From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Mon May 15 09:36:34 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 23:36:34 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] VENUE CHANGE for MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 16th of May: Bob Simpson (Monash) Message-ID: Please note that this week's seminar will not be in the usual venue. It will be held in W3A 501. All are welcome to attend. "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: W3A 501, 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. 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... 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This third Cinematic Ethics workshop, organised by Dr Robert Sinnerbrink as part of his ARC Future Fellowship project, 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 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 Wed May 17, 4pm-6pm) by a screening plus 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. Shock Room Film Screening: Wed May 17, 4pm-6pm Drama Studio, Y3A building, room 187, Macquarie University A schedule of speakers is reproduced below. All welcome! Cinematic Ethics 3 Symposium: Documentary/Non-Fiction Film and Ethical Experience May 18-19, 2017 MGSM Conference Centre, MGSM Building, Theatre 101, MQ University Thursday May 18 Coffee: 9.30 Intro to Workshop 9.55 10am-11.00 Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mt Holyoke College), ?Can Documentaries Reelise Philosophy: The Act of Killing and the Banality of Evil? 11.00am-11.30 morning tea 11.30am-12.30 Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (MQ), ?The Act of Witnessing: Cinematic Ethics in The Look of Silence? 12.30pm-1.30 Lunch 1.30pm-2.30 Prof. Kathryn Millard, ?Documentary Re-Enactment; Aesthetics and Ethics? 2.30pm-3.30, Mr Robert Blanchet (University of Zurich/MQ), ?Wrong but understandable: Empathizing with fictional and documentary characters on the level of action and motivation? 3.30pm-4.00 Afternoon tea 4.00pm-5.00 Mr Adam Daniel (Western Sydney University), ?Inside the Open Image: Virtual Reality Cinema as a Medium of Ethical Experience? Friday May 18 Coffee 9.30 10.00-11.00 Dr Libby E. Saxton (Queen Mary University London), ?The Face of the Crowd: Iconic Photographs and Documentary Ethics? 11.00am-11.30 morning tea 11.30-12.30 Dr Belinda Smaill (Monash Uni), ?Refiguring the Human in Documentary?s Ethical Encounter: Animals, the Anthropocene and the Non-fiction Moving Image? 12.30pm-1.30 Lunch 1.30pm-2.30 Dr Susan Potter (Uni of Sydney), ?Bill Cunningham New York: A Public Life? 2.30pm-3.30 Dr Ilona Hongisto (MQ), ?Sweeping Changes in Eastern Europe: The ethics of the documentary frame in Gerd Kroske?s Kehraus-trilogy (1990?2006)? 3.30pm-4.00 Afternoon tea 4.00pm-5.00 Dr Mathew Abbott (Federation University, Ballarat), ?Authenticity and Objectivity in Grey Gardens: Notes on the Ethics of Observational Documentary? 5.00pm?5.15 Concluding discussion & event wrap-up 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. 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In alphabetical order, the shortlist is: *Miriam Bankovsky* La Trobe University 'Excusing Economic Envy: On Injustice and Impotence', *Journal of Applied Philosophy, (*March 2016), DOI: 10.1111/japp.12194 *Tracy Llanera* Macquarie University 'Rethinking nihilism: Rorty vs Taylor, Dreyfus and Kelly', *Philosophy and Social Criticism,* 42.9 (2016), 937-950 *Talia Morag* Deakin University *Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason*, London: Routledge, 2016. *Dalia Nassar* University of Sydney 'Analogical reflection as a source for the science of life: Kant and the possibility of the biological sciences', *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, *58 (2016), 57-66 *Anik Waldow* University of Sydney 'Natural history and the formation of the human being: Kant on active forces', *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science*, 56 (2016), 67-76. The winner will be announced at the Australasian Association of Philosophy 2017 conference prior to the Presidential Address by the AAP's patron The Honourable Justice Pamela Tate, Sunday 2nd July, University of Adelaide. More information about the prize can be found here: http://aap.org.au/prizes /annettebaierprize -- 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 Tue May 16 12:59:50 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 02:59:50 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Bob Simpson @ Wed 17 May 2017 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <94eb2c05465a7a1953054f9b5de0@google.com> 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. 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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In this paper, I argue that some of these cases, at least, are explained by agents believing that they believe that p, while failing to believe that p. They do not believe that ~p; rather, they have an indistinct first-order, beliefy, representation that p. The main seminar will be followed by an undergraduate Philosophy Forum event, discussing "Implicit bias and responsibility?. -- Dr. Patrick McGivern Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wollongong Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Tue May 16 14:57:13 2017 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 14:57:13 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] AAP 2017 Conference - Deadlines & Undergraduate afternoon Message-ID: This is a final reminder of deadlines for registrations and abstract submissions for the 2017 AAP conference. The conference is hosted by the University of Adelaide from Sunday 2 to Thursday 6 July. For information about conference events, keynote speakers, streams, accommodation options, postgraduate subsidy and paper prize and to register and submit an abstract online, visit the conference website: https://aap.org.au/Conference-2017/ Deadlines: *Abstract Submission * *Friday 26 May* *Early Bird Registration* *Friday 2 June * *Postgraduate Subsidy Application* *Friday 2 June* *Undergraduate afternoon* This year at the conference there will be an afternoon for Undergraduate students on Wednesday 5th July, commencing at 2pm. The afternoon will include two paper sessions accessible to undergraduates, a professional development session and a social event in the evening. The cost of the afternoon is $20 AUD, which includes AAP undergraduate membership. In addition, there is also a discounted weekly rate for undergraduates interested in attending the full week. Registration can be made through the conference webpages. More information about the afternoon can be found here: https://aap.org.au/ conference2017/undergrad/ This offering is made as part of the AAP's launch of a new category of membership for undergraduate students. More details of AAP undergraduate membership, including a website with resources for undergraduate members, will be made available in the coming months. Garrett Cullity Convenor, Organizing Committee conference at aap.org.au -- 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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I will present research which uses automated analysis of a large corpus of comments from the conspiracy forum on the online site reddit.com . We demonstrate that there are a variety of distinct sub-communities with different interests and potentially different pathways into the forum, suggesting that no comprehensive psychological theory will be adequate to explain the dynamics of such communities. Further, while conspiracy theories may seem illogical or baffling, in many cases conspiracy theorising follows well-established epistemic norms. I suggest an alternative, social view on which conspiracy theorising might be better seen to illuminate of flaws in the default attitude towards testimony and rumour in complex societies. Al 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 18 12:59:51 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 02:59:51 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Declan Smithies @ Wed 24 May 2017 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a113c86b23982ec054fc39906@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Declan Smithies Affective Experience, Reasons for Action, and Desire What is the role of affective experience in explaining how our desires provide us with reasons for action? When we desire that p, we are thereby disposed to feel attracted to the prospect that p, or to feel averse to the prospect that not-p. In this paper, we argue that these affective experiences ? feelings of attraction and aversion ? provide us with reasons for action in virtue of their phenomenal character. Moreover, we argue that desires provide us with reasons for action only because they are dispositions to have affective experiences. On this account, affective experience has a central role to play in explaining how desires provide reasons for action. When: Wed 24 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=N3AwcXFyZDh0bWs4cWJib2phbWM0ZDA1NDggMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw 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 18 13:39:06 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 03:39:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar: On Authenticity and Race, Adam Hochman, Fri 26 May, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, CAVE member Adam Hochman is giving a paper tomorrow, as part of the interdisciplinary seminar series, Markers of Authenticity. Information about his talk below. If you'd like information about the rest of the series, please visit the Markers of Authenticity website. All welcome, no registration required. Date: Friday May 26 Time: 1:00?2:30 pm Venue: W6A 308 (Ancient Cultures Research Centre Seminar Room), Macquarie University (P12 on campus map) Adam Hochman (Philosophy), ?On Authenticity and Race? Response: Andrew Gillett (Ancient History) Abstract: Discussion connecting race and authenticity tends to focus on the issue of ?authentic? racial identity. In this conversation, Hochman will explore some other, under-examined connections between the concepts. making the case that social constructionism about race ? understood as the view that race is a social kind ? creates a range of authenticity problems. It is unclear which groups count as de facto races under a social definition of the concept. Is there, or has there ever been, a Jewish race? A Muslim race? Consequently, it is unclear who has the appropriate expertise to speak about race. This problem appears especially in debates about whether race is modern. In other words, who are the ?authentic? race scholars? Hochman will suggest a solution to these authenticity problems, which involves a thoroughgoing rejection of racial ontology, and the replacement of race with the category of the racialized group. 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I will present research which uses automated analysis of a large corpus of comments from the conspiracy forum on the online site reddit.com. We demonstrate that there are a variety of distinct sub-communities with different interests and potentially different pathways into the forum, suggesting that no comprehensive psychological theory will be adequate to explain the dynamics of such communities. Further, while conspiracy theories may seem illogical or baffling, in many cases conspiracy theorising follows well-established epistemic norms. I suggest an alternative, social view on which conspiracy theorising might be better seen to illuminate of flaws in the default attitude towards testimony and rumour in complex societies. ======================= Colin Klein ARC Future Fellow Department of Philosophy, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) Macquarie University colin.klein at mq.edu.au http://www.colinklein.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu May 18 14:37:29 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 04:37:29 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Correction: Seminar: On Authenticity and Race, Adam Hochman, Fri 26 May, Macquarie In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, Correction: Friday 26 May is next week, not tomorrow! 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 ________________________________ From: Kelly Hamilton on behalf of Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2017 1:39 PM Subject: Seminar: On Authenticity and Race, Adam Hochman, Fri 26 May, Macquarie Hi all, CAVE member Adam Hochman is giving a paper tomorrow, as part of the interdisciplinary seminar series, Markers of Authenticity. Information about his talk below. If you'd like information about the rest of the series, please visit the Markers of Authenticity website. All welcome, no registration required. Date: Friday May 26 Time: 1:00?2:30 pm Venue: W6A 308 (Ancient Cultures Research Centre Seminar Room), Macquarie University (P12 on campus map) Adam Hochman (Philosophy), ?On Authenticity and Race? Response: Andrew Gillett (Ancient History) Abstract: Discussion connecting race and authenticity tends to focus on the issue of ?authentic? racial identity. In this conversation, Hochman will explore some other, under-examined connections between the concepts. making the case that social constructionism about race ? understood as the view that race is a social kind ? creates a range of authenticity problems. It is unclear which groups count as de facto races under a social definition of the concept. Is there, or has there ever been, a Jewish race? A Muslim race? Consequently, it is unclear who has the appropriate expertise to speak about race. This problem appears especially in debates about whether race is modern. In other words, who are the ?authentic? race scholars? Hochman will suggest a solution to these authenticity problems, which involves a thoroughgoing rejection of racial ontology, and the replacement of race with the category of the racialized group. 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri May 19 14:59:59 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 04:59:59 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Nao Kajimoto @ Thu 25 May 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <94eb2c07f75ab189f5054fd964e0@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Nao Kajimoto When: Thu 25 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=XzhvcTNlZ2E0NmdyM2ViOWk3NTFqMGI5azhwMmo2YjlwNzRzMzhiYTM2b3BrY2QxbjY0cmo2Y2hvNmcgZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. 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The first is an overtly rhetorical structure that shapes Blanchot?s major theoretical statements from ?Literature and the Right to Death? to The Space of Literature. My contention is that this structure necessarily collapses, as a function of the intimacy of communication, into the second: a theory of the literary work and its language. The terminal concept of this latter assemblage is a certain ?aleatory point?, which Blanchot variously characterizes as ?central?, ?ambiguous?, ?obscure?, ?unique?, ?original? and so on. I argue that this grounding ?point? in fact constitutes a decisive and original position in the field of postwar responses to Heidegger?s guiding question in ?What is Metaphysics??: where are we to locate the origin of negation? 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