From glendasatne at gmail.com Mon Nov 14 04:44:58 2016 From: glendasatne at gmail.com (Glenda Satne) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:44:58 -0300 Subject: [SydPhil] Workshop Announcement: The Origins and Nature of Contentful Minds, University of Wollongong, Nov 28th 2016 Message-ID: The Origins and Nature of Contentful Minds Continuity, Transformation, Integration? Monday 28th November 2016 Northfield's Campus, University of Wollongong Lecture Theatre 21.G08, Early Start, Building 21 Map: > We are pleased to announce a workshop on issues of continuity, transformation and integration that will take place at the University of Wollongong on Monday November 28th. It is widely assumed that at least some cognitive beings are capable of thinking contentful thoughts ? thoughts that refer to things beyond themselves and which can be true or false. Do contentful thoughts exist? If so, how can we account for their natural origins? Does explaining how they arose require special explanatory resources? Or are the seemingly distinctive properties of contentful states best explained as more elaborate or complex versions of signaling systems of non-human animals? Does distinguishing between basic and non-basic forms of cognition entail any kind of problematic discontinuity thesis? Assuming such a distinction exists, to what extent does the emergence of contentful thought presuppose a radical transformation of more basic cognitive abilities? How might we understand such a transformation and how might it be explained? To what extent can basic and non-basic cognitive abilities be integrated, and how might we understand and explain such integration? Speakers: Tom Froese, Department of Computer Science of the Research Institute for Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS), National Autonomous University, Mexico. Philip Gerrans, Professor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide and an associate of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva. Daniel D. Hutto, Professor of Philosophical Psychology, University of Wollongong. Richard Menary, ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor, Macquarie University. Glenda Satne, Vice Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Wollongong. Karola Stotz, Senior Lecturer and a Templeton World Charity Foundation Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University . Schedule to follow. All are welcome to attend. There is no registration fee, but places may be limited due to restrictions on space. Please RSVP gsatne at uow.edu.au to secure a place by inserting the subject line ?Registration for CTI Workshop, 28 Nov 2016?. 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CAVE Workshop: The History and Philosophy of 'Race' Date: Thursday and Friday 17 - 18 November Time: 09:00 - 15:00 Venue: E7B Theatre 2, Macquarie University Program and abstracts available on mq.edu.au/cave/events Contact: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Profiles of CAVE Distinguished Visitor, Prof. Robert Bernasconi (Penn State) on mq.edu.au/cave/visitors Have a good week! 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 dalia.nassar at gmail.com Mon Nov 14 18:13:41 2016 From: dalia.nassar at gmail.com (Dalia Nassar) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:13:41 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar on Adorno and Schelling on the Art-Nature Relation (Sydney) Message-ID: Having trouble viewing this email? 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Nov 15 13:00:14 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:00:14 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Paul Griffiths @ Wed 16 Nov 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11414e2c37835805414d5150@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Paul Griffiths Comparing causes: an information-theoretic approach to specificity, proportionality and stability It would be useful if the interventionist account of causation, in addition to distinguishing causes from non-causes, could define various desirable properties of causal relationships. Amongst these properties are specificity, proportionality and stability. In earlier work we offered an information theoretic analysis of causal specificity, using an approach which parallels existing work in complex systems science. Here we extend this approach to proportionality and stability. First, we show that the interventionist criterion of causation, ?minimal invariance?, is formally equivalent to non-zero specificity. We then show that there are natural, information theoretic ways to explicate the distinction between potential and actual causal influence. With these foundations in place we show that there is a natural information-theoretic approach to describing causal variables that explicates the idea that causes should be proportional to their effects. Then we draw a clear distinction between two ideas in the existing literature, the range of invariance of a causal relationship and its stability. Range of invariance is simply specificity. Stability concerns the effect of additional variables on the relationship between some focal pair of cause and effect variables. We show that in an information theoretic framework there is an important distinction between the extent to which these additional variables influence the effect and the extent to which they influence the relationship between the focal cause and effect variable. We show how to measure the influence of additional variables in both these respects. The overall result of this work is to provide precise explications of a whole family of intuitive notions associated with the interactionist account of causation. In principle, these properties can now all be measured on a causal graph. 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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 (next week!) Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Venue: W5A Theatre 2, Macquarie University (O14 on the campus map) All are welcome and there is no cost, 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 Mr. Matas: David Matas is an international human rights lawyer, author and researcher based in Winnipeg and currently acts as Senior Honorary Counsel for B?nai Brith Canada. He has served the government of Canada in numerous positions including as member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on an International Criminal Court; the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research; and the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe Conferences on Antisemitism and Intolerance. He has also been involved in several different organizations, including the Canadian Helsinki Watch Group, Beyond Borders, Amnesty International, and the Canadian Council for Refugees. Mr Matas has received numerous awards and honors, including the Manitoba Bar Association Distinguished Service Award in 2008, the Order of Canada in 2009, the Canadian Bar Association National Citizenship and Immigration Section Achievement Award in 2009, and the International Society for Human Rights Swiss Section Human Rights Prize in 2010. In 2006, Mr Matas co-authored Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China alongside Hon. David Kilgour. Both Mr Matas and Mr Kilgour were nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for this work. David Matas is a co-author of the 2016 investigative report An Update to Bloody Harvest and The Slaughter. The report meticulously examines the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archives. His other works include Why Did You Do That? The Autobiography of a Human Rights Advocate; Justice Delayed: Nazi War Criminals in Canada with Susan Charendoff; Closing the Doors: The Failure of Refugee Protection with Ilana Simon; No More: The Battle Against Human Rights Violations; Bloody Words: Hate and Free Speech; and Aftershock: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism. All welcome! 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SMITH | Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy | SOPHI | Faculty of Arts THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY P Department of Philosophy | Main Quadrangle A14 | The University of Sydney | NSW 2006 | Australia T +61 2 9036 6242 | F +61 2 9351 3918 E nicholas.smith at sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/staff/profiles/nicholas.smith.php From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Sat Nov 19 04:29:05 2016 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:29:05 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Spinoza conference at Western Sydney University References: <9820EBB478AAE24C8BF5E9089A72DDCCEB5E47D4@HIRT.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> Message-ID: <139634278660844DAA9851723F723C5D866C653E@hall.AD.UWS.EDU.AU> The Philosophy Research Initiative at Western Sydney University is organizing a conference on Spinoza on December 1 and 2. The conference will take place at the Bankstown campus. Everyone welcome! 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