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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This week's speaker in the University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series is Jessica Isserow, (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The title of the talk is "On Being Overlooked: The ethics of praise and the ethics of attention". Here is an abstract for the talk:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Praise—“the brighter side of moral responsibility” (Montminy 2022, p.28)—has traditionally been regarded as unproblematic. Understandably so; it’s hard to take moral offence at agents expressing pride, esteem,
or admiration for one another. But praise has a dark side. It can be self-aggrandising (Jeppsson & Brandenburg 2022), for instance, or hypocritical (Telech 2024). Some patterns of praise also play an under-appreciated role in supporting structures of oppression
(Holroyd 2021, 2023). Like these theorists, I believe that there are grounds to be critical of our practices of positive recognition. My primary interest is the distribution of praise—specifically, the phenomenon of “being overlooked”: many people receive
less praise than others not as a result of their lesser merit, but because their achievements or excellences happen to be less visible. Reflection on such cases reveals something important: our patterns of praise reinforce existing disadvantages in under-recognised
ways. The remedy, I argue, is not so much to police praise itself as it is to pay greater attention to how we distribute attention.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The seminar will take place at 3:30pm on Wednesday Nov 13 in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please note that this is the final seminar in the official seminar series this year. An additional, informal, out-of-semester, seminar is scheduled for Wednesday Dec 04. The speaker for this seminar is Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval, (University
of California, Davis).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Enquiries about the seminar series can be directed to ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan Cox</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Lecturer in Philosophy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discipline of Philosophy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Humanities</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au</p>
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