From sjd at cybersydney.com.au Mon May 8 09:05:08 2017 From: sjd at cybersydney.com.au (Sandra Jobson Darroch) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 09:05:08 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Blackheath Philosophy Forum talk May 20 Message-ID: <99431ba8-9275-2f31-0000-d606da3207ac@cybersydney.com.au> *BLACKHEATH PHILOSOPHY FORUM* *2017 SEASON* ** *4^TH TALK* *SATURDAY MAY 20, 4pm-6pm* Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr. Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, Blakheath.** ** *Panel Discussion: THE ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY* ** *HOW SHOULD WE assess the legacy of the Enlightenment and its continuing influence on modern civilisation? Is it something worth fighting for?* ** *PANELISTS: * ?*Ted Sadler *lectured in Philosophy at the University of Sydney and the Australian catholic University and has written several books on German philosophy.** ?*Peter Baldwin *chairs the Blackheath Philosophy Forum and was a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments.** ** *Come and join us for a stimulating talk and lively discussion*, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at the wine bar in Colliers Arcade. Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome!** For more program details please go to blackheathphilosophy.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Considerations that support transgenderism seem to apply equally to transracialism. Although Dolezal herself may or may not represent a genuine case of a transracial person, her story and the public reaction to it serve helpful illustrative purposes. It may be important to discuss not only the content of the article, but also how the academic community reacted to its publication. Below is a link to a blog post that summarises some of the issues of the publication, as well as comments from the editor and the author. Philosopher?s Article On Transracialism Sparks Controversy (Updated with response from author) The details for reading group are as follows: *When*: Wednesday, 24 May *What time*: 2:30pm to 4:00pm *Where*: Room 720, Building W6A, Macquarie University The reading group is open to all (students, researchers and non-academics are welcome). If you wish to be part of the mailing list of the reading group, please send an email to yves-saint-james.aquino at students.mq.edu.au. 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In part, this question can be answered by considering another question, namely, how these apparent changes are related to the authorities that seem to declare them, and the communities to which they are relevant. This paper seeks to address these questions by closely examining a particular case of change in moral teaching in the Catholic Church, namely, the declaration by the Second Vatican Council of a right to religious freedom in the 1965 Declaration on Religion Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae. The work of philosopher Stephen Toulmin on the function and development of ethics will be used as a lens through which the declaration of a right to religious freedom can be examined. Based on Toulmin?s work, this paper will show: (i) that the apparent change in the moral teaching of the Catholic Church on religious liberty is best understood not as a change (in the sense of radical difference or rupture) in a teaching, but rather as the development (or renewal ) of Teaching (the difference between ?a teaching??a particular rule?and ?Teaching??as revealed in the person of Jesus Christ?being important here); (ii) that this development occurred because an existing teaching no longer served what Toulmin calls ?the function of ethics??i.e., to harmonise communities and prevent avoidable suffering, and which I will argue is analogous in the Catholic Christian context with ?Teaching??and it was replaced by a teaching better suited to achieving the function of ethics (the Teaching) in the community; and that this development was precipitated by other changes in the community that led the community to call the justice of the existing teaching into question in light of the function of ethics, i.e., the Teaching. WHEN: This Friday, May 12, 2.30 PM ? 4.00 PM (AEST) WHERE: David will be speaking at ACU?s Brisbane campus Brisbane: 200.2.03 (BRI_xAC.22 Vd) His presentation will be videoconferenced to other ACU campuses: Melbourne: 460.4.280 (Mel 4.28Vd) 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) North Sydney: TWH.12.24 Enquiries: Steve Matthews (stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Nikolas.Kompridis at acu.edu.au Mon May 8 16:05:03 2017 From: Nikolas.Kompridis at acu.edu.au (Nikolas Kompridis) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 06:05:03 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] The Contemporary Possibilities of Romanticism and Modernism Message-ID: The Sydney School for Critical Social Thought 2017 invites you to join our discussion on: The Contemporary Possibilities of Romanticism and Modernism Prof Jay Bernstein, New School for Social Research Prof Robert Pippin, University of Chicago Prof Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University and Institute for Social Justice/ACU Prof Nikolas Kompridis, Institute for Social Justice/ACU Two decades into this perplexing century, it has become a question whether romanticism or modernism have the conceptual resources to make sense of and respond to its enormous challenges. Both seem fated to be historicised and provincialised as exclusively Eurocentric conceptual frameworks. But are romanticism and modernism really exhausted categories or are they in need of renewal through alliances with alternative perspectives and dissenting voices outside the Eurocentric frame? What within their respective conceptual and normative frameworks would make such alliances possible? In this two-day symposium on the contemporary possibilities of romanticism and modernism, J.M. Bernstein, Akeel Bilgrami, Nikolas Kompridis and Robert Pippin will address these and other questions. When: 16 ? 17 May 2017, 10am ?5pm Where: Level 7, Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney Register here Abstracts "Late Style, First Art: The Fates and Politics of Modernism" Jay Bernstein T. W. Adorno's aesthetic theory takes modernism as the bearer of the suppressed and delegitimated authority of material nature under conditions of capitalist modernity. This lecture argues that the modernist sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, as the emphatic anticipation of land and earth art, offers a renewed exemplification of late style that "leaves only fragments behind, and communicates itself, like a cipher." It is also argued that the social conditions that created and nurtured modernism now force art ?to be based on another practice -- politics.?? "The Submerged Politics of Moral Realism: Lessons from the Romanticism of Marx and Gandhi? Akeel Bilgrami In this lecture I will give a brief argument for moral realism and then explore what philosophers have ignored ?the political possibilities submerged in that doctrine, possibilities that owe to romanticism both in its canonical literary and philosophical traditions and in the outlying traditions that range from the work of Marx to Gandhi. "Romantic Expression and Modernist Reflection The Sincere and the Authentic Subject in Late Modernity" Robert Pippin The modernist moment arose from a sense that the form of life emerging in mid-nineteenth century Europe was so unprecedented in human history that art?s very purpose or rationale, its mode of address to an audience, had to be fundamentally rethought. The issue was: what kind of art, committed to what ideal, could be credible in such a world (if any)? A similar set of concerns arose in what is broadly characterized as romanticism, although in this case the difficulty addressed concerns an emerging social and economic world in which the possibilities for genuine self-expression, the translation of the ?inner? world of sentiment, passion, desire and love into the ?outer,? is confronted by fewer and fewer external vehicles for such expression, both aesthetically and politically. This situation is understood to require extraordinary talent, even genius, to overcome such alienation. In this paper, I explore the socio-historical dimensions of such aesthetic crises, and suggest some limitations in the romantic notion of ?expression.? "Romanticism and Vocabularies of Hope" Nikolas Kompridis Do we need romanticism in a skeptical age? Without a romantic vocabulary in which to describe its hopes, if hopes it can muster, how can these hopes be expressed, let alone realised (if they are hopes we wish to realise)? This is hardly straightforward, not least because we cannot use the vocabularies of the past. Can romanticism teach us anything about the hard task of working out vocabularies of hope for our times? By looking closely at some of Wordsworth?s writings and his reflections on language, I will offer some answers to this question, which in turn prompt further questions. 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Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University. ________________________________ From: csaa-forum-bounces at lists.cdu.edu.au on behalf of Adam Daniel Sent: Tuesday, 9 May 2017 11:15 AM To: csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au Subject: [csaa-forum] Seminar: Inside the ?Open-Image?: Virtual Reality Cinema as a Medium of Ethical Experience ________________________________ From: Sydney Screen Studies Network [sydneyscreenstudies=gmail.com at mail227.atl121.mcsv.net] on behalf of Sydney Screen Studies Network [sydneyscreenstudies at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 10:00 AM To: Adam Daniel Subject: Seminar: Inside the ?Open-Image?: Virtual Reality Cinema as a Medium of Ethical Experience with Adam Daniel View this email in your browser [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472/images/1d4e43f0-fa0c-410d-a0af-c3b0fc01c60a.jpg] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472/images/73e7748d-ff48-4cde-81b5-37909fa02675.jpg] Inside the ?Open-Image?: Virtual Reality Cinema as a Medium of Ethical Experience Wednesday 10th May, 5 - 7.30pm ****Please note the venue change for this seminar**** Room PC-01.4.55 (LS), One Parramatta Square (169 Macquarie St), WSU Parramatta City Campus Campus map The primitive space of cinematic VR opens up vital questions regarding how much this new mode can draw from established cinematic paradigms, such as linear narrative progression, techniques of montage, and emotional engagement via identification with diegetic characters. However, early scholarship in the field of virtual reality has also seen a lack of political or ethical engagement as one of the key issues in the field. This paper seeks to examine VR?s potential as a medium of ethical experience. Drawing on Robert Sinnerbrink?s work on the cinema-ethics relationship, this paper also utilises the concept of Chaudhuri and Finn?s ?open-image? to expand ethical experience beyond an intellectual consideration of moral or ethical dilemmas, an extension which examines how images can affect us in a multimodal sense: cognitively, but also emotionally, corporeally, and sensorially. Adam Daniel is the SSSN University Representative and a Ph.D. candidate at Western Sydney University. He is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. His thesis investigates the modern evolution of the horror film form, with a focus on the intersection of embodied spectatorship, technology and new media, and Deleuzian philosophy. 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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. 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Kathryn Millard (Macquarie, MMCCS) http://shockroomfilm.com/ Wed May 17, 4pm-6pm Drama Studio Y3A building, Macquarie University (R6 on campus map) We do as we're told. Or do we? In the early 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram, in seeking to understand the Holocaust, ran a series of controversial experiments on obedience. An authority orders you to inflict painful shocks on another person. Most us will obey, claimed Milgram. But will we? And were Milgram?s experiments as much art as science? In dramatising previously un-filmed versions of the world?s most famous psychology experiment, Shock Room turns a light on the dark side of human behavior and forces us to ask ourselves: What would I do? Have a good day! 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... 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The paradox is (roughly) as follows: if epiphenomenalism is true ? qualia are causally inefficacious ? then any belief or memory about qualia, including epiphenomenalism itself, cannot be caused by qualia. For many writers, including Hawthrone (2001), Smart (2004), and Braddon-Mitchell and Jackson (2007), Russellian monism faces the same paradox as epiphenomenalism does. I will assess Chalmers (1996) and Seager?s (2009) defences of Russellian monism against the paradox, and will put forward a novel argument against those defences. When: Thu 11 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=Xzg0czMwaGhsODRwMzhiOWs4aDJqNmI5azZjcjRhYjlvNjUxM2liYTE2a3NqOGMyNDYxMzQ2Y3E2ODggZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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... 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The paradox is (roughly) as follows: if epiphenomenalism is true ? qualia are causally inefficacious ? then any belief or memory about qualia, including epiphenomenalism itself, cannot be caused by qualia. For many writers, including Hawthrone (2001), Smart (2004), and Braddon-Mitchell and Jackson (2007), Russellian monism faces the same paradox as epiphenomenalism does. I will assess Chalmers (1996) and Seager?s (2009) defences of Russellian monism against the paradox, and will put forward a novel argument against those defences. All are 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 Thu May 11 13:00:12 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 03:00:12 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Bob Simpson @ Wed 17 May 2017 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: This is a notification for: Title: Bob Simpson What is Legitimation? What sense can we make of a claim like ?racist jokes legitimate racial discrimination?, if it refers to a social context in which racial discrimination is legally sanctioned, and those sanctions are widely supported? There is a distinc-tive concept of ?legitimation? at work here. But its meaning isn?t clear. And as a result the term sometimes looks more like a rhetorical device than a bona fide critical concept. In this paper I try to remedy this. After distinguishing the target concept from some other uses of the term ?legitimation?, I present two rival ac-counts of the target concept. One says: A legitimates x when A makes x seem normatively legitimate in a local context. The other says: A legitimates x when A contributes to the descriptive normalisation of x in a global context. I argue that legitimation seems like a more credible critical concept if it?s understood accord-ing to the second account, and explore some implications of this. When: Wed 17 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=OG02YWdoM3JqdGFyM3BlaWk4NTUzY3BvY2MgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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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Contact: Tereza: tereza.hendl at sydney.edu.au CAVE/VELiM workshop: Sex selection: Changes in Australian policy Date: Friday 9 June 2017 Venue: TBC, Macquarie University Speakers: * Dr Tereza Hendl (University of Sydney, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine) * Prof Wendy Rogers (Macquarie University, Department of Philosophy) * Dr Sascha Callaghan (University of Sydney, Sydney Law School) * Dr Kate Gleeson (Macquarie University, Macquarie Law School) * Morgan Carpenter (Organisation Intersex International Australia) * Dr Tamara Browne (Deakin University, School of Medicine) Preliminary Program: 10:00 - 10:10: Tereza Hendl and Wendy Rogers, Opening Remarks 10:10 - 10:30: Wendy Rogers, "What's changed on sex selection since 2007 Guidelines" 10:30 - 11:15: Sascha Callaghan, "Sex selection and the law" 11:15 - 11:45: Morning tea 11:45 - 12:30: Tereza Hendl, "2017 Guidelines, sex selection and gender equity" 12:30 - 13:15: Kate Gleeson, "Sex selection using IVF and abortion from feminist legal perspectives" 13:15 - 14:00: Lunch 14:00 - 14:45: Morgan Carpenter, "Prenatal genetic diagnosis and its implications for children with intersex variations" 14:45 - 15:00: Tamara Browne, "Is gender disappointment a mental disorder?" 16:00 - 16:30: Panel discussion Contact: All are welcome but please register with Tereza Hendl for catering purposes. 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Artificial intelligence, driverless cars, care robots, and synthetically created life forms undermine the standard binary of organic and inorganic life, of things and persons. Questions of legal responsibility, ownership over hybrid entities, and the beginning and end of human or artificial life forms are radically changing our current definition of legal standing and personhood. This paper is a first tentative exploration (part of a larger research project with Miguel Vatter and Vanessa Lemm) focussed on the hybridization of life forms and its legal consequences. Its wider aim is to develop a new legal taxonomy to clarify the rights and obligations of new hybrid life forms emerging from technological and bioscientific innovations. About Marc De Leeuw Marc De Leeuw is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at UNSW Sydney. He previously lectured philosophy at Macquarie University and was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale. His work engages both with the so-called continental and analytical traditions while focusing on questions of human agency, epistemological practices and ethics. His projects are often interdisciplinary and examine the intersection between the ethico-political and moral-legal fields. De Leeuw is the author of Homo Capax. Paul Ricoeur?s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology (forthcoming), and is currently working on a new book In Search for the Just-Paul Ricoeur?s Philosophy of Law, as well as developing a new research project The Biology of Law. For more information on Marc De Leeuw and his work, see http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/profile/marc-de-leeuw https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/legal-personhood-and-hybrid-life/ For more information, please email Heikki Ik?heimo, h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Sun May 14 19:39:29 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 09:39:29 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 16th of May: Bob Simpson (Monash) Message-ID: ?Won?t somebody please think of the children?? Hate speech, harm, and childhood Bob Simpson (Monash) Date: Tuesday, 16th of May Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6A 708, Macquarie University Abstract: Many authors claim that hate speech harms its targets and society at large. A prima facie plausible hypothesis about how this occurs is that hate speech has a profound and pernicious influence on the attitudes of children. Here I explore the merits of this hypothesis in relation to (i) justifications for anti-hate speech law, and (ii) broader questions about the role of communication in causing and perpetuating social inequality. I argue that a successful justification for anti-hate speech law requires evidence of its harmful effects, as well as a credible attribution of responsibility for these harmful effects to the speaker. I argue that both conditions are more likely to be satisfied if our account of the relevant harm is built around claims about speech?s influence on children. I finish by outlining some of the policy implications that might follow from these consideration. 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