From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon Oct 3 16:09:43 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 05:09:43 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: Dementia in the Courtroom (Macquarie - 14 October) Message-ID: Hi all, The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), the Agency and Moral Cognition Network, and the Australian Neurolaw Database Project are co-hosting a workshop on dementia in the courtroom. Workshop: Dementia in the Courtroom Date: Friday 14 October 2016 Time: 14:45 - 17:00 Venue: Building E3A room 244(TBC), Macquarie University (Q21 on campus map) All are welcome, but please register with Jeanette Kennett for catering purposes: jeanette.kennett at mq.edu.au Dementia is the single greatest cause of disability in older Australians aged 65 and over, with a significant associated economic and social burden. Given our aging population there will be an increasing number of people with dementia entering the legal system, creating unique challenges around evidence, capacity, responsibility, just sentencing, and management of offenders. Dementia may affect capacity to make decisions in various legal domains, including financial management and creation or alteration of a will. Fronto-temporal dementia (behavioural type) causes changes in a person's behaviour and personality, which can result in criminal behaviour. In this workshop, an expert panel will discuss a selection of recent criminal cases from the Australian Neurolaw Database (www.neurolaw.edu.au) where dementia has been a central issue and draw out the legal, ethical and policy issues raised by these cases. Expert Panellists will include: * Associate Professor Arlie Loughnan: Criminal Law Theorist * Dr Hayley Bennett: Barrister and Neuropsychologist * Dr Pauline Langeluddeke: Clinical Psychologist and expert witness Program: 14:45 - 15:05: Registration and afternoon tea 15:05 - 15:10: Welcome and Introductions 15:10 - 16:15: Presentation of cases and panel discussion 16:15 - 16:45: Q&A 16:45 - 17:00: Summing up and close All are welcome! CAVE Website: mq.edu.au/cave/events Facebook: www.facebook.com/MQCAVE Australian Neurolaw Database: www.neurolaw.edu.au Agency and Moral Cognition Network: http://mq.edu.au/cave/research-clusters/agency-and-moral-cognition-network 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 Tue Oct 4 12:40:08 2016 From: Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au (Stephen Matthews) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 01:40:08 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] ACU philosophy seminar series: Melissa Merritt Message-ID: Respect, Love, and Individuals: Murdoch as a Guide to Kantian Ethics Dr Melissa McBay Merritt, University of New South Wales Date: Friday October 7 (this Friday), 3.30-5pm (AEDT). An hour later than normal this week. Talk to be held at North Sydney and videoconferenced to other campuses, details below. North Sydney location: 8-20 Napier Street, Tenison Woods House, Level 16, room 24 (videoconference room). All welcome! Abstract I reconsider the relation between love and respect in Kantian ethics, taking as my guide Iris Murdoch's view of love as the fundamental moral attitude and a kind of attention to individuals. It is widely supposed that Kantian ethics disregards individuals, since we don't respect individuals but the universal quality of personhood they instantiate. We need not draw this conclusion if we recognise that Kant and Murdoch share a view about the centrality of love to virtue. We can then see that respect in the virtuous person cannot be blind to the individual, as critics of Kantian ethics contend. My approach contrasts recent efforts (Velleman and Bagnoli) to assimilate Kantian respect to Murdochian love, which overlook Murdoch's distinctive claims about the singularity of moral activity. This idea is not as un-Kantian as it seems, and it should inform any Kantian ethics that aims to address the charge about individuals. Vidconference locations: Ballarat: CB1.104 Brisbane: AC.22 Canberra: SG 1.10 Melbourne: 250 Victoria Pde 4.28 Strathfield: E2.45 North Sydney: TWH.16.24 Time 3:30-5:00pm (AEDT); 2:30-4:00pm (AEST) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Oct 4 12:59:53 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:59:53 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Alan Hajek @ Wed 5 Oct 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11394e2ca6d1ee053e006adb@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. 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It aims to provide an updated account of biological evolution which goes beyond the selection of random mutations, by describing how development, plasticity, alternative inheritance systems, and constructed niches contribute to changes in phenotypic and genotypic variation across time. While still controversial, the group of ideas encompassed by the synthesis are gaining increasing attention and empirical support. The Baldwin Effect (1896) describes the effect that learnt and inherited behaviours can have on the direction and rate of evolution. Although the effect does not violate the 'Weismann barrier' (whereby hereditary information moves from genes to cells, and never in reverse), it at first glance appears Lamarkian. Perhaps because of this it is an idea that has been widely neglected by biologists. Revisiting the Baldwin Effect in light of the EES may provide a more palatable and acceptable version of the idea, which can be used to frame experimental investigations and analysis. 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: