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What’s Natural about Naturalistic Neuroscience 4:30 pm
What’s Natural about Naturalistic Neuroscience @ Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall)
Sep 4 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
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Presidential Scholars Paul Linton and Nedah Nemati will discuss their cross-disciplinary research and findings. Their faculty mentors will provide brief responses. Event Speakers Talk Title: What’s Natural about Naturalistic Neuroscience Nedah Nemati, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University Darcy Kelley, Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University John Morrison, Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College Maria Antonietta Tosches, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University Moderated by Pamela Smith, Professor[...]
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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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