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4th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop
4th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop @ Center for Bioethics NYU
May 3 – May 4 all-day
The New York University Center for Bioethics is pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the 4th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, to be held at NYU on Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, 2024. We are seeking to showcase new work in philosophical bioethics, broadly understood. This includes (but is not limited to) neuroethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, reproductive ethics, research ethics, ethics of AI, data ethics, public health ethics, gender and race in bioethics, and clinical ethics. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Shelly Kagan, Yale University. There will be five[...]
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Logic & Metaphysics Workshop 4:15 pm
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7395
May 6 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows: Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY) Feb 12. NO MEETING Feb 19. NO MEETING Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin) Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY) Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami) Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw) Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan) Apr 1.[...]
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Modal definability and Kripke’s theory of truth. James Walsh (NYU) 4:15 pm
Modal definability and Kripke’s theory of truth. James Walsh (NYU) @ CUNY Grad Center 9207
May 10 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that James Walsh (Assistant Professor, Philosophy, NYU) will deliver a talk on Friday, May 10th, 2024, from 4:15 to 6:15 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 9207). The talk is free and open to all. Title: Modal definability and Kripke’s theory of truth Abstract: In Outline of a Theory of Truth, Kripke introduces some of the central concepts of the logical study of truth and paradox. He[...]
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Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit? Asya Passinsky (Central European University) 12:00 pm
Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit? Asya Passinsky (Central European University) @ ZOOM
May 29 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Zoom link To this day, many theorists regard the commodity theory and the credit theory as the two main rival accounts of the nature of money. Yet cryptocurrency has revolutionized the institution of money in ways that most commodity and credit theorists could hardly have anticipated. Assuming that cryptocurrency is a new form of money, the question arises whether the commodity and credit theories can adequately account for it. This talk argues that they cannot.[...]
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