Calendar – Blog of Noah Greenstein

October 2018

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	1 Inconsistency and the Sorites Paradox (Otávio Bueno) 4:15 pm Inconsistency and the Sorites Paradox (Otávio Bueno) @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494 Oct 1 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets The Sorites paradox offers an unsettling situation in which, in light of its premises and the apparent validity of the argument, one may be inclined to take the argument to be sound. But this entails that vague concepts, ubiquitous and indispensable to express salient features of the world, are ultimately inconsistent, or at least the application conditions of these concepts seem to lead one directly into contradiction. In what follows, I argue that this inconsistent[...]	2	3 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 Tickets 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[...]	4 The Gift and Weight of Genomic Knowledge: In Search of the Good Biocitizen 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 Tickets “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,[...] Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Flr. Furman Hall Oct 4 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Schedule of Speakers September 6 Eric Beerbohm, Harvard September 13 Rick Brooks, NYU September 20 Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton September 27 Antony Duff, University of Minnesota October 4 Veronique Munoz-Darde, UC Berkeley October 11 Tommie Shelby, Harvard October 18 Michele Moody-Adams, Columbia University October 25 Meir Dan-Cohen, UC Berkeley November 1 Amia Srinivasan, University College London November 8 Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU November 15 Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago November 29 Tom Nagel, NYU December 6 Nancy[...]	5 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Oct 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets 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[...]	6
7	8	9 Social and Political Philosophy Workshop 5:30 pm Social and Political Philosophy Workshop @ Law School rm 8-01 Oct 9 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets Meetings are held on Tuesdays at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan in the Plaza View Room, 12th Floor, Lowenstein Building (113 W. 60th St). We meet from 5:30 to 6:45 and papers are read in advance. If interested in attending, contact sahaddad@fordham.edu or jeflynn@fordham.edu. September 18 – Cristina Beltrán (NYU) October 9 – Jennifer Scuro (New Rochelle) – “Mapping Ableist Biases: Diagnoses and Prostheses” November 6 – Lillian Cicerchia (Fordham) March 12 – Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt) April 9 – Ann Murphy (New Mexico),[...]	10	11 Brian Cross Porter – Kripke’s Fixed Point Construction and the V-Curry Paradox 2:00 pm Brian Cross Porter – Kripke’s Fixed Point Construction and the V-Curry Paradox @ CUNY Grad Center, 3207 Oct 11 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Saul Kripke Center is delighted to announce that Brian Cross Porter (PhD student, CUNY) will give the second talk in our Young Scholars Series, on October 11th, 2pm – 4pm, in room 3207. The title is “Kripke’s Fixed Point Construction and the V-Curry Paradox.” The series is an opportunity for graduate students and early career faculty from throughout the CUNY system to present material on philosophy, computer science and linguistics that is connected to Saul’s work. Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Flr. Furman Hall Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Schedule of Speakers September 6 Eric Beerbohm, Harvard September 13 Rick Brooks, NYU September 20 Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton September 27 Antony Duff, University of Minnesota October 4 Veronique Munoz-Darde, UC Berkeley October 11 Tommie Shelby, Harvard October 18 Michele Moody-Adams, Columbia University October 25 Meir Dan-Cohen, UC Berkeley November 1 Amia Srinivasan, University College London November 8 Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU November 15 Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago November 29 Tom Nagel, NYU December 6 Nancy[...]	12 NY MAP Oppression and Resistance Conference NY MAP Oppression and Resistance Conference @ NYU Philosophy Dept. Oct 12 – Oct 13 all-day Tickets The Minorities and Philosophy Chapters of The Graduate Center CUNY, NYU, Princeton, Columbia, Rutgers, and the New School present: Oppression and Resistance, a conference on understanding and resisting oppression inside and outside the academy. Highlights include: an afternoon of practical workshops a panel on activism and philosophy with Linda Martín Alcoff, Lori Gruen, Kate Ritchie, and Briana Toole six fantastic talks on the topic of the conference a keynote address by José Medina, “Resisting Racist[...] Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Oct 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets 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[...]	13
14	15 Embodied Cognition and Prosthetics: Are Our Tools Part of Our Bodies and Minds? 4:00 pm 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 Tickets 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[...] Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss 4:15 pm Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494 Oct 15 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets n his seminal work Counterfactuals, David Lewis presents a family of systems of conditional logic—his V-family—which includes both his preferred logic of counterfactuals (VC/C1) and Stalnaker’s conditional logic (VCS/C2). Graham Priest posed the problem of finding systems of (labeled) tableaux for logics from Lewis’s V-family in his Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2008, p. 93). In this talk, I present a solution to this problem: sound and complete (labeled) tableaux for Lewis’s V-logics. Errors and shortcomings in recent work on this problem[...]	16	17	18 Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Flr. Furman Hall Oct 18 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Schedule of Speakers September 6 Eric Beerbohm, Harvard September 13 Rick Brooks, NYU September 20 Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton September 27 Antony Duff, University of Minnesota October 4 Veronique Munoz-Darde, UC Berkeley October 11 Tommie Shelby, Harvard October 18 Michele Moody-Adams, Columbia University October 25 Meir Dan-Cohen, UC Berkeley November 1 Amia Srinivasan, University College London November 8 Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU November 15 Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago November 29 Tom Nagel, NYU December 6 Nancy[...]	19 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Oct 19 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets 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[...]	20
21	22 Ontological Reductions of First Order Models, Alfredo Freire 4:15 pm Ontological Reductions of First Order Models, Alfredo Freire @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494 Oct 22 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets Since the discovery of the Loweinheim-Skolem theorem, it has been largely held that there is no purely formal way of fixing a model for any first order theory. Because of this, many have focused on having a relative account of models, establishing the expressive power of one model in its ability to internalize models for other theories. One can, for instance, define a plurality of models for PA from a given model for ZF, and[...]	23	24	25 Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Flr. Furman Hall Oct 25 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Schedule of Speakers September 6 Eric Beerbohm, Harvard September 13 Rick Brooks, NYU September 20 Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton September 27 Antony Duff, University of Minnesota October 4 Veronique Munoz-Darde, UC Berkeley October 11 Tommie Shelby, Harvard October 18 Michele Moody-Adams, Columbia University October 25 Meir Dan-Cohen, UC Berkeley November 1 Amia Srinivasan, University College London November 8 Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU November 15 Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago November 29 Tom Nagel, NYU December 6 Nancy[...]	26 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Oct 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets 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[...]	27
28	29 Ground and Paradox, Boris Kment (Princeton) 4:15 pm Ground and Paradox, Boris Kment (Princeton) @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494 Oct 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets This paper discusses a cluster of interrelated paradoxes, including the semantic and property-theoretic paradoxes (such as the paradox of heterologicality), as well as the set-theoretic paradoxes and the Russell-Myhill paradox. I argue that an independently motivated theory of metaphysical grounding provides philosophically satisfying treatments of these paradoxes. It yields as corollaries a version of the iterative conception of set and an analogous solution to Russell-Myhill. Moreover, it generates a paracomplete solution to the property-theoretic paradoxes.[...]	30	31

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