Calendar – Blog of Noah Greenstein

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All-day				How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century: A Conference in Memory of Erik Olin Wright @ Wolff Conference Room How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century: A Conference in Memory of Erik Olin Wright @ Wolff Conference Room Sep 26 all-day Tickets ERIK OLIN WRIGHT spent the last years of his life thinking about ways to challenge and transform capitalist societies. He distilled his thinking in a book, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century (Verso, 2019). The symposium is designed to launch a debate about the strengths and weaknesses of Wright’s approach. We seek to both honor our colleague’s memory and assure that his ideas become part of current discussions of socialism and socialist[...]		Isaac Levi Conference and Memorial @ Columbia University, Philosophy rm tba Isaac Levi Conference and Memorial @ Columbia University, Philosophy rm tba Sep 28 all-day Tickets Conference Schedule 10AM Teddy Seidenfeld – Conditional Probability, Conditionalization, and Total Evidence 11AM Eleonora Cresto – Beyond Indeterminate Utilities. The Case of Neurotic Cake-Cutting 11:20AM Ignacio Ojea Quintana – Unawareness and Levi’s Consensus as Common Ground 11:40AM Rush Stewart – Uncertainty, Equality, Fraternity 1PM Nils-Eric Sahlin – Levi’s Decision Theory: Lessons Learned 1:45PM Wilfried Sieg – Scientific Theories as Set-Theoretic Predicates? 2:45PM Panel Discussion – Learning[...]
12:00 am 1:00 am 2:00 am 3:00 am 4:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am 7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm				4:00 pm A Theory of Skilled Action Control. Ellen Fridland (King’s College London) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 A Theory of Skilled Action Control. Ellen Fridland (King’s College London) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307 Sep 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets In this talk, I will sketch a theory of skill, which puts control at the center of the account. First, I present a definition of skill that integrates several essential features of skill that are often ignored or sidelined on other theories. In the second section, I spell out how we should think of the intentions involved in skilled actions and in the third section, I discuss why deliberate practice and not just experience, repetition,[...]

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