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Mind and Language Research Seminar
4:00 pm
Mind and Language Research Seminar
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
May 1 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Our topic for Spring 2018 will be Formal Frameworks for Semantics and Pragmatics. We’ll be investigating a range of questions in semantics and/or pragmatics which involve or are relevant to the choice between different kinds of overall structure for theories in these areas. In most sessions, the members of the seminar will receive a week in advance, copies of recent work, or work in progress from a thinker at another university. After reading this work,[...]
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CUNY Colloquium
4:15 pm
CUNY Colloquium
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5
May 2 @ 4:15 pm
Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. February 7th • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture David Papineau (CUNY Graduate Center | King’s College London) “Kinds and Essences: Taming Metaphysical Modality” February 14th Jane Friedman (NYU) “The Epistemic and the Zetetic” February 21st Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York U) “Are Sexes Natural Kinds?” February 28th Laurie Paul (UNC)[...]
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What is Creativity? A conversation between Professors Elliot Paul and Joan Snitzer
6:30 pm
What is Creativity? A conversation between Professors Elliot Paul and Joan Snitzer
@ Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
May 3 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Elliot Paul, assistant professor of philosophy, and Joan Snitzer, cochair and director of visual arts in the Department of Art History, come together to discuss the relationship between creative expression and appreciation in this installment of From the Faculty Lounge. Paul and Snitzer will explore creativity’s role in our happiness and moral choices, and how an artist’s ownership of their creativity compares to an audience’s influence. Moderated by Provost Linda Bell Space is limited and[...]
Hannah Arendt’s “On Violence”
7:00 pm
Hannah Arendt’s “On Violence”
@ Outpost Cafe
May 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Brooklyn Philosophy Reading and Discussion Group Thursday, May 3 at 7:00 PM Join us this week as we discuss Hannah Arendt’s essay “On Violence”. A link to the text can be found here:… https://www.meetup.com/Brooklyn-Philosophy-Reading-and-Discussion-Group/events/249373060/
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Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society
Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society
@ Columbia University Philosophy Dept. 716
May 4 – May 5 all-day
The Eastern Study Group of the NAKS invites submissions for its 15th annual meeting to take place at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday, May 4–5, 2018. Our host this year is Professor Patricia Kitcher. Conference Flyer Keynote Speakers: Stephen Engstrom (Pitt) Paul Guyer (Brown) Submissions of detailed abstracts (1,000 words) or papers (no more than 5,000 words, including notes and references) should be prepared for blind review as PDF files. Please include a word[...]
Psychologism and Behaviourism Revisited – Tim Crane (CEU)
12:30 pm
Psychologism and Behaviourism Revisited – Tim Crane (CEU)
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
May 4 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Gottlob Frege famously argued that we should always ‘always separate sharply the psychological from the logical, the subjective from the objective’. While analytic philosophers have generally followed this advice when discussing logic and mathematics (in their rejection of ‘psychologism’ about these things), they have not followed it when discussing the psychological itself. It might be thought that if psychologism was true of anything, it is true of the psychological. But much 20th and 21st century[...]
David Barack (Columbia)
1:00 pm
David Barack (Columbia)
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7113
May 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Reasoning often involves searching for information relevant to answering some question or determining the truth value of some proposition. Starting from a set of propositions, akin to a patch of resources in the environment, reasoners draw inferences, akin to harvesting resources from that patch. Reasoners forage through the space of propositions to find potentially informative patches, each of which promises multiple paths of inferences. Once reasoning from a premise patch begins, reasoners follow a path of inferences[...]
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Logic & Metaphysics Workshop
4:15 pm
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3309
May 7 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Feb 26 Martin Pleitz, Muenster Mar 5 Vera Flocke, NYU Mar 12 Roy Sorensen, WUSTL Mar 19 Alex Citkin, Private Researcher Mar 26 Chris Scambler, NYU Apr 2 SPRING RECESS. NO MEETING Apr 9 Greg Restall, Melbourne Apr 16 Daniel Nolan, Notre Dame Apr 23 Mel Fitting, CUNY Apr 30 Sungil Han, Seoul National May 7 Andreas Ditter, NYU May14 Rohit Parikh
The Reduction of Necessity to Essence – Andreas Ditter (NYU)
4:15 pm
The Reduction of Necessity to Essence – Andreas Ditter (NYU)
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3309
May 7 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
In ‘Essence and Modality’, Kit Fine proposes that for a proposition to be metaphysically necessary is for it to be true in virtue of the nature of all objects whatsoever. Call this view ‘Fine’s Thesis’. On its intended interpretation, the view takes for granted a notion of essence that is not analyzable in terms of metaphysical necessity. It can thus be understood as an analysis of metaphysical necessity in terms of an independently understood notion[...]
Philosophy of Language Workshop
6:30 pm
Philosophy of Language Workshop
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
29 January Gillian Russell (UNC) 5 February Mandy Simons (CMU) 12 February (No Workshop) 19 February (No Workshop) 26 February Daniel Rothschild (UCL) 5 March Chris Kennedy (UChicago) 12 March Rachel Sterken (Oslo) 19 March No Workshop (NYU Spring Break) 26 March Andreas Stokke (Uppsala) 2 April Rebekah Baglini (Stanford) 9 April Henry Schiller (UT Austin) 16 April Gary Ostertag (CUNY) 23 April Manuel Križ (Jean Nicod) 30 April Maria Aloni (ILLC/Amsterdam) 7 May Alexis[...]
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Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series
7:00 pm
Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series
@ Various Locations around NYC
May 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapters of Columbia, The New School, Rutgers, CUNY, NYU, and Princeton invite submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups for a workshop series (NY-MAPWorks) in spring 2018. Dates: Jan 30th (NYU), Feb. 20th (New School), March 6th (CUNY), April 17th (Columbia), May 8th (NYU), 7-9:30pm. Submission Guidelines: To apply, please compete the following by December 15th, 2017: Send an extended abstract of 750-1,000 words (.pdf or .doc),[...]
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CUNY Colloquium
4:15 pm
CUNY Colloquium
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5
May 9 @ 4:15 pm
Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. February 7th • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture David Papineau (CUNY Graduate Center | King’s College London) “Kinds and Essences: Taming Metaphysical Modality” February 14th Jane Friedman (NYU) “The Epistemic and the Zetetic” February 21st Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York U) “Are Sexes Natural Kinds?” February 28th Laurie Paul (UNC)[...]
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Susan Sontag’s “Regarding the Pain of Others”
7:00 pm
Susan Sontag’s “Regarding the Pain of Others”
@ Outpost Cafe
May 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Brooklyn Philosophy Reading and Discussion Group Thursday, May 10 at 7:00 PM This week we’ll discuss Susan Sontag’s short book about the meaning and effects of absorbing media depicting violence and suffering. A link to the wor… https://www.meetup.com/Brooklyn-Philosophy-Reading-and-Discussion-Group/events/249373103/
Himpathy for the Nice Guy – Kate Mann (Cornell)
7:30 pm
Himpathy for the Nice Guy – Kate Mann (Cornell)
@ Brooklyn Public Library
May 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
It’s the last Brooklyn Public Philosophers talk of the season! Tomorrow, Thursday May 10th, Kate Manne (Cornell) is coming to the Brooklyn Public Library to discuss her work on misogyny, sexism, the difference between the two, and the weird amount of sympathy that society grants to perpetrators of sexual violence. If you’re interested in #MeToo, excuses, and how to manage one another’s feelings about assaults on patriarchy, this is for you. In her recent book,[...]
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Buddhist Perfectionism and Kantian Liberalism on Self-Constitution – David Cummiskey (Bates College)
5:30 pm
Buddhist Perfectionism and Kantian Liberalism on Self-Constitution – David Cummiskey (Bates College)
@ Columbia Religion Dept. rm 101
May 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
At the core of Kantian liberalism is a conception of the independent autonomous subject. On the other hand, the most central and distinguishing feature of Buddhist philosophy is the doctrine of no-self. It thus seems that Buddhists should reject Kantian liberalism. My larger project develops the connections between Buddhist perfectionism, liberalism, and principles of justice. In this paper, I focus on Buddhist and Kantian conceptions of self-constitution, but my ultimate concern is the significance of[...]
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To What Extent is a Group an Individual? (Rohit Parikh)
4:15 pm
To What Extent is a Group an Individual? (Rohit Parikh)
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3309
May 14 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Dennett in his Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (1995) and Kinds of Minds (1996) discusses an evolutionary hierarchy of intellectual progress. He calls the hierarchy the ‘Tower of Generate-and-Test,’ where there are five kinds of creatures. These range from ‘Darwinian creatures,’ organisms which are blindly generated and field-tested, to Popperian creatures which can make plans, to creatures like human beings who use ‘language’ to communicate with others like them. One could ask, “at what level, if any,[...]
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A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery
6:00 pm
A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery
@ Cornelia Street Cafe
May 15 @ 6:00 pm
Are you miserable? If you are, you certainly have company. Misery has been on the rise in our society for some time, and the suffering is widespread: we, the people, feel lonely, neglected, forgotten, increasingly poor in health, in habit, and in purchasing power. A sense of helplessness shrouds the land. The manifestations of this are grim. Some take the agony of their despair and direct it outward, destroying the lives of concert attendees, night[...]
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Philosophy of Science Workshop
Philosophy of Science Workshop
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
May 16 all-day
J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge). 11am-12pm, Wednesday May 16, NYU philosophy department, room 302 (5 Washington Place, New York, NY). Title: TBD. Abstract: TBD. =============================================================== Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge). 1:30-3:30pm, Wednesday May 16, NYU philosophy department, room 302 (5 Washington Place, New York, NY). Title: On Dualities and Equivalences Between Physical Theories. Abstract: My main aim is to make a remark about the relation between (i) dualities between theories, as `duality’ is understood in physics and (ii)[...]
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Rutgers-Columbia Workshop on Metaphysics of Science: Quantum Field Theories*
Rutgers-Columbia Workshop on Metaphysics of Science: Quantum Field Theories*
@ Rutgers Philosophy Dept
May 17 – May 18 all-day
Workshop Theme: What is the metaphysical status of quantum field theory (QFT)? How should field theories be interpreted? These questions have received considerable attention over the past few decades in various research projects in physics, mathematics, and philosophy, but there is no clear consensus on any of them. One finds a variety of different approaches to understanding QFTs — Algebraic QFT, conventional QFT, Bell-type Bohmian QFT, etc. — and different interpretations — realism, instrumentalism, and[...]
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Metaphysical Mayhem
Metaphysical Mayhem
@ Rutgers Philosophy Dept. 5th floor Seminar Rm.
May 21 – May 25 all-day
The Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Bldg, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor. 2/27/18 Goldman Lecture, 4pm 3/1/18 Mesthene Lecture, Prof. Miranda Fricker (GC-CUNY), 3:00-6:30 pm 3/22/18 RU Climate Lecture, Prof. Sally Haslanger (MIT) 3:00-5:00 pm 4/8/18 Karen Bennett (Cornell University) 4/12/18 Sanders Lecture, Prof. Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) 4/13/18 Rutgers Chinese Philosophy Conference, 9:30 am-6:30 pm 4/13-4/14/18 Marilyn McCord Adams Memorial Conference 4/14-4/15/18 Rutgers-Columbia Undergraduate Philosophy[...]
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Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology
5:30 pm
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology
@ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Anneberg 12-15
May 24 @ 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[...]
A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery
8:00 pm
A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery
@ Las Tapas Bar and Restaurant
May 24 @ 8:00 pm
Are you miserable? If you are, you certainly have company. Misery has been on the rise in our society for some time, and the suffering is widespread: we, the people, feel lonely, neglected, forgotten, increasingly poor in health, in habit, and in purchasing power. A sense of helplessness shrouds the land. The manifestations of this are grim. Some take the agony of their despair and direct it outward, destroying the lives of concert attendees, night[...]
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Philosophy of Psychology Workshop
1:00 pm
Philosophy of Psychology Workshop
@ Columbia University Philosophy Dept. 716
May 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
PoPRocks (formerly known as ‘WoPoP’) is an ongoing series in the NYC area for early career researchers – typically grad students and postdocs – working on philosophy of psychology/mind/perception/cognitive science/neuroscience/… . We usually meet roughly once every 2 weeks to informally discuss a draft paper by one of our members. Typically presenters send a copy of their paper around 1 week in advance, so do join the mailing list (by emailing poprocksworkshop@gmail.com or one of[...]
Philosophy of Psychology Workshop – Stephan Pohl
1:00 pm
Philosophy of Psychology Workshop – Stephan Pohl
@ Columbia University Philosophy Dept. 716
May 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
In perception, the world is represented by me. So goes a very naive thesis about perception. Yet when faced with phenomena of hallucination and illusion many theorists come to accept that in perception one merely represents a possible world that can more or less accurately match the actual world. Recently, a much more radical thesis arose: Perception is probabilistic. This would mean that in perception one does not simply represent one possible world, but one[...]
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Legal Philosophy Workshop 2018
Legal Philosophy Workshop 2018
@ Rutgers Philosophy Dept
May 31 – Jun 1 all-day
LPW is an annual conference designed to foster reflection on the nature of law and the philosophical issues underlying its different areas. Our aim is to promote work that connects legal philosophy with other branches of philosophy (e.g., moral and political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, or philosophy of action) and to create a venue for the critical examination of different viewpoints about law. The format of the workshop is pre-read. Each session will start with a[...]
Benedict de Spinoza’s “Ethics”- Part 1
7:00 pm
Benedict de Spinoza’s “Ethics”- Part 1
@ Outpost Cafe
May 31 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Brooklyn Philosophy Reading and Discussion Group Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 PM This week we will discuss together our close reading of Part 1 of Spinoza’s “Ethics”, Concerning God. We will work our way through the text assuring t… https://www.meetup.com/Brooklyn-Philosophy-Reading-and-Discussion-Group/events/249373199/
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