From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Wed Feb 22 15:43:01 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 04:43:01 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Seminar: March 7, Nikolas Rose (KCL), "Neurotechnologies of Justice", Macquarie University Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to a seminar by Nikolas Rose (King's College London) on 7 March 2017. This event is jointly co-hosted by the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), and the Australian Neurolaw Database Project. All are welcome, attendance is free but due to limited seating, please register at neurolaw at mq.edu.au. Nikolas Rose (King's College London), ?Neurotechnologies of justice: Neuroscience beyond the courtroom? Time: 16:00 - 17:30 Venue: C8A 310 (Senate Room), 16 Wally's Walk, Macquarie University [N18 on the campus map] Abstract: In this talk I will explore the actual and potential impacts of developments in neuroscience and neurotechnology in the criminal justice system beyond the courtroom. There has been much discussion about the role of genetics and brain scanning in criminal trials and their impact on the legal fiction of free will, although evidence that genetic or brain based defences succeed in exculpation is equivocal. In this talk, I will focus elsewhere, and explore the impact of claims to be able to ?read the brain? in neural lie detection and beyond, the potential uses of novel neurotechnologies for risk assessment, pre-emptive intervention, and their role in ?law enforcement? and ?crowd control?, and some questions arising from machine learning and artificial intelligence. The challenges posed by the ?dual use? potential of some advances in neuroscience, where technologies intended for civilian purposes also have military and security uses, are particularly significant at a time when the boundaries between the criminal justice and the wider security system are increasingly blurred. About the speaker: Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Kings College London which he founded in 2012. He was previously Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of the LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, which he founded in 2003. He is founder and co-editor of BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences and is a long-time editor of Economy and Society. His most recent books include The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century(2007); Governing The Present (written with Peter Miller, 2008) and Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (written with Joelle Abi-Rached, 2013). He is currently seeking to build new relations between the social sciences and the life sciences, partly through research on mental health, migration and megacities; arising from this, The Urban Brain: Living in the Neurosocial City (with Des Fitzgerald) will be published by Princeton University Press in 2018. He is also currently completing a long overdue book on Our Psychiatric Future? to be published by Polity Press in 2018. Everyone is welcome and attendance is free but please RSVP to neurolaw at mq.edu.au You can find out about our other events on mq.edu.au/cave, or follow us on facebook.com/MQCAVE. 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Logi Gunnarson (Potsdam), "On becoming a good philosopher" Date: Tuesday 7 March 2017 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University (P12 on the campus map) Abstract: Ludwig Wittgenstein is reported to have said about William James: ?That is what makes him a good philosopher; he was a real human being?. I believe that Wittgenstein was right about James. However, I also think that Wittgenstein?s contention is true of philosophy in general. My lecture is about this general claim. About the speaker: Logi Gunnarsson studied philosophy at the University of Iceland (B.A), the University of Pittsburgh (M.A., Ph.D.) and the University of Frankfurt am Main. He is Professor of Philosophy, the founder and director of the William James Center and co-director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include issues in personal identity, moral philosophy, the philosophy of philosophy and William James. Among his publications are Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality (Routledge, 2010) and Making Moral Sense: Beyond Habermas and Gauthier (Cambridge UP, 2000, paperback 2007). He is completing a book in German on the philosophy of philosophy with the title Vernunft und Temperament (Reason and Temperament). All welcome, and no registration is required. You can find out about our other events on mq.edu.au/cave or follow us on facebook.com/MQCAVE Kelly 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 theqse at gmail.com Wed Feb 22 15:58:48 2017 From: theqse at gmail.com (THE QSE) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:58:48 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Submission Message-ID: The best I can do is send this link: http://theqse.tumblr.com Happy to discuss further on your perusal. From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Thu Feb 23 14:05:41 2017 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 03:05:41 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Teppo Eskelinen on the Global Basic Structure, UNSW Philosophy Seminar | Tuesday 7 March | 12:00- 2:30pm | MB310, UNSW In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Philosophy Seminar [UNSW] [UNSW] [UNSW] [UNSW] [UNSW] Tuesday 7 March | 12:00- 2:30pm | Morven Brown building room 310, UNSW The School of Humanities and Languages invites all interested staff and students to this seminar by Teppo Eskelinen, from the University of Jyv?skyl?. The global basic structure reconsidered Abstract: Since Rawls, political philosophers have been interested in defining what is called the ?basic structure? of society, comprising of basic institutions. Further, in response to global economic inequality, several philosophers have argued that the global society should be interpreted as also having an institutional ?basic structure?, which determines at least partially the social / economic fate of nations, calling for the assessment of such institutional order from the viewpoint of theory of justice. Sometimes, this theoretical standpoint has been used to argue that the rich harm the global poor. While there naturally have always been disputes regarding the ?scope? of such basic structure, recent developments in global poverty push difficult questions on the idea of a global basic structure. It seems that while the income gap between the rich and the poor is wider than ever, these inequalities are growing within countries rather than between countries. In my presentation, I will interrogate the theories of global justice from the basis of this observation and ask, how should the theory be modified and restated, including the idea of harm. About Teppo Eskelinen: Teppo Eskelinen (PhD University of Jyv?skyl? 2009) is a political philosopher and social scientist. He has published on global justice, development and political economy. In addition to his scientific activities, he is a long-term member of a committee evaluating Finnish development aid contributions. His scientific works have been published in journals such as The Journal of Global Ethics, World Political Science and Sats. [cid:image017.jpg at 01D28DC3.47867920] Date: 7 March, 2017 Time: 12:00pm ? 2:30pm Location: 310 Morven Brown, UNSW Kensington Campus map: view. 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I draw together Shklovsky's original provocations on defamiliarisation as a methodology for perception and Braidotti's recent positing of defamiliarisation as a 'critical distance' (2013, 88) to propose ways that we might reinvigorate, politicise and queer this term in contemporary thought. I use here the supposed 'paradox' of feminist thought, namely that feminism creates the sexual difference it seeks to eliminate, and then present the ways that this paradox is in fact affirmed within new materialist philosophies. I present defamiliarisation reinvigorated here with the added political dimensions of agency, orientation and power; as an embodied and multivalent process which is critical at the same time as it is creative. Helen Palmer is a writer, performer and lecturer at Kingston University. She is the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense. She has recently published articles on new materialism and gender, and is currently writing a book called Queer Defamiliarisation and a novel called Pleasure Beach. Date/Time: Wednesday 1 March 2017, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm Place: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 813 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: