[SydPhil] SydPhil Digest, Vol 161, Issue 17

Fri Aug 11 17:30:56 AEST 2017

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

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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. CAVE Symposium: Replacing Race, Thursday, Macquarie
      (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics)

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Title: Brian Hedden
Title: Rationality and Synchronic Identity

Abstract: Rational norms rely on the notion of identity at a time. It's
irrational if one person believes P and also believes not-P, but it's not
irrational if one believes P and another believes not-P. 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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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<http://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0010/183556/Campus-Map.png>)

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<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
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:22:27 +0000
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Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Symposium: Replacing Race, Thursday, Macquarie
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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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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