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Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm
Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor
Sep 5 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance. The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman[...]
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Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm
Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor
Sep 12 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance. The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman[...]
Perry Zurn: “Cisgender: What Is It? What Is It Not?” 6:00 pm
Perry Zurn: “Cisgender: What Is It? What Is It Not?” @ Wolff Conference Rm D1103
Sep 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Over the last thirty years, the term “cisgender” (or “cis” for short) has come to refer, most commonly, to the category of all non-trans people and all non-trans gender experiences. Trans people are taken to have genders that in some way transition—thereby resisting existing gender norms. Cis people are taken to have genders that do not in any way transition—thereby acquiescing to existing gender norms. In this talk, I draw on resources in philosophy, gender[...]
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Causal Dispositionalism and Emptiness in Huayan Buddhism. Nicholaos Jones (The University of Alabama in Huntsville) 5:30 pm
Causal Dispositionalism and Emptiness in Huayan Buddhism. Nicholaos Jones (The University of Alabama in Huntsville) @ Philosophy Hall 716
Sep 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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I relate an approach to causation from Huayan Buddhism to an emerging research program from analytic metaphysics. The research program is Causal Dispositionalism. The core commitment of Causal Dispositionalism is that causation involves dynamic causal powers. Causal Dispositionalism competes with Neo-Humeanism, a research program that conceptualizes causation as a relation among powerless, causally inert properties. Some scholars claim that approaches to causation from the Madhyamaka Buddhist tradition cohere with Neo-Humeanism. Some also claim that Huayan[...]
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Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy 5:30 pm
Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy @ Fordham Lincoln Center
Sep 17 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
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Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45 at the Lincoln Center campus.  All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending, contact  jeflynn@fordham.edu, sahaddad@fordham.edu, or swhitney@fordham.edu. When meetings are in hybrid form, Zoom details will be sent out prior to the meeting. ​September 17 – Willy Moka (Université Loyola Du Congo; Visiting Loyola Chair, Fordham) October 22 – Annette Martín (UIC/Princeton UCHV 2024-25) November 19 – Nancy Fraser (New School) Spring: David Owen (Southampton/IAS Visiting Professor[...]
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Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm
Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor
Sep 19 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance. The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman[...]
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Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy 4:00 pm
Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy @ Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor
Sep 26 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance. The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman[...]
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