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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
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“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,[...]
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Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology 5:30 pm
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology @ Icahn School @Mount Sinai, Annenberg 12-16
Oct 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
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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 It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work.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[...]
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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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Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience 4:15 pm
Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience @ Faculty House, Columbia U
Oct 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
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Speakers: Amanda Pustilnik, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Tor Wager, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder Moderators: Federica Coppola, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University Lan Li, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University We will provide additional information as soon as possible. Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required via Eventbrite. This event is part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
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