Monday September 14, 2015 5:00 - 7:00 PM Professor Susanna Siegel (Harvard) will present "Salience Norms" at the NYU Philosophy Department Sixth Floor Lounge on Monday, September 14.   Abstract: We evaluate newspapers according to two dimensions: whether their stories are well-researched and accurate (did the reporter check their facts?), and which stories they choose […]

Monday, October 5, 2015 5:00 - 7:00 PM Professor Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia) will present "Moral Progress and Human Agency" at the CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206, Monday, October 5, 2015.   Abstract: I argue that the idea of moral progress is a necessary presupposition of action for beings like us. We must believe that moral […]

Women in Philosophy Conference: Student Talks Monday November 2, 2015 Four graduate student women working in analytic philosophy -- Bianca Crewe, Louise Daoust, Emily Sullivan, and Christine Susienka -- will present their work in Room 5414 at the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Avenue. Details on the speakers and their talks, including abstracts, are below. […]

Women in Philosophy Conference: Negotiations, Publishing, & Purpose Tuesday November 3, 2015 Building on the success of last year's panel, SWIP-Analytic will again host an event on women in philosophy in Room 5414 at the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Avenue. Schedule 10:30 - 12:00: Guided Q&A Roundtable on Women in Philosophy with Jessica Gordon-Roth, […]

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Professor Jane Friedman, New York University “Inquiry and the Doxastic Attitudes”   ABSTRACT: In this talk I’ll give the start of a theory of inquiry and inquiring, tying these to some familiar folk-psychological attitudes.  After that I’ll use this bit of the theory to characterize some different doxastic attitudes: belief, degrees […]

Monday, March 7, 2016 NYU Philosophy Department Professor Carol Rovane, Columbia University “Group Agency vs. Collective Agency:  A Matter of Point of View” ABSTRACT: Some philosophers are prepared to allow that a group of human beings can function as an individual agent, that deliberates and acts from a point of view of its own – […]

  2016 SWIP-Analytic Essay Prize Winner Presentation Monday, April 25, 2016 Arianna Falbo Simon Fraser University "Why Two (or more) Belief-Dependent Peers are Better Than One" 1:00-3:00 PM, Room 202 NYU Philosophy Department 5 Washington Place, NYC Joint NYU Department Tea & SWIP-Analytic Reception to Follow **Attendees are encouraged to read the prize-winning paper in advance of the presentation. […]

Friday, September 9th, 4:00-6:00pm Anya Farennikova (University of Bristol) "Bayesianism and the Perception-Cognition Divide" Co-sponsor: Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 ABSTRACT: Perceptual experience and belief are frequently treated as distinct kinds of mental states. A belief might prompt a new perceptual experience, and new experience can confirm or trigger a belief. Despite […]

Monday, October 3rd, 1:00–3:00 pm Berit Brogaard (University of Miami) "In Defense of Hearing Meanings" 6th Floor Lounge, Philosophy Department, NYU

Monday, November 7thth, 12:00 – 2:00 pm Claudia Passos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) "Do newborns have sense of agency?"         Laura Pérez (Harvard University) "Visual Properties and Social Groups" CUNY, Graduate Center, Room TBD