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Speak, Memory: Dignāga, Consciousness, and Awareness. Nicholas Silins (Cornell)
5:30 pm
Speak, Memory: Dignāga, Consciousness, and Awareness. Nicholas Silins (Cornell)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
May 5 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
When someone is in a conscious state, must they be aware of that state? The Buddhist philosopher Dignāga offers a brilliant route to answering this question by leveraging the role awareness might play as a constraint on memory. I begin by clarifying his strategy and what conclusions it might be used to establish. Here I examine different candidate directions of explanation between consciousness and inner awareness. I interpret the metaphor of consciousness as a lamp that lights itself,[...]
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Conception and Its Discontents
Conception and Its Discontents
@ Heyman Center, 2nd floor common room
May 8 – May 9 all-day
A conference hosted by the Motherhood and Technology Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference on the theme of “Conception and Its Discontents.” Medical technologies have radically transformed the biological and social experience of motherhood. Advances in genomic and reproductive care, the circulation of novel kinship structures, the entrenchment of existing global networks of power and privilege, and the politics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation. Technological advancements have[...]
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