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Dependence, Autonomy, and the Varieties of Relationship. Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana U) 5:30 pm
Dependence, Autonomy, and the Varieties of Relationship. Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana U) @ Columbia University Religion Dept. 101
Jan 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
This talk places master-student relations in the context of Confucian social theory, focusing on issues of obedience, remonstration, and respect for different sorts of authorities. I survey early Confucian accounts of the good society centered on role relations, personal development, and flourishing, both individual and communal. I then examine the question of autonomy within these relationships, looking closely at remonstration, obedience, and disobedience. The talk concludes with a broader discussion of human dependence, placing Confucian[...]
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The Truth of Logic and the Univocity of p. Irad Kimhi 3:30 pm
The Truth of Logic and the Univocity of p. Irad Kimhi @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 202
Jan 31 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
The notion of an occurrence of a proposition in discourse is the subject of the following observation: (O) A proposition may occur in discourse, now asserted, now unasserted, and yetbe recognizably the same proposition. I shall argue that the true significance of this observation is utterly distorted by Geach’s manner of construing of it — a construal widely known today as “the Frege-Geach point”. Though it serves as a basis for a contemporary understanding of logical form, strictly thought through, this way[...]