probably doesn't affect us much

unless there's high-stakes testing in our future

https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/12-22/12-5-22/chancellor-king.html

NEWS: Today, the SUNY Board of Trustees appointed John B. King, Jr., lifelong educator and former U.S. Secretary of Education, as the System's 15th Chancellor. Learn more about our new Chancellor 👇👇👇

— SUNY - The State University of New York (@SUNY) December 5, 2022

Coleen at IASH

 IASH Fellows Coleen Watson, philosophy, and Liyang Dong, English, will speak beginning at noon Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the IASH Conference Room, LN-1106.

Watson will speak on "The Wisdom of the People Public Humanities Project"
My project is a podcast series that will explore specific issues in political philosophy, with special emphasis on democratic theory. Mainstream political rhetoric rarely considers questions about what democratic freedom and equality are and why democratic institutions and processes are valuable, despite so much lip service paid to the social goods of democracies. This project hopes to fill this gap in public conversation by creating a podcast aimed at engaging general audiences with the philosophical concepts behind democratic governance. In addition, the podcast will explore how political philosophy’s ideas impact listeners’ everyday lives in hopes of promoting more rigorous civic discourse about normative issues in democratic life while demonstrating shared conceptual common ground many citizens haven’t recognized.

Among the questions explored in that topic is whether democracy is valuable merely instrumentally because it is good at satisfying individual preferences, or because democracy also has intrinsic value in that they are better than all other forms of government at promoting freedom and equality among citizens. Other topics to explore will include appropriate remedies to social and structural injustices, political knowledge and disinformation, and the limits of free speech.

FTX and effective altruism

 

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy

SPEL Colloquium on November 10th

Allen Speight

Professor of Philosophy

Boston University

"Transparency and Enigma: On the Perceptual and the Conceptual in Art"

Thu 10 Nov

3:00-5:00p

UUW 324

6th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference

 register here:

https://spelgraduateconference.wordpress.com/

Creighton Club, featuring Spencer Beaudette

 https://creightonclub.blogspot.com/2022/10/2022-conference-program.html

The Creighton Club

New York State Philosophical Association

167^th Conference Program

Saturday October 22^nd, 2022

500 Hall of Languages

Syracuse University

Schedule of Events

8:30am            Coffee and snacks

9:00am            Alexander Kocurek (Cornell University), Zeynep Soysal (University of Rochester), and Jens Kipper (University of Rochester), "Idle Questions"

§  Comments by Martín Abreu Zavaleta (Syracuse University)

10:15am          Coffee break

10:30am           Christopher Bousquet (Syracuse University), "What's Missing in Interest-Based Theories of Rights" (co-winner of the Graduate Student Presentation Award)

§  Comments by Scott Gordon (Binghamton University)

11:45am          Lunch break

1:30pm            Spencer Beaudette (Binghamton University), "Meaningful Materialism through Expressive Consumption" (co-winner of the Graduate Student Presentation Award)

§  Comments by Bobbi Cohn (Cornell University)

2:45pm            Coffee break

3:00pm            John Monteleone (Le Moyne College), "Integrity in Conflict"

§  Comments by Hille Paakkunainen (Syracuse University)

4:15pm            Business meeting

Keynote Address

Social Truth: What Is It, and What Do We Want It To Be?

Douglas Edwards (Utica University)

4:30pm

MEETING DETAILS: the 2022 meeting will be on the campus of Syracuse University, in 500 Hall of Languages (on the fifth floor, where the philosophy department is located). 

Campus parking is open to guests on weekends.  The most conveniently located lots are the Lyman Hinds Lot and the Quad Lot.  See the North Campus parking map here:

http://parking.syr.edu/visitors-to-campus/campus-maps/

Participants can purchase lunch at the Marshall Square Mall, which is a five minute walk from the conference.  For those interested in venturing further afield, there are also many restaurants in downtown Syracuse and the nearby Westcott neighborhood.

RSVP: there will be an informal dinner held after the conference at the expense of attendees (location TBD).  Please email us at thecreightonclub@gmail.com if you plan to attend so that we can make a more accurate reservation.

SPEL Colloquium!

 Daniel Viehoff

Assistant Professor

New York University

"Legitimacy and Independence"

Thursday, October 6th

3:00p-5:00p

UUW 324