From Nikolas.Kompridis at acu.edu.au Mon Aug 22 09:01:35 2016 From: Nikolas.Kompridis at acu.edu.au (Nikolas Kompridis) Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 23:01:35 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Transnational Feminisms and Individualism - A/Prof Serene Khader Message-ID: Transnational Feminisms and Individualism A/Prof Serene Khader August 25, 2016 Council Room, Level 11 Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney http://isj.acu.edu.au/events/transnational-feminisms-and-individualism-associate-professor-serene-khader-cuny/ Abstract In this talk I demonstrate a need to distinguish three forms of individualism that transnational feminists have seen as complicit in imperialism. The first is a particular social ontology that paints human beings as discrete individuals whose needs can be fulfilled without attention to their social situatedness. The second is a normative position according to which human lives go better when individuals decrease their attachment to relationships and communal norms. The third is a normative position according to which the individual human being is an inviolable locus of worth. I contend that, though feminism does not require the first two forms of individualism, it does require universalistic commitment to a variant of the third. Serene Khader is a moral and political philosopher working primarily on feminist issues in global justice. Khader is the author of Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment (Oxford University Press, 2011) and is at work on a book on transnational feminist solidarity. She holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture in the Philosophy Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. 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It is argued that his position is best understood as a distinctive kind of natural law theory, and that he also offers an argument for this: namely, that the normative order must be given and not brought about by us, as we are too wicked to act as a source for this order. The paper then investigates whether the account that L?gstrup offers of this wickedness is compatible with our usual conceptions of human agency, where it is argued that Luther provides a helpful background to many of these issues. WHEN: Friday August 26, 2.30 PM - 4.00 PM WHERE: Bob will be speaking from North Sydney, Tenison Woods House, 8 Napier Street North Sydney, Floor 16, room 24 (but we will meet ground floor foyer around 2.15). If you wish to attend in North Sydney and you're unsure of where to go, please contact the convenor, Steve. (Stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) Talk will be videoconferenced to: Ballarat: CB1.104 Brisbane: TC.19 Canberra: B6 Melbourne: 250 Victoria Pde 4.28 Strathfield: C2.31 Enquiries: Steve Matthews (stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Aug 23 12:59:52 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:59:52 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Eric Watkins @ Wed 24 Aug 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11407b58d1e6d8053ab45b48@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Eric Watkins Kant on the Unconditioned Goodness of the Good Will In this talk, I consider Kant?s claim in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals that the good will alone is an unconditioned good. 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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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... 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This paper sets out to resolve this tension, by examining what notion of 'gift' is required by L?gstrup's account of the ethical demand. It is argued that this position does not require us to think that life is created, but only that is is 'given' as something we do not create for ourselves. In this way, it is argued, L?gstrup can maintain his ethics in a stable secular form. When: Wed 31 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=Y2Q1NnRtZTBuMDkwZDZlajlyZzl1bHA4ajggMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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. 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Further dates as per eventbrite website. We hope you can make it!Cheers,A/ Prof. Goetz Richter, convenor ------------------------------ Event Summary: ------------------------------ Event: Philosophy of Music Study Group Date: Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 6:00 PM - Thursday, 24 November 2016 at 7:30 PM (AEST) Location: <b>Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney</b><br />1 Conservatorium Road<br />Sydney, NSW 2000<br />Australia<br /> ------------------------------ Event Details: ------------------------------ The Study Group meets in Seminar Room 2164 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music to discuss seminal texts on the philosophy of music on every last Thursday of the month. 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We are all distraught. We are staunch adherents of David Lewis when it comes to time travel ? we are Ludovicians. Ludovicians believe that time cannot be changed in the sense that you cannot go back in time and kill your grandfather nor, as is the case here, can you escape a nuclear war by using a time machine and then try and stop the war. What will be, will be. But behind my back a Professor whispers a plan: you?ll kidnap me and hide me away; you?ll torture me until I?m mad; you?ll make me think a nuclear war has taken place when actually it?s all sunshine and joy in the outside world; you?ll poison me with polonium; finally, you?ll bundle me into a time travelling DeLorean to go back and tell everyone what I, erroneously, think will happen. Is it rational to do this? I argue that, in fact, it is. When: Thu 1 Sep 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=XzcxMWo0Y3BoOHAxazZiOW02b3AzMmI5azcxMWsyYjlvNm9yM2FiYTY2NHJrY2dwbjhrcWo4Z3BnNjQgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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... URL: