From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Oct 18 12:59:57 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 01:59:57 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Michelle Ciurria @ Wed 19 Oct 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a114d7ce8a46fd8053f1a0c49@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Michelle Ciurria Responsibility, epistemic confidence, and substantial trust Abstract: This paper offers a feminist social epistemological account of responsible agency, which draws attention to the ecological preconditions for this capacity. Specifically, it posits epistemic confidence as an epistemic platform for the exercise of responsible agency, and from there, it identifies two environmental conditions required for the realization of epistemic confidence and (thus) responsibility: (1) epistemic justice, and (2) substantial trust. This approach shifts attention away from the internal capacities of responsible agents, focusing instead on the environmental conditions required for these capacities to develop. This marks a substantial departure from the classic view, which assumed that responsibility was largely (1) atomistic, (2) backward-looking, and (3) retributive. The feminist social epistemological framework instead sees responsibility as essentially social and care-based. When: Wed 19 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=dnRkNmNkazVkZTZjaGxzOTNsN2x2a2xycTAgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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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ABOUT THE APPC The APPC is usually a three-day conference and provides the opportunity for postgraduate students from Australasia to present their work, debate their ideas, receive feedback from peers and form collaborations across institutions. Hosting the conference provides the opportunity to gain valuable experience in conference organisation and committee management as well as promoting your university's philosophy program. For over two decades, APPCs have included discussions with other graduates, meetings with successful philosophers, career seminars and/or publishing workshops (e.g. with the editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy). Recent conferences have been held in Canberra, Adelaide, Sydney and Auckland. ABOUT BIDS A successful bid will justify their selection of the conference dates and will likely contain a budget with an indication of expected funding sources, a conference planning timeline, and brief details of local facilities (including accommodation options). Bidders are encouraged to be both realistic and creative with their bids. Our comprehensive APPC Hosting Guide can be sent upon request, and we are happy to assist organisers with any further questions that they might have. Bids for the 2017 APPC close December 31st. Bidders are not restricted to groups from a single university and it may be helpful in terms of funding sources and organising resources to link up with others from local institutions. CONTACTS If you are interested in hosting the 2017 APPC, or would like any further information about hosting an APPC, including the APPC Hosting Guide, please contact Toby Solomon (toby.solomon at anu.edu.au). *Toby Solomon* Ph.D Candidate School of Philosophy Rm 4106 Coombs Building ANU -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Wed Oct 19 10:30:02 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:30:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?iso-8859-1?q?CAVE/Philosophy_Seminar=3A_Dominik_D=FCb?= =?iso-8859-1?q?er_=28M=FCnster=29=2C_=22What=27s_a_conception_of_the_=28g?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ood=29_life=3F=22_25_October=2C_Macquarie_University?= Message-ID: Hi all, The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) and the Macquarie University Philosophy Department will host a seminar by CAVE Visitor, Dominik D?ber (M?nster). What's a conception of the (good) life? by Dominik D?ber (M?nster) Date: Tuesday 25 October 2016 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University (Visitor info here) What are the limits of legitimate state action in a liberal state that values autonomy and ensures basic liberal rights? Can we establish principles for drawing the line between legitimate and illegitimate state action or that points out matters that the state should or should not get involved in? These are fundamental questions in contemporary Political Philosophy and even within the broadly liberal tradition we can identify two quite different camps by the way they answer this question. The anti-perfectionist camp defends a principle of restraint, saying that while the state may be justified in taking an active role in matters of justice, it has to refrain from any activity that aims at promoting conceptions of the good life or that is justified by considerations of the good. Perfectionists, on the other hand, say that no such principle of restraint should be established, even defending this thesis up to the point that "it is the goal of all political action to enable individuals to pursue valid conceptions of the good" (Raz). Since the great majority of philosophers involved in this 'perfectionism-debate' on both sides do not discuss how the line between considerations of the good life and other issues, e.g. matters of justice, can be drawn, they seem to take for granted that the distinction is clear enough to be applicable in political theory and practice. Motivated by the fundamental role the term "conceptions of the good (life)" plays in the debate between perfectionists and anti-perfectionists, I critically discuss this line of demarcation and scrutinize if it can be spelled out clearly enough to identify two different camps in political philosophy and play a role as a guiding principle in political practice. About Dominik: Dominik D?ber completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of M?nster in Germany in 2014, entitled "Self-determination and the good life in a democratic state: the paternalism argument against perfectionism." Since 2011, he has been a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of M?nster. He is currently working on a postdoctoral project on the division of labour. All are welcome, no RSVP 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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Best wishes, Kev DR KEVIN WALTON Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0286 E kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au W www.sydney.edu.au/law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra.lynch at nd.edu.au Wed Oct 19 15:19:21 2016 From: sandra.lynch at nd.edu.au (Sandra Lynch) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 04:19:21 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] 6-month Research Associate position at Notre Dame Institute for Ethics & Society, Sydney Message-ID: The Institute for Ethics & Society at The University of Notre Dame Australia (Broadway campus) is advertising a 6-month fixed-term Research Associate position from Jan-July 2017. We are looking for applicants specialising in Applied and Professional Ethics, Ethics Education and/or Bioethics. The position is Level A (full-time) or Level B (0.8 FTE). The Director is also willing to consider dividing the position between two part-time applicants. Applications close 7 November. To apply, please find the full application pack available here: http://www.nd.edu.au/jobs/sydneyjobs.shtml Further enquiries, contact the Director of the IES, sandra.lynch at nd.edu.au Prof. Sandra Lynch Director | Institute for Ethics and Society The University of Notre Dame Australia L1, 104 Broadway (PO Box 944), Broadway NSW 2007 T +61 2 8204 4185 sandra.lynch at nd.edu.au nd.edu.au/ies | CRICOS Provider: 0103 IMPORTANT: This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you should not disclose, copy, disseminate or otherwise use the information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete or destroy the document. Confidential and legal privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery to you. 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[The University of Sydney] MuST10: Causation and Complexity 10th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference in the Philosophy of Science [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1701/14221/images/custom/67953_iStock_16137273_XXLARGE.jpeg] March 1-3 2017 The University of Sydney Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich; Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS), The University of Sydney; Tilburg Centre for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), University of Tilburg; In collaboration with the Centre for Complex Systems (CCS) The University of Sydney Keynote speakers * Professor Stuart Kauffman * Professor Anne-Marie Grisogono * Professor Kevin Korb About the conference Causation and Complexity is the tenth MuST conference, an international collaborative conference series with a distinctive focus on philosophical issues in the sciences that can be addressed using exact reasoning and which have some potential policy relevance. MuST conferences bring together philosophers and scientists to explore these topics. Call for papers Many of the key scientific and practical challenges of our time require innovative scientific approaches to the study of complex systems. Many philosophers of science are engaged in the analysis of these methodological innovations. Complex systems science poses many challenges to traditional models of scientific explanation and understanding, and particularly to ideas about the identification and manipulation of causes. Papers are invited on any aspect of scientific study of complexity, including philosophical, sociological and psychological studies of complex systems science, and on the policy implications of complex systems science Suitable topics include, but are not limited to: * Complexity and uncertainty * Complexity, risk and decision making * The detection and measurement of causal influence * The analysis of network structure * Dynamical explanation * Cognitive strategies for dealing with complexity * Complexity in social interaction * Models and representations of complex systems * Statistical analysis of complex datasets (e.g., data mining, model selection) * The philosophical study of information Abstracts of a maximum 1000wds and including the author?s affiliation and email address should be submitted in a single document by December 1st 2016 to must10.conference at sydney.edu.au Click here for the conference website [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1701/14221/images/logo/university_sydney_logo_footer.png] Copyright ? 2016 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. 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I will elaborate on Peirce?s idea that beliefs or claims are to be interpreted by means of actions we perform if we endorse them. I want to show how this idea can be used as a key to understanding Hegel?s procedure in the Phenomenology. However, the theories of Hegel, Peirce (and Brandom) differ fundamentally in the way how ?reality? is introduced into the process. When: Wed 26 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=dGVrYjQzcmpqc3JnNmQ5NGY4MmQ0bDY3bzQgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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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[The University of Sydney] Sydney Ideas Professor Alfred R Mele [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/59/14164/images/custom/67824_lindner_wordvine.jpg] Free Will and Neuroscience What do old-school and new-wave studies show? Professor Alfred R Mele, Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University The Kenneth Meredith Garven Lecture, for the symposium Perspectives on Determinism from Across the Sciences A major source of scientific skepticism about free will is the belief that conscious decisions and intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions. Professor Alfred Mele presents three serious problems encountered by any attempt to justify this belief by appealing to existing neuroscientific data. He will discuss experiments of three different kinds. Some use EEG (?old school?) and others fMRI or depth electrodes (?new wave?). ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Professor Alfred R Mele is the William H and Lucyle T Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is also the Director of the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control Project and past director of the Big Questions in Free Will Project. More information Tuesday 13 December 6 to 7.30pm Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium Johns Hopkins Drive The University of Sydney University maps Getting to campus Price Free event with online registration requested. RSVP Please click here for the registration page. Stay connected with Sydney Ideas: * Browse our website and subscribe to our monthly newsletter * Follow Sydney Ideas on Facebook and Twitter * Listen to our podcasts on Soundcloud [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/59/14164/images/logo/university_sydney_logo_footer.png] Copyright ? 2016 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. Phone +61 2 9351 2222 ABN 15 211 513 464 CRICOS Number: 00026A To make sure you continue to see our emails in the future, please addsydney.ideas at sydney.edu.au to your address book or senders safe list. 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URL: From sgaw5535 at uni.sydney.edu.au Thu Oct 20 16:09:00 2016 From: sgaw5535 at uni.sydney.edu.au (Stefan Alexander Gawronski) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 05:09:00 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Perspectives on determinism from across the sciences References: Message-ID: Having trouble viewing this email? view online version [The University of Sydney] Charles Perkins Centre [http://suite.swiftdigital.com.au/media/dynamic/id/zzzz5276d2a792daa722zzzz5625d7acd0a56461/artlibrary/interface.gif] Perspectives on determinism from across the sciences December 13 2016, 9am to 5pm Followed by the Kenneth Meredith Garven Lecture 6pm to 7:30pm [http://suite.swiftdigital.com.au/media/dynamic/id/zzzz5276d2a792daa722zzzz5625d7acd4da2699/artlibrary/interface.gif] [http://charlesperkinscentre.e-newsletter.com.au/media/dynamic/id/zzzz5276d2a792daa722zzzz57ff19e96d81e819/interface.gif] This event will consider how recent developments in the sciences bear on the philosophical question of free will and determinism. It will address both general physical determinism and specifically biological (eg genetic) determinism. Do any recent scientific developments have novel philosophical implications? The symposium will also examine recent work in psychology on willpower and its development, and on the psychology of the intuition that free agency is incompatible with causal determination. Speakers include: * Professor Paul Davies AM, Regent?s Professor of Physics and Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Winner of the 1995 Templeton Prize, Arizona State University, USA. Title: ?Determinism in the light of contemporary Physics? * Dr Ilan Dar Nimrod, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Sydney and Professor Paul Griffiths, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Title: ?Genetic essentialist biases in human cognition and their consequences? * Professor Roy F Baumeister, Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology, Florida State University and Professor of Social Psychology, University of Queensland. Title: ?Freedom and determinism in the light of contemporary psychology? * Professor Joan Leach, Director of Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), Australian National University. Title: ?Promoting a better public conversation about science and determinism? * Dr Kate Lynch, Postdoctoral fellow, Biological Sciences, Macquarie University and Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney. Title: ?What happens when genes cause environments? * Mr Andrew J Latham, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney. Title: ?The concept(s) of freedom' This symposium will be followed by the Sydney Ideas Kenneth Meredith Garven Lecture. Please RSVP for the Sydney Ideas event separately. Share [Facebook] [Twitter] [Share] Please RSVP for catering purposes [http://charlesperkinscentre.e-newsletter.com.au/media/dynamic/id/zzzz5276d2a792daa722zzzz563c43cb38c8b961/artlibrary/interface.gif] Funded by the Kenneth Meredith Garven Bequest, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Charles Perkins Centre Date: 13 December 2016 Time: 9am-5pm Venue: Level 6 Seminar room Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney NSW 2006 View the location in Google maps [The University of Sydney] Copyright ? 2015 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. Phone +61 2 9351 2221 ABN 15 21 1 513 464 CRICOS Number: 00026A To make sure you continue to see our emails in the future, please add info.perkins at sydney.edu.au to your address book or senders safe list. Click here to unsubscribe Disclaimer | Privacy statement | University of Sydney Powered by Swift Digital. Click here to view this email in your web browser. To receive a text copy in the future click here. 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