From m.valaris at unsw.edu.au Mon Sep 12 12:29:02 2016 From: m.valaris at unsw.edu.au (Markos Valaris) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 02:29:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: Michelle Ciurria @ UNSW Philosophy Seminar Message-ID: Hi All, This is a reminder that Dr. Michelle Ciurria will be giving a Philosophy Seminar at UNSW, hosted by the School of Humanities & Languages. Details bellow: Responsibility in conversation: A functionalist account Abstract: This paper defends a conversational-functionalist account of moral responsibility. It argues that moral responsibility attributions are (1) part of a conversational practice in which we express the reactive attitudes to another person, and (2) this practice functions to bring to light relevant information about the target agent's moral properties, which serves to enhance moral understanding and agency in the conversational participants. This account combines a conversational model of responsibility with a functionalist justification for moral attributions: they're justified ifthey're likely to enhance moral understanding and agency in the conversational participants. Date: 13 September, 2016 Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm Location: 209 Morven Brown, UNSW Kensington 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... URL: From kristie.miller at sydney.edu.au Tue Sep 13 09:53:41 2016 From: kristie.miller at sydney.edu.au (Kristie Miller) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:53:41 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Neil Levy: Am I Racist Message-ID: <9E5D9D68EF32924FB5AE672AA26A09E4B6E64086@ex-mbx-pro-06> Dear all, This week's current projects will feature Neil Levy: Am I racist? There is good (though still controversial) evidence that ordinary agents harbour implicit attitudes that are sometimes at odds with their explicit beliefs. Many white Americans, for instance, exhibit an implicit bias against black people. Assuming that they are sincere in professing non-racist beliefs, are they racist? There are three influential models of racism in the literature: doxastic, behavioural, and affective. I will consider whether such agents are racist, measured against the standard each provides. I will argue that given the best evidence of the nature of implicit attitudes, they should be assessed as largely though not exclusively non-racist against the doxastic and behavioural standard, while the affective standard delivers a more mixed verdict. As usual, papers are in the Muniment room at 3.00 at the University of Sydney. All welcome. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This mix of authors reflects the influence that Anscombe has had in the philosophy of action, in both the analytical and idealist traditions. When: Wed 14 Sep 2016 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=bm5vYXZscmt2aTBndDNjdWFtNjlzaHNjYnMgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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... 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My starting point is to ask what it would mean to take kratos (power) rather than demos as the starting point of the thinking of democracy. I will argue that this is consistent with Solon?s first democratic constitution and that it leads to a thinking of democracy in terms of agonism. My attempt at a definition of agonistic democracy comes from the introduction to my current book project, provisionally titled Stasis: On Agonistic Democracy. Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) is the author of The Doppelg?nger: Literature?s Philosophy (2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka?s Laughter (2016), and The Ruse of Soveirgnty: Democracy and Stasis (2017). He has also edited or co-edited numerous books, including Spinoza Now (2011) and Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger (2015). 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Ballarat: CB1.104 Brisbane: TC.19 Canberra: B6 Melbourne: 250 Victoria Pde 4.28 Strathfield: C2.31 North Sydney Tenison Woods House, 8 Napier Street North Sydney, Floor 16, room 24 Jodie McNeilly TITLE: God Without God: the divine limit of the phenomenon ABSTRACT: The background concern of this paper is the well-rehearsed debate on the ?theological turn? (or ?veerings?) in French Phenomenology that was ignited by Dominique Janicaud some 25 years ago in his vociferous critique of several leading French thinkers. It also responds to subsequent contestations against Janicaud by numerous scholars defending these thinkers radicalising of phenomenology in their attempts to account for what Emanuel Levinas had ?stirred up in the phenomenological field? by ?re-posing the question of the philosophical status of the idea of God? What is pivotal to Janicaud in his exclusionary critique and drawing of phenomenological boundaries is to hold dearly to the method as Edmund Husserl intended. In doing so, only describable phenomena that appear (or are logically subtended to appear) provide the litmus for a bona fide phenomenology. In opening and broadening the method to include experiences of a transcendent, religious nature as the French thinkers do, orthodox Husserlian thinking places these projects into question. The purpose of this paper is to introduce one argument from my bigger project that (like Janicaud) questions these post-Husserlian thinkers from a strict, un-radicalised Husserlian view of phenomenology and which (unlike Janicaud) permits a phenomenology of religion with Husserl?s philosophy. In this presentation I will focus upon my ?working? analysis pertaining to three key aspects to suggest a divine limit to phenomena: first, the concept of ?the phenomenon? as developed in Husserl?s project; second, the ?status of the idea of God? in Husserl?s writings; and third, the relevant philosophical discourse on God that emerges from the Janicaud-led debate, which will touch on my critical commentary of the phenomenology of ?the inapparent?, and post-phenomenological thought on the ?uncertainty? of God as the basis of faith. Xavier Symons TITLE: A Defence of Communitarian Appeals to Culture ABSTRACT: In the early 2000s several prominent bioethicists wrote extensively about the relevance of the communitarian-liberal debate to the field of bioethics. Discussion of this topic has since waned, in part due to a perception that the insights to be gained from the debate have been exhausted. In this paper, I wish to suggest that there are aspects to communitarian bioethics that are deserving of more attention; in particular, I believe we should give greater credence to the methodological insights latent in communitarian thought. In this paper I will argue that we should heed the ?communitarian imperative? to consider how our individual bioethical policies affect the moral culture and shared social values of a community. My claim is, specifically, that we have good reason to always consider the effects of our biomedical policy on the shared values implicit in local social praxis. To support this claim, I will describe how consideration of the ?moral culture? of a society can guide us in our evaluation of two specific bioethical issues: the commercial sale of human organs, and, more controversially, sex-selective abortion. 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And, second, that the dissatisfaction with democracy always returns, in one way or another, to how the ?people? or ?demos? is conceptualized. Can we think of democracy in a different way? My starting point is to ask what it would mean to take kratos (power) rather than demos as the starting point of the thinking of democracy. I will argue that this is consistent with Solon?s first democratic constitution and that it leads to a thinking of democracy in terms of agonism. My attempt at a definition of agonistic democracy comes from the introduction to my current book project, provisionally titled Stasis: On Agonistic Democracy. Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) is the author of The Doppelg?nger: Literature?s Philosophy (2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka?s Laughter (2016), and The Ruse of Soveirgnty: Democracy and Stasis (2017). 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If you are interested in joining the group or being put on the mailing list for it, please email Alex Gillett: alexander-james.gillett at students.mq.edu.au All are welcome! Kelly 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 Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au Wed Sep 14 14:29:48 2016 From: Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au (Stephen Matthews) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:29:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] REMINDER: THOMAS MURRAY Why we Play? Sports, Values and Drugs Message-ID: Reminder: public lecture by Professor Thomas H. Murray (President Emeritus of the Hastings Centre). Topic: Why we play? Sports, Values and Drugs When: Monday, 19 September, 5.30 pm for 6pm Where: Tenison Woods House, ACU North Sydney Campus. Level 22, 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney Overview The Rio Olympic Games were marked by disqualifications of many athletes for using performance-enhancing drugs. What makes the use of anabolic steroids, EPO and other forms of doping so persistent and pervasive? The dynamics of athletic competition set the stage for ethical analysis. Some commentators argue that the current system for deterring doping in sport is ineffective, misguided, or both. The standard defense of anti-doping offers two justifications: that it promotes fairness and protects athletes' health. Critics argue that fairness only requires that all competitors have access to the same performance-enhancing drugs, and that athletes' health would be better protected if doping were regulated under the care of physicians. Appreciating the realities of competitive sport undermines confidence in the concept of medically supervised doping. 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There are three influential models of racism in the literature: doxastic, behavioural, and affective. I will consider whether such agents are racist, measured against the standard each provides. I will argue that given the best evidence of the nature of implicit attitudes, they should be assessed as largely though not exclusively non-racist against the doxastic and behavioural standard, while the affective standard delivers a more mixed verdict. When: Thu 15 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=XzZ0MWthY2hnNmgyajZiOXA4NHJrMmI5azcwcjNjYjlwNjhwNDRiOWg4b3A0NGdhNDZnc2thZDFvOGsgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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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I urge a different, material account in which inductive inferences are warranted by background facts. When: Wed 21 Sep 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=OHB1b2EyNmdoaHQ0NzhodWVtNzk0azNucDggMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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... 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