project one has to fully apprehend the nature of (a) microphysical causal structure, (b) time-reversal invariance, and (c) the relationship between Boltzmann entropy and the work of Rudolf Clausius.
There will be dinner after the talk. If you are interested, please send an email with “Dinner” in the heading to nyphilsci@gmail.com (please note that all are welcome, but only the speaker’s dinner will be covered.) If you have any other questions, please email denise.dykstra@rutgers.edu.
Please R.S.V.P.
The City University of New York, Graduate Center, is hosting its second Emotion Workshop. This semester, we are profiling the work of local scholars and visitors to New York. Topics relate to mind, social philosophy, epistemology, aesthetics, experimental philosophy, and psychology. The workshop will be 1 day long. Participants should not feel obligated to attend every session, but we do ask you to RSVP (this is to make sure everyone is allowed Saturday building access). If you think there is a chance you will join us for any part of the day, please send your name to Sarah Arnaud, postdoc in the Philosophy Program and co-organizer: sarnaud@gc.cuny.edu
PROGRAM
10:00-10:15 Introduction
10:15-11:00 Jesse Prinz (CUNY, Philosophy), “Are emotions socially constructed?”
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:00 Rodrigo Díaz (Bern, Philosophy), “Folk emotion concepts”
12:00-12:45 Juliette Vazard (NYU / Institut Jean Nicod, Paris / University of Geneva), “Epistemic anxiety”
12:45-2:15 Break (lunch)
2:15-3:00 S. Arnaud & K. Pendoley (CUNY, Philosophy), “Intentionalism and the understanding of emotion experience”
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Jonathan Gilmore (CUNY, Philosophy), “Emotion, absorption, and experiential imagining”
4:00-4:45 Jordan Wylie (CUNY, Psychology), “Investigating the influences of emotion on object recognition”
4:45-6:00 Reception
Presented by Metro Area Philosophers of Science
Spring 2020 Schedule:
Anthony Aguirre (UCSC) – “Entropy in long-lived genuinely closed quantum systems”
6:30-8:30pm Tuesday Feb 4; NYU Philosophy Department (5 Washington Place), 3rd floor seminar room.
David Papineau (King’s College London & CUNY) – “The Nature of Representation”
4:30-6:30pm Tuesday March 3; CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave, NYC), room 5307.
Jim Holt (Author of Why Does the World Exist?) – “Here, Now, Photon: Why Newton was closer to EM than Maudlin is”
4:30-6:30pm Tuesday April 7; CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave, NYC), room 5307.
Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech)
4:30-6:30pm Tuesday April 28; CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave, NYC), room 5307.
Free Will
Implications from Physics and Metaphysics
The workshop will be hybrid, and anyone interested can participate through Zoom, although there will be limited spots for in-person participants. If you are interested in attending in-person, please reply to this email or write to loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu.
Barry Loewer (loewer@philosophy.rutgers.edu) Assistant: Diego Arana (diego.arana@rutgers.edu)
Program (All times are EST)
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/freewillzoom
iCal: https://tinyurl.com/freewillical
May 11
10:00am Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame, Duke)
Ginet’s Principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to the
given past.
11:30am John Perry (Stanford)
Causation, Entailment and Freedom
3:00pm Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
The Consequence Argument Meets the Mentaculus
4:30pm Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille, UWO)
Free will: Back to Reichenbach
May 12
10:00am Kadri Vihvelin (USC)
Why We can’t Change the Past
11:30am Valia Allori (NIU)
Freedom from the Quantum?
3:00pm Tim O’Connor (Indiana, Baylor)
Top-Down and Indeterministic Agency: Why?
4:30pm Jessica Wilson (Toronto)
Two Routes to the Emergence of Free Will
September 4 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Urban Aesthetics, Capabilities, and The Pursuit of Well-Being
September 18 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)
On Being Transformed by Literature: from Inspiration to Conversion
October 2 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alex King (Simon Fraser University)
Exquisite Feeling
October 16 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Joe Han (New York University)
Games, Art and The Magic Circle (provisional title)
October 30 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Vanda Metzger (Bergen Community College)
Aesthetics of Ornament
November 6 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Jeffrey Strayer (Purdue University Fort Wayne)
Art and Identity: Nothing, Something, and Everything
November 13 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Laura Di Summa (William Paterson University)
Who’s Reading? Children’s Aesthetics and an Epistemology of Parenting Through Picture Books (provisional title)
November 27 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Francesco Campana (University of Padua – The New School)
Artistic Space as Political Space
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Upon entering the building, non-CUNY attendants will need to show an ordinary ID at the front desk.
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Elisa Caldarola
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
RTDb
Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin
September 4 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Urban Aesthetics, Capabilities, and The Pursuit of Well-Being
September 18 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)
On Being Transformed by Literature: from Inspiration to Conversion
October 2 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alex King (Simon Fraser University)
Exquisite Feeling
October 16 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Joe Han (New York University)
Games, Art and The Magic Circle (provisional title)
October 30 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Vanda Metzger (Bergen Community College)
Aesthetics of Ornament
November 6 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Jeffrey Strayer (Purdue University Fort Wayne)
Art and Identity: Nothing, Something, and Everything
November 13 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Laura Di Summa (William Paterson University)
Who’s Reading? Children’s Aesthetics and an Epistemology of Parenting Through Picture Books (provisional title)
November 27 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Francesco Campana (University of Padua – The New School)
Artistic Space as Political Space
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Upon entering the building, non-CUNY attendants will need to show an ordinary ID at the front desk.
—
Elisa Caldarola
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
RTDb
Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin
September 4 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Urban Aesthetics, Capabilities, and The Pursuit of Well-Being
September 18 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)
On Being Transformed by Literature: from Inspiration to Conversion
October 2 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alex King (Simon Fraser University)
Exquisite Feeling
October 16 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Joe Han (New York University)
Games, Art and The Magic Circle (provisional title)
October 30 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Vanda Metzger (Bergen Community College)
Aesthetics of Ornament
November 6 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Jeffrey Strayer (Purdue University Fort Wayne)
Art and Identity: Nothing, Something, and Everything
November 13 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Laura Di Summa (William Paterson University)
Who’s Reading? Children’s Aesthetics and an Epistemology of Parenting Through Picture Books (provisional title)
November 27 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Francesco Campana (University of Padua – The New School)
Artistic Space as Political Space
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Upon entering the building, non-CUNY attendants will need to show an ordinary ID at the front desk.
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Elisa Caldarola
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
RTDb
Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin
The philosophy of art, as practiced in the western world, has tended to have two divided homes: in analytic philosophy and continental philosophy. Within the analytic tradition, the philosophy of art has recently undergone a revival with the emphasis on perception. This has more closely aligned art theory to science and questions of biology as well as to issues within psychology. The continental tradition has traditionally drawn upon phenomenology’s first-person experience with its ties to embodied perception as well as the social and historical concerns of the social aspect of art. In the realm itself of visual art, the state of (so-called) post-post modernism has resulted in both the dissolution of belief in progress and even, according to some art critics, a lamentable stagnation. But many philosophers of the last century, beginning with Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Nelson Goodman, etc., have suggested that art needs to be thought of within its social, pragmatic, or epistemological functions, suggesting perhaps a need to think of art outside the confines of modernism’s stylistic revolutions and formalist issues. Relatedly, the pluralism within science could be accessed as model for this enterprise. Multiple views on a phenomenon are required due to the complexity of the enterprise, and the practice of both making art and of perceiving it might be in that category. This conference seeks to bring these strands, the analytical and the continental ones, together and evaluate how to move forward with art theory in an age of globalization.
We welcome submissions on these possible questions:
1. Should we value a diversity of perspectives in art theory? If so, what is the value? If not, why not?
2. Are there aspects of art that we presume to be universal that are, in fact, culturally situated?
3. How should different ways of experiencing art be characterized?
4. What is the epistemological function of art?
5. How does the monetary role in art affect both the artist and the perceiver of art?
6. How do the mechanics of seeing (e.g., gist perception, peripheral vision, etc.) affect how we experience art?
7. How does the practice of making art relate to the first-person experience?
8. What role does Husserl’s “bracketing” have in the viewing or making of art?
9. Are there specific non-western traditions that provide a better explanatory solution for the role of art than have the competing paradigms of continental and analytic?
We welcome your participation and look forward to your contributions. Papers should not extend over 45 minutes. Q & A are 15 minutes.
To submit anonymized abstract BY JULY 15, 2024: papers: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5c9bmoBYb3hCAb0YWWfzV0BLWbhig2PD5VeKU358VA3RKGw/viewform?usp=sf_link
September 4 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Urban Aesthetics, Capabilities, and The Pursuit of Well-Being
September 18 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)
On Being Transformed by Literature: from Inspiration to Conversion
October 2 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Alex King (Simon Fraser University)
Exquisite Feeling
October 16 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Joe Han (New York University)
Games, Art and The Magic Circle (provisional title)
October 30 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Vanda Metzger (Bergen Community College)
Aesthetics of Ornament
November 6 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Jeffrey Strayer (Purdue University Fort Wayne)
Art and Identity: Nothing, Something, and Everything
November 13 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Laura Di Summa (William Paterson University)
Who’s Reading? Children’s Aesthetics and an Epistemology of Parenting Through Picture Books (provisional title)
November 27 (Wed), 11.45 – 1.15
Francesco Campana (University of Padua – The New School)
Artistic Space as Political Space
—
Upon entering the building, non-CUNY attendants will need to show an ordinary ID at the front desk.
—
Elisa Caldarola
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
RTDb
Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin