From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Mon Sep 26 14:03:29 2016 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 04:03:29 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Inaugural Conference of the Australian Hegel Society, 29-30 September, at UNSW Australia in Sydney In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: [cid:image003.jpg at 01D21293.2ADF3790] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 174165 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: From m.valaris at unsw.edu.au Tue Sep 27 10:45:43 2016 From: m.valaris at unsw.edu.au (Markos Valaris) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 00:45:43 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Bruin Christensen at UNSW on Tuesday 4 October Message-ID: You are invited to join us for Bruin Christensen presentation at the Philosophy seminar at UNSW. TITLE: What is Species-Being? Towards a Radical Reappropriation of the Concept of Alienation DATE & TIME: 4 October, 12:30-2:00 VENUE: UNSW, Morven Brown 209 ABSTRACT: In her book Entfremdung-Zur Aktualit?t eines sozialphilosophischen Problems, Rahel J?ggi has sought to rehabilitate the concept of alienation. I would strengthen this claim: critical theory must recover this concept and, unlike J?ggi, it must construe alienation as bound up with the nature of work under capitalist relations of exchange, hence production. Alienation is first and foremost alienated labour. Recovering a notion of alienation in this strong sense is essential to identifying motives for the kind of social change needed if we are to find just solutions to environmental crisis. In this paper I take first steps towards this. I first provide a reconstruction of Marx's claim that the human being is species-being "in that, practically and theoretically, he makes the species, both his own and that of all other things his object." (MEW 40, S.515) Since this claim derives from the proto-existentialist Feuerbach, I use a reconstruction of Heidegger's notion of existence to accomplish it. On this basis, I then briefly interpret the third of the four ways in which according to Marx workers are alienated under capitalism-alienation from their character as a species-beings. 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 h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Wed Sep 28 11:59:15 2016 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 01:59:15 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] The Inaugural Conference of the Australian Hegel Society (UNSW Australia, Sydney, September 29-30, 2016) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Inaugural Conference of the Australian Hegel Society UNSW Australia, Sydney (School of Humanities and Languages/Philosophy) 29-30 Sep, 2016 Morven Brown G6 (map ref C20) Keynote Speakers Angelica Nuzzo (City University, New York) and Paul Redding (University of Sydney) Schedule Thursday, 29th September 09:45 Welcome 10:00 Angelica Nuzzo, Morality, Ethical Life and the Realization of Freedom in Hegel 11:15 Break 11:40 Ulrich Schl?sser, Action, Language and Confession in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 12:20 Loughlin Gleeson, Contra Pippin: an Evaluative essentialist and Holistic Reading of Hegelian Concrete Freedom 13:00 Lunch 02:00 Charlotte Epstein, Recognition, Misrecognition and The Role of the Negative in International Relations: The Case For Returning to Hegel 02:40 Nicholas Smith, How should a Hegelian think about Unconditional Basic Income? 03:20 Andy Blunden, Artefact-Mediated: Intersubjectivity as the Basis for Non-Metaphysical Appropriation of Hegel 04:00 Break 04:30 Inja Stracenski, Ontology without a Substratum: Hegel's Science of Logic as "Metaphysics Proper" 05:10 Giovanna Luciano, Reason and Subjectivity: on Hegel's early Jena Writings Conference Dinner Friday, 30th Septemeber 2016 10:00 Paul Redding, Hegel, Logic and the Nature of Mental Contents 11:15 Break 11:30 Dennis Schmidt, On the Idioms of Spirit: Art and Truth for Hegel 12:10 Lunch 01:05 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Hegel Society 01:50 Heikki Ik?heimo, Hegel and Marx on the Human Essence 02:30 Daniel Lopez, In Defence of Hegel: A Counter-Critique of Marx's Early Reading 03:10 Catherine Moir, The Politics of Utopia: Bloch and Hegel in the GDR 03:50 Break 04:10 Diego Bubbio, The I and World History in Hegel 04:50 Simon Lumsden, Is Ethical Life a Community? Organising Committee: Jean-Philippe Deranty, Macquarie University Heikki Ik?heimo, UNSW Australia Simon Lumsden, UNSW Australia Giovanna Luciano, Western Sydney University / Universit? di Padova Conference website: http://www.australianhegelsocietyconference.com/ Heikki Ik?heimo Senior lecturer School of Humanities and Languages/Philosophy University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia Email: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Tel. 04-23131713 https://unsw.academia.edu/HeikkiIkaheimo http://www.amazon.com/Anerkennung-Grundthemen-Philosophie-German-Edition/dp/3110254123 Editor of Journal of Social Ontology: www.degruyter.com/view/j/jso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Thu Sep 29 11:59:50 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 01:59:50 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Alan Hajek @ Wed 5 Oct 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a113aa3c4409586053d9bd53d@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Alan Hajek "Begging to Differ With Similarity Accounts of Counterfactuals" Widespread agreement among philosophers on a given topic is rare. However, it is enjoyed by the Stalnaker/Lewis similarity accounts of counterfactuals. Roughly, they say that the counterfactual if p were the case, q would be the case is true if and only if at the nearest p-worlds, q is true. I disagree with these accounts, for many reasons. In particular, a recurring problem is that they render true various implausibly specific counterfactuals. When: Wed 5 Oct 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=ZWx0ODNkbW9ndmxqM2M5M2lxMnFjOTYwb2cgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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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These include abstract concept learning, emotion-like behaviour and a basic form of awareness. Here I will review how the bee brain is able to support these behavioural capacities from a mechanistic and comparative neurobiological perspective. 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: From kristie.miller at sydney.edu.au Sat Oct 1 12:49:55 2016 From: kristie.miller at sydney.edu.au (Kristie Miller) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 02:49:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Ben Blumsen: Similarity Spaces Message-ID: <9E5D9D68EF32924FB5AE672AA26A09E4B6E64E46@ex-mbx-pro-06> Dear all, This coming Thursday's current projects will be Ben Blumsen presenting the following: Title: Similarity Spaces Abstract: According to Peter Gardenfors and Graham Oddie, the natural properties are the convex subsets of a metric space in which the distances are degrees of dissimilarity. In this paper, I argue that this analysis of natural properties is incompatible both with the definition of degree of dissimilarity as total number of natural properties not in common as well as with the definition of degree of dissimilarity as proportion of natural properties not in common. 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