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Spontaneous Arising and an Ethics of Creativity in Early Daoism, Erica Brindley (Penn State)
5:30 pm
Spontaneous Arising and an Ethics of Creativity in Early Daoism, Erica Brindley (Penn State)
@ Columbia University Religion Dept. 101
Nov 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
In the early part of the 20th century, Joseph Needham formulated a substantial claim concerning the Chinese predilection for self-generated creation rather than creator gods and myths. Half a century later, scholars working in the West like Frederick Mote, Derk Bodde, and Chang Kwang-chih picked up on Needham’s insight to discuss the so-called lack of a “creation myth” in early Chinese culture, basing their arguments on what they called the “inner necessity” or “spontaneously self-generating”[...]
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The Art of Refusal: Overcoming Epistemic Injustice in the #MeToo Era, Sarah Clark Miller (Penn State)
7:30 pm
The Art of Refusal: Overcoming Epistemic Injustice in the #MeToo Era, Sarah Clark Miller (Penn State)
@ Brooklyn Public Library
Nov 7 @ 7:30 pm
On Wednesday, November 7th at 7:30 PM, Sarah Clark Miller (Penn State) joins us to discuss “The Art of Refusal: Overcoming Epistemic Injustice in the #MeToo Era.” She’ll talk about how survivors of sexual assault and harassment can deal with the fact that many people don’t believe them. It’s a difficult topic, but I think it’s really, really important. If you’re interested in the epistemological questions surrounding #MeToo – what standards of evidence are appropriate for sexual misconduct[...]
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Epistemology and Ethics Workshop
5:30 pm
Epistemology and Ethics Workshop
@ Plaza View Room, 12th Floor
Nov 13 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
AY 2018 – 19 Workshop Schedule September 25th – Avery Archer (GWU) October 16th – Daniel Singer (Penn) November 13th – Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany) February 26th – Vita Emery (Fordham) March 26th – Kathryn Tabb (Columbia) April 23rd – Carol Hay (UMass Lowell) The Epistemology and Ethics group is composed of faculty and graduate students at Fordham and other nearby universities. Papers are read in advance, so the majority of the time is devoted[...]
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The Structure of Space and Time, and Physical Indeterminacy- Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU)
4:30 pm
The Structure of Space and Time, and Physical Indeterminacy- Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU)
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Nov 20 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
I introduce a sequence which I call indefinite: a sequence every element of which has a successor but whose number of elements is bounded; this is no contradiction. I then consider the possibility of space and time being indefinitely divisible. This is theoretically possible and agrees with experience. If this is space and time’s structure, then even if the laws of nature are deterministic, the behaviour of physical systems will be probabilistic. This approach might[...]
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When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom, Mario Hubert (Columbia)
4:30 pm
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom, Mario Hubert (Columbia)
@ CUNY Grad Center, 5307
Nov 28 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
We show that in the Maxwell–Lorentz theory of classical electrodynamics most initial values for fields and particles lead to an ill-defined dynamics, as they exhibit singularities or discontinuities along light-cones. This phenomenon suggests that the Maxwell equations and the Lorentz force law ought rather to be read as a system of delay differential equations, that is, differential equations that relate a function and its derivatives at different times. This mathematical reformulation, however, leads to physical[...]
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Technê as Productive Knowledge for Aristotle, Simona Aimar (UCL)
4:10 pm
Technê as Productive Knowledge for Aristotle, Simona Aimar (UCL)
@ Columbia University Philosophy Dept. 716
Nov 29 @ 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Reception to follow
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Can the Vaiśeṣika Individuate Universals? David Nowakowski (Union)
5:30 pm
Can the Vaiśeṣika Individuate Universals? David Nowakowski (Union)
@ Columbia University Religion Dept. 101
Nov 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The Vaiśeṣika school of Indian philosophy is known for its distinctive doctrine of “individuators” (viśeṣāḥ), by means of which the various entities of the mundane world—substances, qualities, and motions—can be distinguished as unique individuals on purely formal grounds. As straightforward as the account is for these entities, the problem of individuation becomes much more complicated for universals. This paper uses the question “Can the Vaiśeṣika individuate universals?” to explore the next three categories in the[...]
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