Paul Boghossian Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU Director, Global Institute for Advanced Study, NYU Paul Artin Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Director of its Global Institute for Advanced Study. He earned a PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and a B.Sc. in Physics from Trent University. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, his research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He has written on a wide range of topics, including naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, moral realism and relativism, aesthetics, and the concept of genocide. He is the author of Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (Oxford, 2006), which has been translated into thirteen languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, Spanish, German, Italian, and French; Content and Justification (Oxford, 2008); and Debating the A Priori (with Timothy Williamson, Oxford, 2020). He is currently at work on a book on norms. At NYU since 1991, he has also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Princeton, the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and has served as Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Participant In: “Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others… read more » Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness September 21st, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Panpsychism is the lightly subscribed philosophical position that consciousness is a property of all matter, large and small, simple and complex, alive and inert. According to panpsychism mind is everywhere. Eliminativism is the view that consciousness, at least what most of us consider our mind’s eye access to reality (phenomenal consciousness), exists quite literally nowhere, not even… read more »
“Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others… read more »
Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness September 21st, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Panpsychism is the lightly subscribed philosophical position that consciousness is a property of all matter, large and small, simple and complex, alive and inert. According to panpsychism mind is everywhere. Eliminativism is the view that consciousness, at least what most of us consider our mind’s eye access to reality (phenomenal consciousness), exists quite literally nowhere, not even… read more »