From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Mon May 1 12:28:21 2017 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 12:28:21 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Call for Commentaries: Australasian Philosophical Review (APR), Vol 2 Issue 1: Attention in Philosophy of Mind Message-ID: Curator: Monima Chadha Lead Author: Jonardon Ganeri, "Mental Time Travel and Attention" Invited commentaries from: John Taber, Dan Zahavi, and Susanna Siegel & Nicholas Silins. Committee: Amber Carpenter, Bronwyn Finnigan, Jennifer Windt ====================================================== The APR is seeking proposals for commentaries on Jonardon Ganeri's "Mental Time Travel and Attention". Abstracts should be brief (100-500 words), stating clearly the aspects of the target article that will be discussed, together with an indication of the line that will be taken. More details are available at the APR website: *http://australasianphilosophicalreview.org/2.1 * Those who are interested should register as commentators to view Jonardon Ganeri's paper and the invited commentaries. Abstract submissions for Volume 2 Issue 1 should be sent to apr at aap.org.au by 15 June 2017. Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued on 6th July 2017. Full-length commentaries will be due on 15th September 2017. -- *MONIMA CHADHA* Head of Philosophy *Department of Philosophy* Monash University Level 6, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus 20 Chancellor's Walk Monash University VIC 3800 Australia T: +61 3 99052989 E: Monima.Chadha at monash.edu URL: http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/monima-chadha/ CRICOS Provider 00008C/ 01857J -- 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... 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When: Wed 3 May 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=ZG5jMWgydXM2anVtdXFmajI2OXZkOGo4YjAgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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 patrickm at uow.edu.au Wed May 3 12:22:50 2017 From: patrickm at uow.edu.au (Patrick McGivern) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 02:22:50 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?windows-1252?q?UOW_Philosophy_Seminar=3A_Andrew_Dunst?= =?windows-1252?q?all_=28UOW=29=2C_=93Equality_and_Freedom_in_the_Politics?= =?windows-1252?q?_of_Education=94?= Message-ID: <1493778170178.89337@uow.edu.au> UOW Philosophy is pleased to have Dr. Andrew Dunstall (UOW) speaking at its Philosophy Research Seminar series on May 10th. All are welcome. Title: Equality and Freedom in the Politics of Education When: Wednesday, May 10th, 3:30-5:00 Where: Building 19, room 2072 (LHA Research HUB), UOW main campus Abstract: In this paper I return to a classical theme of political philosophy: the role that education systems play in creating a just society. I look at the political principles of contemporary Australian schooling, and offer some criticisms by following the hypothesis of considering schools as an ?image? of their wider social-political constitution. In doing so, I contribute to recent practical and theoretical debates in critical theory. If we take schools as a specifically political experience that reflects our wider political culture, what does this say about our current state as a nation? Are students equally respected in their experience at school? Is the inequality of resources ? so apparent in the divide between public and private schooling ? pertinent or not? Must schools be pluralist about ?the good life?, or must they cultivate a specific set of civic values? What, in the end, is the purpose of our schooling system? I argue that civic participation is the primary purpose of schooling ? not preparation for the workforce, nor economic success, nor preservation of the ?values? that parents wish upon their children. The political patterns that ought to pattern our schools should therefore match the patterns that ought to dominate our wider civil society. This argument has a number of implications for current Australian policy. It also produces some theoretical contributions contemporary political philosophy. The main seminar will be followed by an undergraduate Philosophy Forum event, discussing the question ?What?s the point of education?? Upcoming UOW Philosophy events: May 24th: Neil Levy (Macquarie), ?Radical Externalism about Belief? -- Dr. Patrick McGivern University of Wollongong patrickm at uow.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rather than try to vindicate that claim through appeal to the capacities of individuals with severe cognitive disabilities, or to their intimate relationships with other persons, I explore the potential of positing a social kind 'human', to which all human beings belong, and whose members are owed a certain form of respect. When: Thu 4 May 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=XzhwMzMyZDFqNmNzMzhiOWk2Z3BqMmI5azZrcjMwYjlvODRzajBiOWo4OTBrMmNwbjZvczNnZDFtOG8gZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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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References: <1619437166.2350097.1493861399162.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1619437166.2350097.1493861399162@mail.yahoo.com> Philorum has been suspended until further notice. http://www.philorum.org From calendar-notification at google.com Thu May 4 13:00:02 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 03:00:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: David Braddon-Mitchell @ Wed 10 May 2017 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: This is a notification for: Title: David Braddon-Mitchell Personal 'identity' in degrees What if personal ?identity? was something that could come in continuous degrees? How would that affect decisions if we had to way up the impact on beings that were, to a different degree, the ?same? person as us? I suggest that it supports the idea that personal identity is not an identity relation at all, and that it makes it more clear that a certain amount of conceptual engineering is required around the concept, and that it illuminates the relationship between what I call ?sticky folk concepts? - concepts that are part of our mental firmware, and will continue to exist no matter how much engineering we do - and the successor concepts we develop. When: Wed 10 May 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=a3RtdWNkanZpZ3ZkM240Y2hyc3NyNHRiYzAgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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 May 4 13:47:20 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 03:47:20 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: CAVE/PJI Seminar: Julian Savulescu, "Enhancement, designer babies, and conscientious objection" - Monday 8 May, 4pm. Message-ID: Hi all, The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) and the Practical Justice Initiative (UNSW) will be co-hosting a seminar by Prof. Julian Savulescu (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) on Monday 8 May. All are welcome, no registration is required. Julian Savulescu (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), "Enhancement, designer babies, and conscientious objection" Date: Monday 8 May 2017 Time: 16:00 - 18:00 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University (P12 on campus map). Abstract: People are increasingly choosing practices which are illegal, proscribed by professional or social norms, or otherwise contrary to social expectations. Examples include genetic selection of embryos for advantageous traits, sex selective abortion or embryo selection. I will outline what constitutes a good reason to support a controversial choice by reference tot he concepts of autonomy, well being and justice. I will discuss the role of professional conscience or personal values in supporting or declining to support controversial choices. About the speaker: Julian Savulescu's areas of research include: the ethics of genetics, especially predictive genetic testing, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal testing, behavioural genetics, genetic enhancement, gene therapy; research ethics, especially ethics of embryo research, including embryonic stem cell research; new forms of reproduction, including cloning and assisted reproduction; medical ethics, including end of life decision-making, resource allocation, consent, confidentiality, decision-making involving incompetent people, and other areas; sports ethics; and the analytic philosophical basis of practical ethics. He is currently the Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and is the author of many books, including Human Enhancement (2009), and Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (2012). This seminar is jointly hosted by the Macquarie University Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) and the Practical Justice Initiative (UNSW). 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 adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Fri May 5 10:05:21 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 00:05:21 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 9th of May: Serene Khader (CUNY) Message-ID: Decolonizing Individualisms Serene Khader (CUNY) Date: Tuesday, 9th of May Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6A 708, Macquarie University I attempt in this talk to disentangle the forms of individualism that promote imperialism from those that are normatively central to feminism. I explore individualist justificatory strategies that neutralize the harms of neoliberalism, militarism, and cultural imperialism. I show that such justificatory strategies fail to distinguish what I call "independence individualism" from what I call "standing individualism" and argue that there are distinctly feminist reasons for skepticism about independence individualism. Contact: Adam Hochman (adam.hochman at mq.edu.au) or Mike Olson (michael.olson at mq.edu.au) A google calendar with details of other events in this series is available for viewing and subscription by following this link: goo.gl/3Iu7hk --- Adam Hochman Lecturer in Philosophy & Macquarie University Research Fellow Department of Philosophy | W6A, Room 733 Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Staff Profile | http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/adam_hochman/ Academia.edu Page | https://mq.academia.edu/AdamHochman Philpapers Page | http://philpapers.org/profile/48626 Personal Website | adamhochman.com T: +61 2 9850 8859 | arts.mq.edu.au [Macquarie University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Fri May 5 14:35:28 2017 From: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au (Robert Sinnerbrink) Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 04:35:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Cinematic Ethics 3 Workshop: Documentary Film and Ethical Experience, Macquarie Uni, May 18-19 Message-ID: Cinematic Ethics 3: Documentary/Non-Fiction Film and Ethical Experience Two Day Workshop/Symposium, Thursday May 18 & Friday May 19, 2017 MGSM Conference Centre Macquarie University , North Ryde, Sydney Despite the flourishing of work in recent decades on the intersection between film and philosophy, contemporary theorists have focused mostly on varieties of fictional narrative film. 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 Wednesday 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: Libby Saxton (Queen Mary University London), ?The Face of the Crowd: Iconic Photographs and Documentary Ethics? Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mt Holyoke College), ?Can Documentaries Reelise Philosophy? The Act of Killing and the Banality of Evil? Mathew Abbott (Federation University), ?Authenticity and Objectivity in Grey Gardens: Notes on the Ethics of Observational Documentary? Ilona Hongisto (Macquarie), ?Documentary and the ethics of sustainability? Robert Blanchet (University of Zurich/Macquarie), ?Wrong but understandable: Empathizing with fictional and documentary characters on the level of action and motivation? Kathryn Millard (Macquarie), ?Documentary Re-Enactment; Aesthetics and Ethics? Susan Potter (Uni of Sydney), ?Bill Cunningham New York: A Private Life? Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie), ?The Act of Witnessing: Cinematic Ethics in The Look of Silence? Belinda Smaill (Monash), ?Refiguring the Human in Documentary?s Ethical Encounter: Animals, the Anthropocene and the Non-fiction Moving Image? All welcome but please email robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au if you are interested in attending. 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You can find details online: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophyMA See also the Frequently Asked Questions Document: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1177725/MA_in_Continental_Philosophy_FAQs_domestic.pdf If you are interested in this MA, please come along to the information session on Thursday 11 May 2017 at the Female Orphan School, Building EZ, Parramatta South Campus. The running for the evening will work along the following lines: * Registration and welcome drinks from 5:30pm * Student Consultation between 6.00pm and 8.00pm * The setting will be a cocktail type style Please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Dimitris - - - - - - - - - Dimitris Vardoulakis Western Sydney University School of Humanities and Communication Arts Bankstown Campus, 7.G.10 Locked Bag 1797 Penrith, NSW 2751 AUSTRALIA tel: +61 2 9772 6808 www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: