Cognitive Science Program

A brown bag is a one hour, generally (though not exclusively) intra-departmental colloquium, starting with a twenty to twenty five minute talk by a faculty member or graduate student, filled from there to the end with lively questions and answers.

How did a philosopher of logic get involved in building an Asian American Center at a Public Research 1 University and in getting Asian American Philosophy within the American Philosophical Association? This lecture will tell this unlikely story through a docu-memoir of photos, film, music, and meetings with remarkable history makers. How can the critical lenses of Asian American history, culture, politics, and philosophy help us to imagine fresh possibilities and cultivate hope for the future for our nation?

Harvard University bestowed upon Kurt Gödel an honorary doctorate “for the discovery of the most significant mathematical truth of the century.” John von Neumann regarded him as the greatest “logician since Aristotle,” the only mathematician who was “absolutely irreplaceable.” His friend Einstein liked to say that eh went to the Institute of Advanced Studies “um das Privileg zu haben, mit Gödel zu Fuss nach Hause gehen zu dürfen.” This talk reports on progress made toward using animated logic puzzles, AI, and digital pedagogy to introduce a new generation to Gödel’s Theorems. 

Join Saxaphonist and historian Ben Barson as he talks with Center for Popular Music director Jeffrey Ogbar about his new book, “Brassroots Democracy,” which recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed.

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