Monday, April 29, 2019 1:30-4:30 PM The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Co-Sponsored by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences and the Gotham Philosophical Society STEFAN BERNARD BAUMRINÂ was a husband, father, philosopher, lawyer,...
Dear friend of GPS, As 2018 draws to a close, I want to share highlights from the year as well as some of the initiatives Gotham Philosophical Society has planned for 2019,and to ask for your generous support to help us achieve them. The past year saw GPS launch a...
Pregnancy is something that affects all of us: Many of us are, have been, or will be, pregnant; and each and every one of us is the result of a pregnancy. But there remain deep and important questions about pregnancy that are yet to be answered. What is it to...
We think being conscious is special. Computers and drones are formidable but they’re not conscious. Maybe so, but can a being or entity think and know things without being conscious? Absolutely. Consciousness isn’t needed for that. Indeed, consciousness...
America the Miserable Are you miserable? If you are, you certainly have company. Misery has been on the rise in our society for some time, and the suffering is widespread: we, the people, feel lonely, neglected, forgotten, increasingly poor in health, in habit, and...
