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A Night of Philosophy at The New School @ New School, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
A Night of Philosophy at The New School @ New School, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Oct 6 all-day
A Night of Philosophy is a new thing. It prefigures a brilliant future where nightlife and philosophy, everyday life and art, can merge. Join us for this 12-hour, multimedia delve into philosophy: 48 Philosophy Lectures 12 Performances including: 1 Art of Change 1 Musicircus 1 Nightclub feat. DJ sets by Laurent Vacher and a full reading of Virginie Despentes‘ novel VERNON SUBUTEX Check THE PHILOSOPHY program here: https://www.nightofphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THE-PHILOSOPHY-AT-A-NIGHT-OF-PHILOSOPHY-AT-THE-NEW-SCHOOL.pdf Check THE ART program here: https://www.nightofphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THE-ART-1.pdf The[...]
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6:00 pm Reconstructing Nietzsche, Contextually. Matthew Meyer @ Wolff Conference Room, D1106
Reconstructing Nietzsche, Contextually. Matthew Meyer @ Wolff Conference Room, D1106
Oct 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
I defend a contextual reconstruction of Nietzsche’s philosophical project. My contextualist reconstruction contrasts with the rationalist reconstruction predominant in contemporary Anglo-American scholarship. After discussing the differences between the two approaches, I show how the rationalist reconstruction has distorted our understanding of Nietzsche in at least two respects. First, in trying to extract theories from Nietzsche’s corpus that will be attractive to contemporary philosophers, it has caused scholars largely to neglect the nature, structure, and argument[...]
4:00 pm The Riddle of Transformation and the Nature of Philosophical Truth. Gilad Nir (Leipzig) @ New School, rm D906
The Riddle of Transformation and the Nature of Philosophical Truth. Gilad Nir (Leipzig) @ New School, rm D906
Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Certain intellectual challenges can neither be resolved by the discovery of missing pieces of information nor by construction of better arguments. Yet what is called for in such cases is not mere persuasion, but a form of intellectual transformation. Wittgenstein sought to respond to the problems of philosophy along similar lines. And the need for the notion of intellectual transformation arises in other contexts, as well, including the context of moral progress, which Cora Diamond[...]