From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Mon Aug 29 09:37:34 2016 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:37:34 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Time Travel and Torturing Nikk Effingham: Thursday @ 3.00 Message-ID: <0572B4C4-71FB-45C7-B449-62852267932D@yahoo.com> Dear all, Our Anderson Fellow, Nikk Effingham, will be giving a paper at this week?s current projects? seminar on Thursday at 3.00 in the Muniment Room. We hope to see you all there. Title: Time Travel and Torturing Nikk Effingham Abstract: As I?m about to present this paper, a time travelling DeLorean from the future appears and I stumble out of it. Delirious, and suffering from radiation poisoning, I tell you that you are all doomed as nuclear war will break out next week. I then die at the feet of my earlier self. 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. 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 calendar-notification at google.com Tue Aug 30 13:00:00 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 03:00:00 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Robert Stern @ Wed 31 Aug 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <047d7bdc9ef22c4182053b412da6@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Robert Stern A Gift or Given? The Role of Life in L?gstrup's Ethics This paper looks at the ethics of the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. L?gstrup (1905-1981). It explores what may seem to be a tension in L?gstrup's thinking, which is that on the one hand L?gstrup says he wants to develop an ethics 'in a purely human manner', while on the other his fundamental claim that 'life is a gift' may strongly suggest a theological interpretation, namely that ethics only makes sense if one thinks life has been given to us by God. 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. 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Applicants should be within 4 years of their PhD or in the final year of their PhD. Applicants should send the following information: ? Paper title ? 500 word abstract ? CV There will also be an opportunity for applicants to discuss research funding and research position opportunities at UNSW. Applicants who are interested in pursuing research funding opportunities should send a short description of their project at the time of application. Registration for non presenters is free of charge, but numbers are limited. Deadline for applications is September 22nd, 2016. Please send information to pji at unsw.edu.au with 'ECR workshop' in the subject line. For more information contact: Prof Jeremy Moss j.moss at unsw.edu.au 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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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... 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Murray PhD President Emeritus of the Hastings Centre NY and Launch of the ACU Luminaries Series at Tenison Woods House Level 22, 8-20 Napier Street North Sydney on Monday 19 September, 2016 5.30pm for 6.00pm start Event concludes at 7.30pm RSVP by Friday 9 September, 2016 Email: acuevents at acu.edu.au / Phone: 02 9739 2201 Please advise of any special dietary requirements with your RSVP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Sep 1 14:23:11 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 04:23:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE/VELiM Symposium: Conflicts of Interest, 31 October Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to a jointly hosted symposium with the Centre for Values, Ethics, and Law in Medicine (VELiM), the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), and the Bias and Research Integrity research node (University of Sydney). All are welcome, but please register on EventBrite. Symposium: Conflicts of Interest Date: Monday 31 October 2016 Time: 13:00 - 17:00 Venue: Medical Foundation Building (K25), 92-94 Parramatta Rd, University of Sydney This symposium brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to explore the ethical and policy implications of financial and non-financial conflicts of interest in medicine and public health. The four sessions will address conceptual and practical implications of conflicts of interest from clinical, policy, scientific and academic perspectives. Speakers: * Jane Williams, "Conflict of Interest in the Assisted Reproduction Technology Industry" * Adam Dunn, "Can we use data to measure and mitigate the clinical implications of competing interests?" * Quinn Grundy, "'The perfect friend': How sales-reps form invisible and indispensable relationships with nurses" * Jane Johnson and Katrina Hutchinson, "Reps in the Ranks - Conflicts of Interest in Surgical Innovation" Respondents include: Wendy Rogers, Lisa Bero, and Wendy Lipworth. Contact: Christopher Mayes and Jane Williams 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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In this talk, I present a new theory of intentional identity, the triangulation theory, and argue that it has some major advantages over its principal rivals. When: Thu 8 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=XzhnczM2Z2kxNjEya2FiYTU4ZDJqYWI5azZ0MWpjYmEyOGQwajhiYTU4a3NqaWdobjYxMTNnZGExNmsgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. 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In this talk, I present a new theory of intentional identity, the triangulation theory, and argue that it has some major advantages over its principal rivals. 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: