From law.jsi at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 29 16:54:28 2017 From: law.jsi at sydney.edu.au (Law JSI) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 06:54:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Julius Stone Address: Follow-up Seminar | 19 September Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0199FDE81B@ex-mbx-pro-04> Dear all As usual, the Julius Stone Address will be followed by a seminar for academics. This seminar is an opportunity for further discussion of the lecture with the speaker. This year's seminar will take place in the Law Lounge on the first floor of Sydney Law School at 1pm on Tuesday 19 September. The seminar is free. Since lunch will be provided, however, please email law.events at sydney.edu.au (with information about any dietary requirements) if you wish to attend. 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 [The University of Sydney] Julius Stone Address 2017 18 September 2017 Democratic Law Speaker: Professor Seana Shiffrin, UCLA This lecture offers an account of democracy's intrinsic communicative value and law's special role in realizing that value. 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. Monday 18 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 (c) 2016 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. 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All welcome, but please register for catering purposes with Doug: dmcconnell at csu.edu.au The role of conscience and conscientious objection in healthcare The conference aims to analyse the role of ?conscience? in the healthcare profession and the restrictions, if any, that should be placed on conscientious objection. Conscientious objection by health professionals has become one of the most pressing problems in healthcare ethics. Health professionals are often required to perform activities, such as abortion, that conflict with their own moral or religious beliefs. Their refusal can make it difficult for patients to have access to services they have a right to and can, more generally, create conflicts in the doctor-patient relationship. The widening of the medical options available today or in the near future is likely to increase and sharpen these conflicts. The conference will see the participation of experts in bioethics, philosophy, law and medicine, who will explore the topic of conscientious objection from secular, religious and feminist perspectives, and try to suggest solutions. Date: 11 - 12 September 2017 Venue: Seminar Room, Dunmore Lang College, 130 Herring Road, Macquarie University [W23 on campus map] Time: 10:00 - 17:00 and 09:30 - 17:30 International Speakers: * Piers Benn (Heythrop College, University of London) * Carolyn McLeod (Western University, Canada) * Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford) Domestic Speakers: * Steve Clarke (Charles Sturt University) * Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) * Dan Cohen (Charles Sturt University) * Jim Franklin (University of New South Wales) * Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie University) * Doug McConnell (Charles Sturt University) * Bernadette Tobin (Australian Catholic University) Program: Monday 11 September: 10.00 - 10.10: Welcome 10.10 - 11.10: Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie University) ? Undeserving patients? Masked moral objection and refusal of service to stigmatized groups 11.10 - 11.30: Morning tea 11.30 - 12.30: Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) ? Conscience, conscientious objection, and moral Knowledge 12.30 - 13.30: Lunch 13.30 - 14.30: Dan Cohen (Charles Sturt University) ? The logic of conscientious objection 14.30 - 15.30: Steve Clarke (Charles Sturt University) ? Conscientious objections and consistency 15.30 - 16.00: Afternoon tea 16.00 - 17.00: Carolyn McLeod (Western University, Canada) ? A physician?s conscience and freedom ?to choose whom to serve? Tuesday September 12th 09.30 - 10.30: Piers Benn (Heythrop College, University of London) ? Conscience, integrity and reasonability 10.30 - 10.50: Morning tea 10.50 - 11.50: Bernadette Tobin (Australian Catholic University) ? Objecting for moral reasons. What accommodation should be made for conscientious objection in healthcare? 11.50 - 12.50: Jim Franklin (University of New South Wales) ? Hunting down conscientious objectors in medicine 12.50 - 13.50: Lunch 13.50 - 14.50: Doug McConnell (Charles Sturt University) ? How should we constrain physicians? discretionary space to ensure good medicine? 14.50 - 15.50: Julian Savulescu (Oxford University) ? Charlie Gard, medical tourism and conscientious objection 15.50 - 16.10: Afternoon tea 16.10 - 17.30: Round table discussion 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 arts.cave at mq.edu.au Wed Aug 30 10:32:17 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:32:17 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE/Sydney/Brain Function Conference: Neuroscience and Society, 14-15 September, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to a conference on neuroscience and society, jointly hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function Neuroethics Program, the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), and the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney. All are welcome, but please register on the website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2mpABDcYOdDGhZ?domain=neuroethicsconference.org.au Neuroscience and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research Almost twenty years since the ?Decade of the Brain?, governments are investing heavily in large global efforts to map the human brain and identify the neurobiological basis of thought and behaviour. These initiatives include the US BRAIN Initiative, the European Human Brain Project, the China Brain Project, and the Australian Brain Initiative. Developments in neuroscience are promising to improve our ability to treat or prevent mental illness, neurological disorders, and cognitive decline, and mitigate the harms of criminal behaviour. This burgeoning area of neuroscience research raises critical ethical, legal, and social challenges that have been recognised by the integration of neuroethical and neurolegal research within these initiatives. How might these developments in neuroscience impact Australian society? Date: 14 - 15 September 2017 Venue: Sydney Law School, and Dunmore Lang College, Macquarie University Neuroscience & Society will feature leading national and international academics and practitioners in an interdisciplinary program addressing themes including: * Ageing and dementia * The developing brain * Disability and mental health * Disorders of self control * Moral cognition and moral technologies (e.g. nudges, sensor society) * Artificial intelligence and machine learning Neuroscience & Society will also officially launch the Australian Neuroethics Network, a collection of leading researchers and practitioners examining the implications of neuroscience for Australia. Become part of this important Australian initiative. Program and registration details available on the conference website. Registration is $140 (full) and $60 (Student and unwaged). There are a strictly limited number of CAVE sponsored free places at the conference for CAVE members and their postgraduate students. Please contact Jeanette if you would like to register for a free place. Otherwise please register and pay through the conference website. Conference organisers: * Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie University) * Adrian Carter (Monash University and the ARC CIBF) * Sascha Callaghan (University of Sydney) * Cynthia Forlini (University of Sydney) * Neil Levy (Macquarie University and University of Oxford) * Nicole Vincent (Macquarie University) * Allan McCay (University of Sydney) 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 s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Wed Aug 30 10:55:18 2017 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:55:18 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Inner West Council Philosophy Talk: Albert Atkin (Macquarie University), "What do Children Know about Race and Racism?", Leichhardt Library, Tuesday, September 5, 6:30-8:00pm References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <1F80F6F6-945C-4BD4-8DD5-0D82399FB8DA@unsw.edu.au> Details of the next ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: "What do Children Know about Race and Racism?" Speaker: Dr Albert Atkin (Philosophy, Macquarie University) Abstract: It is a common assumption that children are innocent about matters of race and racism. This often prompts us to think that we should adopt a 'colour-blind' approach to parenting and teaching. But is this really the case? What do young children know about race and should we be attempting to preserve their perceived notions about matters of race? Tuesday, 5 September, 2017 6:30pm - 8pm Leichhardt Library (Piazza Level - Italian Forum, 23 Norton St, Leichhardt) Free event - All welcome - Light refreshments provided Bookings online or call 9367 9266 Full details as well as registration for the event are available from this link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bZ89Bmu4emvlcl?domain=innerwest.nsw.gov.au Upcoming talks: Thursday October 12, Jessica Whyte (Western Sydney University), ?'A Right to a Standard of Living: Social and Economic Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism." Simon Lumsden (Inner West Council philosophy talks program coordinator) Simon Lumsden | Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of New South Wales | Sydney | NSW 2052 | Australia work + 61 2 9385 2369 s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/simon-lumsden/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When: Thu 31 Aug 2017 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: The Muniment Room Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/e4MrBZU8OzqrhJ?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/W91ABZieLZOAFk?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/W91ABZieLZOAFk?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/0RmgBrsRwJb6IZ?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These arguments will appeal to the capacity and desire not to suffer, the virtue of compassion, as well as Buddhist views on the nature of self, karma, and reincarnation. I will also consider how versions of these arguments have been applied to address a practical issue in Buddhist ethics; whether Buddhists should be vegetarian. With very best wishes *Dr. Michael D. Kirchhoff * Lecturer in Philosophy School of Humanities and Social Enquiry Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Thu Aug 31 12:15:44 2017 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:15:44 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] AAP Postgraduate Conference Fund - call for applications Message-ID: The AAP invites applicants to submit proposals for funding from the AAP's Postgraduate Conference Fund. The Postgraduate Conference Fund has been created to support conferences, workshops, seminars, and other similar events on philosophical topics that are organised by postgraduate members of the Association. Eligibility: Any applicant to the fund must be a research postgraduate (Postgraduate or Masters by Research) and an ordinary member of the Association in good standing. Deadline for applications: *Friday 13 October 2017* Full information about the fund can be accessed here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bZ89Bmu4k31DUl?domain=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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When: Wed 6 Sep 2017 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Muniment Room, Sydney Uni Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/drxzBeuGMM86u8?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Db1pBJUwooJdTQ?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/Db1pBJUwooJdTQ?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/87W8BlULooWkFp?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It then searches for a more universally applicable guideline, drawing in the eastern philosophies. It finds that one concept is common to Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, as well as four of the western moral theories, including Mill?s Utilitarianism. It is, in the words of the present Dalai Lama: ?Our prime moral duty is to help others; at least to refrain from harming them.? Application of this theory to the current left-right disputes, in the form of a universalised ?Do no harm to me; if I need help, then please give it.? finds that the moral position favours that of the small ?l? liberal. In addition, the paper notes that every social improvement over the centuries, (all of which meet this guideline), from the abolishment slavery to the advent of democracy, even the ending of foot binding, has been opposed by conservative thought. 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URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Sun Sep 3 20:25:02 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 10:25:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 5th of September: Steve Clarke (CSU) Message-ID: Huckleberry Finn's Conscience Strikes Back Steve Clarke (CSU) Date: Tuesday, 5th of September Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Seminar Room on the 5th floor of the Hearing Hub, Macquarie University* All welcome Note the change from the usual venue Abstract: Mark Twain's famous novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AHF) (1884), has been much discussed by philosophers. Its two most influential philosophical interpreters are Jonathan Bennett and Nomy Arpaly. Bennett holds that the core moral message of AHF concerns the importance of sympathy for morality. I'll argue, contra Bennett, that when we consider AHF carefully it becomes clear that the book is best interpreted as pointing to distinct limits to the role that sympathy can play in informing moral perception. Arpaly interprets AHF as depicting its central character, Huck, as coming to perceive Jim, the runaway slave, as a person and rejecting racism in the process. I'll show why it is misleading to interpret AHF this way. On my interpretation of AHF, Huck is well positioned to realise that Jim is a person, and that racism is wrong, but he fails to do this; and so, he remains a proponent of racism and slavery throughout the book. The central moral lesson of AHF, I'll argue, concerns the importance of moral deliberation. Huck renounces moral deliberation early in the book and, as a consequence, deprives himself of an opportunity to see what is wrong with racism and slavery, later on. 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/vxwbB0T3r8Nrf0?domain=mq.academia.edu Philpapers Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nbpeB1UznbenTe?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... 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