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Karl Marx’s “Capital:” An Evening with Paul North, Paul Reitter, and Emily Apter 6:00 pm
Karl Marx’s “Capital:” An Evening with Paul North, Paul Reitter, and Emily Apter @ Deutsches Haus @ NYU
Sep 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press, 2024) and a conversation with the book’s editor Paul North (Yale University) and translator Paul Reitter (Ohio State University), which will be moderated by Emily Apter (NYU). The first new English translation in fifty years – and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself – produces a critical edition of[...]
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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