From paul.griffiths at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 1 12:19:22 2016 From: paul.griffiths at sydney.edu.au (Paul Griffiths) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 02:19:22 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Grandmothers and Human Evolution - August 15th Message-ID: Sydney Ideas - Grandmothers and Human Evolution 15 August 2016 6.00-7.30 Grandmothers and Human Evolution Professor Kristen Hawkes, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah Co-presented with the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science A Sydney Science Festival event for National Science Week The Grandmother Hypothesis aims to explain why increased longevity evolved in humans, while female fertility still ends at the same age it does in our closest evolutionary cousins, the great apes. Beginning with ethnographic surprises that drew us to pay attention to grandmothering in the first place, Kristen Hawkes will show how, in addition to human life history, grandmothering can help explain the precocious sociality of human infants and our distinctive appetite for mutual understanding as well as patterns of male competition and pair bonding. Crucial evidence about human evolution continues to come from the expanding fossil and archaeological records, paleoecology, and increasingly genomics. But comparisons between us and our primate cousins, coupled with formal modelling by Peter Kim and his mathematical biology group at the University of Sydney, are proving to be an especially valuable way to explore evolutionary connections between grandmothering and an array of distinctive human features. Professor Kristen Hawkes is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. Her principal research interests are evolutionary ecology of hunter-gatherers and human evolution. She is a member of the Scientific Executive Committee of the Leakey Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the US National Academy of Sciences. University website Register here http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-kristen-hawke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He shows that a relational ontology has always been at work within the history of philosophy even though philosophy has been reluctant to affirm its presence. Such an already present status of a relational ontology is philosophy's other possibility. Andrew Benjamin is (Monash University, Melbourne, and Kingston University, London) is the author of several books, including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy and the coeditor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press. Date/Time: Wednesday 10 August 2016, 3.00 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 workshop, we will explore the links between music social justice through thoughtful investigations of these links, and through live performance of some very powerful music, performed by Marlene Cummins and Lisa Moore. Program 10am - 12pm - Paul Apostolidis, "The Lessons of Journaleros: Migrant Musicians, Emancipatory Education, and the Aims of Critical Theory" - Romand Coles and Lia Haro "Toward a Radical Democratic Groove: Receptivity and the Arts of Musicality" Lunch 1 pm - 2:15 - Martin Bresnick, "The Political Elephant in Duke Bluebeard's Castle" 2:15 - 2:45 - Lisa Moore, performing music by Leos Janacek, Frederic Rzewski, and Martin Bresnick Break 3:00 - 5:00 - Cynthia Willett, "The Musicology of Urban Ethics: Flow and Call- Response from Ferguson, Missouri to Mexico City" - Nikolas Kompridis "Just Music?" Break 5:15 - 6:00 - Marlene Cummins, performing music from her recent album, Koori Woman Blues Professor Nikolas Kompridis | Director | Institute for Social Justice Research Professor in Philosophy and Political Thought Office: Level 2, 7 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060 Postal Address: PO Box 968, North Sydney, NSW 2059, Australia W http://isj.acu.edu.au/ P + 61 2 9739 2728 E nikolas.kompridis at acu.edu.au [ISJemailpicture] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This account seeks to move beyond an increasingly sterile debate between egalitarian, cosmopolitan proceduralists and their liberal nationalist critics. The alternative is based on the struggle for mutual recognition among self-determining political societies in a post-colonial world order. A method of normative reconstruction is adopted, following Axel Honneth's Hegelian investigation of the criteria of social justice immanent within three spheres of freedom in modern Western liberal democratic societies. The limits of Honneth's account of democratic ethical life in the nation-state, and of freedom in the modern world, is exposed and shown to be in need of extension and revision. In taking due account of colonial and neo-colonial injustices that cross and transcend state boundaries, international relations are presented as an additional sphere of modern freedom with its own immanent standards of justice. The fabric, or material, of global justice is constituted by asymmetrical relations between political societies confronted by a range of significant, shared, human challenges of injustice in an interdependent, globalizing world marked by differing experiences of modernity. Most societies struggle to substantiate self-determining freedom in the face of contemporary neo-colonial power and an enduring legacy of colonialism. While citizens within each society engage in practices that promise greater realisation of their social freedom, these societies are themselves mired in regional and global struggles in which they seek to realise political freedom for their peoples and equal respect in the world order. About Shane O'Neill: Shane O'Neill is Professor of Political Theory at Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on a broad range of topics in critical social theory and contemporary political philosophy. His recent books include the co-edited volumes: After the Nation? Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Post-Nationalism (2010, with Keith Breen); and Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict (2012, with Nick Smith). He is currently working on a critical theory of global justice as decolonization. All welcome, no registration required! 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... URL: From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Fri Aug 5 14:14:06 2016 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 04:14:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] JSI Seminar (23 August): Sam Shpall Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0104ECB551@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 Tuesday 23 August in the Faculty Common Room on the fourth floor of Sydney Law School. Dr Sam Shpall from the University of Sydney will present a paper entitled "Dworkin's Literary Analogy". You can find out more and register here. If you would like to join us for dinner after the seminar, please let me know. Best wishes, Kev DR KEVIN WALTON Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0286 E kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au W www.sydney.edu.au/law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Aug 5 14:59:52 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 04:59:52 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Nick Enfield @ Thu 11 Aug 2016 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <001a113fa606d2b8d905394bef30@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Nick Enfield Nick Enfield (Linguistics) In his 1979 paper ?Scorekeeping in a Language Game?, David Lewis suggests that a presupposition can be introduced into a conversation simply by speaking as if that presupposition already held; thereby, it ?springs into existence?. His example: ?Even George could win? introduces the presupposition that George is not an objectively strong candidate. Crucially, Lewis adds, ?tacit acquiescence? is also needed if this strategy is to work. The alternative to tacit acquiescence and accommodation of a presupposition is to block it with a form of explicit correction or challenge. His example: ?Whadda ya mean ?even George???. I would like to discuss two points that relate to my current research interest in everyday accountability. The first is that if conversation is a form of joint action, as Margaret Gilbert and many others have suggested, then such challenges are evidence of this: they show one participant exercising their ?right to rebuke? the other for a perceived transgression. The second point is that we can examine this question empirically, with reference to recordings of conversation collected in linguistic field work: I will present some cases of the ?whaddya mean X?? strategy for consideration in light of Lewis?s discussion. When: Thu 11 Aug 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=XzhncGpnZ2EzNmtwM2liYTM2OTIzNGI5azZjc2pjYmExOGdzamNiOWo3NHI0OGNwbTY0cGppZDFpNm8gZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. 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On the other hand, however, he argues that neither 'perfection of others' nor 'one's own happiness' are our duties. Why are they excluded from our duties? This paper aims to offer an answer to this question. This exploration is pursued, however, not merely by investigating the internal relationships among parts of Kant's work alone, as is usually the custom in Kant scholarship, but by taking into consideration the influence of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762), Kant's direct predecessor, on the formation of Kant's ethics. For this purpose, I investigate the relevant sections and passages from Baumgarten's Ethica philosophica (first ed. 1740; Kant used the second and third editions of 1751 and 1763 in his lectures) and Kant's 'Doctrine of Virtue' where Baumgarten and Kant respectively discuss 'one's own perfection', 'perfection of others', 'one's own happiness', and the 'happiness of others'. I argue that it is in direct response to Baumgarten that Kant excluded 'perfection of others' and 'one's own happiness' from our duties, thereby executing a teleological deduction to derive 'one's own perfection' and 'happiness of others' as representatives of our teleological duties. Contact: Adam Hochman (adam.hochman at mq.edu.au) or Mike Olson (michael.olson at mq.edu.au) A google calendar with details of other events in this series is available for viewing and subscription by following this link: https://goo.gl/56sotM --- Adam Hochman Macquarie University Research Fellow Department of Philosophy | W6A, Room 733 Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Staff Profile | http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/adam_hochman/ Personal Website | adamhochman.com Academia.edu Page | https://mq.academia.edu/AdamHochman Philpapers Page | http://philpapers.org/profile/48626 T: +61 2 9850 8859 | arts.mq.edu.au [Macquarie University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Beginning with ethnographic surprises that drew us to pay attention to grandmothering in the first place, Kristen Hawkes will show how, in addition to human life history, grandmothering can help explain the precocious sociality of human infants and our distinctive appetite for mutual understanding as well as patterns of male competition and pair bonding. Crucial evidence about human evolution continues to come from the expanding fossil and archaeological records, paleoecology, and increasingly genomics. But comparisons between us and our primate cousins, coupled with formal modelling by Peter Kim and his mathematical biology group at the University of Sydney, are proving to be an especially valuable way to explore evolutionary connections between grandmothering and an array of distinctive human features. Professor Kristen Hawkes is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. Her principal research interests are evolutionary ecology of hunter-gatherers and human evolution. She is a member of the Scientific Executive Committee of the Leakey Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the US National Academy of Sciences. University website Register here http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-kristen-hawke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Tue Aug 2 11:03:29 2016 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 01:03:29 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] [Philosophy@Western Sydney Encountering the Author] Andrew Benjamin, Towards a Relational Ontology, 10 August 2016 In-Reply-To: <9820EBB478AAE24C8BF5E9089A72DDCCDF35DC0B@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> References: <9820EBB478AAE24C8BF5E9089A72DDCCDF35DC0B@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> Message-ID: <139634278660844DAA9851723F723C5D8658E594@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> Philosophy @ Western Sydney - Encountering the Author Andrew Benjamin, Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy's Other Possibility (SUNY, 2015) Respondents: Nicole Anderson (Macquarie University), Jeff Malpas (UTas), Magdalena Zolkos (ACU) Andrew Benjamin calls for a notion of relationality that takes relations among people and events as primary. He shows that a relational ontology has always been at work within the history of philosophy even though philosophy has been reluctant to affirm its presence. Such an already present status of a relational ontology is philosophy's other possibility. Andrew Benjamin is (Monash University, Melbourne, and Kingston University, London) is the author of several books, including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy and the coeditor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press. Date/Time: Wednesday 10 August 2016, 3.00 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 workshop, we will explore the links between music social justice through thoughtful investigations of these links, and through live performance of some very powerful music, performed by Marlene Cummins and Lisa Moore. Program 10am - 12pm - Paul Apostolidis, "The Lessons of Journaleros: Migrant Musicians, Emancipatory Education, and the Aims of Critical Theory" - Romand Coles and Lia Haro "Toward a Radical Democratic Groove: Receptivity and the Arts of Musicality" Lunch 1 pm - 2:15 - Martin Bresnick, "The Political Elephant in Duke Bluebeard's Castle" 2:15 - 2:45 - Lisa Moore, performing music by Leos Janacek, Frederic Rzewski, and Martin Bresnick Break 3:00 - 5:00 - Cynthia Willett, "The Musicology of Urban Ethics: Flow and Call- Response from Ferguson, Missouri to Mexico City" - Nikolas Kompridis "Just Music?" Break 5:15 - 6:00 - Marlene Cummins, performing music from her recent album, Koori Woman Blues Professor Nikolas Kompridis | Director | Institute for Social Justice Research Professor in Philosophy and Political Thought Office: Level 2, 7 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060 Postal Address: PO Box 968, North Sydney, NSW 2059, Australia W http://isj.acu.edu.au/ P + 61 2 9739 2728 E nikolas.kompridis at acu.edu.au [ISJemailpicture] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This account seeks to move beyond an increasingly sterile debate between egalitarian, cosmopolitan proceduralists and their liberal nationalist critics. The alternative is based on the struggle for mutual recognition among self-determining political societies in a post-colonial world order. A method of normative reconstruction is adopted, following Axel Honneth's Hegelian investigation of the criteria of social justice immanent within three spheres of freedom in modern Western liberal democratic societies. The limits of Honneth's account of democratic ethical life in the nation-state, and of freedom in the modern world, is exposed and shown to be in need of extension and revision. In taking due account of colonial and neo-colonial injustices that cross and transcend state boundaries, international relations are presented as an additional sphere of modern freedom with its own immanent standards of justice. The fabric, or material, of global justice is constituted by asymmetrical relations between political societies confronted by a range of significant, shared, human challenges of injustice in an interdependent, globalizing world marked by differing experiences of modernity. Most societies struggle to substantiate self-determining freedom in the face of contemporary neo-colonial power and an enduring legacy of colonialism. While citizens within each society engage in practices that promise greater realisation of their social freedom, these societies are themselves mired in regional and global struggles in which they seek to realise political freedom for their peoples and equal respect in the world order. About Shane O'Neill: Shane O'Neill is Professor of Political Theory at Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on a broad range of topics in critical social theory and contemporary political philosophy. His recent books include the co-edited volumes: After the Nation? Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Post-Nationalism (2010, with Keith Breen); and Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict (2012, with Nick Smith). He is currently working on a critical theory of global justice as decolonization. All welcome, no registration required! 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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Best wishes, Kev DR KEVIN WALTON Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0286 E kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au W www.sydney.edu.au/law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Aug 5 14:59:52 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 04:59:52 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Nick Enfield @ Thu 11 Aug 2016 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <001a113fa606d2b8d905394bef30@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Nick Enfield Nick Enfield (Linguistics) In his 1979 paper ?Scorekeeping in a Language Game?, David Lewis suggests that a presupposition can be introduced into a conversation simply by speaking as if that presupposition already held; thereby, it ?springs into existence?. His example: ?Even George could win? introduces the presupposition that George is not an objectively strong candidate. Crucially, Lewis adds, ?tacit acquiescence? is also needed if this strategy is to work. The alternative to tacit acquiescence and accommodation of a presupposition is to block it with a form of explicit correction or challenge. His example: ?Whadda ya mean ?even George???. I would like to discuss two points that relate to my current research interest in everyday accountability. The first is that if conversation is a form of joint action, as Margaret Gilbert and many others have suggested, then such challenges are evidence of this: they show one participant exercising their ?right to rebuke? the other for a perceived transgression. The second point is that we can examine this question empirically, with reference to recordings of conversation collected in linguistic field work: I will present some cases of the ?whaddya mean X?? strategy for consideration in light of Lewis?s discussion. When: Thu 11 Aug 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=XzhncGpnZ2EzNmtwM2liYTM2OTIzNGI5azZjc2pjYmExOGdzamNiOWo3NHI0OGNwbTY0cGppZDFpNm8gZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. 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On the other hand, however, he argues that neither 'perfection of others' nor 'one's own happiness' are our duties. Why are they excluded from our duties? This paper aims to offer an answer to this question. This exploration is pursued, however, not merely by investigating the internal relationships among parts of Kant's work alone, as is usually the custom in Kant scholarship, but by taking into consideration the influence of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762), Kant's direct predecessor, on the formation of Kant's ethics. For this purpose, I investigate the relevant sections and passages from Baumgarten's Ethica philosophica (first ed. 1740; Kant used the second and third editions of 1751 and 1763 in his lectures) and Kant's 'Doctrine of Virtue' where Baumgarten and Kant respectively discuss 'one's own perfection', 'perfection of others', 'one's own happiness', and the 'happiness of others'. I argue that it is in direct response to Baumgarten that Kant excluded 'perfection of others' and 'one's own happiness' from our duties, thereby executing a teleological deduction to derive 'one's own perfection' and 'happiness of others' as representatives of our teleological duties. Contact: Adam Hochman (adam.hochman at mq.edu.au) or Mike Olson (michael.olson at mq.edu.au) A google calendar with details of other events in this series is available for viewing and subscription by following this link: https://goo.gl/56sotM --- Adam Hochman Macquarie University Research Fellow Department of Philosophy | W6A, Room 733 Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Staff Profile | http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/adam_hochman/ Personal Website | adamhochman.com Academia.edu Page | https://mq.academia.edu/AdamHochman Philpapers Page | http://philpapers.org/profile/48626 T: +61 2 9850 8859 | arts.mq.edu.au [Macquarie University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: