From stefan.gawronski at sydney.edu.au Mon Dec 5 17:20:08 2016 From: stefan.gawronski at sydney.edu.au (Stefan Gawronski) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 06:20:08 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] REMINDER | Professor Alfred R Mele on 'Free Will and Neuroscience', at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 13 December Message-ID: <644245F850F38E4FA0F68D200F0983D557EFDFDC@ex-mbx-pro-06> Having trouble viewing this email? View online version. [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. 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URL: From robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Fri Dec 9 10:09:13 2016 From: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au (Robert Sinnerbrink) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 23:09:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Cinematic Ethics 2 Symposium: Emotion, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience, Dec 15-16, MGSM Conference Centre, Macquarie University Message-ID: Dear All, The following item may be of interest. Cinematic Ethics 2 Symposium: Emotion, ethics, and cinematic experience A Two Day Workshop/Symposium, Thursday Dec 15 & Friday Dec 16, 2016 MGSM Conference Centre Macquarie University , North Ryde, Sydney The complex relationships between emotion, ethics, and cinematic experience provides the focus for this invited interdisciplinary workshop, the second 'Cinematic Ethics' symposium at Macquarie University, organised by Dr Robert Sinnerbrink as part of his ARC Future Fellowship project, 'Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film' (FT 130100334). The symposium brings together national and international researchers working on film from different disciplines, traditions, and theoretical perspectives. Particular attention will be given to developing the dialogue between phenomenological and cognitivist approaches to theorising emotion, ethics, and aesthetics in cinematic experience. Presentations with deal with topics such as moral psychology and narrative cinema; moral psychology and video games; neuroscientific and cognitivst approaches to emotion and cinematic experience; the ethics of empathy in film; phenomenology, ethics, and aesthetics of cinema; phenomenology and eco-aesthetics; phenomenology, ethics, and cinematic poetry; editing techniques and the expression of thought; the relationship between phenomenological and cognitivist approaches to emotion and mood in film. Invited Speakers: Prof. Carl Plantinga (Calvin College) 'Moral Psychology in an Ethics of Engagement' Prof. Amy Coplan (Californian State University -- Fullerton) [Neuroscientific approaches to cinema and empathy] Dr Mathew Abbott (Federation University, Ballarat) 'The Look of Silence and the Problem of Monstrosity' Ludo de Roo (Macquarie University) 'The Four Elements of Ecocinema: A Phenomenological Approach to Cinematic Aesthetics' Dr Paul Formosa, Dr Malcolm Ryan and Dr Dan Staines (Macquarie University/Concordia University) 'Focus, Sensitivity, Judgement and Action: Designing Videogames for Moral Engagement' Philip Martin (Macquarie University) 'Images of War and Wisdom Teeth: Aimless Bullet's Aesthetic-Social Imaginings' Dr Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland) 'Film Production and Ethical Criticism' Dr Karen Pearlman (Macquarie University) 'Documenting Thoughts and Revealing Agency' A/Prof. Jane Stadler (University of Queensland) 'Intercorporeality: The Ethics of Empathy in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal' Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University) 'Phenomenology meets Cognitivism: Notes on Cinematic Moods' Dr Saige Walton (University of South Australia) 'Heart of a Dog (2015): Merleau-Ponty's Depth, Ethics and the Cinema of Poetry' All welcome but please email robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au if you are interested in attending. Dr Robert Sinnerbrink Senior Lecturer & Australian Research Council Future Fellow Department of Philosophy | Level 7, W6A Building Balaclava Rd Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 9935 | F: +61 2 9850 8892 | robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Staff Profile Academia Page New Book: Cinematic Ethics [Macquarie University] CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nombreaqui at gmail.com Fri Dec 9 11:43:21 2016 From: nombreaqui at gmail.com (Carlos Lopez) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 11:43:21 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Lecturer Job no: 514953 at ANU Message-ID: This might be of your interest. http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/514953/lecturer Lecturer *Job no:* 514953 *Work type:* Continuing *Location:* Canberra / ACT *Categories:* Academic *Classification: *Academic Level B *Salary package: *$94,287 to $107,381 plus 17% superannuation - AOS (area of specialisation): Philosophy of Mind and/or Philosophy of Language - AOC (area of competence): Open *Position overview *The school has particular research needs in Philosophy of Mind and/or Philosophy of Language; the Lecturer will contribute to the school's research strengths in those areas, and in particular to the Centre for Consciousness. He or she will also be a dynamic and entrepreneurial teacher who can offer courses that appeal to a wide range of our growing cohort of undergraduate students, such as (but not restricted to) philosophy of cognitive and social science, philosophy of technology, moral psychology, applied philosophy, analytical feminism, social epistemology, philosophy of race, introductory philosophy of science, and moral and political philosophy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: