From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Mon Sep 4 13:52:11 2017 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 03:52:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] [Thinking Out Loud] Aamir Mufti on Islamophobia (final reminder) 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:image003.jpg at 01D32584.FCBC3560]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. For booking and further details go to and follow the link on the top right: www.westernsydney.edu.au/thinkingoutloud [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information about the Research Initiative, 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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What do young children know about race and should we be attempting to preserve their perceived notions about matters of race? (Tonight) 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/78eDB7UKY4WACk?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... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Tue Sep 5 11:23:12 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:23:12 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE/CSU Conference: The role of conscience and conscientious objection in healthcare, 11-12 September, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to a joint conference on the role of conscience and conscientious objection in healthcare, to be hosted by the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), and Charles Sturt University. 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 (NEXT Monday and Tuesday!) 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 Tue Sep 5 11:24:57 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:24:57 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE/Brain Function/Brain and Mind conference: Neuroscience and Society, 14-15 Sept 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/wxnJB6TKWWdpfn?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... 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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/Jb1WBnUxplO9hn?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Xq1VBlSv9w4OS6?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/Xq1VBlSv9w4OS6?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/78eDB7UKrWb9s0?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Wed Sep 6 12:36:01 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 02:36:01 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Sydney Health Ethics Launch and Miles Little Annual Lecture by Wendy Rogers Message-ID: Hi all, Here's an event by CAVE member Wendy Rogers that you may be interested in. Kelly Having trouble viewing this email? View online version. [ersity of Sydney] 28 August 2017 Sydney Health Ethics Sydney Health Ethics Launch and Miles Little Annual Lecture [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gn9mBLU3Dw3ofY?domain=outlook.office.com] Sydney Health Ethics Launch and Miles Little Annual Lecture This event will celebrate the launching of Sydney Health Ethics. This centre for ethics and social research, teaching and engagement related to health was formally known as the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM). The Centre has changed its name to better reflect the diversity and breadth of its activities and position itself to engage with groups from across the university and the community. VELiM was founded in 1995 by the Inaugural Director Professor Miles Little. To celebrate his significant and continuing contribution to scholarship in this area we will hold an annual lecture named in his honour. The first of these lectures will be given as part of the official launch of the Centre by one of our close collaborators: Professor Wendy Rogers. Should bioethicists try to change the world? Reflections of an accidental activist Bioethics is a practical discipline. Academic work in bioethics contributes to debates on matters that affect people?s lives, such as the right to life, end of life care, or access to health care. But by and large, bioethicists? arguments are directed towards other academics. Academics write papers for journals and give papers at their own specialty conferences. They prize scholarship that is rigorous and reflective, that recognises and embraces complexity and uncertainty. These academic values are in tension with being an activist. Activists want to change things ? to causally affect the world in certain ways. Being an activist requires pragmatism, simplicity, certainty and above all, action. Activism may undermine good scholarship. It may damage academic credibility and reputation, and be institutionally unpopular. Many of these tensions have arisen during my own involvement in international efforts to end forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. This experience has blurred the lines between my academic work and activism, in both constructive and potentially concerning ways. Here I share my reflections on the responsibilities, risks and rewards of being an academic activist. Professor Wendy Rogers, Macquarie University Wendy Rogers is Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University. Her current research, funded by the Australian Research Council, investigates conceptual and practical issues to do with overdiagnosis. As well as research in many areas of bioethics, Wendy has contributed to national policy development on research ethics, clinical ethics and the ethics of organ donation. Over the past two years, she has become an activist seeking to end forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. She is the inaugural chair of the International Advisory Committee of the International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China. [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oDLWBaTLm5LnHd?domain=outlook.office.com] Monday 9 October 2017 5pm ? 7.30pm Drinks and canapes will be served during this event VSCC Lecture Theatre 208 (Webster), Ground Floor Veterinary Science Conference Centre B22 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 View the location in Google Maps RSVP Registration is free, but essential by Thursday, 14 September for catering purposes ? 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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. When: Thu 7 Sep 2017 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5vY4BRfMGOwzFd?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gn9mBLU3DdVGHM?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/gn9mBLU3DdVGHM?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/oDLWBaTLml1eHQ?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the first instance, this paper will detail the responses of Edward Herbert and Thomas Hobbes in their attempts to safeguard revelation while simultaneously undermining sacerdotal authority. It will subsequently explore the impact of Locke?s Essay and The Reasonableness of Christianity, detailing the manner in which empirical notions of evidence, fact, and probability provided him with the linguistic and philosophical framework to re-evaluate the legitimate grounds of religious faith. I will ultimately argue that the ?problem of priestcraft? acted as a catalyst to philosophically narrow the legitimate grounds of faith until faith was deemed legitimate only when grounded upon fact. When: Wed 13 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/Db1pBJUw6W5oCW?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/87W8BlULX7Nota?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/87W8BlULX7Nota?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/Qv1bBRfxMbeNhg?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Sep 8 15:00:02 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 05:00:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Jesse Ciccotti @ Thu 14 Sep 2017 15:00 - 17:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: This is a notification for: Title: Jesse Ciccotti Mengzi and Civil Society In this talk I will explore the idea of civil society from a Ruist (Confucian) perspective. More specifically, I want to explore one text, the Mengzi, for particular insights that might help open a way for the discussion of civil society to make advances in political contexts that lack democratic institutions. I am not the first person to look at the possible convergence of civil society and Ruist traditions from a broad angle, but until now scholars seem to conclude that there is little ground to be gained by doing so. Nevertheless, I think a closer look at specific texts rather than generalized positions based on proof-texts drawn from across a diversified tradition can provide a more sound foundation from which to begin discussing civil society in what might be considered unlikely places. When: Thu 14 Sep 2017 15:00 ? 17:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: The Muniment Room, Main Quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZXg4BxUklAJ5CZ?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/m4kKB9UqJ096FD?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/m4kKB9UqJ096FD?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Aamir Mufti Strangers in Europa: Migrants, Terrorists, Refugees [cid:image004.jpg at 01D328BB.11477F10]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. For booking and further details go to and follow the link on the top right: www.westernsydney.edu.au/thinkingoutloud [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information about the Research Initiative, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 813 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 106215 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Just as Hegel used Plato's ideas of perfection to conclude the number of planets in the solar system, for Chemero, the computationalists, and similar, are in danger of doing the same: bringing in the irrelevant abstract ideas to justify empirical facts about the mind and intelligence. A similar appeal to historical figures can be found by Chemero in partnership with Raja and Biener (2017). Here the idea is that the mechanists moves of Descartes, Kepler, and Newton better fit with the ecological approach of J.J. Gibson, then to the comptuationlism of Turing (1953) and later Fodor (1975, 2008). The issue is, such an analysis seems to leave little room for theabstract cognitive object favoured by Chemero, that of the affordance (Gibson 1977, 1979). By adapting Fodor's explicitness principle (Fodor 1987) I will show the difficulties the theory of affordances has to be an explanatory part of the cognitive story. Furthermore, it will show how we can combine Chemero and Fodor's critiques but in doing so, there seems to be little room for either the concept of mental representations, as supported by Fodor, or affordances, as favoured by Chemero. 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/vxwbB0T3vdm0T0?domain=mq.academia.edu Philpapers Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nbpeB1Uz9Da0te?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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