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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[...]
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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[...]
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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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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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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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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[...]
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