From jlrbentley at yahoo.com.au Mon Mar 13 18:14:53 2017 From: jlrbentley at yahoo.com.au (John Bentley) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:14:53 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Philorum Group @ Central. 2017-03(Mar)-14 Tue. Open Forum Message-ID: <000c01d29bc9$84b59470$8e20bd50$@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 From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Mar 14 13:00:14 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:00:14 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Ben Blumson @ Wed 15 Mar 2017 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a114145825509ae054aa730c1@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Ben Blumson Title: Anselm's God in Isabelle/HOL Abstract: I present a formalisation of Anselm's ontological argument in Isabelle/HOL, an interactive theorem prover for higher-order logic. The result is compared to Edward Zalta and Paul Oppenheimer's formalisation in Prover9, an automatic theorem prover for first-order logic. The goal of the paper is to explore the prospects for interactive theorem proving in substantive philosophical applications, rather than to say anything new about the ontological argument. I will argue those prospects are very good. When: Wed 15 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=aDU4a3ZtY2I4YzVvaWZocmtpbWVha3NwbjQgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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 Wed Mar 15 14:21:28 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:21:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE/Anthro Seminar: Verina Wild, "Only a small stitch? The ethics of hymen reconstruction" Message-ID: Hi all, The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) and the Macquarie Anthropology Department are pleased to be co-hosting a seminar by Dr. Verina Wild (LMU), at the end of this month. "Only a small stitch? The ethics of hymen reconstruction" by Verina Wild (LMU) Date: Thursday 30 March 2017 Time: 10:30 - 12:30 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University (P12 on campus map) All welcome, no registration required! Abstract: Hymen reconstruction surgery purporting to ?restore virginity? is now available in many countries. Little clinical evidence supports the intervention, for which there are no surgical standards of practice and hardly any policy guidance. Nearly as scarce is social science research exploring women?s motivations to undergo the intervention, and health care professionals? justifications for providing it. The intervention and the role of health care professionals are ethically controversial, for example: Are physicians becoming accomplices of unjust social norms? Can this really be regarded as an autonomously chosen surgery? Is there a moral obligation for health care professionals to help vulnerable women in order to prevent further harm? Is there a moral obligation for health care professionals to help women pursue their future life plans by expanding spaces of autonomy? Which meaning do concepts such as ?justice?, ?autonomy? or ?vulnerability? have in this case? Together with a research team we have conducted interviews in Tunisia, trying to find out more about the stories of people involved in hymen reconstruction. Other interviews and data analysis of online requests for hymen reconstruction were undertaken in Germany and Switzerland. In this paper I present selected empirical results. I will develop first steps of an ethical analysis that takes historical and socio-cultural aspects into account and that includes the voices of women who have undergone the surgery. The complexity of the ethical dimension will become obvious, impacting on potential attempts to develop policy. About the speaker: Dr. Verina Wild is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), Germany and Affiliate Researcher at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory, LMU. She held a position as Senior Teaching and Research Associate from 2008-2016 at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich. Before that she was a physician in internal medicine in Berlin, Germany. Her current research interests are theories of health justice; health of migrants and ethics; gender justice in health; and methods in ethical decision-making. Since 2009 she is engaged in her project on ?Ethics of Hymen Reconstruction?, for which she conducted interviews in Tunisia, Germany and Switzerland. 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 Wed Mar 15 14:59:54 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:59:54 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Sam Shpall @ Thu 16 Mar 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <001a11429b3223e810054abcfa46@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Sam Shpall Love and Moral Psychology, or Against Romanticism I question two romantic trends in the philosophy of love. The first is a romantic conception of love's rational status. The second is a fixation on the case of romantic love. I suggest that these trends are connected. In critiquing them, I distinguish love from paradigm emotions, and connect debates about love to venerable philosophical disputes about desire. I also confront some classic worries about rationalistic views: for example, whether they require "trading up" to new loves, cloning old ones, or taking pills to make you happier with the ones you have. When: Thu 16 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=XzY0cGthZ2E1NjhwNGFiOWs4OTEzZWI5azY4czRjYmEyNmdxajRiOW44NHIzaWRpNDcwcjNlYzlnOGsgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. 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 calendar-notification at google.com Thu Mar 16 12:59:49 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:59:49 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Hallie Liberto @ Wed 22 Mar 2017 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a114081be890a95054acf6aca@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Hallie Liberto When: Wed 22 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=aGJ1dDFvczZxbDNnZzc1bXZkczBub2MwdjQgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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. 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Some ethical reflections on vulnerability, disability and technologies Abstract: This paper is a work in progress that builds on my earlier work, with Catriona Mackenzie and Wendy Rogers (Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy), on the concept of human vulnerability its ethical implications. I explore how attention to vulnerabilities combined with ?disability bioethics? (Jackie Leach Scully Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Knowledge 2008) can usefully inform evaluation of the ethical significance of assistive technologies from prosthetics to biosensors and mobile device apps and neural implants, and can also offer a different, possibly more rewarding, way of engaging with the therapy/ enhancement distinction and the current debate about human enhancement (see eg various articles by Robert Sparrow, John Harris and Julian Savulescu who?ve kept up a pretty robust debate in this area for over a decade). Susan Dodds is a Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW. Her research explores the intersections between applied ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology and feminist theory. She is a Chief Investigator and leader of the Ethics, Policy and Public Engagement Theme of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES). Significant recent publications include S. Dodds and R. A. Ankeny (eds) Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains, Springer 2016 and C. Mackenzie, W. Rogers and S. Dodds (eds)Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, OUP 2014. [cid:image012.jpg at 01D29E3B.B2B0DC80] Date: 21 March, 2017 Time: 12:30pm ? 2:00pm Location: Morven Brown, room 310, UNSW Kensington Campus map: view. 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A common objection to Bayesian epistemology centres on the idea that assigning a single numerical degree of belief -- a real number between 0 and 1 -- to each proposition is excessively precise. In this talk I explore possible parallels between these objections. In particular I argue that the only good argument along these lines against fuzzy theories of vagueness does not translate into a good argument against Bayesian epistemology. Everyone is welcome. Associate Professor Kristie Miller Senior ARC Research Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room S212, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 http://www.kristiemiller.net/KristieMiller2/Home_Page.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Mar 17 14:59:48 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 03:59:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Nick Smith @ Thu 23 Mar 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: This is a notification for: Title: Nick Smith Problems of Precision in Bayesian Epistemology and Fuzzy Theories of Vagueness A common objection to theories of vagueness based on fuzzy logics centres on the idea that assigning a single numerical degree of truth -- a real number between 0 and 1 -- to each vague statement is excessively precise. A common objection to Bayesian epistemology centres on the idea that assigning a single numerical degree of belief -- a real number between 0 and 1 -- to each proposition is excessively precise. In this talk I explore possible parallels between these objections. In particular I argue that the only good argument along these lines against fuzzy theories of vagueness does not translate into a good argument against Bayesian epistemology. When: Thu 23 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=Xzg0cTMyaGhsNzRvamViOW82NHJqZWI5azg4cjMyYjlvNmdwMzZiOWo2MTMzYWNwajhrcGo2ZzloOGcgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. 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