Calendar – Blog of Noah Greenstein

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4	5	6	7	8 The Madness of Philosophy & the Limitations of Human Moderation in Plato’s Phaedrus”. Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) 6:00 pm The Madness of Philosophy & the Limitations of Human Moderation in Plato’s Phaedrus”. Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103 Sep 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Socrates’ close association of madness and philosophy from the Phaedrus’ Palinode has puzzled interpreters. How can philosophy be equated to irrationality? In this paper I argue against interpretations that either deny that the association of madness and philosophy ought to be taken seriously or downplay this association by considering madness as akin to the unreflective inspiration characterizing only the first stages of philosophizing but subsequently overcome by the mature philosopher. I show that the association[...]	9	10
11	12 Logic and Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm Logic and Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7314 & Zoom Sep 12 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows: Sept 5. NO MEETING Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto) Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame) Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven) Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY) Oct 10. NO MEETING[...] Free Market: The History of an Idea 11:30 pm Free Market: The History of an Idea @ East Gallery, Maison Française Sep 12 @ 11:30 pm – Sep 13 @ 12:30 am Tickets Jacob Soll, in conversation with Pierre Force, John Shovlin, Carl Wennerlind, and Emmanuelle Saada After two government bailouts of the U.S. economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market: the History of an Idea, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market thought. Contrary to popular narratives, early[...]	13	14	15 Book Panel: Chiara Bottici, Anarchafeminism 6:00 pm Book Panel: Chiara Bottici, Anarchafeminism @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103 Sep 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Book Panel with: Chiara Bottici (NSSR and Lang College), Judith Butler (UC Berkeley and NSSR) and Romy Opperman (NSSR and Lang College). Abstract: How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we envisage a feminism that doesn’t turn into yet another tool for oppression? By arguing that there is no single arche explaining the oppression of women and LGBTQI+ people, Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist philosophy[...]	16 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ Zoom Sep 16 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM, 1-3, NYC TIMEAll are hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaneyZoom links are all announced on the Cognitive Science email listTo subscribe to that list, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.comSome sessions—not all—are recorded for later access 9/16: Michael A. CohenPsychology and Neuroscience, Amherst College9/23: Alon ZivonyPsychological Sciences, Birkbeck College London9/30: Steven GrossPhilosophy, Johns Hopkins University10/7: Steven FlemingExperimental Psychology and Neuroimaging, University College London10/14: John MorrisonPhilosophy, Barnard College and Columbia University10/21: Michael SnodgrassCognition &[...]	17
18	19 Logic and Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm Logic and Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7314 & Zoom Sep 19 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows: Sept 5. NO MEETING Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto) Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame) Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven) Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY) Oct 10. NO MEETING[...] Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson 4:30 pm Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson @ AB-2400 [East Wing] CAC Rutgers U Sep 19 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Professor Williamson will give 3 lectures: September 19, 21, and 23. All will take place in AB-2400 [East Wing] from 4:30-6:30pm. The lectures will discuss problems in the methodology of contemporary philosophy. Although philosophy without use of counterexamples would be a disaster, the way they are currently handled is naïve. In particular, it is too vulnerable to fake counterexamples generated by more or less universal human heuristics. Lecture One: Heuristics [9/19] Human cognition, from sense perception[...] Philosophy of Language Workshop 5:30 pm Philosophy of Language Workshop @ 302 NYU Philosophy Dept. Sep 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets During Fall 2022, we will meet on Mondays from 5:30 until 7:30 in room 302 of NYU’s Philosophy Building, at 5 Washington Place. Our schedule of speakers is below. RSVP Requirement: If you do not have an NYU ID, you will have to RSVP at least a week before the first workshop that you attend. You will then receive email instructions for uploading your proof of vaccination. We have made a single RSVP form where[...] Anti-Bergson: Bachelard’s “Surrationalist” Moment and The Poetics of Time 7:00 pm Anti-Bergson: Bachelard’s “Surrationalist” Moment and The Poetics of Time @ La Maison Française NYU Sep 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets We are excited to announce a public talk featuring Elie During as part of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s 60th death anniversary. On the face of it, The Dialectic of Duration, Gaston Bachelard’s 1936 essay, is a pungent—if often unfair—criticism of the Bergsonian doctrine of time and creative evolution. The constructive side of this Anti-Bergson has received less attention: it implies a genuine poetics of time based on the intuition of the sporadic and oscillatory nature of becoming. Bachelard’s rhythmic theme is[...]	20 Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy 5:30 pm Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy @ Lincoln Center tbd Sep 20 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu, sahaddad@fordham.edu, eislekel@fordham.edu, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent out prior to each meeting. 2022-23 September 20 – Miguel Vatter (Deakin), “Home, Habitat, Habitability: Reflections on Planetary Politics” October 11 – María Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), TBD Additional Meetings[...]	21 CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium 4:15 pm CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 Sep 21 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets 9.7 Kathryn Sophia Belle (Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies, Penn State)“Audre Lorde at The Second Sex Conference (1979): ‘Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged’” 9.14 No colloquium 9.21 Matthew Lindauer (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)“Fruitfulness for Normative Concepts” 9.28 Myisha Cherry (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside)“On James Baldwin and Black Rage” 10.5 No colloquium 10.12 Monima Chadha[...] Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson 4:30 pm Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson @ AB-2400 [East Wing] CAC Rutgers U Sep 21 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Professor Williamson will give 3 lectures: September 19, 21, and 23. All will take place in AB-2400 [East Wing] from 4:30-6:30pm. The lectures will discuss problems in the methodology of contemporary philosophy. Although philosophy without use of counterexamples would be a disaster, the way they are currently handled is naïve. In particular, it is too vulnerable to fake counterexamples generated by more or less universal human heuristics. Lecture One: Heuristics [9/19] Human cognition, from sense perception[...]	22	23 Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ Zoom Sep 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM, 1-3, NYC TIMEAll are hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaneyZoom links are all announced on the Cognitive Science email listTo subscribe to that list, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.comSome sessions—not all—are recorded for later access 9/16: Michael A. CohenPsychology and Neuroscience, Amherst College9/23: Alon ZivonyPsychological Sciences, Birkbeck College London9/30: Steven GrossPhilosophy, Johns Hopkins University10/7: Steven FlemingExperimental Psychology and Neuroimaging, University College London10/14: John MorrisonPhilosophy, Barnard College and Columbia University10/21: Michael SnodgrassCognition &[...] SWIP-NYC Colloquium 3:30 pm SWIP-NYC Colloquium @ Zoom & Possibly Live Sep 23 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets The SWIP-NYC Colloquium showcases work by women philosophers in all areas of philosophy. Usually, there are two regular colloquia per semester plus a special colloquium featuring the winner(s) of our annual SWIP-NYC Graduate Student Essay Prize. Fall 2022 Our fall colloquia will be held over Zoom. (Depending on how things go, we may be able to move back to in person in the spring.) Zoom links will be distributed via our email list about a[...] Found or Sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues. Robert Stern (U Sheffield) 4:00 pm Found or Sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues. Robert Stern (U Sheffield) @ New School M104 (The Bark Room), Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Sep 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets We are excited to announce that the first workshop of the semester will take place in person on Friday, September 23rd from 4-6pm (please note the change in the usual time). Robert Stern (University of Sheffield) will be giving a talk entitled, “Found or Sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues.” Please note that the talk will take place at The New School, Room M104 (The Bark Room), Sheila C. Johnson[...] Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson 4:30 pm Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson @ AB-2400 [East Wing] CAC Rutgers U Sep 23 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Professor Williamson will give 3 lectures: September 19, 21, and 23. All will take place in AB-2400 [East Wing] from 4:30-6:30pm. The lectures will discuss problems in the methodology of contemporary philosophy. Although philosophy without use of counterexamples would be a disaster, the way they are currently handled is naïve. In particular, it is too vulnerable to fake counterexamples generated by more or less universal human heuristics. Lecture One: Heuristics [9/19] Human cognition, from sense perception[...]	24
25 Meeting 86 – Are we alone in the universe? – IN-PERSON 2:00 pm Meeting 86 – Are we alone in the universe? – IN-PERSON @ Justine's apartment Sep 25 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Philosophy Salon Sunday, September 25 at 2:00 PM Is the universe teeming with intelligent life — some of it perhaps far more advanced than our own? Does our own Milky Way galaxy, like in the classi… Price: 16.00 USD https://www.meetup.com/Philosophy-Salon/events/281524924/	26 Logic and Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm Logic and Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7314 & Zoom Sep 26 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows: Sept 5. NO MEETING Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto) Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame) Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven) Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY) Oct 10. NO MEETING[...]	27	28 CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium 4:15 pm CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206 Sep 28 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Tickets 9.7 Kathryn Sophia Belle (Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies, Penn State)“Audre Lorde at The Second Sex Conference (1979): ‘Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged’” 9.14 No colloquium 9.21 Matthew Lindauer (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)“Fruitfulness for Normative Concepts” 9.28 Myisha Cherry (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside)“On James Baldwin and Black Rage” 10.5 No colloquium 10.12 Monima Chadha[...]	29 I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes: Imaginative Meditation and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplative Philosophy. Christina Van Dyke, Barnard 4:10 pm I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes: Imaginative Meditation and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplative Philosophy. Christina Van Dyke, Barnard @ 716 Philosophy Hall Sep 29 @ 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Thursday, September 29th, 2022 Christina Van Dyke (Barnard College) Title “I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes: Imaginative Meditation and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplative Philosophy” 4:10-6:00 PM 716 Philosophy Hall Class of 1970’s Lecture presents Prof. Susan Neiman (Potsdam) 4:30 pm Class of 1970’s Lecture presents Prof. Susan Neiman (Potsdam) @ Hageman Hall - New Brunswick Theological Seminary Sep 29 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets tba	30 Evil in Modern Thought at Twenty Workshop Evil in Modern Thought at Twenty Workshop @ Hageman Hall - New Brunswick Theological Seminary Sep 30 – Oct 2 all-day Tickets Susan Neiman develops in Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2002, Princeton: Princeton University Press) a watershed perspective on the longstanding problem of evil, the perniciously difficult to satisfy “need to find order within those appearances so unbearable that they threaten reason’s ability to go on.” The book thereby also presents a radically new perspective on traditional debates within metaphysics. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, we gather to celebrate her accomplishment and to advance[...] Cognitive Science Speaker Series 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ Zoom Sep 30 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM, 1-3, NYC TIMEAll are hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaneyZoom links are all announced on the Cognitive Science email listTo subscribe to that list, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.comSome sessions—not all—are recorded for later access 9/16: Michael A. CohenPsychology and Neuroscience, Amherst College9/23: Alon ZivonyPsychological Sciences, Birkbeck College London9/30: Steven GrossPhilosophy, Johns Hopkins University10/7: Steven FlemingExperimental Psychology and Neuroimaging, University College London10/14: John MorrisonPhilosophy, Barnard College and Columbia University10/21: Michael SnodgrassCognition &[...] Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Guerrero (William & Mary) 5:30 pm Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Guerrero (William & Mary) @ Faculty House, Columbia U Sep 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets With responses from Mark Siderits (Illinois State University) ABSTRACT: Buddhist philosophers often draw a distinction between two different kinds of truth: conventional truth (saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinction in terms of an ontological distinction between two different kinds of entities: ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally real entities (saṃvṛti-sat). Similar to contemporary philosophical discussions about ordinary objects, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological status of conventional entities and the semantics of discourse concerning[...]

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