From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Tue Aug 22 11:47:09 2017 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:47:09 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Thursday @ 3.00 Andy Egan "Expressivism, Truth-Conditions, and the Project of Semantics" Message-ID: Dear all, This coming Thursday, the current projects seminar will be Andy Egan: "Expressivism, Truth-Conditions, and the Project of Semantics" There is a "production-first" way of thinking about the project of semantics - in particular, about what it is for a sentence to have truth-conditions - that makes expressivism seem at least very puzzling, and more likely impossible or incoherent. I'll look at an anti-expressivistargument from Frank Jackson and Phillip Pettit that presupposes this production-first way of thinking about semantics, and at David Lewis's articulation of a production-first picture of the project of semantics in "Languages and Language". I then argue that the choice of a production-first framework is unforced, and that adopting a different picture (either context-first or acceptance-first) allows us to recognize the possibility of a coherent expressivism. As usual, papers are in the Muniment Room at 3.00. 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 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oDLWBaTdkento?domain=kristiemiller.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our first argument is that the ?hermeneutical gaps? identified by Fricker need not and typically do not undermine the epistemic conditions of autonomy. They do not typically undermine the knowledge/self-knowledge of members of marginalized groups, or render them ?informationally cut off.? However, agents may be blocked by hermeneutical gaps from making contributions to the pool of knowledge. Hermeneutical gaps may also interfere with the self-regarding attitudes necessary for both epistemic and autonomous agency. Our second argument is that hermeneutical injustice is not limited to hermeneutical gaps. What we call hermeneutical overwriting is both an epistemic harm and a harm to autonomy: it interferes with agents? status as knowers by blocking their contributions to the spread of knowledge and interferes with their autonomy by overriding the communicative acts that agents intend to perform. 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URL: From Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au Wed Aug 23 08:21:58 2017 From: Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au (Stephen Matthews) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:21:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] ACU PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR: TALIA MORAG Message-ID: ACU Philosophy seminar: Dr. Talia Morag This week - Friday August 25, 2.30pm - 4 pm Talia will speak from ACU's North Sydney campus, Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier St. Level 12. Vidconference room. All welcome! Emotions as Modes of Imagistic (Non-Conceptual) Seeing-As: Revisiting the Duck-Rabbit Paradigm of Aspect Perception. The challenge of recalcitrant emotions, those emotions that do not subside in response to the subject?s reflective judgment against them (e.g. phobias), has given rise to a view that emotions are modes of seeing-as e.g. that anger is a way of seeing a certain person as having wronged us. Philosophers who hold this view understand emotions as conceptually laden and representational mental states. This is no surprise considering that the ubiquitous understanding of seeing-as or aspect perception has been a conceptualist understanding, as is evident in the discussion of famous duck-rabbit drawing, made famous in Wittgenstein?s writings, that can be seen either as a duck or as a rabbit. The received interpretation of this example in Wittgenstein scholarship is as follows: to see the duck-rabbit picture as a duck or as a rabbit, one requires the concept of a duck or of a rabbit respectively. One sees the picture in terms of the concept ?duck? or ?rabbit.? Although the seeing-as view of emotions is dominant in philosophy at large, the specialized field of the philosophy of emotion seems to have moved on from it, mostly due to criticisms against the claim that emotions are concept laden, especially when it comes to biologically basic emotions. In this paper I want to recover the insight of the seeing-as view of emotions, while nevertheless endorsing a non-conceptualist account of emotions. In order to do that, I revisit the duck-rabbit example and offer a non-conceptualist interpretation of it. Dr. Talia Morag is postdoctoral fellow at Deakin University. The 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) Melbourne: 460.4.280 (Mel 4.28Vd) ALL WELCOME! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I then argue that the choice of a production-first framework is unforced, and that adopting a different picture (either context-first or acceptance-first) allows us to recognize the possibility of a coherent expressivism. When: Thu 24 Aug 2017 15:00 ? 15:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Muniment Room, Main Quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/44GqB7UaJD2f1?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/drxzBeumwlRfd?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/drxzBeumwlRfd?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. 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To nurture and sustain the social bases of self-respect and an operative sense of social solidarity, citizens must convey to each other their convictions of mutual equality, their commitments to respect their essential human needs and moral rights, and their mutual commitment to cooperate and provide every member with a stable place of belonging. The morally incumbent forms of interpersonal communication require a sort of public commitment undertaken through articulate action. Law serves as the requisite device of public communication that has qualities of substantive expression that mere discursive messages lack. Law is public, available for all to see, and takes the form of an ongoing, articulate commitment. But, for law to convey the message that citizens must convey, each of us must be able to contribute to its formation; hence, for law to play this special function, it must be democratically forged. The lecture traces these theoretical connections and some distinctive implications for democratic participation and respect for law. About the Speaker Seana Shiffrin is Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA, where she has taught since 1992 and is the co-director and co-founder of the UCLA Law and Philosophy Program. Professor Shiffrin received her B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley where she was the University Medallist. She attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar and received the B.Phil. with Distinction and the D.Phil. in Philosophy. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Professor Shiffrin teaches courses on moral and political philosophy as well as contracts, freedom of speech, constitutional rights and individual autonomy, remedies, and legal theory. She served for sixteen years as an associate editor of the journal Philosophy and Public Affairs where she is now an advisory editor. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recent winner of the Rutter Award for excellence in teaching. Her research addresses issues in moral, political and legal philosophy, as well as matters of legal doctrine that concern equality, autonomy, and the social conditions for their realization. She has written extensively on the morality of promising and the role of law in facilitating and fostering moral character, with a special emphasis on the connection between contracts and promises. Her recent book, Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law explored the ethics of communication and the connection between the prohibition on lying, freedom of speech, and moral progress. This event is generously sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation. 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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 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZXg4BxUr5ArSZ?domain=kristiemiller.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Sat Aug 26 13:39:08 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 03:39:08 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 29th of August: Dr Nicole A. Vincent (MQ/UNSW) Message-ID: Moral Enhancement and Moral Progress Dr Nicole A. Vincent (MQ/UNSW) Date: Tuesday, 29th of August Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W3A 501 (Blackshield room), Macquarie University All welcome Abstract: It?s difficult to deny the intuitive appeal of bio-medical moral enhancement (BME). What right-minded individual could possibly scoff at using better tools to make themselves into better versions of themselves, morally speaking, especially when what constitutes ?better? is something that reflects their own considered judgments? Although I acknowledge this intuitive appeal of BME, in this talk I will highlight two under-appreciated concerns. The first concern relates to the potentially detrimental long term cumulative effects of BME. Namely, that over time the repeated use of BME may, somewhat paradoxically, lead to the eventual loss of our normative compass, and, potentially, even to an arrest of moral progress. The second concern is more conceptual in nature. Namely, that a common core intuition behind BME ? that moral failures are results of fixable faults in our agential architecture ? is fundamentally incompatible with what I take to be the dimensions (as opposed to the contents) of our conventional moral landscape. In the last part of my talk I will propose a strategy for navigating around these two concerns. On my account, before we start altering ourselves through BME, we should first create social institutions that help us to keep track of the changes we make to ourselves over time, and that feed this information back into our subsequent reasoning about how we have reason to alter ourselves. 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://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rNKaBYfOXEqUa?domain=mq.academia.edu Philpapers Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZXg4BxUGxMdTn?domain=philpapers.org Personal Website | adamhochman.com [Macquarie University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 4605 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: