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Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Nov 2 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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[...]
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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Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Nov 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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[...]
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Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Nov 16 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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[...]
Nielsen: Speed-optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence
4:10 pm
Nielsen: Speed-optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
Nov 16 @ 4:10 pm – 6:10 pm
A standard way to challenge convergence-based accounts of inductive success is to claim that they are too weak to constrain inductive inferences in the short run. We respond to such a challenge by answering some questions raised by Juhl (1994). When it comes to predicting limiting relative frequencies in the framework of Reichenbach, we show that speed-optimal convergence—a long-run success condition—induces dynamic coherence in the short run. This is joint work with Eric Wofsey. Michael[...]
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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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Cognitive Science Speaker Series
1:00 pm
Cognitive Science Speaker Series
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102
Nov 30 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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[...]
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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