From ancopeeters at gmail.com Tue Apr 18 08:16:58 2017 From: ancopeeters at gmail.com (Anco Peeters) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:16:58 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] The role of the body in virtual reality Message-ID: Virtual reality devices have reached new levels of interaction and accessibility with the release of consumer-level high-definition visors with hand-held controllers. The philosophy staff of the University of Wollongong organises the workshop "The role of the body in virtual reality", in which the philosophical, scientific, and artistic implications of such haptic interactions in VR will be considered. Attendance is free of charge, but please register by email (apeeters at uow.edu.au). Date: April 24, 2017 Location: Building 19, Room 2072 (Research Hub), University of Wollongong, Australia Programme 10h00 | ?Disorders, body representations and virtual reality? Stephen Gadsby (Philosophical Psychology, Macquarie University) 11h00 | ?Touching the virtual: Bodies in VR technologies? Anne Cranny-Francis (Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney) 12h00 | Lunch 13h30 | ?Teledildonics and rape by deception? Rob Sparrow (Philosophy, Monash University) 14.30 | ?Anywhere but here: Teenage boys, baby monkeys and the emergence of a haptic aesthetic in art? Jan Guy (Ceramic Artist and Arts Lecturer at University of Sydney) 15h30 | Afternoon tea 16h00 | ?Unanticipated virtual experiences? Hamish Macdougall (Psychology VR-lab, University of Sydney) 17h00 | Drinks -- Anco Peeters, MA Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy of Mind & Cognition Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts (19.1066) University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia www.ancopeeters.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am sure it will be of interest to historians, lawyers, criminologists, HPS and gender studies people alike. He will present at Wednesday 26 April, 2-4pm at New Law Annex SR 444, Eastern Ave. Further details about Theo and his work are available at: https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1900/16221/ Please circulate. Best wishes, Ivan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au Tue Apr 18 12:04:09 2017 From: Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au (Stephen Matthews) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 02:04:09 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] ACU Philosophy Seminar Series: Cathy Legg Message-ID: ACU Philosophy Seminar Series Catherine Legg Idealism Operationalized: Charles Peirce's Theory of Perception Neopragmatism has been accused of having ?an experience problem?. This paper begins by outlining Hume's understanding of perception according to which ideas are copies of impressions thought to constitute a direct confrontation with reality. This understanding is contrasted with Peirce's theory of perception according to which percepts give rise to perceptual judgments which do not copy but index the percept (just as a weather-cock indicates the direction of the wind). Percept and perceptual judgment thereby mutually inform and correct one another, as the perceiver develops mental habits of interpreting their surroundings, so that, in this theory of perception, as Peirce puts it: ?[n]othing at all?is absolutely confrontitional?. Paul Redding has argued that Hegel?s ?idealist understanding of logical form? ran deeper than Kant?s in recognising that Mind is essentially embodied and located, and therefore perspectival. Peirce?s understanding arguably dives deeper still in distributing across the space of reasons (and thus Being) not just Mind?s characteristic features of embodiedness and locatedness, but also its infinite corrigibility. WHEN: Friday April 21 (this Friday), 2.30 PM ? 4.00 PM (AEST) WHERE: Cathy will be speaking at ACU?s Melbourne campus in Victoria Parade Fitzroy. Melbourne: 460.4.280 (Mel 4.28Vd) The presentation will be videoconferenced to other ACU campuses: Brisbane: 200.2.03 (BRI_xAC.22 Vd) North Sydney: TWH.12.24 Strathfield: 600.1.02 VC (STR_xE2.45 Vd) Ballarat: 100.1.03 (BAL_xCB1.103 Vd) Canberra: 302.G.03 (CAN_xS.G.1.10 Vd) Enquiries: Steve Matthews (stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Wed Apr 19 13:35:25 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 03:35:25 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Reading Group: Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice (2007) Message-ID: Hi all, A new reading group will be beginning on Tuesday the 25th of April focusing on Miranda Fricker?s Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) from 11am to 12:30pm. This may be of interest to those currently engaged, or curious about epistemology, ethics and, social and political philosophy. If you are interested in attending please contact William (William.Hebblewhite at students.mq.edu.au) or Alex (alexanderjames.gillett at students.mq.edu.au) for more details. About Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes of philosophy, but sometimes we would do well to focus instead on injustice. In epistemology, the very idea that there is a first-order ethical dimension to our epistemic practices ? the idea that there is such a thing as epistemic justice ? remains obscure until we adjust the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. This book argues that there is a distinctively epistemic genus of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower, wronged therefore in a capacity essential to human value. The book identifies two forms of epistemic injustice: testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. In doing so, it charts the ethical dimension of two fundamental epistemic practices: gaining knowledge by being told and making sense of our social experiences. As the account unfolds, the book travels through a range of philosophical problems. Thus, the book finds an analysis of social power; an account of prejudicial stereotypes; a characterization of two hybrid intellectual-ethical virtues; a revised account of the State of Nature used in genealogical explanations of the concept of knowledge; a discussion of objectification and ?silencing?; and a framework for a virtue epistemological account of testimony. The book reveals epistemic injustice as a potent yet largely silent dimension of discrimination, analyses the wrong it perpetrates, and constructs two hybrid ethical-intellectual virtues of epistemic justice which aim to forestall it. 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 arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Apr 20 14:29:11 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:29:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Correction: CAVE Reading Group: Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice (2007) Message-ID: Hi all, Since next Tuesday is ANZAC day, the reading group about Fricker's Epistemic Injustice (2007) will start on Tuesday 2 May. Date: weekly from Tuesday 2 May Time: 14:30 - 16:30 Venue: Y3A 246, 10 Hadenfield Ave, Macquarie University (R6 on campus map) Contact: William (William.Hebblewhite at students.mq.edu.au) or Alex (alexanderjames.gillett at students.mq.edu.au) A new reading group will be beginning on Tuesday 2 May focusing on Miranda Fricker?s Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) from 2:30 - 4pm. This may be of interest to those currently engaged, or curious about epistemology, ethics and, social and political philosophy. About Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes of philosophy, but sometimes we would do well to focus instead on injustice. In epistemology, the very idea that there is a first-order ethical dimension to our epistemic practices ? the idea that there is such a thing as epistemic justice ? remains obscure until we adjust the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. This book argues that there is a distinctively epistemic genus of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower, wronged therefore in a capacity essential to human value. The book identifies two forms of epistemic injustice: testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. In doing so, it charts the ethical dimension of two fundamental epistemic practices: gaining knowledge by being told and making sense of our social experiences. As the account unfolds, the book travels through a range of philosophical problems. Thus, the book finds an analysis of social power; an account of prejudicial stereotypes; a characterization of two hybrid intellectual-ethical virtues; a revised account of the State of Nature used in genealogical explanations of the concept of knowledge; a discussion of objectification and ?silencing?; and a framework for a virtue epistemological account of testimony. The book reveals epistemic injustice as a potent yet largely silent dimension of discrimination, analyses the wrong it perpetrates, and constructs two hybrid ethical-intellectual virtues of epistemic justice which aim to forestall it. All welcome! 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 arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Apr 20 14:34:10 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:34:10 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Reading Group: Moral Pyschology Message-ID: Hi all, In preparation for a Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) workshop on forgiveness, virtue, and the reactive attitudes on 28 June 2017, we will be holding a reading group that focuses on papers in moral psychology. The first meeting will be on Monday 24 April at 3pm, with future meetings to be determined then (approximately once a month). If you're interested in attending, please contact Jeanette for details: jeanette.kennett at mq.edu.au The first reading will be Brandon Warmke (2015), "Articulate forgiveness and normative constraints", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 490 - 514. 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Less attention has been paid to one of the most creative and dynamic areas of global cinema: documentary and non-fictional film. This workshop, the third organised by Dr Robert Sinnerbrink as part of his ARC Future Fellowship project (?Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film?), is dedicated to exploring the intersection of ethics and documentary, examining how documentary raises and examines important ethical questions and political problems through creative forms of filmmaking. Moving beyond documentary theory?s traditional focus on ethical issues pertaining to film production, practice, and reception, the participants in this workshop aim to explore the ways in which contemporary documentary and non-fiction film can use all the potentials of the cinematic medium to elicit complex forms of moral-ethical experience. Documentary, we aim to show, can thereby open up powerful new ways of thinking through the idea of cinema as ethics. The workshop will preceded (on May 17) by a screening plus panel discussion of Kathryn Millard?s award-winning documentary, Shock Room, a critical examination of the famous Milgram psychological experiments, showing how they are more dubious than we think (we're not as blindly obedient to authority and willing to inflict pain on others as the experiment suggested). Filmmaker and academic Kathryn Millard will present on the film during the workshop itself. Invited Speakers: Dr Libby Saxton (Queen Mary University London) Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mt Holyoke College) Dr Mathew Abbott (Federation University, Ballarat) Dr Illona Honigsto (Macquarie University) Dr Julia Vassilieva (Monash University) A/Prof. Belinda Smaill (Monash University) Dr Robert Blanchet (University of Zurich/Visiting Fellow Macquarie University) Dr Kathryn Millard (Macquarie University) Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University) 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. 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Common at least to all the usual ways of understanding fundamentality is the idea of well-foundedness, the thought that the fundamental serves as the termination point for some dependence relation or other, often taken to be grounding. But well-foundedness itself can be understood in many different ways and the correct way to understand it may also depend on the relevant sense of fundamentality. In this paper, I will outline these different conceptions of fundamentality and compare some of their relative merits. A particular question of interest is whether some sense of fundamentality could be compatible with infinite chains of dependence. It turns out that there are at least a few different ways in which this is possible: infinite descent does not necessarily rule out metaphysical foundationalism. ? As usual, papers are in the Muniment Room in the Main Quad, USyd. All 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 rhaw1918 at uni.sydney.edu.au Fri Apr 21 09:15:13 2017 From: rhaw1918 at uni.sydney.edu.au (Rebecca Hawkins) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:15:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] seminar Message-ID: Our next current projects seminar on Thursday 27 April at 300 will be: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Tahko (University of Helsinki): "Varieties of Fundamentality" Metaphysical fundamentality can be defined in various ways. For instance, the fundamental may be conceived as ontologically independent, ungrounded, or as a complete minimal basis. Common at least to all the usual ways of understanding fundamentality is the idea of well-foundedness, the thought that the fundamental serves as the termination point for some dependence relation or other, often taken to be grounding. But well-foundedness itself can be understood in many different ways and the correct way to understand it may also depend on the relevant sense of fundamentality. In this paper, I will outline these different conceptions of fundamentality and compare some of their relative merits. A particular question of interest is whether some sense of fundamentality could be compatible with infinite chains of dependence. 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