From michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com Mon Oct 24 09:05:41 2016 From: michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com (michael kirchhoff) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:05:41 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] UOW Philosophy Seminar (Dr. Tom Froese) Message-ID: UOW Philosophy Seminar Series Title/Topic: When me and you are more than two: Searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity Speaker: Dr. Tom Froese (National Autonomous University of Mexico; UOW VISA Fellow) Time: 3.30 to 5.00pm When: Thursday 27 October Place: 19.2072 (Research Hub) Contact: Michael Kirchhoff (kirchhof at uow.edu.au) Abstract: The most meaningful experiences in our lives derive much of their significance from being shared with other people. However, is it actually possible to share a moment such that there are two subjects of one experience? Mainstream cognitive science is forced to reject this possibility of genuine intersubjectivity because another person can only play an instrumental role in the generation of one?s experience. Essentially, our experiences with family, friends, and loved ones do not involve them at all; these experiences are ultimately constituted by mental representations in one?s mind for which they can, at best, serve as an external cause or trigger. In this talk I question the validity of this solipsistic approach. Drawing on insights from dynamical systems modeling, I consider the basic conditions that would allow interacting individuals to become transformed into one integrated system with collective properties. I then present the latest evidence from psychological experiments that investigate the role that social interaction plays in shaping our awareness of other minds. I conclude that there is nothing mysterious about the possibility of genuine intersubjectivity. Best *Dr. Michael D. 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Even those who stress the existence of "basic" emotions, which are said to be non-conceptual and shared with animals and infants, talk about other "complex" emotions that involve concepts (e.g. Griffiths). Call this the conceptualist assumption about emotions. This now orthodox assumption is well motivated. How, for example, could one feel regret without believing or at least being inclined to believe that one has made a mistake? In this paper, I examine closely the behavioural and linguistic features of emotions that motivate the view that at least some emotions must be conceptually laden. I then offer an alternative way to understand those features in a way that does not necessitate the conceptualist assumption. It is at least possible, I claim, that all emotions are part of our (non-rational) animality. Bio: Dr. Talia Morag is an adjunct fellow at the University of Western Sydney. WHEN: (this coming) Friday October 28, 2.30 PM - 4.00 PM WHERE: Talia will be speaking from North Sydney, Tenison Woods House, 8 Napier Street North Sydney, Floor 16, room 24. If you wish to attend in North Sydney and you're unsure of where to go, please contact the convenor, Steve. (Stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) Talk will be videoconferenced to: Ballarat: CB1.104 Brisbane: AC.22 Canberra: S.G.1.10 Melbourne: 250 Victoria Pde 4.28 Strathfield: E2.45 Enquiries: Steve Matthews (stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon Oct 24 09:26:35 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 22:26:35 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Public Lecture: David Matas, "Avoiding complicity in foreign transplant abuse" (Nov 23, Macquarie) Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to the annual Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) public lecture. We are pleased to announce that this year's lecture will be given by international human rights lawyer David Matas on the issue of foreign transplant abuse. Because of a shortage of organs, patients in need of transplants wait long periods. Some become desperate enough to undertake transplant tourism involving unethically sourced organs. What are the professional ethical and legal standards that Australia could develop to prevent complicity in foreign transplant abuse? David will discuss national and international standards that minimise local complicity in organ transplant abuse, drawing on his expertise on Chinese sourcing of organs from executed prisoners of conscience. "Policy and Law for Australia to Prevent Complicity in Foreign Transplant Abuse" Date: Wednesday 23 November 2016 Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Venue: W6A Theatre 2, Macquarie University (O14 on the campus map) All are welcome but please register for catering purposes. Register here: Link. Abstract: Various professional and international organizations have developed standards to avoid local complicity in foreign transplant abuse, such as receiving unethically sourced organs. This lecture will run through what those standards are. There is substantial evidence of transplant abuse in China. The standards will be applied, in the form of a case study, to indicate what can be done to avoid complicity in transplant abuse in China. I consider what professional, national and international institutions both have done and could do to reduce complicity. For professional institutions, the talk will address how the standards apply to The Transplantation Society and the World Medical Association. For international institutions, the talk will consider the standards in relation to the European Union, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Office for Drugs and Crimes. For national institutions, the talk will consider standards in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. About David: David Matas is an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He has published eleven books, including Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for their Organs, with David Kilgour, and State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China, a collection of essays, co-edited with Torsten Trey. He is the co-author with Ethan Gutmann and David Kilgour of the 2016 update on Bloody Harvest and Ethan Gutmann?s The Slaughter. In 2008, he was awarded the Order of Canada. In 2009, he was nominated with David Kilgour for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on organ transplant abuse in China. All welcome! 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 j.moss at unsw.edu.au Mon Oct 24 22:02:57 2016 From: j.moss at unsw.edu.au (Jeremy Moss) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:02:57 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] ECR workshop on moral and political philosophy Message-ID: UNSW Early Career Workshop on Moral and Political Philosophy. The Practical Justice Initiative and the Discipline of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales is organising a workshop for early career researchers on Oct 31- Nov 1, 2016 at UNSW, Sydney. Keynote speakers for the event are: ? Prof Leif Wenar (King's College London) ? Prof Garrett Cullity (University of Adelaide) ? Prof Susan Dodds (University of New South Wales) To register for the UNSW ECR Workshop on Moral and Political Philosophy please go to: https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/othersites/?path=othersites/fass/form/index.php&i=916 Professor of Political Philosophy[cid:8829FC7F-4E2B-4A75-8E4F-03882E6A64E4] 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... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Symposium: Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare 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. For those of you on Facebook, some media articles by the speakers and respondents have been shared on https://www.facebook.com/events/175290989562025/ 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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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. 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... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Tue Oct 25 14:37:29 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 03:37:29 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: The History and Philosophy of 'Race', 17-18 Nov, Macquarie University Message-ID: Hi all, You are warmly invited to attend the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) workshop, The History and Philosophy of 'Race', which is designed to bring together Australian and international philosophers and historians of 'race' to nurture interaction and exchange on their shared research interests. Our aim is to create a platform from which a mutually beneficial dialogue between philosophers and historians of 'race' can be established. CAVE Workshop: The History and Philosophy of 'Race' Date: Thursday and Friday, 17 - 18 November 2016 Time: 09:00 - 15:00 (both days) Venue: E7B Theatre 2, Macquarie University (M21 on campus map) All are welcome, but please RSVP for catering purposes by Thursday 3 November. To register, please contact Adam Hochman. Keynote Speakers: * Robert Bernasconi (PSU): "Race, Religion, and Conversion" * Ron Mallon (WUSTL): "On Accumulation Mechanisms" Profiles of our keynote speakers are on our website. Local Speakers: * Albert Atkin (MQ): "Subaltern Prosopography and the Philosophy of Race" * Andrew Gillett (MQ): "Race, Ethnicity, Others: Late Antiquity as a Site for Historical Recursion" * Victoria Grieves (USYD): "History in the Age of Humans: Time, Aboriginal philosophy and the Rise of Racism" * Adam Hochman (MQ): "Why the Metaphysics of Race Needs to Get Historical" * Alison Holland (MQ): "Counting Race: Aboriginal Natives and Immigrant Races. The Investment in, and Politics of, Race in Interwar Australia" * Jennifer Mensch (UWS): "German Anthropology between Blumenbach and Kant" * Sarah Walsh (USYD): "The Aesthetics of Whiteness: Race and Visual Culture in Chile" * Christine Winter (ANU): "Racial Ambiguity: Colonial Mixed Race Identity in the Asia-Pacific" For further information, please contact Adam Hochman: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au 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 debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Tue Oct 25 15:05:27 2016 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 04:05:27 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Final Program HPS Research Presentation 28th October In-Reply-To: <377ed99b00666e1febb7dbbc096629a4e19.20161025035935@mail75.atl51.rsgsv.net> References: <377ed99b00666e1febb7dbbc096629a4e19.20161025035935@mail75.atl51.rsgsv.net> Message-ID: <8B1F61251560B84CACBB4191CEEAFD850144C8850A@ex-mbx-pro-06> [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/27aac8a65e64c994c4416d6b8/images/icon_envelope.png] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/377ed99b00666e1febb7dbbc0/images/194f5f8b-7275-4d5a-8f05-ad320b72f842.jpg] Unit for History and Philosophy of Science (Held in Conjunction with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science) HPS RESEARCH PRESENTATION and CELEBRATION SEMESTER TWO 2016 Held : FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2016 Time: Presentation From 1PM Drinks and Canapes: from 5:30 pm KEYNOTE: PROFESSOR JOHN SUTTON MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY 'Sharing Cognitive Futures (and Pasts): small groups and shared histories' Location: SANCTA SOPHIA COLLEGE COMMON ROOM Pedestrians can enter via Missenden Road or through the University via St John?s Oval. Directions: www.sanctasophiacollege.edu.au/contact-us/location-and-transport PROGRAM Starts: 1pm Student Presentations: 1 -1:30pm Stefan Gawronski "Sympathy for the Devil Fish: How the Octopus became a Mode of the Brain" 1:30 -2pm Stephanie White "Modeling science's progress towards truth in response to Underdetermination" Afternoon Tea: 2-2:30pm 2:30 - 3:15 Cindy Eric "The Practical Geometry of Robert Hooke's "Principles of Congruity and Incongruity." 3:15 - 4pm Samuel Lewin "Communication as an Object for Cognitive Science." 4 - 4.45pm - Laura Sumrall "The Regurgitated Knife and the Boundaries of Nature in Early Modern Dutch Medicine." KEYNOTE: 4:45pm - 5:30 PROFESSOR JOHN SUTTON MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY 'Sharing Cognitive Futures (and Pasts): small groups and shared histories' CELEBRATION DRINKS AND CANAPES COMMENCES AT APPROXIMATELY 5:45 PM - ALL VERY WELCOME (www.sydney.edu.au/science/hps for updates) Copyright ? *|2016|* *|Unit for History and Philosophy of Science|*, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: *|hps.admin at sydney.edu.au|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list This email was sent to debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Unit for History and Philosophy of Science ? University of Sydney ? Sydney, NSW 2006 ? Australia [Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Thu Oct 27 12:59:49 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 01:59:49 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Karyn Lai @ Wed 2 Nov 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11414cf2c001ee053fcf1869@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Karyn Lai Learning from examples in Confucius? Analects: ethics without principles? In Confucius? Analects, learning from examples is a primary method of cultivation. Confucius himself was a keen observer of humanity (A 5.10) and he urged his followers to observe the actions and behaviours of others in order to learn (A 2.10; 4.17). In this talk, I discuss the dynamics and implications of learning from examples. But, given that examples are episodic, how does a person learn from such episodes to develop her own sense of how best to act in any given situation? I suggest that a number of themes in the Analects point toward a fairly coherent picture of how a person may learn from examples. These examples form a repository of information on the possibilities for action in a range of different scenarios. In concrete situations, a person may draw selectively on her understanding of examples, adapting some elements to a new situation and thereby building her repertoire of possible actions. I then draw together some of these reflections on learning from examples to consider the viability of an ethical way of life cultivated in this way. When: Wed 2 Nov 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=bzN2MDBtbXYybG1wZHFqMWU0c2h1ZDA1Nm8gMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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... URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Fri Oct 28 13:05:00 2016 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 02:05:00 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 1st of November: Philip Gerrans (Adelaide)) Message-ID: Depersonalisation, Pain Asymbolia, and the Mineness of Experience Philip Gerrans (Adelaide) Date: Tuesday, 1st of November Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University ABSTRACT: Colin Klein famously writes: "the phenomenology of asymbolia might resemble a kind of depersonalization syndrome... The asymbolic, and the depersonalized more generally, feel sensations that they are estranged from". In this talk I endorse and and explore this idea. I provide an account of "mineness" or "personalization" of experience which I hope provides a unifying interpretation of a range of phenomena: analgesia and anaesthesia, self awareness imagined emotions and sensations, depersonalization, asymbolia and an interesting pattern of preserved and impaired abilities in patients (specially Roger who has none of the structures which, on my account, should be essential). I argue that the key is to understand the role of the anterior insula cortex as a hub of an emotional salience system functioning according to a predictive coding principle. This might reconcile conflicting the insights of among others Seth, Critchley Damasio, Craig and Singer about the role of this enigmatic structure. And tell us something about a pervasive but theoretically elusive aspect of experience: the feeling that experiences belong to us. 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... 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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 h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Sun Oct 30 23:14:28 2016 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 12:14:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy seminar: Dominik Dueber on 'Conceptual Problems with Perfectionism" (2 Nov 2016, 12:30pm - 2pm) Message-ID: Conceptual problems with perfectionism When: 2 Nov 2016, 12:30pm - 2pm Venue: Morven Brown LG 2 (map ref C20) Who: Dominik D?ber (University of M?nster) [Dominik D?ber] [https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/HALImage/cache/CP700500-Dominik_Dber.png] Philosophy Seminar Abstract One of the great divides in contemporary political philosophy in the liberal tradition broadly conceived is the divide between perfectionists and anti-perfectionists. Whereas the former want the state to take sides on valuable and worthless conceptions of the good life and to play an active role in promoting valuable activities, the latter understand this as contradictory to the liberal state itself, undermining its very foundations. Anti-perfectionists defend a principle of restraint, arguing that though the state should take an active role in matters of justice, it should remain neutral on issues concerning the good life of its citizens. Before taking sides in this dispute, it is important to have a clear understanding of its subject area. What kind of policies exactly do the disputants have in mind and what kinds of regulations would be ruled out if an anti-perfectionist principle of restraint would be enforced? The key term here is that of "a conception of the good (life)". What does a conception of the good life include and how exactly is it to be distinguished from other political issues such as matters of justice? There are some clear examples of conceptions of the good life, such as religious doctrines or rigid sexual moralities, yet liberal perfectionists typically do not want to (re-) introduce a state religion or enforce monogamous heterosexuality. The talk will take a closer look at the key term "conception of the good (life)" as it is used in the perfectionism-debate, and asks whether it can be spelled out in such a way as to allow a clear demarcation between two different approaches in political philosophy and thus provide guidance in real-world policy making. About Dominik D?ber Dominik D?ber is Research Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics in University of M?nster. Among his most recent publications is Selbstbestimmung und das gute Leben im demokratischen Staat. Der Paternalismus-Einwand gegen den Perfektionismus. mentis: M?nster 2016. https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/conceptual-problems-with-perfectionism-/ Heikki Ik?heimo Senior lecturer School of Humanities and Languages/Philosophy UNSW Australia 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: