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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">You are invited to attend the next Macquarie Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar on Tuesday 17 October 2023 from 1:00 to 2:00pm.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Attend in-person at 25B Wally's Walk, Room B603.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Attend online:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/XD_GClx1Nji1wGn3NfG-Nzp?domain=macquarie.zoom.us">https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/83678569910?pwd=SG4wWHpQa0h1aEFEdzBRUUM0dXRKdz09</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Password: seminar<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speaker:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> A/Prof Joel Michell (University of Sydney)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Appropriate Measures?
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> It’s easy to take measurement for granted: we measure willy-nilly without a second thought. But measurement reaches something deep – very deep – in
the fabric of reality. The pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus, sensed this, as did the early Pythagoreans and around Plato’s time, Eudoxus captured this depth in a single miraculous sentence, recorded now as Definition 5 of Book V of Euclid’s
<i>Elements</i>. Thereafter measurement ruled, becoming a much appropriated idea: appropriated by philosophers and theologians, appropriated by scientists and, in our own time, appropriated by psychologists, social scientists, and, of course, by politicians.
That is nothing new, for it has long been a politically loaded concept, from the middle ages, when each town had its own units of length, weight, and time and priests measured sins by days of fasting and recitations of hail marys, to the birth of utilitarianism
in the 19<sup>th</sup> century when the fantasy that the measure of pleasure is a moral yardstick prevailed. In psychology, the idea of measurement was never not political: Francis Galton appropriated it to sell eugenics as a science; the founding fathers,
to secure their fledgling discipline its place in universities; and psychometricians appropriated it to market the technology of psychological tests to serve our meritocratic dystopia. But it was left to the psychologist, S. S. Stevens, to deliver measurement
its modernist <i>coup de grâce</i>, seducing the gullible with a dumbed-down redefinition stretching the concept to vanishing point. If a concept’s measure is given by its misappropriation, measurement measures up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For any queries about the Macquarie Philosophy Work-in-Progress
<span class="markkdeqljkrf">Seminar</span>s, please contact <a href="mailto:foa.philseminars@mq.edu.au">foa.philseminars@mq.edu.au</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Regina Fabry
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">(she/her)<br>
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awardee</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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