From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 15 11:59:53 2016 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 01:59:53 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: JSI Seminar (23 August): Sam Shpall Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A012DD79A1E@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. By the way, here is the current list of our forthcoming seminars: 1 September: Ann Genovese (University of Melbourne) 22 September: Michael Sevel (University of Sydney) 27 October: Alexander Horne (University of Sydney) 10 November: Marc De Leeuw (University of New South Wales) 17 November: Daniel Halliday (University of Melbourne) 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... 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When: Wed 17 Aug 2016 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Sydney Uni, Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NjE0NXEwZTNodGg5MHJiNTBzMm1qdXBzcmsgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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 arts.cave at mq.edu.au Wed Aug 17 12:50:48 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:50:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Seminar: Shane O'Neill (Queen's University Balfast), "The Fabric of Global Justice", 26 August Message-ID: Hi all, The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) has a seminar coming up on 26 August by Prof. Shane O'Neill. All are welcome, no registration required! "The Fabric of Global Justice: Freedom, Recognition, Decolonization" Speaker: Shane O'Neill (Queen's University Belfast) Date: Friday 26 August Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: W6A 127, Macquarie University (P12 on this map) Abstract: In this paper, I advance an immanent yet radical theory of global justice. 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 dalia.nassar at gmail.com Wed Aug 17 14:14:40 2016 From: dalia.nassar at gmail.com (Dalia Nassar) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:14:40 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Workshop: Science and Nature in the Long Eighteenth Century Message-ID: *Science and Nature in the Long Eighteenth Century * *August 19 2016* Kevin Lee Room, Level 6, Lobby H, Quadrangle Building A14 University of Sydney *Sponsored by The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science* This workshop will examine a broad range of issues pertaining to the study of nature in Germany from the period of the renouvellement of the Berlin Academy in the 1740s, to the writings of Hegel in the early nineteenth century. Moving from discussions of disciplinary boundaries and disciplinary interrelations to the contents of specific writings in natural philosophy, the workshop will engage with the thought and writings of Maupertuis, Formey, Kant, Schelling, Fichte and Hegel. - 9.00 Peter Anstey, ?The four classes of the Berlin Academy? - 9.50 Eric Watkins, ?Kant on Laws? - 10.35 Coffee break - 11.00 Michael Olson, ?Empirical theories of aether and Kant's* Opus optimum*? - 11.50 Jennifer Mensch, ?Kant and the Skull Collectors: Teleology and Empiricism in the Science of Man? - 12.35 Lunch - 2.00 Dalia Nassar, ?Schelling on experience and experiment? - 2.50 Clinton Tolley, ?Overcoming skepticism after Fichte: Schelling on the identity of nature and science? - 3.35 Coffee break - 4.00 Ulrich Schloesser, ?Natural laws, Life and Self-Consciousness: Hegel's Argument in Chapter 3 of the Phenomenology? - 4.50 Debrief - 5.00 Close and drinks *Registration* Participation is free but registration is required for catering purposes. 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The approach emphasizes that the species problem is not a metaphysical exercise or conceptual analysis, but rather is and should be grounded on our best theory of what the biological world is like. On this ground and the recent advance in the evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), I support the causal concept of species, arguing that species are best understood as models of the causal graph theory. When: Thu 18 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=XzhncDM4Y3BnNzExNGFiYTY2dDFqY2I5azZwMms4YjlwNzRvM2liOW42MTE0MmgyNDZsMjQ0ZDFtNmcgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. 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To gain clarity about its meaning and justification, I draw a number of distinctions in goodness and explore in some detail Kant?s understanding of what a condition is and what it means to say that something is unconditioned. When: Wed 24 Aug 2016 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Sydney Uni, Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=ZWlwN2Q1aW5yc3E5ZjM2azNhOXVzODdnbTQgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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. 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Group-level beliefs should be a function of group-level evidence, not individual-level beliefs. This allows for a theory of group rationality that (i) bypasses a host of pessimistic results in the literature on judgment aggregation and (ii) treats rational individual-level attitudes and rational group-level attitudes in parallel. When: Thu 25 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=XzY0b2s4Z3E0Nm9xNGFiYTM4b3BrNmI5azc1MTQ0YmEyNnNyamViOW42aDI0YWNoaTY4b2syZTI2ODggZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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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URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Sun Aug 21 08:36:59 2016 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 22:36:59 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday 23rd of August: Catherine Womack (BSU), Michelle Hsu (USYD), Claudia Harper (USYD) & Amanda Salis (USYD) Message-ID: The weight of words: qualitative investigation on dieting, self and relationships Catherine Womack, Department of Philosophy, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater MA Michelle Hsu, Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, University of Sydney Claudia Harper, Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, University of Sydney Amanda Salis, Associate Professor of Biology, Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, University of Sydney Date: Tuesday, 23rd of August Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University ABSTRACT: What happens when a philosopher joins a quantitative comparative diet study to do qualitative work? Lots of questions about the social nature of identity, the moral status of food, and the unpredictable trajectories of behavior change. In this talk, we will discuss themes emerging from a qualitative pilot study of participants on a very-low-energy diet (VLED), part of the TEMPO quantitative diet trial at the University of Sydney, run by Amanda Salis of the Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders. We are analyzing data from the pilot study to develop a comparative qualitative investigation between VLED and moderate calorie-restricted cohorts and will present some of our findings. Moving forward, we are particularly interested in transition points-the transition from active dieting to maintenance and the transition from frequent mandatory clinical and support meetings to optional support and infrequent clinical meetings. How participants accommodate shifts in food intake and body image and new norms or obligations in social eating over time requires deep inquiry to elicit views on self, social affiliation, and what behavior change means from the inside. We welcome input, suggestions, cautionary comments, etc. 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: