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2017-2018 Events

Spring 2018 SWIP-Analytic Sophie Horowitz University of Massachusetts, Amherst Thursday, April 26, 4:00pm-6:00pm CUNY Graduate Center, The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies, Room 5307 “The Truth Problem for Permissivism” Epistemologists often assume that if rationality is worth pursuing, it must bear some sort of connection to the truth. What exactly this connection amounts to is mysterious, but holding that there is such a connection seems to limit our theory of rationality in various ways. I will discuss the implications of the truth connection for permissivism: the thesis that rationality allows us some leeway in responding to our evidence. I will examine one strategy for connecting permissive rationality and truth, recently developed by Miriam Schoenfield, and argue that it is unsuccessful. I will then argue that the situation looks better for impermissivism. SWIP-Analytic is made possible through the generous support of NYU’s New York Institute of Philosophy, The CUNY Graduate Center Department of Philosophy, The John H. Kornblith Family Chair at the GC, CUNY The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies and The CUNY Graduate Center Office of the Provost.

2018 Graduate Student Essay Prize Thursday, April 12th , 2018 5:00 – 7:00pm, Reception to Follow 6th Floor Lounge NYU Philosophy Department, 5 Washington Place, NYC Ege Yumusak (Harvard) “Implicit Bias and the Unconscious” ABSTRACT: The metaphysics of implicit bias has been an area of heated debates involving philosophers and psychologists. Most theorists of implicit bias posit that associations underwrite implicit bias. Recent dissenters have argued that propositional attitudes undergird this pernicious attitude. However, the propositional attitude view of implicit bias does not satisfyingly explain its various manifestations that are underwritten by its diverse contents. In this paper my criticism targets: (1) legitimacy of ascriptions of unconscious mental content, and (2) the phenomenology of implicit bias. The first criticism focuses on a common assumption in philosophy of mind—the equivalence of content in the conscious and unconscious domain—and raises problems regarding the propositional attitude theorist's strategy to ascribe propositional attitudes to explain implicit biases which they locate in the unconscious mind of the subject. Second, I argue that the similarities between a more familiar mental phenomenon— the phenomenon of moods—and the conscious manifestations of implicit bias have been ignored. I identify several parallels between moods and implicit bias: their context-dependence, the subject’s lack of awareness of their source, their effects on the salience and valence of their targets, and their simultaneous responsiveness and recalcitrance to reasons. I argue that an explanatorily robust view of implicit bias must be commensurate with this analogy. I end with a proposal that I dub the indeterminate content view, which avoids these problems and promises explanatory power. Contact us at: swipanalytic@gmail.com swipanalytic.org SWIP-Analytic is made possible through the generous support of NYU’s New York Institute of Philosophy, and The CUNY Graduate Center: Department of Philosophy, Office of the Provost, John H. Kornblith Family Chair, and Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies

 

 

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