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On the Notion of Diachronic Emergence. Jessica Wilson
4:15 pm
On the Notion of Diachronic Emergence. Jessica Wilson
@ CUNY Grad Center, 7314
Dec 2 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Though most accounts of emergence take this to be a broadly synchronic phenomenon, it has been recently maintained that there are distinctively diachronic forms of emergence (see, e.g., O’Connor and Wong’s 2005 account of strong emergence, Mitchell’s 2012 dynamic self-organization account of emergence, and Humphreys’ and Sartenaer and Guay’s 2016 accounts of ‘transformational emergence’). Here I argue that there is no need for a distinctively diachronic notion of emergence, as purported cases of such emergence[...]
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Sebastian Purcell on Aztec Philosophy
7:00 pm
Sebastian Purcell on Aztec Philosophy
@ Brooklyn Public Library Information Commons Lab
Dec 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The last Philosophy in the Library talk of 2019 is coming up on December 4th at 7:00 PM! Sebastian Purcell is talking about “Good Habits Aren’t Enough: The Aztec Conception of Shared Agency!” If you’re into indigenous philosophy, the history of philosophy, virtue ethics, or collective action, you should enjoy it. Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience, hosted by the[...]
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Absolute Provability and Intuitionistic Tense. Vincent A. Peluce
2:00 pm
Absolute Provability and Intuitionistic Tense. Vincent A. Peluce
@ CUNY Grad Center, 9206
Dec 5 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Well-known ties between arithmetical proof and intuitionistic logic make it natural to think of provability in terms of intuitionistic logic and hence absolute provability in terms of one of its extensions. For this reason, we propose Intuitionistic Tense Logic, or tINT, to study absolute provability. We delineate tINT models and a Hilbert-style system, and then prove soundness and completeness. We then use the tINT framework to discuss and compare ideas of absolute provability of authors[...]
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The Immortal Spirit in Classical Chinese Aesthetics. Paul Goldin (UPenn)
5:30 pm
The Immortal Spirit in Classical Chinese Aesthetics. Paul Goldin (UPenn)
@ Columbia University Religion Dept. 101
Dec 6 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
This will be the third (and, time permitting, some material from the fourth) of a series of lectures that I aim to write up formally as a book. We will begin with a brief review of the most familiar theory of Chinese aesthetics: works of art are the products of sensitive human beings who cannot suppress their sincere responses to emotional stimuli. If art is understood as a sincere statement of this kind by a[...]
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Logic in Fiction. Mark Colyvan
4:15 pm
Logic in Fiction. Mark Colyvan
@ CUNY Grad Center, 7314
Dec 9 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
This paper will address the question of whether the logic of a fiction can be specified as part of the fiction. For example, can one tell a fictional story in which it is part of the story that the logic in question is, say, K3? It seems unproblematic that we can do this. After all, we can tell a story about a world with a different geometry from ours, different physical laws, and even different[...]
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