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Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth)
4:00 pm
Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth)
@ CUNY Grad Center
Oct 18 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
SWIP-Analytic Fall 2018 Events Thursday, September 20, 4:00pm-6:00pm CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9205 Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame), “Temporal Discounting in Psychology and Philosophy: Four Proposals for Mutual Research Aid” Thursday, October 18, 4:00pm-6:00pm Location TBA Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth), Title TBA Thursday, November 8, 4:00pm-6:00pm Location TBA Jessica Wilson (Toronto), Title TBA More details will be added as they become available. Click here to download the flyer as a PDF.
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Dimitris Vardoulakis on “Authority and Utility in Spinoza: From Epicureanism to Neoliberalism?”
6:00 pm
Dimitris Vardoulakis on “Authority and Utility in Spinoza: From Epicureanism to Neoliberalism?”
@ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Oct 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The paper argues that Spinoza is influenced by epicureanism. This is evident particularly in the conflict between authority—understood as the kind of figure that is impervious to argumentation—and the calculation of utility (phronesis) that is the precondition of action. This conflict is complex because in certain circumstances we may calculate that it is to our utility to allow a person in authority to calculate on our behalf. The paper indicates, in addition, that the way[...]
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