After serving two tours in Iraq - the first as a sergeant and the second as a Ranger in the elite special forces regiment - Brad Carney '20 came to Dartmouth to complete his undergraduate education. At Dartmouth, he became president of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association, and then a Philosophy major, where, he says, he has come to a deeper understanding of himself and his place in a global society. Read an article and watch a video about him in the Dartmouth News ...
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In an article in the current issue of The Guardian, Philosophy Professor Adina Roskies (also Chair of the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth) explores some of the ethical issues involved in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, which integrates cognitive activity with a computer. “When BCIs decode neural activity into some sort of action [like moving a robot arm] an algorithm is included in the cognitive process,” she explains. “As these systems become more complex and...
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Congratulations to Associate Professor Kenny Walden, whose 'Practical Reason, Not As Such' has been selected by the Philosophers' Annual as one of the ten best papers published in philosophy in 2018!
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David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will give a talk Friday, July 26, 2019 at 2:30pm in the Rockefeller Center Class of 1930 Room.
Part of the Truth, Power, & Foundations of Democracy Summer Workshop Series co-convened by J. Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth Government) and David Plunkett (Dartmouth Philosophy).
Sponsors:
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QUANTUM INDETERMINACY WORKSHOP
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12-13 July 2019
The goal of the workshop is to bring together scholars working on the question of whether quantum mechanics requires genuine indeterminacy in the world, and if so, how to understand that indeterminacy. Informally, physicists use various locutions to describe quantum superposition, such as a particle "being in two places at once" or "acting like a wave." But what does this mean? Does it mean that the particle in... -
Truth, Power, and the Foundations of Democracy is an interdisciplinary project aimed at addressing questions such as: What role should truth have in a just and democratic society? How important are claims to truth for resisting unjust social practices? Can democracies effectively handle problems related to misinformation and limited information?
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From #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter to #SayHerName: Intersectionality and Violence Against Black Women and Girls
Convened by Shatema Threadcraft (Government) and Susan Brison (Philosophy).
July 9 - August 8, 2019.- Read more at Dartmouth News,...
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Philosophical Methodology and Meta-Metaphysics, May 2019
Format: Talk (30-35min ideally, 45 min max), Comments (10min), and then Q+A
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Friday, May 10, 2019
10:00 – 11:45 Karen Bennett (Rutgers University)
comments from Vera Flocke (New York University)
chair: Nadeem Hussain (Stanford University)
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In its Focus on Faculty Q&A series of interviews exploring what keeps Dartmouth professors busy inside—and outside—the classroom, Dartmouth News interviewed Philosophy Professor Amie Thomasson, recently named one of the 50 most influential living philosophers. Thomasson, the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, specializes in, among other topics, metaphysics and metametaphysics, which poses questions about the methods and goals of metaphysics...
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