From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Mon Feb 27 09:26:36 2017 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:26:36 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] AAP Prizes - final reminder Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, A final reminder that entry for the following AAP Prizes closes tomorrow, 28th February: *AAP Media Prize* *AAP Media Professionals' Award* *Annette Baier Prize* *AAP Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize* For further information, see: aap.org.au/prizes Regards Eliza -- 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 calendar-notification at google.com Thu Mar 2 12:59:45 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:59:45 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Jan Sprenger @ Wed 8 Mar 2017 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11c029fa85eb8a0549b5c8c9@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Jan Sprenger Conditional Degrees of Belief It is a commonplace in epistemology that degrees of belief should track known chances. Various principles (e.g., the Principal Principle) formalize this intuition. It is less clear, however, that the same equality holds for conditional degrees of belief. This paper argues for a suppositional interpretation of conditional degree of belief, which justifies the above equality without relying on substantive chance-credence coordination principles. As a result, our understanding of inductive inference with probabilities has to be changed. When: Wed 8 Mar 2017 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=bWlmb2czcThnYzk0YzBjdHA4MGt0dHFnNHMgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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 Thu Mar 2 13:58:47 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 02:58:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Seminar (Macquarie): Nikolas Rose, "Neurotechnologies of justice: Neuroscience beyond the courtroom", Tues 7 March 4pm 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 708, Macquarie University (P12 on the campus map) NOTE change of room number 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 calendar-notification at google.com Fri Mar 3 15:00:07 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:00:07 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Barbara Osimani @ Thu 9 Mar 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <94eb2c115096cdfc150549cb9479@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Barbara Osimani Reliability and replication: Statistics meets Formal Epistemology The talk investigates the notion of reliability as a central dimension of evidence in classical statistics and compares this to the analysis provided in the formal epistemology framework (especially Bayesian epistemology); in particular two notions of reliability are identified and their distinctive roles in interaction with consistency of replications is investigated in the two settings. Also, the talk presents implications of these considerations for modeling ?dependence of observations? and ?independent replications? in different research contexts and scientific ecosystems. , by particularly focusing on issues of bias in medicine/pharmacology. When: Thu 9 Mar 2017 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=XzhjcWo0Y2k2NjBxazRiOWk2a3A0Y2I5azg4cjQ0YjlvNjkxajJiYTY4NHM0MmM5bzZzcjQ4ZTloOG8gZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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 Current Projects. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Christine has agreed to admit postgraduate students to the course, and I encourage those of you interested in the topic to attend her class. I?m sure it will be a great course, but it is also an opportunity to broaden your postgraduate education. You will gain additional expertise in a field that is new or tangential to what many of you are working on. The course is taught intensively between next week and the week before the semester break. If you are concerned about taking time away from your thesis, please speak to your supervisor or me. In the absence of a formal postgraduate coursework program at Sydney University, however, it is generally a good idea to get a fresh perspective on all things HPS from a distinguished scholar. Please contact Christine directly if you have further questions regarding the class. All best, Daniela Dr. Daniela K. 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