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All-day					Black Women Philosophers Conference @ Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Grad Center Black Women Philosophers Conference @ Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Grad Center Mar 15 all-day Tickets What does a philosopher look like? Inevitably, our mental pictures are shaped by the dominant imagery of the white male marble busts of Greco-Roman antiquity—Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca—and their modern European heirs—Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Mill. Even today Western philosophy is largely male and overwhelmingly white—about 97 percent in the U.S., close to 100 percent in Europe. Diversifying the field requires expanding our corporeal imaginary of its practitioners. This conference, timed to honor[...]	Black Women Philosophers Conference @ Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Grad Center Black Women Philosophers Conference @ Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Grad Center Mar 16 all-day Tickets What does a philosopher look like? Inevitably, our mental pictures are shaped by the dominant imagery of the white male marble busts of Greco-Roman antiquity—Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca—and their modern European heirs—Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Mill. Even today Western philosophy is largely male and overwhelmingly white—about 97 percent in the U.S., close to 100 percent in Europe. Diversifying the field requires expanding our corporeal imaginary of its practitioners. This conference, timed to honor[...]
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But they also float the idea that such distinctions might nevertheless have sentence-like structure, so long as this[...]		4:15 pm CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 CUNY Colloquium @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5 Mar 13 @ 4:15 pm Tickets Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here. February 6 • Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture Ned Block (New York University) “Perception is Non-Propositional, Non-Conceptual and Iconic” February 13 Francesco Pupa (Nassau Community College) “Determiners are Phrases” February 20 Robert Rupert (University of[...] 6:00 pm Why Read Hannah Arendt Now: Book Launch and Movie Screening @ Wolff Conference Room, NSSR, D1103 Why Read Hannah Arendt Now: Book Launch and Movie Screening @ Wolff Conference Room, NSSR, D1103 Mar 13 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Vera List Professor of Philosophy, Richard J. Bernstein, will present his new book on Hannah Arendt, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now (2018, Polity Press), followed by a screening of the documentary film Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt. Free and open to the public.	4:00 pm Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers) Capacities First @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers) Capacities First @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 Mar 14 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Despite their importance in the history of philosophy and in particular in the work of Aristotle and Kant, mental capacities have been neglected in recent philosophical work. By contrast, the notion of a capacity is deeply entrenched in psychology and the brain sciences. Driven by the idea that a cognitive system has the capacity it does in virtue of its internal components and their organization, it is standard to appeal to capacities in cognitive psychology.[...] 6:00 pm Andrea Long Chu “Females: A Concern “ @ Wolff Conference Room, D1103 Andrea Long Chu “Females: A Concern “ @ Wolff Conference Room, D1103 Mar 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets “Everyone is female”—this is the first of several “untenable claims” presented by Andrea Long Chu in her forthcoming book Females: A Concern (Verso, 2019). Drawing inspiration from Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto and her forgotten play Up Your Ass, this lecture in numbered theses whips through a variety of ugly objects (films, manifestos, performance art, psychoanalysis, porn, and the alt-right) to give a portrait of femaleness as a universal category of self-ablation against which all politics—even feminist politics—revolts. Andrea Long Chu[...] 6:00 pm NYC Minorities and Philosophy Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center, rm tba NYC Minorities and Philosophy Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center, rm tba Mar 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) chapters of Columbia, NYU, Rutgers, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, invite submissions to the Spring 2019 NY-MAPWorks: a workshop series featuring the work of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on topics in critical social philosophy and non-canonical areas of philosophy. Topics include, but are not limited to: social philosophy (including intersections with epistemology, language, and metaphysics), feminist philosophy and philosophy of sex and gender, philosophy of race, queer philosophy, non-western[...]	12:00 pm Sue Weinberg Lecture in honor of the life and work of Eileen O’Neill @ CUNY Grad Center, rm tba Sue Weinberg Lecture in honor of the life and work of Eileen O’Neill @ CUNY Grad Center, rm tba Mar 15 @ 12:00 pm Tickets Save the date! March 15, 2019 Sue Weinberg Lecture in honor of the life and work of Eileen O’Neill. CUNY Graduate Center, room TBD 1:00 pm Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Cognitive Science Speaker Series @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 7102 Mar 15 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Spring 2019 2/15: Andrew Lee, Philosophy, New York University 2/22: William Robinson, Philosophy, Iowa State University 3/1: Wesley Sauret, Philosophy, University of Bayreuth 3/8: Jean-Paul Noel, Center for Neural Science, New York University 3/15: Santiago Echeverri, Philosophy, New York University 3/22: TBA 3/29: TBA 4/5: No Cognitive Science talk: CUNY Graduate-Student Conference https://2019cunyphilosophyconference.weebly.com/ 4/12: TBA 4/19, 4/26: No talks; Spring Break 5/3: TBA Additional information at: http://bit.ly/cscitalks or e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com> 4:00 pm Roger T. Ames 安樂哲 on “Deweyan and Confucian Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism” @ Wolff Conference Room, NSSR, D1103 Roger T. Ames 安樂哲 on “Deweyan and Confucian Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism” @ Wolff Conference Room, NSSR, D1103 Mar 15 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets John Dewey, in his resistance to foundational individualism, declares that individual autonomy so conceived is a fiction; for Dewey, it is association that is a fact. In his own language: “There is no sense in asking how individuals come to be associated. They exist and operate in association.” In a way that resonates with Confucian role ethics, the revolutionary Dewey particularizes the fact of associated living and valorizes it by developing a vision of the[...]

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