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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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Issues in Modern Philosophy Conference, in Honor of Don Garrett
Issues in Modern Philosophy Conference, in Honor of Don Garrett
@ NYU Kimmel Center
May 23 – May 24 all-day
Program May 23, 2023 9:25–9:30: Welcome 9:30-10:50: Keynote Talk by Michael Della Rocca (Yale) 10:50-11:00: Break 11:00-1:00: Spinoza Panel, featuring talks by Karolina Hübner (Cornell), Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), and John Morrison (Barnard) 1:00-3:00: Lunch break 3:00–4:20: Keynote Talk by Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary) 4:20–4:30: Break 4:30–6:30: Hume Panel, featuring talks by Rachel Cohon (SUNY Albany), Peter Millican (Oxford), and Karl Schafer (UT Austin) May 24, 2023 9:30–10:50: Keynote Talk by Christia Mercer (Columbia) 10:50–11:00: Break[...]
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