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Racial Justice – Talk & Book Panel 4:15 pm
Racial Justice – Talk & Book Panel @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5
Oct 3 @ 4:15 pm – 7:30 pm
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The CUNY Graduate Center Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) and the Philosophy Program present a talk and book panel on: RACIAL JUSTICE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 (Rooms 9204-5) 4:15-5:00 PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM LECTURE: “Racial Justice”: Charles W. Mills, Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center 5:00-5:05 Break 5:05-5:45 BOOK PANEL on Charles W. Mills’s 2017 book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism Frank M. Kirkland (CUNY Hunter College & the Grad Center) John Pittman (CUNY John Jay College) 5:45-6:30[...]
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Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time 4:00 pm
Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time @ NYU Professional Studies, room 125
Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Loewer distinguishes two approaches to laws and time: Humean accounts, which deny primitive modality and explain temporal asymmetries in scientific terms, and non-Humean accounts that take temporal asymmetry and modality to be metaphysically fundamental. I’ll argue that Loewer neglects an important third approach: deny metaphysical claims about fundamentality, and explain temporal asymmetries as well as the function of modal entities in scientific terms. This pragmatist approach provides a clear ontology to science, and, and unlike[...]
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Workshop on the Future of the Foundations of Physics
Workshop on the Future of the Foundations of Physics @ Pupin Hall Theory Center, 8th flr, Columbia U
Oct 26 – Oct 27 all-day
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What we are hoping for is a free, open, wide-ranging and informal conversation about a number of topics that people have lately been thinking more and more about – and that seem likely to play increasingly central roles, over the next several years, in the foundations of physics. These include questions of the emergence/fundamentality of space and time, the philosophical analysis and scientific role of chance, the relationship between physics and agency, and the possibility,[...]
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