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Identity and Difference. 2023 Fordham Graduate Student Conference 
Identity and Difference. 2023 Fordham Graduate Student Conference  @ Philosophy dept
Mar 3 – Mar 4 all-day
Keynote: Naomi Zack (Lehman College, CUNY) One of philosophy’s original questions still plagues us: to what extent are beings the same and to what extent do they differ? Arising in thinkers as diverse as Parmenides, Aquinas, and De Beauvoir and in arenas from social and political philosophy to phenomenology and metaphysics. This conference aims to gather graduate student scholars from a variety of specializations to discuss their work on identity and difference. Some of the[...]
Philosophy of Crisis and a Question of Solidarity. Jin Y. Park (American) 5:30 pm
Philosophy of Crisis and a Question of Solidarity. Jin Y. Park (American) @ Faculty House, Columbia U
Mar 3 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The COVID-19 pandemic is said to be a once-in-a-century incident, and it brought to us a sense of crisis at various levels. What is a crisis, though? Can any unnerving moment or period be called a crisis, or are there different dimensions of a crisis to which we need to be attentive? Is solidarity possible after experiencing a crisis like Covid-19? Can Buddhism make any contribution to facilitating solidarity? This presentation explores the meaning and[...]
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Logic and Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm
Logic and Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206
Mar 6 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Hi, All. Below is the provisional program for the Workshop this coming semester.  Meetings will be as usual: Mondays 16.15-18.15 at the GC. Room 9205. We are reverting to face to face meetings. (No more Zoom.)   Feb 27 Lionel Shapiro, UConn Mar 6 Gary Ostertag, GC Mar 13 Mel Fitting GC Mar 20 Shawn Simpson Mar 27 Brad Armour-Garb, SUNY Albany Apr 3 Thomas Ferguson, Prague Apr 10 Spring recess. No meeting Apr 17[...]
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On Kripke’s proof of Kripke completeness. Melvin Fitting (CUNY) 4:15 pm
On Kripke’s proof of Kripke completeness. Melvin Fitting (CUNY) @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206
Mar 13 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Saul Kripke announced his possible world semantics in 1959, and published his proof of axiomatic completeness for the standard modal logics of the time in 1963.  It is very unlike the standard completeness proof used today, which involves a Lindenbaum/Henkin construction and produces canonical models.  Kripke’s proof involved tableaus, in a format that is difficult to follow, and uses tableau construction algorithms that are complex and somewhat error prone to describe. I will first discuss[...]
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The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff 4:00 pm
The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff @ CUNY Grad Center 5318
Mar 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
This talk will develop the idea that racial identities are best understood as formed through large scale historical events, and that this genesis can only be obscured by disavowals of racial categories as conceptually mistaken and inevitably morally pernicious.  In this sense, races are formed not simply as ideas, or ideologies and policies, as many social constructivists about race argue, but as forms of life with associated patterns of subjectivity including, as a wealth of[...]
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Rutgers Analytic Theology Seminar
Rutgers Analytic Theology Seminar @ Seminar Room 524B
Mar 17 – Mar 18 all-day
Contact Frederick Choo, fredrick.choo@rutgers.edu
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Logic and inference in the sender-receiver model. Shawn Simpson (Pitt) 4:15 pm
Logic and inference in the sender-receiver model. Shawn Simpson (Pitt) @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206
Mar 20 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
The sender-receiver model was developed by David Lewis to tackle the question of the conventionality of meaning. But many people who cared about the conventionality of meaning did so because they thought it was intimately connected to the conventionality of logic. Since Lewis’s work, only a few attempts have been made to say anything about the nature of logic and inference from the perspective of the sender-receiver model. This talk will look at the what’s[...]
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Political Concepts Graduate Conference
Political Concepts Graduate Conference @ New School tbd
Mar 24 – Mar 25 all-day
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisciplinary, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focused on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meaning in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated. From this forum for engaged scholarship, a succession[...]
An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared World 4:00 pm
An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared World @ Jerome Greene Hall (Law School) Rm 101
Mar 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and about, this common bind? In[...]
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The Philosophy of Deep Learning
The Philosophy of Deep Learning @ Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
Mar 25 – Mar 26 all-day
A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning, organized by Ned Block (New York University), David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University), and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. About The conference will explore current issues in AI research from a philosophical perspective, with particular attention to recent work on deep[...]
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First-order logics over fixed domain. Gregory Taylor (CUNY) 4:15 pm
First-order logics over fixed domain. Gregory Taylor (CUNY) @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206
Mar 27 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
What we call first-order logic over fixed domain was initiated, in a certain guise, by Peirce around 1885 and championed, albeit in idiosyncratic form, by Zermelo in papers from the 1930s.  We characterize such logics model- and proof-theoretically and argue that they constitute exploration of a clearly circumscribed conception of domain-dependent generality.  Whereas a logic, or family of such, can be of interest for any of a variety of reasons, we suggest that one of[...]
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2023 Telos Conference: Forms of War
2023 Telos Conference: Forms of War @ John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Mar 30 – Apr 1 all-day
One of the most challenging aspects of the war in Ukraine is the way in which the conflict has been constantly shifting in its form. In the first place, there is a conventional ground war between Russia and Ukraine, in which the identity and will of the two peoples is at stake. Yet Russia has used weapons supplied by Iran, and Ukraine depends on NATO for its own supplies, indicating that this war depends on[...]
Echoes. Beyond the opposition between appearance and reality. Jocelyn Benoist 6:00 pm
Echoes. Beyond the opposition between appearance and reality. Jocelyn Benoist @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103
Mar 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Western metaphysics is based on the opposition between reality and appearance. This construction essentially rests on a visual model, or more exactly on some staging of what visual experience is. I am going to question the basis of this metaphysics, by taking into account the reality of appearances and reflecting on their various uses, in particular artistic ones. This path will be taken in the first place by shifting the focus of philosophical analysis from[...]
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