From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Mon Feb 6 09:06:21 2017 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:06:21 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] AAP Annette Baier Prize- reminder, call for nominations Message-ID: The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) offers an annual prize of $500 for an outstanding philosophical paper or book chapter published by an Australasian woman during the previous calendar year. Criteria of evaluation The sole criterion for the prize is philosophical merit. The judging panel will consider and score entries on: - Overall impression of merit - Originality - Scholarship - Clarity of expression Eligibility Papers must be nominated to be considered for the prize. Nominations may be made by the author or by someone else. Entries must appear in print (or in final form if the publication is online only) in the year previous to the prize award. The prize is open to published papers or book chapters (i.e. chapters in edited anthologies) in any area of philosophy. The prize is open to female professional philosophers who are actively engaged in an Australasian higher education and/or research institution. The prize was first awarded in 2016 to Monima Chadha (Monash University). Applications Entries/nominations for pieces published in *2016* should be in electronic copy and must be received by the Executive Officer no later than *28th February** 2017*. The application should include: Entries should be received in electronic copy and include: - A completed nomination form - A PDF copy of the nominated piece in its published form - Full citation details For further information about the AAP Annette Baier Paper Prize, including a nomination form, see: http://aap.org.au/prizes/annettebaierprize -- Dr Eliza Goddard Executive Officer, Australasian Association of Philosophy GPO BOX 1978, Hobart 7001, Australia www.aap.org.au ACN 152 892 272 ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Thu Feb 9 16:31:32 2017 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:31:32 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] AAP Media Prize and Media Professionals' Award - reminder call for entries Message-ID: *AAP Media Prize* The Australasian Association of Philosophy offers an annual prize of $500 for the best philosophical piece(s) published by a professional philosopher in the popular media in Australasia. First awarded in 1999, the main criterion for the award of the prize is the ability of the piece(s) to engage the interest of the general public in philosophy or some philosophical issue. Consideration is also given to the quality of the philosophical discussion and to the size of the audience reached. Previous winners of the AAP Media Prize include Matthew Beard (2016), Henry Martyn Lloyd (2015), Patrick Stokes (2014), Damon Young (2013), Paul Biegler (2012), Peter Slezak (2011), Caroline West (2010) and John Armstrong (2009). The AAP invites entries/nominations for media work from professional philosophers in Australasia (including postgraduates and also retired academic philosophers) published in *2016*. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. The closing date for entries is *28th February 2017*. Further information about the AAP Media Prize, including conditions of entry, can be found at: http://www.aap.org.au/AAPmediaprize *AAP Media Professionals' Award* The Australasian Association of Philosophy offers an occasional award of $500 to journalists and other media professionals for excellence in the presentation of philosophy or philosophical issues in the media. The main criterion for the award of the prize is the ability of the piece to engage the interest of the general public in philosophy or some philosophical issue. Consideration is also given to the quality of the philosophical discussion and to the size of the audience reached. Previous winners of the AAP Media Professionals' Award are Scott Stephens & Waleed Aly (The Minefield), Tim Dean (The Conversation), Antonia Case (New Philosopher), Natasha Mitchell (All in the Mind) and Alan Saunders (Philosopher's Zone). The AAP invites entries/nominations for media work from journalists and other media professionals based in Australasia published in *2016*. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. The AAP Media Professionals' Award is offered no more than once each year, and may not be made every year. The closing date for entries is *28th February 2017*. Further information about the AAP Media Professionals' Award, including conditions of entry, can be found at: http://www.aap.org.au/mediaprofessionalsaward -- Dr Eliza Goddard Executive Officer, Australasian Association of Philosophy GPO BOX 1978, Hobart 7001, Australia www.aap.org.au ACN 152 892 272 ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Thu Feb 9 16:32:35 2017 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:32:35 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] AAP Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize - reminder call for entries Message-ID: The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) awards an annual prize of $500 for the development of innovative approaches to teaching philosophy. First awarded in 2014, the prize is offered with a view to exploring ways in which undergraduate courses in philosophy can build the understanding and practise of an inclusive discipline, concerned to foster equal participation in the profession. The aims of the prize are to encourage professionals developing and improving their teaching portfolios to consider critically how philosophy is presented, and to be innovative in implementing practices of teaching that off-set well-known disparities of participation in the discipline, for instance along race and gender lines. Criteria of evaluation - Significant innovation in curriculum that successfully promotes equity and diversity within the discipline, particularly with respect to underrepresented or marginalised groups in the profession - Innovation in pedagogy that successfully promotes broader participation in the discipline - High quality in course design and delivery The prize is open to individuals, or groups of individuals, teaching undergraduate philosophy courses in Australasian Universities. Previous winners include Ruth Boeker (University of Melbourne) and Michelle Sowey (The Philosophy Club) Entries/nominations for the prize close on *28 February 2017*. For further information see: http://www.aap.org.au/prizes/inclusivecurricula -- Dr Eliza Goddard Executive Officer, Australasian Association of Philosophy GPO BOX 1978, Hobart 7001, Australia www.aap.org.au ACN 152 892 272 ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stefan.gawronski at sydney.edu.au Fri Feb 10 11:37:13 2017 From: stefan.gawronski at sydney.edu.au (Stefan Gawronski) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:37:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MuST10 Conference: Causation and Complexity (March 1-3) Message-ID: MuST10: Causation and Complexity 10th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference in the Philosophy of Science [tangled kitty] 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), 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) University of Sydney 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. Keynote speakers Prof. Stuart Kauffman One of the most distinguished scholars of complexity, Stuart Kauffman is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution (OUP 1993), At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (OUP 1995), and Humanity in a Creative Universe (OUP 2016) Prof. Anne-Marie Grisogono Currently Professor at the Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century (Science21), Anne-Marie Grisogono spent more than twenty years as a researcher at Australia?s Defence Science and Technology Organisation applying complex systems science to the problems of understanding and intervening in large human organisations Prof. Kevin Korb Kevin Korb is a Reader in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He specialises in the theory and practice of causal discovery in Bayesian networks, machine learning, evaluation theory, the philosophy of scientific method, and informal logic. Conference Program The MuST10: Causation and Complexity Conference Program can be downloaded here. Organising Committee: * Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko (CCS) * Prof. Paul Griffiths (SCFS) * Prof. Mark Colyvan (SCFS) * Prof. Stephan Hartmann (MCMP) * Prof. Jan Sprenger (TiLPS) Registration For further information and to register, visit the MuST 10 Conference website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jlrbentley at yahoo.com.au Sat Feb 11 20:56:01 2017 From: jlrbentley at yahoo.com.au (John Bentley) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:56:01 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Philorum Group @ Central. 2017-02(Feb)-14 Tue. Open Forum Message-ID: <000301d2844d$0ef178a0$2cd469e0$@yahoo.com.au> All welcome. Dates: 2nd Tuesdays of the month. 18:15 for a 18:30 Start. Finish 21:30 (Feel free to come and go at any point during the night.) The Members Bar, Floor 1 (Keep winding up to the top of the stairs.) The Gaelic Club 64 Devonshire Street Surry Hills 2010 NSW Sydney, Australia (100 metres from a Central railway station exit.) Cost: $3 donation. (This goes entirely to the venue). www.philorum.org View a google map at http://www.philorum.org/centralNextMeeting.html