From Susanne.Dick at acu.edu.au Wed Jun 28 11:39:22 2017 From: Susanne.Dick at acu.edu.au (Susanne Dick) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:39:22 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Julia Driver ACU Philosophy seminar series In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Professor Julia Driver (Dept Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis) Friday June 30 (this Friday), 2.30-4.00. Presentation to be held at the ACU Melbourne campus - see below - and videoconferenced to other campuses - again see below. Contact the convenor for details. > > Title: "Deference, Aesthetic Worth, and the Virtue of Creativity" > > Abstract: One popular solution to the puzzle of deference in testimony on normative matters holds that what is lacking in the acquisition of knowledge solely via testimony is that the person acquiring the knowledge lacks understanding. Alison Hills, for example, argues this in relation to moral testimony, and the same would apply in aesthetic testimony. On her view, as well, any action that proceeds on the basis of such testimony lacks moral (aesthetic) worth, and the person who defers lacks virtue. Those who advocate the "understanding" approach believe that there is something intrinsically bad about deference, and also believe that it reveals something bad about a person's character. In this paper, I criticize the understanding approach, and hold that it is particularly difficult to maintain this approach in the normative realm of aesthetics. Given a strong analogy between morality and aesthetics, this then gives us reason to doubt that the approach works in the case of moral testimony as well. The example of aesthetic virtue I discuss is creativity, though my approach would hold for other aesthetic virtues as well. > > > ? Brisbane: 200.2.03 (BRI_xAC.22 Vd) > ? Strathfield: 600.1.02 VC (STR_xE2.45 Vd) > ? North Sydney: 532.12.24 (NSY_xTWH.16.24 Vd) > ? Ballarat: 100.1.04 (BAL_xCB1.104 Vd) > ? Canberra: 302.G.03 (CAN_xS.G.1.10 Vd) > ? Melbourne: 460.4.280 (Mel 4.28Vd) > > > Convenor: Steve Matthews > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/calendar Size: 3497 bytes Desc: not available URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Jun 29 15:27:29 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:27:29 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Reading Group: Kant and racism, 12 July, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to a Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) reading group, on Kant and Racism. This is a single meeting with CAVE Distinguished Visitor, Lucy Allais (Wits/UCSD), to discuss her paper on Kant's racism, and Adam Hochman's (Macquarie) paper on racialism and racism. All welcome, no registration required. Date: Wednesday 12 July 2017 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6B 357 (O12 on campus map) The papers: * Allias, Lucy. (2016). "Kant's Racism." Philosophical Papers 45 (1-2), 1-36. * Hochman, Adam. (2013). "Do We Need a Device to Acquire Ethnic Concepts?" Philosophy of Science. 80 (5):994-1005. Have a lovely 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... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Jun 29 15:27:28 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:27:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Seminar: Lucy Allais (Wits/UCSD), "Evil and the Disunity of the Subject", 11 July, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to the next Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) seminar. Our speaker is Lucy Allais (Wits, UCSD), who will be speaking about Kant and evil. Paul Formosa (Macquarie) will respond to her paper. All welcome, no registration required! Lucy Allais (Wits/UCSD), "Evil and the Disunity of the Subject" Date: 11 July 2017 Time: 14:00 - 16:00 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University (P12 on campus map) Abstract: In the relatively late work, Religion within the boundaries of mere Reason (1793), Kant presents the claim that humans have an innate, universal yet imputable propensity to evil and that this propensity is present in all of us, ?even the best?. There is much that is puzzling in Kant?s account of evil, including his saying that we can be known to be evil as a species, that it is a propensity that is ineradicable, universal, rooted in and woven into human nature yet imputable and based in a ?deed of freedom? (6: 21; 27?30); that it is incomprehensible yet somehow based in reason, that it is innate but not attributable to nature (6: 21), that it is inextirpable yet possible to overcome, that we cannot overcome it through our own unaided efforts (needing something like God?s grace), and the corruption evil involves seems to make it impossible for us to start the process of becoming better but this is still something we ought to do?and Kant holds that everything we ought to do is possible for us to do. I want to argue that there is a way of reading Kant?s account on which it in fact fits naturally together with, and even follows from, central parts of his account of practical reason. Further, I argue that his account is plausible, and that although Kant provides an explanation of the biblical notion of original sin, this account is consistent with a secular account of humans as not simply finite and imperfect moral agents, but deeply and systematically flawed. I argue that the very structure of practical reason, as Kant understands it, will lead to systematically flawed, corrupt and systematically self-deceived agency under certain conditions?those of living in injustice. I do not argue that living in injustice is the only explanation of a propensity to evil in Kant; but that it is part of the picture. My suggestion is that the way Kant thinks about the relation between practical reason and our political obligations has implications for the moral psychology of finite, embodied, imperfectly rational creatures who come to agency and realise agency in corrupt conditions. I also present a suggestion for a secular reading of our need for external help in renewing our agency. About the speaker: Lucy Allais did her undergraduate degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and post-graduate degrees at Oxford. She has a number of publications on Kant?s theoretical philosophy, primarily on transcendental idealism and on the non-conceptualism of intuition, including her 2015 book, Manifest Reality: Kant?s Idealism and his Realism (OUP). She has also published on forgiveness, restorative and retributive justice, and other topics in ethics. She is currently working on human freedom in Kant. See you then! 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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These include conspiracy theorizing, anti-vaccination sentiments, extreme or radical political beliefs, climate change denial, belief in an intrinsically just world (and associated victim-blaming), and so on. Speakers include: cognitive scientists working on misinformation, delusions, and motivated beliefs; social psychologists working on conspiracy theories and related factors; philosophers working on evidence and social trust; and health informatics researchers interested in the effects of anti-vaccine beliefs. The draft program is available at mq.edu.au/cave/events. Register here: http://www.ccd.edu.au/events/conferences/2017/conspiracytheories/index.php 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 kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Sat Jul 1 07:49:06 2017 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:49:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] FW: Reminder: JSI Seminar (15 June): Helen Irving In-Reply-To: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0199F347C0@ex-mbx-pro-04> References: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0199F347C0@ex-mbx-pro-04> Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0199F3F71D@ex-mbx-pro-04> Dear all The next Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence seminar will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 12 July in the Common Room on the fourth floor of Sydney Law School. Kevin Toh from University College London will present a paper entitled "The Nature of Law and its Implications for Adjudication." You can find out more and register here. If you would like to join us for dinner after the seminar, please let me know. Other seminars in July: Alan Brudner (18 July) and Colleen Murphy (25 July). Find out more about them here. Best wishes, Kev DR KEVIN WALTON Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0286 E kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au W www.sydney.edu.au/law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Sat Jul 1 07:51:58 2017 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:51:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] JSI Seminar (12 July): Kevin Toh Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0199F3F774@ex-mbx-pro-04> Dear all The next Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence seminar will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 12 July in the Common Room on the fourth floor of Sydney Law School. Kevin Toh from University College London will present a paper entitled "The Nature of Law and its Implications for Adjudication." You can find out more and register here. If you would like to join us for dinner after the seminar, please let me know. 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