From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Mon Aug 7 09:41:20 2017 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 09:41:20 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: Presentism Workshop Tomorrow, Muniment Room Message-ID: <935BBBC2-D130-4BE3-B022-5A7199BDBCEB@yahoo.com> Workshop on Presentism The Centre for Time, The University of Sydney 9.30-11.00 David Ingram 'The Essence of Time' Presentism is, roughly, the view that only present entities exist and what?s present changes. Many objections to presentism challenge the apparent implications of its distinctive ontological commitments. Some opponents insist that presentists lack the ontological resources required to account for genuine cross-temporal relations, including direct reference to past things, and a relation that mediates ?ontological explanations? of evidence-transcendent and objective truths about the past (i.e. the ?truth-making? relation). The implication that presentists can?t account for such cross-temporal relations underpins several distinct objections to the view. Presentism is rightly (justifiably) unpopular if it fails to account for how things really are with respect to myriad cross-temporal relations in the world. I defend presentism from standard objections. I present and defend a version of presentism that employs a novel ontology of ?thisness?. I urge that presentists accept the existence of thisnesses of past and present entities in order to avoid a suite of objections facing the view, each of which stem from the worry that presentists lack the ontological resources to account for cross-temporal relations. I use two objections, one concerning direct reference to past things, and one concerning ontological explanation for truths about the past, in order to frame and develop my particular version of the view. 11.00-12.30 Jonathan Tallant: ?There?s no such thing as presentism? In a number of papers, I have articulated a slightly non-standard version of presentism, described as ?Existence Presentism? (EP). In this paper I adduce three reasons to prefer EP to more traditional forms of presentism. I suggest that presentists should be existence presentists and that those looking to oppose presentism should focus their attention on EP. 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-3.30 Nick Smith Presentism is Still Inconsistent Presentism is one version of the A-theory of time. A-theorists hold that there is an objective now (present moment) and an objective flow of time, and therefore want to draw different pictures of reality depending upon the time at which the picture is drawn. In an earlier paper I argued that the times at which the different pictures are drawn may be taken to be normal times or hypertimes: if they are normal times then the A-theory is inconsistent, or else collapses to the B-theory; if they are hypertimes then the A-theory is consistent but deeply problematic. Several authors have objected to my argument -- for example Brad Skow claims that I incorrectly assume that all A-theorists must accept that there is a "perspective outside of time", and Ross Cameron claims that my argument proves too much: that a parallel argument in the modal case would force us towards Lewisian modal realism. In this talk I respond to these authors and show that my argument against the A-theory still stands. 3.30-5.00 Kristie Miller If you?re going to be an A-theorist, you should be a presentist In this paper I present a general version of the epistemic challenge for non-presentist A-theorists, and argue that recent attempts to avoid the argument?s conclusion fail. These recent attempts aim to avoid the conclusion without holding that the way things seem, at non-present times, is subjectively distinguishable from the way things seem in the present. I argue that these approaches fail, and that presentism is preferable to alternative approaches that do not fail. Associate Professor Kristie Miller ARC Future 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 philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Mon Aug 7 11:22:32 2017 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 01:22:32 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] [Thinking Out Loud] Aamir Mufti on Islamophobia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Philosophy Research Initiative at Western Sydney University is announcing this year's Thinking Out Lectures: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society in collaboration with ABC RN, the State Library of NSW and Fordham University Press. Aamir Mufti Strangers in Europa: Migrants, Terrorists, Refugees [cid:image004.jpg at 01D30F6F.759CC070]Monday, September 11, Lecture 1 Europe: An Imperial Idea Wednesday, September 13, Lecture 2 The New Pariah: Between Citizen and (Colonial) Subject Friday, September 15, Lecture 3 Muslim as Minority 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm State Library of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street building $10 per lecture; $25 for the series. Bookings essential. A growing sense of unease pervades Europe. Migrants moving in numbers have destabilised a shared self-image of civilisation. At core is the fear of a growing Muslim population. In this timely series of lectures Aamir Mufti puts Europe's new strangers into a necessary long-view perspective in which Europe's past is inescapably conjoined to the present. Only then, contends Mufti, can an honest discussion be properly had. The future of a post-colonial understanding of the world depends on it. 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More specifically, developers expect sociality to stem out of reciprocity relationship, which builds on the possibility of mutual recognition between human and machine, which in turn seems to depend on the disposition of the former to anthropomorphize the latter. The uninvestigated assumption in this inference is that the human disposition to anthropomorphize is causally dependent on and constrained by the behavioral, aesthetic, and cognitive features of the machines, which is why roboticists and developers aspire to create machines capable to do something (play the imitation game) or appear in a certain way (pass the Turing test) or reach a certain level of sophistication. I will point out that, if these assumptions were correct, then social interaction between humans and robots would have never been possible, given the unsophisticated simplicity of today?s social robots, with their well-known cognitive and aesthetic limitations. The most successful examples of social robots, especially those designed for clinical applications and as social partners, build on a rather different psychological mechanism: the robots? capability to solicit and fulfill the human expectations to encounter a social partner. Understanding these expectations requires realistic awareness of how the relationship between human and robot is not comparable to any standard social interaction between sentient beings. Rather, like art, literature, and other material forms of cultural expression, robot-creation essentially amounts to a form of self-stimulation conducted by the human through artificial extensions specifically designed to solicit pro-social expectations and immediate reactions. In this particular perspective, the activity of AI designers and robot makers allows us to interrogate the key philosophical notions of recognition and reciprocity. 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This allows us to explain how such utterances can have precise truth-conditions, yet exhibit vagueness: agents typically have incomplete information about the standards set by mechanisms of discourse coherence. It also elegantly captures the distinctive roles such utterances can play in communication: they can serve to make a useful distinction among the relevant class of individuals, as well as to refine our understanding of the contextual standards. When: Wed 9 Aug 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=MTQ5Nzc0NjE5Njk4OSAybWU3YzdmcjNvbXBsNHJodmtwbWxhNTM2OEBn 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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URL: From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 8 16:39:35 2017 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 06:39:35 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize Lecture: Re-Imagining the Rule of Law | 7 September Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0199FA8DB2@ex-mbx-pro-04> [The University of Sydney] Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize Lecture 7 September 2017 [cid:image001.jpg at 01D30F91.719D5FD0] Re-Imagining the Rule of Law Speaker: Professor Martin Krygier, UNSW In 2016 Professor Krygier was awarded the Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory. ?The rule of law is a concept at once too important to ignore, and too confused and confusing to guide. It needs and deserves re-imagining. Moreover, if we are to understand its character conditions and consequences, the legal imagination, if such a solecism be allowed, is as likely to hinder as to help. Many, particularly lawyers, will resist such a suggestion. Where better to seek wisdom about the rule of law than from lawyers? Surely, like plumbers with toilets, and dentists with drills, they know whereof they speak. And why 're-imagine' a concept long central to great legal traditions, that has today come to have unprecedented popularity and more important, speaks to issues of profound importance? Why not stick with established insights and understandings, enriched as they have been with age-old reflection by those whose job - whose vocation indeed - has been to sustain the rule of law. Maybe some sediment might need to be brushed off, perhaps something added here and there, but why re-imagined? If, on the other hand, you are impatient with the idea, why not just abandon it and turn to something else. Notwithstanding the force of those objections, I believe the rule of law needs to be substantially re-imagined, rather than either recycled, on the one hand, or discarded, on the other. Not recycled, since conventional understandings have too often led to misguided explications, identifications, expectations, and efforts, quite apart from the waste of huge amounts of money. Not discarded, since like reflection on many of the most important (and also contested) concepts in the lexicon of political and legal morality, such as justice and democracy, equality and liberty, the rule of law engages us in fundamental issues of politics, morality, philosophy, and law (not to mention economics, which I don't mention only because I don't understand it). Instead, while we should start from traditional understandings and insights, we cannot end there. We must also be prepared to amend them, indeed re-imagine them quite radically, where they mislead or do not lead far enough. So much so, that to further the ends of the rule of law, we might need to leave conventional imaginings of it far behind.? About the Speaker Martin Krygier is Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, UNSW, Adjunct Professor at RegNet, ANU, and recurrent visiting professor at the Graduate School of Social Research, Warsaw, and the International Institute of Sociology of Law, Onati. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. His writings are generally concerned to explore the moral characters and consequences of large institutions, among them law, state and bureaucracy. His most recent book is Philip Selznick. Ideals in the World. In 2005, he published Civil Passions, a selection of his essays on matters of public debate. Between Fear and Hope. Hybrid Thoughts on Public Values is based on his 1997 Boyer lectures. In recent years, he has written extensively on the rule of law - its nature, conditions, and challenges - and on prospects for the rule of law in post-dictatorship, post-conflict, and generally politically scarred societies. Apart from many articles on these themes, he has edited and contributed to Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?; Rethinking the Rule of Law after Communism; Community and Legality: the Intellectual Legacy of Philip Selznick; The Rule of Law after Communism; Marxism and Communism. Posthumous Reflections on Politics, Society, and Law; Bureaucracy: The Career of a Concept (Edward Arnold, 1980). Apart from academic writings he contributes to journals of ideas and public debate. Thursday 7 September 6 ? 7.30pm (registration from 5.30pm) Venue Sydney Law School, New Law School Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Registration Complimentary, however registration is essential. Register here sydney.edu.au/law/events T +61 2 9351 0429 [Description: https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1735/10317/images/university-logo.png] Copyright ? 2016 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. 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This paper considers a number of different lines of argument that could be described as "moral arguments for belief in God" or (alternatively) "moral objections to atheism." These include arguments connected to divine command theories of obligation, arguments from moral knowledge, arguments from the dignity or worth of humans, and Kantian-style practical arguments. It tries to describe the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches and offers a realistic account of what such arguments can and cannot do. As usual this presentation will be video-conferenced to other campuses: Brisbane: 200.2.03 (BRI_xAC.22 Vd) Strathfield: 600.1.02 VC (STR_xE2.45 Vd) Ballarat: 100.1.03 (BAL_xCB1.103 Vd) Canberra: 302.2.13 (CAN_xS.G.1.10 Vd) North Sydney: Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier St. Level 12. Vidconference room. ALL WELCOME! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I argue that this result undermines four of the most common solutions to the puzzle posed by moral and aesthetic testimony. When: Thu 10 Aug 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=XzZvcGtjZzlvNnQwazRiYTI4NHMzMmI5azZnbzNlYjlwNjRyNDRiYTY2dDMzaWc5ZzZwMGpjZzlvNjggZmV2MWxkcjRsa2h2MDM2b2U0aW4yanR0ZGdAZw 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. 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Second, the Moving Spotlight view: the past present and future exist, and there is some objective privileging of an absolutely present moment (though of course which moment that is changes). My aim here is to demonstrate that there is a telling objection against these hybrid A-theories. My starting point is David Braddon-Mitchell?s 2004 paper, 'How do we know that it's now now?'. I think that a careful study of this paper in fact reveals three distinct objections, each of which I want to explore. This teasing apart of the different arguments is useful because it has recently been claimed that Braddon-Mitchell's position is unclear and that however we disambiguate it, hybrid A-theories are left untouched. My response is that such responses fail, and that teasing apart some of the different ideas present in Braddon-Mitchell?s original paper enables us to develop robust objections to the hybrid A-theories. That being so, I suggest that we have good reason to reject hybrid A-theories. When: Wed 16 Aug 2017 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/38L3BqUbrLdUw?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q0YwBQfmpAaUz?domain=google.com 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://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q0YwBQfmpAaUz?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/44GqB7U1V0RfW?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Yet with the rise of the phenomenon of posthumous online persistence - the way in which deceased internet users leave remarkably rich digital traces such as Facebook profiles - the dead increasingly persist in an exterior, visible, public form. We are, as Adam Buben has recently put it, "getting better at leaving our survivors with less to miss," and as I've argued previously, this makes it easier for the dead to persist as social entities and moral patients in our lifeworld. Proposed technologies, such as animated avatars of the dead, push the phenomenal depth of this persistence even further. This leads to a concern that the ontological ambiguity of the dead - their status as both still part of our moral lifeworld and yet radically absent - may simply collapse; the dead, instead of being mourned, might simply be replaced with simulacra. This raises an important question: can we continue to live with the digital dead without forgetting that they are dead? What features of our relationship to the dead would make this possible? Patrick Stokes is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne. He has previously held research fellowships in the UK, Denmark, and the US. He works on issues of personal identity, temporality, death, and moral psychology. He is the author of The Naked Self (Oxford, 2015) and Kierkegaard's Mirrors (Palgrave, 2010), and co-editor with John Lippitt of Narrative, Identity, and the Kierkegaardian Self (Edinburgh, 2015) and with Adam Buben of Kierkegaard and Death (Indiana, 2011). He is a frequent contributor to New Philosopher, The Conversation, and a media commentator on philosophical matters. Date/Time: Wednesday 16 August 2017, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm Place: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I criticise various criteria for identity at a time and propose a deflationary, conventionalist alternative. Whether to treat the situation as one where we have one agent vs. two or more is to be determined not by underlying metaphysical facts, but rather by our own goals and purposes in using rationally evaluative language. When: Thu 17 Aug 2017 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1RkoBZsz56XfE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/V81oBdUg12Ks9?domain=google.com 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://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/V81oBdUg12Ks9?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Means" Date: Tuesday 15 August Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W3A 501 (Blackshield room), Macquarie University (Q15 on campus map) Abstract: ?Race? has long searched for a stable, suitable idea, with no consensus on a master meaning. What I call deflationary pluralism about the existence of race recognizes that various meanings may be true as far as they go but avoids murky disputes over whether there are races in some sense. There would appear to be no fundamental puzzle to solve about the metaphysics of race. In place of the race idea, I propose the idea of socioancestry. Black Americans, for example, constitute an Africa-identified, socioancestrally black subgroup. ?Race? talk is not needed to sustain color-conscious approaches to social identity and social justice. Visible continental ancestry is the root of the social reality of color consciousness. About our speaker: Lionel K. McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University. His publications, which range from social and political philosophy to ethics, include ?Deflating ?Race?? (Journal of the American Philosophical Association), ?Is Terrorism Distinctively Wrong?? (Ethics), and ?Normativity and the Rejection of Rationalism? (Journal of Philosophy). He is completing a book, The Afterlife of Race, about racial identity, political solidarity, and Black progress. Lionel McPherson will also give the keynote at Thursday's CAVE Symposium, Replacing Race. See mq.edu.au/cave/events for details. See you then! 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 Fri Aug 11 15:22:27 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:22:27 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Symposium: Replacing Race, Thursday, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, Final call for registrations for the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) symposium ?Replacing Race.? Please register by Monday with Adam, with your dietary requirements: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au The future of the category of race is uncertain. If there are no biological races within our species, as scientists increasingly accept, what should we do with the concept? Should we revise it, defining race as a social category? Or should we reject race as an illusion: a failed scientific category that does not accurately describe human biological diversity, and which provides fodder for racists? If we endorse the former option, we may be able to keep using the term, putting ?race? in scare quotes to indicate that it does not refer to a biological kind. If we favour the latter option, we probably shouldn?t keep using the term ?race? as a descriptor, because race doesn?t exist. Those who argue that race does not exist, or that we should eliminate the category on normative grounds, face a dilemma. Racial classification has been used to justify some of the most heinous crimes of modernity, but it has also been embraced by groups that have been treated as inferior ?races? as a way to assert and defend themselves collectively. A race-like category seems necessary for purposes of social justice. This symposium will explore issues surrounding ?replacing race?. Should the category be replaced, and if so, with what, and how? Date: Thursday the 17th of August, 2017 Time: 9-3pm Location: Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney MGSM Executive Conference Centre Unilever Amphitheatre 101 https://www.executivecentres.mgsm.edu.au/macquarie-park/location Program: (Abstracts available on mq.edu.au/cave/events) 09:00 - 09:15 : Arrival tea and coffee 09:15 - 09:20 : Opening remarks 09:20 - 10:10 : Alana Lentin (WSU), ?Relationality and the Doing of Race? 10:10 - 10:40 : Morning tea 10:40 - 11:30 : Adam Hochman (MQ), ?Racialisation: A Defence of the Concept? 11:30 - 12:20 : Albert Atkin (MQ), "Pragmatic Pluralism about Race, and Social Justice Conservationism" 12:20 - 13:20 : Lunch 13:20 - 14:35 : Keynote: Lionel McPherson (Tufts), ?Socioancestral, not Racial, Identities? 14:35 - 14:40 : Closing remarks 14:40 - 15:00 : Afternoon tea Just send a quick email to adam.hochman at mq.edu.au to register, with your dietary requirements. Lionel McPherson will also be giving a seminar on Tuesday at 1pm, on "What Deflating ?Race? Means". This is at W3A 501, Macquarie University. All welcome, no registration required. 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 sames at unimelb.edu.au Fri Aug 11 17:30:56 2017 From: sames at unimelb.edu.au (Stephen Jezreel Alla Ames) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:30:56 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] SydPhil Digest, Vol 161, Issue 17 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Joan, Thanks for the offer of getting a card for Fr. Jim. I think we could hold off until next year when he does finally wind up - when he turns 85. Jim told me he had persuaded the Dean to let him reappear on a few Sundays between now and then. In the mean time Gladwyn finishes up on Sunday 3 September. Would you like to get a card we could all sign before then? We could thank him and wish him well over coffee and cake after the service - I will bring some champagne. I will send you some notes from the discussion group. I trust the weekend goes well for you. Stephen From: SydPhil on behalf of sydphil-request at mailman.sydney.edu.au Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2017 5:22:51 PM To: sydphil at mailman.sydney.edu.au Subject: SydPhil Digest, Vol 161, Issue 17 Send SydPhil mailing list submissions to sydphil at mailman.sydney.edu.au To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sydphil-request at mailman.sydney.edu.au You can reach the person managing the list at sydphil-owner at mailman.sydney.edu.au When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of SydPhil digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Notification: Brian Hedden @ Thu 17 Aug 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) (Google Calendar) 2. CAVE/Phil Seminar: Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts), "What Deflating ?Race? Means" (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) 3. 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But there are puzzle cases where it is unclear whether we have one agent, or two or more: cases of multiple personality, split-brain patients, conjoined twins sharing part of their brain, and octopuses with highly distributed nervous systems. I criticise various criteria for identity at a time and propose a deflationary, conventionalist alternative. Whether to treat the situation as one where we have one agent vs. two or more is to be determined not by underlying metaphysical facts, but rather by our own goals and purposes in using rationally evaluative language. 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URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:16:09 +0000 From: "Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics" Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE/Phil Seminar: Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts), "What Deflating ?Race? Means" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi all, The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), and the Macquarie Philosophy Department will host a seminar next week by CAVE visitor, Lionel K. McPherson. All welcome, no registration needed. Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts), "What Deflating ?Race? Means" Date: Tuesday 15 August Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W3A 501 (Blackshield room), Macquarie University (Q15 on campus map) Abstract: ?Race? has long searched for a stable, suitable idea, with no consensus on a master meaning. What I call deflationary pluralism about the existence of race recognizes that various meanings may be true as far as they go but avoids murky disputes over whether there are races in some sense. There would appear to be no fundamental puzzle to solve about the metaphysics of race. In place of the race idea, I propose the idea of socioancestry. Black Americans, for example, constitute an Africa-identified, socioancestrally black subgroup. ?Race? talk is not needed to sustain color-conscious approaches to social identity and social justice. Visible continental ancestry is the root of the social reality of color consciousness. About our speaker: Lionel K. McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University. His publications, which range from social and political philosophy to ethics, include ?Deflating ?Race?? (Journal of the American Philosophical Association), ?Is Terrorism Distinctively Wrong?? (Ethics), and ?Normativity and the Rejection of Rationalism? (Journal of Philosophy). He is completing a book, The Afterlife of Race, about racial identity, political solidarity, and Black progress. Lionel McPherson will also give the keynote at Thursday's CAVE Symposium, Replacing Race. See http://mq.edu.au/cave/events for details. See you then! Kelly Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: http://mq.edu.au/cave https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Rv1VB2fmYDZsX?domain=facebook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:22:27 +0000 From: "Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics" Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Symposium: Replacing Race, Thursday, Macquarie Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi all, Final call for registrations for the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) symposium ?Replacing Race.? Please register by Monday with Adam, with your dietary requirements: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au The future of the category of race is uncertain. If there are no biological races within our species, as scientists increasingly accept, what should we do with the concept? Should we revise it, defining race as a social category? Or should we reject race as an illusion: a failed scientific category that does not accurately describe human biological diversity, and which provides fodder for racists? If we endorse the former option, we may be able to keep using the term, putting ?race? in scare quotes to indicate that it does not refer to a biological kind. If we favour the latter option, we probably shouldn?t keep using the term ?race? as a descriptor, because race doesn?t exist. Those who argue that race does not exist, or that we should eliminate the category on normative grounds, face a dilemma. Racial classification has been used to justify some of the most heinous crimes of modernity, but it has also been embraced by groups that have been treated as inferior ?races? as a w ay to assert and defend themselves collectively. A race-like category seems necessary for purposes of social justice. This symposium will explore issues surrounding ?replacing race?. Should the category be replaced, and if so, with what, and how? Date: Thursday the 17th of August, 2017 Time: 9-3pm Location: Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney MGSM Executive Conference Centre Unilever Amphitheatre 101 https://www.executivecentres.mgsm.edu.au/macquarie-park/location Program: (Abstracts available on http://mq.edu.au/cave/events) 09:00 - 09:15 : Arrival tea and coffee 09:15 - 09:20 : Opening remarks 09:20 - 10:10 : Alana Lentin (WSU), ?Relationality and the Doing of Race? 10:10 - 10:40 : Morning tea 10:40 - 11:30 : Adam Hochman (MQ), ?Racialisation: A Defence of the Concept? 11:30 - 12:20 : Albert Atkin (MQ), "Pragmatic Pluralism about Race, and Social Justice Conservationism" 12:20 - 13:20 : Lunch 13:20 - 14:35 : Keynote: Lionel McPherson (Tufts), ?Socioancestral, not Racial, Identities? 14:35 - 14:40 : Closing remarks 14:40 - 15:00 : Afternoon tea Just send a quick email to adam.hochman at mq.edu.au to register, with your dietary requirements. Lionel McPherson will also be giving a seminar on Tuesday at 1pm, on "What Deflating ?Race? Means". This is at W3A 501, Macquarie University. All welcome, no registration required. Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: http://mq.edu.au/cave https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Rv1VB2fmYDZsX?domain=facebook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil ------------------------------ End of SydPhil Digest, Vol 161, Issue 17 **************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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