From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Mon Jul 18 09:02:02 2016 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:02:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Western Sydney Philosophy Seminar: Samir Haddad Message-ID: Philosophy at Western Sydney University Research Seminar Date and Time: Wednesday, 3 August, 2016. 3:30pm ? 5:00pm Location: Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Meeting Room 3.G.54 Paper The Authority of the Teacher in Ranci?re and Le D?uff Speaker Samir Haddad Abstract What is the nature of the authority held by teachers? What role does it play in learning? In their writings addressing education debates in France in the 1970s and 1980s, Jacques Ranci?re and Mich?le Le D?uff criticize the traditional understanding of teacher authority, and gesture to alternative understandings that could take its place. In this paper I present their views, exploring and developing what is often only implicitly theorized in their work, with the aim of generating a conception of teacher authority that highlights its positive function in facilitating learning. Samir Haddad is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy (Indiana UP, 2013), and his current research focuses on philosophies of education in France, before and after May '68. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Medina (Philosophy, Vanderbilt, USA) ?Epistemic Activism and the Racist Imagination? 4:00PM ? 4:45PM Yarran Hominh (Philosophy, University of Sydney) ??We feel as if we had to repair a torn spider?s web with our fingers?: Institutions, Trust, and Damaging Social Imaginaries? 4:45PM ? 5PM Closing Remarks Contact: moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au * This event is sponsored by: the Philosophy Department, ACAR (Autonomous Collective Against Racism) at theUniversity of Sydney, and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy), University of Sydney. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this seminar, we invite you to discuss what is needed to achieve just strategies in our responses to mitigating climate change in transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Room 310 Morven Brown Building, UNSW Kensington Campus. Presentations - ? Prof Chris Armstrong, University of Southampton Center for Citizenship, Globalization, and Governance; 'The Burdens of Conservation.' This paper answers the question: if some natural resources ought to be conserved (which might mean actively protected, or simply not used), who should bear the costs, globally speaking? What role should we give, in answering that question, to considerations of responsibility for threats to resources, patterns of benefits from conservation, and ability to pay? I illustrate the argument with reference to examples, one of which is rainforest protection, and another key one of which is the costs of leaving the natural resource in the soil. The paper also finishes by considering some institutional mechanisms for sharing the costs of conservation more fairly. ? Prof Jeremy Moss, UNSW: 'The Morality of Divestment'. Divestment from companies that produce or heavily utilise fossil fuels has become one of the biggest issues in the contemporary moral debate surrounding climate change. Pressured by student and civil society based movements, universities and other institutions are being asked to divest themselves of their fossil fuel related investments. To date, there have been some very major institutions and funds who have begun to divest, the most notable being Norway's Government Pension Fund. Many universities have also followed suit. There are many issues at play in the divestment debate, but one fundamental issue concerns the moral arguments that are used to justify divestment. Given that divestment is one of the biggest issues and fastest growing movements in the climate debate, it is important to be clear on these arguments. In this presentation I will briefly characterise what divestment means and to whom it applies. I will then look at negative and positive duty accounts of the duty to divest before looking at the standard objections to both. ? Dr Violet McKeon, UNSW Practical Justice Initiative; 'Subsidizing Dangerous Climate Change.' Many have argued that government subsidies for fossil fuel industries are 'perverse,' that is, that the effects they bring to bear are demonstrably adverse both economically and environmentally. I will briefly outline the general thrust of these arguments, and illustrate the extent to which present data support that assessment. This paper seeks to answer the question of what role government subsidies ought to play in the transition from a high-carbon economy to a low-carbon one. I will argue that, insofar as the atmosphere's capacity to provide a stable climate is a shared vital resource, that states have an obligation to their citizens to promote the stability of that resource. This implies also that states have an obligation to refrain from practices that destabilize the resource as well. I will then assess the purpose of economic subsidies and argue that, not only ought governments cease providing them to fossil fuel industries, but that there is sufficient moral reason to divert that subsidy revenue to alternative energy producers, research and development, and various "clean tech" enterprises, providing several examples. Jeremy Moss Professor of Political Philosophy University of New South Wales Sydney Australia T: 02-93852357 E: j.moss at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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No, because p is ?not necessary for? pvq. Answer 3: X is part of a sufficient condition Z for Y. No, because r is part of a sufficient condition for p, namely p&r Answer 4: X is part of a minimal sufficient condition Z for Y. No, because ?minimally sufficient conditions? do not exist for, say, ?some things take time? Answer 5: X is part of a sufficient Z that is minimal ?? where the subject matter of Y is concerned. ? Hmmmmm?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Wed Jul 20 13:26:52 2016 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 03:26:52 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] JSI Seminar (28 July): Melanie White Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0104EBD037@ex-mbx-pro-06> Dear all The next seminar in the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence Seminar Series for 2016 will take place at 6pm on Thursday 28 July in the Faculty Common Room on the fourth floor of Sydney Law School. 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URL: From richard.menary at mq.edu.au Wed Jul 20 16:26:11 2016 From: richard.menary at mq.edu.au (Richard Menary) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 06:26:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Macquarie University: Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution Workshop With Cecelia Heyes 2/8/16 Message-ID: <42FB85F4-50CD-4C41-91A3-37E1B9C4335E@mq.edu.au> Dear All, On the second of August, the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics and the Centre for Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University are holding a one day workshop on Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution with Professor Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) to deliver the keynote address: ?The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading". The workshop will include an interdisciplinary line up of speakers from Philosophy and Psychology: 9.30 coffee and arrival. 10 - 11.30 Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) ?The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading" 11.30 - 12.30 Richard Menary (Macquarie) ?Is the Enculturation of Social Cognition More Like Mathematics or Reading?" 12.30 - 1.30 lunch 1.30 - 2.30 Penny Van Bergen (Macquarie) ?Perspective Taking in Children and Families: Links to Reminiscing" 2.30 - 3.30 Rachael Brown (ANU) "Going One Step Further: Extending Heyes? Account of Mindreading" 3.30 - 4 Coffee 4.00 - 5.00 Ron Planer (ANU) "Opacity of Mind Theory, Communication, and Coordination: The Case of the Yolngu? 5.00 - 6.00 Max Coltheart (Macquarie) ?Confabulation and Conversation? The workshop is free to attend, but please register for catering purposes by emailing richard.menary at mq.edu.au. The workshop will be held at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management room 267. http://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/maps Regards, Richard Dr. Richard Menary Associate Professor ARC Future Fellow Macquarie University Department of Philosophy ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Google Scholar Page academia.edu site -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Opposing this, the scientific image view holds that our understanding of mental disorders must come, wholly and solely, from the sciences of the mind. Professor Hutto will argue that these two perspectives can be reconciled to provide a sound basis for a future psychiatry.of which involve talking animals, deformed trees and hunchbacks, to muddy our presumption of a stable and unchanging world. ** *Come and join us for a stimulating talk and lively discussion *at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at the pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome!** For more program details please go to blackheathphilosophy.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Thu Jul 21 08:25:20 2016 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:25:20 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Current Projects: Doing Things with Time Message-ID: <5024C2B3-F382-4398-AA7B-A59CFD5E6164@yahoo.com> Dear all, Our next Current Projects seminar will be next Thursday (i.e. Thursday July 28) and will be Sean Power, presenting: Doing Things With Time ---------------------------------- Can our philosophical positions on time affect the way we approach other philosophical problems? It might seem as if they can't. Such positions may be conceived as being purely metaphysical and, being metaphysical, independent of our thinking about other issues. Or, at least (as such independence is not obvious), one would need to argue that the metaphysics of time has relevance to other philosophical positions. In this talk, I try to do just that (although with an important qualification). I argue that, on questions about the epistemology, phenomenology and ontology of perception, a difference in our concepts of time (between presentism and eternalism, in particular) can make a difference to the kind of answers that we can have or would desire. As examples of this, I bring in the perception of external things and change. In doing this, I also question the idea that these positions on time (and the debate between them) are best conceived as only falling under metaphysics. As usual, papers are in the Muniment Room in the Main Quad, from 3.00-4.30. All welcome Associate Professor Kristie Miller Senior ARC Research Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 407, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 http://www.kristiemiller.net/KristieMiller2/Home_Page.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Jul 21 10:49:45 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:49:45 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution, 2 August Message-ID: Hi all, The next CAVE/CCD workshop is on Tuesday 2 August. All are welcome and it is free, but please register with Richard for catering purposes. As always, you can find information on our events page or on our Facebook page. Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution On the second of August, the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) and the Centre for Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University (CCD) are holding a one day workshop on Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution with Professor Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) to deliver the keynote address: "The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading". The workshop will include an interdisciplinary line up of speakers from Philosophy and Psychology. Date: Tuesday 2 August 2015 Time: 09.30 - 18.00 Venue: MGSM room 267 (F23 on the map) Program: 09.30 - 10.00: Coffee and arrival 10.00 - 11.30: Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) "The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading" 11.30 - 12.30: Richard Menary (Macquarie) "Is the Enculturation of Social Cognition More Like Mathematics or Reading?" 12.30 - 13.30: Lunch 13.30 - 14.30: Penny Van Bergen (Macquarie) "Perspective Taking in Children and Families: Links to Reminiscing" 14.30 - 15.30: Rachael Brown (ANU) "Going One Step Further: Extending Heyes' Account of Mindreading" 15.30 - 16:00: Coffee 16.00 - 17.00: Ron Planer (ANU) "Opacity of Mind Theory, Communication, and Coordination: The Case of the Yolngu" 17.00 - 18.00: Max Coltheart (Macquarie) "Confabulation and Conversation" About CAVE Visitor Celia Heyes (Oxford): Cecilia Heyes' work concerns the evolution of cognition. It explores the ways in which natural selection, learning, developmental, and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. She is especially interested in social cognition. Most of her current projects examine the possibility that the neurocognitive mechanisms enabling cultural inheritance - social learning, imitation, mirror neurons, mind reading, etc - are themselves produces of cultural evolution. Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Section 3 explains that proponents of the argument can't deny the metaphysical possibility of such psychophysical laws because they must accept a nonphysical God with a mind. Section 4 considers a version of the argument restricted to universes with actual psychophysical laws, and responds that there's no reason God would favor such universes. WHERE: Neil will be speaking from ACU's Canberra campus, Signadou building, S.G.1.10 Talk videoconferenced to: Ballarat - CB1.104 Brisbane - AC.22 Melbourne - 250 Victoria Pde 7.03 North Sydney - TWH16.24 Strathfield - C2.31 Enquiries: Steve Matthews (stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) or Richard Colledge (Richard.Colledge at acu.edu.au) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Jul 22 03:00:06 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:00:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Jacob Ross @ Wed 27 Jul 2016 13:00 - 15:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11422446f744270538283f75@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Jacob Ross Fuck Knowledge A number of philosophers have argued that knowledge plays a fundamental role in rational justification, and, in particular, that good practical reasoning involves making choices on the basis of what we know. I argue against this Knowledge First approach to the justification of action, and in favor of a Credence First alternative When: Wed 27 Jul 2016 13:00 ? 15:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=OTM3Y3ExcDhlcXNkMmlxcnB1OXB0am84ZGcgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Seminars. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Fri Jul 22 08:17:58 2016 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:17:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] [Philosophy@Western Sydney Encountering the Author] Panagia, Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics , 27 July 2016 In-Reply-To: <9820EBB478AAE24C8BF5E9089A72DDCCDF35DC0B@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> References: <9820EBB478AAE24C8BF5E9089A72DDCCDF35DC0B@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> Message-ID: <139634278660844DAA9851723F723C5D86579D3D@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> Philosophy @ Western Sydney - Encountering the Author works Davide Panagia, Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (University of Minnesota Press/Forerunners series, 2016) Respondents: Alex Ling (Western Sydney University) and Charles Barbour (Western Sydney University) Written in the form of 10 theses, Professor Panagia's new book considers the possibility of a pre-judgmental moment of experience where our most heart-felt critical intuitions about how worlds ought to be ordered becomes undone. Professor Davide Panagia (UCLA) has previously published three books: The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke UP, 2006), The Political Life of Sensation (Duke UP, 2009), and Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013). For more information, please visit: http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy/home/events/encountering_the_author NB: Given that the book has not actually been printed yet, if anyone is interested to read an extract of the book before the workshop, please email philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Date/Time: Wednesday 27 July 2016, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm Place: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this talk, I try to do just that (although with an important qualification). I argue that, on questions about the epistemology, phenomenology and ontology of perception, a difference in our concepts of time (between presentism and eternalism, in particular) can make a difference to the kind of answers that we can have or would desire. As examples of this, I bring in the perception of external things and change. In doing this, I also question the idea that these positions on time (and the debate between them) are best conceived as only falling under metaphysics. When: Thu 28 Jul 2016 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=XzZvcDM2ZDlqNnNvamliYTU4ZDIzNmI5azZzczMwYmEyNm9zM2liYTY3NHE0OGRxMjhsMGo2Y2E2NjAgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Current Projects. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Program 9:30 Ellen Fridland (King's College London), "Longer, Shorter, Faster, Stronger: on skill, mindedness, and automaticity 10:00 Break 10:20 Richard Menary (Macquarie University), "Mathematical Skill as Enculturated Know-How" 10:50 Markos Valaris (UNSW), "Acting Skillfully and Acting for Reasons" 11:20 Simon Lumsden (UNSW), "Second Nature and Normative Change" 11:50 Lunch Break 13:00 Stephen Hetherington (UNSW), "The Constitutive Skill Within Knowldedge" 13:30 Karyn Lai (UNSW), "Mastery in the Zhuangzi: What do the skill masters know?" 14:00 Break 14:20 Daniel Hutto (University Of Wollongong), "Skilled Performance and Intentional Anchors" 14:50 Wayne Christensen (Macquarie University) 15:20 Michaelis Michael (UNSW), "Skill, Habit, and Action" 15:50 Open Discussion Venue: Morven Brown 310 Markos Valaris Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy University of New South Wales Phone: +(61) 2 9385 2760 (office) Personal webpage: markosvalaris.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Mon Jul 18 09:02:02 2016 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:02:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Western Sydney Philosophy Seminar: Samir Haddad Message-ID: Philosophy at Western Sydney University Research Seminar Date and Time: Wednesday, 3 August, 2016. 3:30pm ? 5:00pm Location: Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Meeting Room 3.G.54 Paper The Authority of the Teacher in Ranci?re and Le D?uff Speaker Samir Haddad Abstract What is the nature of the authority held by teachers? What role does it play in learning? In their writings addressing education debates in France in the 1970s and 1980s, Jacques Ranci?re and Mich?le Le D?uff criticize the traditional understanding of teacher authority, and gesture to alternative understandings that could take its place. In this paper I present their views, exploring and developing what is often only implicitly theorized in their work, with the aim of generating a conception of teacher authority that highlights its positive function in facilitating learning. Samir Haddad is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy (Indiana UP, 2013), and his current research focuses on philosophies of education in France, before and after May '68. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Medina (Philosophy, Vanderbilt, USA) ?Epistemic Activism and the Racist Imagination? 4:00PM ? 4:45PM Yarran Hominh (Philosophy, University of Sydney) ??We feel as if we had to repair a torn spider?s web with our fingers?: Institutions, Trust, and Damaging Social Imaginaries? 4:45PM ? 5PM Closing Remarks Contact: moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au * This event is sponsored by: the Philosophy Department, ACAR (Autonomous Collective Against Racism) at theUniversity of Sydney, and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy), University of Sydney. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this seminar, we invite you to discuss what is needed to achieve just strategies in our responses to mitigating climate change in transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Room 310 Morven Brown Building, UNSW Kensington Campus. Presentations - ? Prof Chris Armstrong, University of Southampton Center for Citizenship, Globalization, and Governance; 'The Burdens of Conservation.' This paper answers the question: if some natural resources ought to be conserved (which might mean actively protected, or simply not used), who should bear the costs, globally speaking? What role should we give, in answering that question, to considerations of responsibility for threats to resources, patterns of benefits from conservation, and ability to pay? I illustrate the argument with reference to examples, one of which is rainforest protection, and another key one of which is the costs of leaving the natural resource in the soil. The paper also finishes by considering some institutional mechanisms for sharing the costs of conservation more fairly. ? Prof Jeremy Moss, UNSW: 'The Morality of Divestment'. Divestment from companies that produce or heavily utilise fossil fuels has become one of the biggest issues in the contemporary moral debate surrounding climate change. Pressured by student and civil society based movements, universities and other institutions are being asked to divest themselves of their fossil fuel related investments. To date, there have been some very major institutions and funds who have begun to divest, the most notable being Norway's Government Pension Fund. Many universities have also followed suit. There are many issues at play in the divestment debate, but one fundamental issue concerns the moral arguments that are used to justify divestment. Given that divestment is one of the biggest issues and fastest growing movements in the climate debate, it is important to be clear on these arguments. In this presentation I will briefly characterise what divestment means and to whom it applies. I will then look at negative and positive duty accounts of the duty to divest before looking at the standard objections to both. ? Dr Violet McKeon, UNSW Practical Justice Initiative; 'Subsidizing Dangerous Climate Change.' Many have argued that government subsidies for fossil fuel industries are 'perverse,' that is, that the effects they bring to bear are demonstrably adverse both economically and environmentally. I will briefly outline the general thrust of these arguments, and illustrate the extent to which present data support that assessment. This paper seeks to answer the question of what role government subsidies ought to play in the transition from a high-carbon economy to a low-carbon one. I will argue that, insofar as the atmosphere's capacity to provide a stable climate is a shared vital resource, that states have an obligation to their citizens to promote the stability of that resource. This implies also that states have an obligation to refrain from practices that destabilize the resource as well. I will then assess the purpose of economic subsidies and argue that, not only ought governments cease providing them to fossil fuel industries, but that there is sufficient moral reason to divert that subsidy revenue to alternative energy producers, research and development, and various "clean tech" enterprises, providing several examples. Jeremy Moss Professor of Political Philosophy University of New South Wales Sydney Australia T: 02-93852357 E: j.moss at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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No, because p is ?not necessary for? pvq. Answer 3: X is part of a sufficient condition Z for Y. No, because r is part of a sufficient condition for p, namely p&r Answer 4: X is part of a minimal sufficient condition Z for Y. No, because ?minimally sufficient conditions? do not exist for, say, ?some things take time? Answer 5: X is part of a sufficient Z that is minimal ?? where the subject matter of Y is concerned. ? Hmmmmm?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Wed Jul 20 13:26:52 2016 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 03:26:52 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] JSI Seminar (28 July): Melanie White Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0104EBD037@ex-mbx-pro-06> Dear all The next seminar in the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence Seminar Series for 2016 will take place at 6pm on Thursday 28 July in the Faculty Common Room on the fourth floor of Sydney Law School. 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URL: From richard.menary at mq.edu.au Wed Jul 20 16:26:11 2016 From: richard.menary at mq.edu.au (Richard Menary) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 06:26:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Macquarie University: Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution Workshop With Cecelia Heyes 2/8/16 Message-ID: <42FB85F4-50CD-4C41-91A3-37E1B9C4335E@mq.edu.au> Dear All, On the second of August, the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics and the Centre for Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University are holding a one day workshop on Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution with Professor Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) to deliver the keynote address: ?The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading". The workshop will include an interdisciplinary line up of speakers from Philosophy and Psychology: 9.30 coffee and arrival. 10 - 11.30 Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) ?The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading" 11.30 - 12.30 Richard Menary (Macquarie) ?Is the Enculturation of Social Cognition More Like Mathematics or Reading?" 12.30 - 1.30 lunch 1.30 - 2.30 Penny Van Bergen (Macquarie) ?Perspective Taking in Children and Families: Links to Reminiscing" 2.30 - 3.30 Rachael Brown (ANU) "Going One Step Further: Extending Heyes? Account of Mindreading" 3.30 - 4 Coffee 4.00 - 5.00 Ron Planer (ANU) "Opacity of Mind Theory, Communication, and Coordination: The Case of the Yolngu? 5.00 - 6.00 Max Coltheart (Macquarie) ?Confabulation and Conversation? The workshop is free to attend, but please register for catering purposes by emailing richard.menary at mq.edu.au. The workshop will be held at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management room 267. http://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/maps Regards, Richard Dr. Richard Menary Associate Professor ARC Future Fellow Macquarie University Department of Philosophy ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Google Scholar Page academia.edu site -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Opposing this, the scientific image view holds that our understanding of mental disorders must come, wholly and solely, from the sciences of the mind. Professor Hutto will argue that these two perspectives can be reconciled to provide a sound basis for a future psychiatry.of which involve talking animals, deformed trees and hunchbacks, to muddy our presumption of a stable and unchanging world. ** *Come and join us for a stimulating talk and lively discussion *at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at the pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome!** For more program details please go to blackheathphilosophy.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Thu Jul 21 08:25:20 2016 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:25:20 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Current Projects: Doing Things with Time Message-ID: <5024C2B3-F382-4398-AA7B-A59CFD5E6164@yahoo.com> Dear all, Our next Current Projects seminar will be next Thursday (i.e. Thursday July 28) and will be Sean Power, presenting: Doing Things With Time ---------------------------------- Can our philosophical positions on time affect the way we approach other philosophical problems? It might seem as if they can't. Such positions may be conceived as being purely metaphysical and, being metaphysical, independent of our thinking about other issues. Or, at least (as such independence is not obvious), one would need to argue that the metaphysics of time has relevance to other philosophical positions. In this talk, I try to do just that (although with an important qualification). I argue that, on questions about the epistemology, phenomenology and ontology of perception, a difference in our concepts of time (between presentism and eternalism, in particular) can make a difference to the kind of answers that we can have or would desire. As examples of this, I bring in the perception of external things and change. In doing this, I also question the idea that these positions on time (and the debate between them) are best conceived as only falling under metaphysics. As usual, papers are in the Muniment Room in the Main Quad, from 3.00-4.30. All welcome Associate Professor Kristie Miller Senior ARC Research Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 407, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 http://www.kristiemiller.net/KristieMiller2/Home_Page.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Jul 21 10:49:45 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:49:45 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution, 2 August Message-ID: Hi all, The next CAVE/CCD workshop is on Tuesday 2 August. All are welcome and it is free, but please register with Richard for catering purposes. As always, you can find information on our events page or on our Facebook page. Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution On the second of August, the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) and the Centre for Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University (CCD) are holding a one day workshop on Social Cognition and Cultural Evolution with Professor Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) to deliver the keynote address: "The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading". The workshop will include an interdisciplinary line up of speakers from Philosophy and Psychology. Date: Tuesday 2 August 2015 Time: 09.30 - 18.00 Venue: MGSM room 267 (F23 on the map) Program: 09.30 - 10.00: Coffee and arrival 10.00 - 11.30: Cecelia Heyes (Oxford) "The Cultural Evolution of Mindreading" 11.30 - 12.30: Richard Menary (Macquarie) "Is the Enculturation of Social Cognition More Like Mathematics or Reading?" 12.30 - 13.30: Lunch 13.30 - 14.30: Penny Van Bergen (Macquarie) "Perspective Taking in Children and Families: Links to Reminiscing" 14.30 - 15.30: Rachael Brown (ANU) "Going One Step Further: Extending Heyes' Account of Mindreading" 15.30 - 16:00: Coffee 16.00 - 17.00: Ron Planer (ANU) "Opacity of Mind Theory, Communication, and Coordination: The Case of the Yolngu" 17.00 - 18.00: Max Coltheart (Macquarie) "Confabulation and Conversation" About CAVE Visitor Celia Heyes (Oxford): Cecilia Heyes' work concerns the evolution of cognition. It explores the ways in which natural selection, learning, developmental, and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. She is especially interested in social cognition. Most of her current projects examine the possibility that the neurocognitive mechanisms enabling cultural inheritance - social learning, imitation, mirror neurons, mind reading, etc - are themselves produces of cultural evolution. Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Section 3 explains that proponents of the argument can't deny the metaphysical possibility of such psychophysical laws because they must accept a nonphysical God with a mind. Section 4 considers a version of the argument restricted to universes with actual psychophysical laws, and responds that there's no reason God would favor such universes. WHERE: Neil will be speaking from ACU's Canberra campus, Signadou building, S.G.1.10 Talk videoconferenced to: Ballarat - CB1.104 Brisbane - AC.22 Melbourne - 250 Victoria Pde 7.03 North Sydney - TWH16.24 Strathfield - C2.31 Enquiries: Steve Matthews (stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) or Richard Colledge (Richard.Colledge at acu.edu.au) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Jul 22 03:00:06 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:00:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Jacob Ross @ Wed 27 Jul 2016 13:00 - 15:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11422446f744270538283f75@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Jacob Ross Fuck Knowledge A number of philosophers have argued that knowledge plays a fundamental role in rational justification, and, in particular, that good practical reasoning involves making choices on the basis of what we know. I argue against this Knowledge First approach to the justification of action, and in favor of a Credence First alternative When: Wed 27 Jul 2016 13:00 ? 15:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=OTM3Y3ExcDhlcXNkMmlxcnB1OXB0am84ZGcgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Seminars. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Fri Jul 22 08:17:58 2016 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:17:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] [Philosophy@Western Sydney Encountering the Author] Panagia, Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics , 27 July 2016 In-Reply-To: <9820EBB478AAE24C8BF5E9089A72DDCCDF35DC0B@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> References: <9820EBB478AAE24C8BF5E9089A72DDCCDF35DC0B@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> Message-ID: <139634278660844DAA9851723F723C5D86579D3D@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> Philosophy @ Western Sydney - Encountering the Author works Davide Panagia, Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (University of Minnesota Press/Forerunners series, 2016) Respondents: Alex Ling (Western Sydney University) and Charles Barbour (Western Sydney University) Written in the form of 10 theses, Professor Panagia's new book considers the possibility of a pre-judgmental moment of experience where our most heart-felt critical intuitions about how worlds ought to be ordered becomes undone. Professor Davide Panagia (UCLA) has previously published three books: The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke UP, 2006), The Political Life of Sensation (Duke UP, 2009), and Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013). For more information, please visit: http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy/home/events/encountering_the_author NB: Given that the book has not actually been printed yet, if anyone is interested to read an extract of the book before the workshop, please email philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Date/Time: Wednesday 27 July 2016, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm Place: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this talk, I try to do just that (although with an important qualification). I argue that, on questions about the epistemology, phenomenology and ontology of perception, a difference in our concepts of time (between presentism and eternalism, in particular) can make a difference to the kind of answers that we can have or would desire. As examples of this, I bring in the perception of external things and change. In doing this, I also question the idea that these positions on time (and the debate between them) are best conceived as only falling under metaphysics. When: Thu 28 Jul 2016 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=XzZvcDM2ZDlqNnNvamliYTU4ZDIzNmI5azZzczMwYmEyNm9zM2liYTY3NHE0OGRxMjhsMGo2Y2E2NjAgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Current Projects. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Program 9:30 Ellen Fridland (King's College London), "Longer, Shorter, Faster, Stronger: on skill, mindedness, and automaticity 10:00 Break 10:20 Richard Menary (Macquarie University), "Mathematical Skill as Enculturated Know-How" 10:50 Markos Valaris (UNSW), "Acting Skillfully and Acting for Reasons" 11:20 Simon Lumsden (UNSW), "Second Nature and Normative Change" 11:50 Lunch Break 13:00 Stephen Hetherington (UNSW), "The Constitutive Skill Within Knowldedge" 13:30 Karyn Lai (UNSW), "Mastery in the Zhuangzi: What do the skill masters know?" 14:00 Break 14:20 Daniel Hutto (University Of Wollongong), "Skilled Performance and Intentional Anchors" 14:50 Wayne Christensen (Macquarie University) 15:20 Michaelis Michael (UNSW), "Skill, Habit, and Action" 15:50 Open Discussion Venue: Morven Brown 310 Markos Valaris Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy University of New South Wales Phone: +(61) 2 9385 2760 (office) Personal webpage: markosvalaris.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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