From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Wed Jun 15 09:22:46 2016 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:22:46 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Philosophy at Western Sydney, Seminar: Alberg Message-ID: Philosophy at Western Sydney University Research Seminar Date and Time: Wednesday, 6 July, 2016. 3:30pm ? 5:00pm Location: Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Meeting Room 3.G.54 Paper >From Dreams of a Spirit-Seer to The Critique of Pure Reason: Kant?s Changing Relations to Metaphysics Speaker Jeremiah Alberg, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan Abstract In this presentation I will explore some of the implications of the changes Kant made in his use of imagery concerning metaphysics. In articles published last year I used R. Girard?s mimetic theory to explore some of the conceptual implications of Kant characterizing metaphysics as a ?coquette? in Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (1766). In this writing Kant first defined metaphysics as ?a science of the limits of human reason.? But Dreams left its readers confused. What followed was approximately 15 years (broken only by the imposed publication of the Dissertation) of struggle with the questions Kant had uncovered in Dreams. I think one step in understanding the First Critique is to take a careful look at the change in the images Kant uses when speaking of metaphysics. So I will summarize the results of my earlier research and use it as a basis for reflecting on this change in the front matter of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), there Kant refers to metaphysics claim to being the ?Queen? of the sciences. In the First Critique Kant wants to explore the validity of this claim. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The talk that I am giving is part of this project. It will have a technical component but I have tried to render it as broadly accessible as possible. Please feel free to circulate the info! Here is the link: https://my.cse.unsw.edu.au/seminars/detail.php?id=191 Regards, Stephen Stephen Hetherington FAHA Professor of Philosophy Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy School of Humanities & Languages The University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA Phone: (61 2) 9385 2318 (office) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emanuele.serrelli at unimib.it Fri Jun 17 04:29:20 2016 From: emanuele.serrelli at unimib.it (Emanuele Serrelli) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:29:20 +0200 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=22In_Silico_Modeling=3A_The_Human_Factor?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9D=3A_Humana=2EMente_issue_30?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the publication of issue 30 (June 2016) of the open access journal Humana.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies: Marta Bertolaso and Miles MacLeod, eds "In Silico Modeling: The Human Factor? Issue 30 of Humana.Mente Open access at: http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/pages/58-issue30 Undoubtedly, the future of biology is as a technoscience, in which technical and engineering expertise are as important as biological knowledge and experimental skill. As such many of the practices and cultures that have characterized 20th century biology may be supplanted by more automated and algorithmic machine-driven processes. But what can we really expect from technology? How effective will it be and what impact will it have on biological knowledge? How will the role of scientists as human beings be transformed by this epochal transformation? How autonomous will the role of technology be with respect to human contributions in driving research? In sum, how does this human-technology partnership work? Are there any risks or negative drifts that we can foresee and try to counter? This Special Issue tries to lay some foundations for answering these questions by focusing on in silico models. In silico stands for ?computational?. Historically, the term in silico has played the rhetorical function of giving computational models and simulations the same scientific dignity as in vitro and in vivo experiments. Table of Contents Marta Bertolaso, Miles MacLeod ? Introduction ? In silico Modeling: The Human Factor Fridolin Gross ? Heuristic Strategies in Systems Biology Giovanni Boniolo, Luisa Lanfrancone ? Decomposing Biological Complexity into a Conjunction of Theorems. The Case of the Melanoma Network Federico Boem ? Orienteering Tools: Biomedical Research with Ontologies Annamaria Carusi ? In Silico Medicine: Social, Technological and Symbolic Mediation Ilaria Malagrin? ? In silico Clinical Trials: A New Dawn in Biomedical Research? Sara Green, Henrik Vogt ? Personalizing Medicine: Disease Prevention in silico and in socio Federica Russo ? On the Poietic Character of Technology Matteo Cerri, Marco Viceconti, Markus Reiterer ? In Silico Medicine: The Practitioners? Points of View ? Some info on related projects at www.biotechnopractice.org ---------- Emanuele Serrelli, PhD University of Milano Bicocca CISEPS - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences emanuele.serrelli at unimib.it Personal web: http://www.epistemologia.eu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The -s in 'John walk-s' is fully superfluous. On the other hand, sometimes we say less than we mean. For instance, if I say 'Could you pass me the salt', I expect somebody to pass me the salt, and not just say 'Yes I could' or 'No, I couldn't'. Why, then, not just say: 'Pass me the salt'? ALL WARMLY WELCOME!! Further information:? https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/the-scientific-caf%C3%A9/539996.html. Best regards Laura D. Di Paolo Sent from mobile, please forgive possible mistakes ************* Laura Desir?e Di Paolo,?Ph.D.? ?"?Lichtenberg-Kolleg?"? Institute for Advanced Study?- Georg-August Universit?t - G?ttingen, Germany DPZ, Deutsche PrimatenZentrum - G?ttingen, Germany Leibniz ScienceCampus 'Primate Cognition' -? G?ttingen, Germany Dept. Philosophy "Sapienza", University of Rome - Rome, Italy lauradesiree.dipaolo at gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/lauradesireedipaolo/ https://uni-goettingen.academia.edu/LauraDesir%C3%A9eDiPaolo mob.?+49 0152 56592602?(de) +39 328 92 14 042 (ita) skype: laura.desiree.di.paolo ------- Evolution & Cognition?(Research Group) evolutionandcognition at gmail.com *********************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this writing Kant first defined metaphysics as ?a science of the limits of human reason.? But Dreams left its readers confused. What followed was approximately 15 years (broken only by the imposed publication of the Dissertation) of struggle with the questions Kant had uncovered in Dreams. I think one step in understanding the First Critique is to take a careful look at the change in the images Kant uses when speaking of metaphysics. So I will summarize the results of my earlier research and use it as a basis for reflecting on this change in the front matter of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), there Kant refers to metaphysics claim to being the ?Queen? of the sciences. In the First Critique Kant wants to explore the validity of this claim. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The talk that I am giving is part of this project. It will have a technical component but I have tried to render it as broadly accessible as possible. Please feel free to circulate the info! Here is the link: https://my.cse.unsw.edu.au/seminars/detail.php?id=191 Regards, Stephen Stephen Hetherington FAHA Professor of Philosophy Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy School of Humanities & Languages The University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA Phone: (61 2) 9385 2318 (office) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emanuele.serrelli at unimib.it Fri Jun 17 04:29:20 2016 From: emanuele.serrelli at unimib.it (Emanuele Serrelli) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:29:20 +0200 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=22In_Silico_Modeling=3A_The_Human_Factor?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9D=3A_Humana=2EMente_issue_30?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the publication of issue 30 (June 2016) of the open access journal Humana.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies: Marta Bertolaso and Miles MacLeod, eds "In Silico Modeling: The Human Factor? Issue 30 of Humana.Mente Open access at: http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/pages/58-issue30 Undoubtedly, the future of biology is as a technoscience, in which technical and engineering expertise are as important as biological knowledge and experimental skill. As such many of the practices and cultures that have characterized 20th century biology may be supplanted by more automated and algorithmic machine-driven processes. But what can we really expect from technology? How effective will it be and what impact will it have on biological knowledge? How will the role of scientists as human beings be transformed by this epochal transformation? How autonomous will the role of technology be with respect to human contributions in driving research? In sum, how does this human-technology partnership work? Are there any risks or negative drifts that we can foresee and try to counter? This Special Issue tries to lay some foundations for answering these questions by focusing on in silico models. In silico stands for ?computational?. Historically, the term in silico has played the rhetorical function of giving computational models and simulations the same scientific dignity as in vitro and in vivo experiments. Table of Contents Marta Bertolaso, Miles MacLeod ? Introduction ? In silico Modeling: The Human Factor Fridolin Gross ? Heuristic Strategies in Systems Biology Giovanni Boniolo, Luisa Lanfrancone ? Decomposing Biological Complexity into a Conjunction of Theorems. The Case of the Melanoma Network Federico Boem ? Orienteering Tools: Biomedical Research with Ontologies Annamaria Carusi ? In Silico Medicine: Social, Technological and Symbolic Mediation Ilaria Malagrin? ? In silico Clinical Trials: A New Dawn in Biomedical Research? Sara Green, Henrik Vogt ? Personalizing Medicine: Disease Prevention in silico and in socio Federica Russo ? On the Poietic Character of Technology Matteo Cerri, Marco Viceconti, Markus Reiterer ? In Silico Medicine: The Practitioners? Points of View ? Some info on related projects at www.biotechnopractice.org ---------- Emanuele Serrelli, PhD University of Milano Bicocca CISEPS - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences emanuele.serrelli at unimib.it Personal web: http://www.epistemologia.eu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The -s in 'John walk-s' is fully superfluous. On the other hand, sometimes we say less than we mean. For instance, if I say 'Could you pass me the salt', I expect somebody to pass me the salt, and not just say 'Yes I could' or 'No, I couldn't'. Why, then, not just say: 'Pass me the salt'? ALL WARMLY WELCOME!! Further information:? https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/the-scientific-caf%C3%A9/539996.html. Best regards Laura D. Di Paolo Sent from mobile, please forgive possible mistakes ************* Laura Desir?e Di Paolo,?Ph.D.? ?"?Lichtenberg-Kolleg?"? Institute for Advanced Study?- Georg-August Universit?t - G?ttingen, Germany DPZ, Deutsche PrimatenZentrum - G?ttingen, Germany Leibniz ScienceCampus 'Primate Cognition' -? G?ttingen, Germany Dept. Philosophy "Sapienza", University of Rome - Rome, Italy lauradesiree.dipaolo at gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/lauradesireedipaolo/ https://uni-goettingen.academia.edu/LauraDesir%C3%A9eDiPaolo mob.?+49 0152 56592602?(de) +39 328 92 14 042 (ita) skype: laura.desiree.di.paolo ------- Evolution & Cognition?(Research Group) evolutionandcognition at gmail.com *********************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: