From m.valaris at unsw.edu.au Mon Oct 9 13:46:47 2017 From: m.valaris at unsw.edu.au (Markos Valaris) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 02:46:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: Graham Oddie at UNSW tomorrow Message-ID: The School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW invites everyone interested to the following presentation at the Philosophy seminar: Speaker: Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder) Title: Dust, ashes and the death of desire Abstract: According to one version of the evaluative theory of desire, desires are appearances of value. To desire P is for P to seem, or appear, good to one. A telling objection to the theory (urged recently by Federico Lauria) appeals to a popular doctrine that can be traced back to Socrates but also receives a strong endorsement in contemporary subjective decision theory: that when one comes to believe that the object of one's desire obtains, that desire dies. I argue for an understanding of desire on which this principle fails, although the theory explains both the scope and the limits of the doctrine. The theory also illuminates recent work on the difference between liking and wanting. Venue: MB 209 Date and Time: Tuesday 10 October, 12:30-2:00 Light lunch will be provided. Markos Valaris Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy University of New South Wales Phone: +(61) 2 9385 2760 (office) Personal webpage: markosvalaris.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Mon Oct 9 15:16:17 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 04:16:17 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 10th of October in Blackshield room: Marion Ludwig (Kliniken Schmieder) Message-ID: Are love relationship between doctor-patient and doctor-guardian permissible? Marion Ludwig (Kliniken Schmieder) Date: Tuesday, 10th of October Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Blackshield room, W3A 501 * All welcome *Note the changing venues this semester 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/oDLWBaTvMoGYfd?domain=mq.academia.edu Philpapers Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AG1ZBkTZpxqGC1?domain=philpapers.org Personal Website | adamhochman.com [Macquarie University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Major human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been deeply reluctant to factor questions of distribution and resources into their advocacy, he charged, and consequently, the deep structures that perpetuate such inequalities have been left untouched. This paper suggests that an adequate understanding of the marginalization of economic inequality by human rights NGOs requires an examination of the complexities and complicities of the relationship between the human rights revolution of the 1970s, and the rise of neoliberalism in the same period. Thursday, 12 October, 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/pLG0B1fgL7pocE?domain=eventbrite.com.au 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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This theory yields a rather natural account of happiness and its relation to well-being. This yields an answer to the question that is the title of this talk. However, this answer may come as a surprise to some. It turns out that happiness is not an intrinsically good thing, and, even if consequentialism is correct, we have no obligation to pursue it or promote it, let alone to maximize it. When: Wed 11 Oct 2017 13:00 ? 14:00 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lqmYBbSKXe5vFm?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/z4nRBmU6L2rZFZ?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. 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Since, according to the made up minds objection, any plausible theory of self-knowledge must give the same answer or similar answers to these questions, it follows that the deliberative theory is not a plausible theory. I argue that the made up minds objection fails, since no plausible theory of self-knowledge can give the same or similar answers to these questions. I then consider a follow-up objection put in terms of how I come to know whether I believe that P, rather than in terms of how I answer the question of whether I believe that P, and argue that this objection also fails, but for a different reason: the deliberative theory can give the same answer to both (i) the question of how I come to know whether I believe that P when my mind is already made up about whether to believe that P and (ii) the question of how I come to know whether I believe that P when my mind isn?t already made up about whether to believe that P. Indeed, I will suggest that it may well give the best answer to these questions. When: Thu 12 Oct 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/38L3BqUpDk97Uw?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q0YwBQf8kdJ2Hz?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/q0YwBQf8kdJ2Hz?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/44GqB7Ul5vD7uW?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au Wed Oct 11 18:08:46 2017 From: anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au (Anik Waldow) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:08:46 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Conference Announcement: Deviant Thinking Message-ID: Deviant Thinking: Early Modern Philosophy and the Enlightenment University of Sydney What the Enlightenment stands for has been subject to much discussion in recent years, and many valuable contributions have been made that help us to understand better the significance of this period. This conference takes this discussion further by connecting up the Enlightenment with the early modern period and the ?rebellious? ideas that were already formulated and passed around during this time. The papers of this conference bring into focus the many challenges philosophers of the 17th and 18th century posed to established intellectual, political, religious and social norms. These challenges touch on a diverse range of topics, spanning from fundamental questions concerning the status of the human being in the natural world, and the prospect of gaining knowledge of that world, to the redefinition of sentiment and affect as defining features of the moral potential of humanity. Reflections on the foundations of the state, self-governance and the rights of individuals and groups often followed on from these questions and thereby led to a novel engagement with the conditions that structure and shape human life. SIHN's Enlightenment Thinking Project will be hosting this conference, a central aim of which is to use the wider discussion of 17th- and 18th-century thought to launch a new series, the Australasian Seminar in Early Modern in Philosophy (ASEMP). Our speakers have backgrounds in philosophy, intellectual history, history and philosophy and science and art history and will address questions about the relevance of deviant thinking from a range of different methodological angels. In addition to encouraging interdisciplinary discourse, the conference seeks to support the work of early career researchers through our Young Scholar Panel and an accompanying mentoring programme on the third day. The conference will take place in the Veterinarian Science Conference Centre. Click here for a campus map: VSCC Plenary Session and Panels: VSCC Lecture Theatre 208 (Webster) Parallel Sessions: A) VSCC Seminar Room 115 B) VSCC Seminar Room 218 Registration and coffee breaks: VSCC Pfizer Foyer Level 1 Wednesday, 15th November 8.45-9.00 Welcome 9.00-10.30 PANEL: DEVIANT RELIGION Michael Olson (Macquarie): ?Kant?s Deviant Soul? Moira Gatens (Sydney): ?Spinoza?s Deviant God? Dejan Simkovic (Notre Dame Australia): ?Is (Mono)theism an Option for Epistemically Virtuous Humean Agents?? 10.30-11.00: Morning Tea 11.00-11.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Peter Anstey (Sydney): ?From Speculative Philosopher to Trail Blazer: The Rehabilitation of Descartes in the Enlightenment? B) Aurelia Armstrong (Queensland): ?Activity, Passivity and Agreement in Nature: Spinoza?s Relational Ethics? 11.50-12.35 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Peter Cryle (Queensland): ?Deviancy and Libertinage: An Intellectual Historian?s Perspective? B) John Carriero (UCLA): ?Spinoza and Our Ontological Demotion? 12.35-2.00 Lunch 2.00-2.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Sandra Field (Yale-NUS): ?The Power of Natural and Human Bodies? B) Hsueh Qu (NUS): ?Answering Hume?s Problem of Induction: Kant?s Second Analogy and the Synthetic A Priori? 2.50-3.35 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Diane Zetlin (Queensland): ?Love, Sex and Fear: Re-reading Thomas Hobbes? B) Elena Gordon (Sydney): ?Hume?s Copy Principle, Fictions and Legitimate Combinations of Ideas? 3.35-4.00 Coffee Break 4.00-5.30 PLENARY SESSION: Peter Kail (Oxford): ?Berkeley on Projection? Thursday, 16th November 9.00-9.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Geoff Kemp (Auckland): ?Locke and Tindal on Liberty of the Press and Public Opinion: Deviating Ways of Thinking? B) Dominic Dimech (Sydney): ?Relative Ideas and the Veil of Perception? 9.50-10.35 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Anik Waldow (Sydney)/Vili Laehteenmaeki (Helsinki): ?How Subjectivist is Locke?s Account of Personhood?? B) Naohito Mori (Kochi): ?On Whether the Tudor Government was an ?Absolute Monarchy?: Reconsidering Hume?s View of Authority, Laws and Liberty? 10.35-11.05: Morning Tea 11.05-12.35 PLENARY SESSION: AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS DESCARTES AND THE ONTOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE (DEBORAH BROWN AND CALVIN NORMORE) Antonia Lolordo (Virginia) Amy Schmitter (Alberta) Deborah Brown (Queensland) 12.35-2.00 Lunch 2.00-2.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Ryan Walter (Queensland): ?Malthus, Enthusiasm, and the Enlightenment? B) Lisa Hill (Adelaide): ?Anti-Rationalism in the Scottish Enlightment Thought: the Social Thought of the Two Adams? 2.50-3.35 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Inja Stracenski (Sydney): ?Reflections on the Foundations of the State? B) John Thrasher (Monash): ?Adam Smith, Contractarian? 3.35-3.55 Coffee Break 3.55-4.40 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Laura Kotevska (UNSW): ?Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole and the Critique of Mathematics? B) John Whipple (UIC): ?Deviant Metaphysical Ideas in Leibniz?s Theodicy? 4.45-6.15 PANEL: WOMEN, REVOLUTION, REPUBLICANISM Sandrine Berges (Bilkent): ?Equality in the Writings of Republican Women Philosophers of the French Revolution? Karen Green (Melbourne): ?The Rights of Woman and the Equal rights of Men? Patrick Ball (UPenn): ?Beauty, Patriarchy and Revolution in the Work of Mary Wollstonecraft? Friday, 17th November 9.00-9.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Jacqueline Broad (Monash): ?Dignity, Cartesian Metaphysics, and Women?s Rights, 1650-1750? B) Jennifer Milam (Sydney): ?Greuze Girls and the Painterly Embodiment of Sexual Pleasure? 9.45-10.15: Morning Tea 10.15-11.45 INTERDISCIPLINARY YOUNG SCHOLAR PANEL: DEVIANT ART Chair: Jennifer Milam (Sydney) Emma Gleadhill (Sydney): ?Deviant Dilettanti: Eighteenth-Century Female Grand Tourists? Henry Martyn Lloyd (Queensland): ?On the Good, the Beautiful, and the Abhorrent: Sade?s Aesthetics? Melanie Cooper (Adelaide): ?Divine Inebriation: Adopting the Guise of Bacchus in the Eighteenth Century? 11.45-1.45 Lunch/Mentoring Sessions 1.45-2.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Max Sipowicz (Monash): ?Descartes on Virtue and the Passions?Stephen B) Gaukroger (Sydney): ?What is Civilization?: Voltaire and The Problem of China? 2.30-3.00 Coffee Break 3.00-3.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: A) Michael LeBuffe (Otago): ?Descartes's Wax Example? B) Toshiro Osawa (Macquarie): ?The Religious (Un-)Grounding of Ethics: Kant?s Debt to Baumgarten? 4.00-5.30 PLENARY SESSION: Cecilia Lim (NUS): ?Descartes, La Mettrie and Materialism? For more information see: http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/news-events/deviant-thinking/index.shtml ANIK WALDOW | Associate Professor Department of Philosophy | School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY S404, Quadrangle Building A14 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | Australia T +61 2 9114 1245 | F +61 2 9351 3918 E anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From avrs at iitk.ac.in Wed Oct 11 18:27:40 2017 From: avrs at iitk.ac.in (A. V. 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Ravishankar Sarma Assistant Professor FB-659 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur 208016 Tel: +91 512 2596137 (office) +91 512 2598208 (residence) Fax: +91 512 2597510 Mobile:09452960320 Homepage: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q0YwBQf8nJWmT9?domain=home.iitk.ac.in From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Thu Oct 12 12:34:21 2017 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:34:21 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Tonight's Inner West Council Philosophy Talk: Jessica Whyte (WSU), "Human Rights, Inequality and the Rise of Neoliberalism", Leichhardt Library, 6:30-8:00pm Message-ID: <5BFD0393-324E-4A22-8CCD-76FDFA8087A5@unsw.edu.au> Details of tonight's ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?Human Rights, Inequality and the Rise of Neoliberalism? Speaker: Dr Jessica Whyte (Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University) Abstract: In 2015, human rights lawyer Philip Alston used his new position as the UN Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty to issue a ?clarion call? to the human rights movement. Major human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been deeply reluctant to factor questions of distribution and resources into their advocacy, he charged, and consequently, the deep structures that perpetuate such inequalities have been left untouched. This paper suggests that an adequate understanding of the marginalization of economic inequality by human rights NGOs requires an examination of the complexities and complicities of the relationship between the human rights revolution of the 1970s, and the rise of neoliberalism in the same period. Thursday, 12 October, 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/q0YwBQf86Mg1T9?domain=eventbrite.com.au 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: Wed 18 Oct 2017 13:00 ? 14:00 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pLG0B1fg2Y1mCE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ld1wBKUzp8K5HY?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/Ld1wBKUzp8K5HY?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/GN1YBofma6YLHg?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Fri Oct 13 09:52:20 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:52:20 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 17th of October in Blackshield room: Jeremy Moss (UNSW) Message-ID: Historical Emissions and the Carbon Budget Jeremy Moss (UNSW) Date: Tuesday, 17th of October Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Blackshield room, W3A 501 * All welcome *Note the changing venues this semester Abstract: This paper assesses the role of fault-based distributive principles in dividing the world's remaining carbon budget. Many philosophers dismiss or downgrade the role of fault-based principles in the context of historical emissions because the original emitters are often dead, excusably ignorant or do not have the appropriate obligation generating links to their governments. While this view has some intuitive force, the paper argues that it and the associated focus on pre-1990 (pre IPCC report) emissions are now out of date. The paper argues that a restricted fault-based principle, according to which emissions should be divided among countries on the basis of their emissions since 1990, is both viable and powerful. The paper considers standard objections to a fault-based principle in this context, how such a principle might more concretely be applied, and its likely implications. 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/bZ89Bmu3Db20s6?domain=mq.academia.edu Philpapers Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Jb1WBnUbYKWDId?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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Jeremy Moss, "Historical Emissions and the Carbon Budget" Date: Tuesday 17 October Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W3A 501 (Blackshield room), Macquarie University (Q15 on campus map) Abstract: This paper assesses the role of fault-based distributive principles in dividing the world's remaining carbon budget. Many philosophers dismiss or downgrade the role of fault-based principles in the context of historical emissions because the original emitters are often dead, excusably ignorant or do not have the appropriate obligation generating links to their governments. While this view has some intuitive force, the paper argues that it and the associated focus on pre-1990 (pre IPCC report) emissions are now out of date. The paper argues that a restricted fault-based principle, according to which emissions should be divided among countries on the basis of their emissions since 1990, is both viable and powerful. The paper considers standard objections to a fault-based principle in this context, how such a principle might more concretely be applied, and its likely implications. About the speaker: Jeremy Moss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Co-Director of the Practical Justice Initiative at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His main research interests are in political philosophy and applied philosophy. Current research interests include projects on: climate justice, the ethics of renewable energy as well as the ethical issues associated with fossil fuel exports. Recent publications include: Reassessing Egalitarianism, Climate Change and Justice (Cambridge University Press), and ?The Morality of Divestment? in Law and Policy. All welcome! 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 calendar-notification at google.com Fri Oct 13 15:00:08 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:00:08 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Adam Piovarchy @ Thu 19 Oct 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <001a1144952c5270b7055b65b167@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Adam Piovarchy Title: The Story of Situationist Psychology Abstract: The situationist psychology experiments (e.g. Milgram's Obedience to Authority) demonstrate that agents can be more readily induced to act badly than most of us expect. Doris (2002) has argued these experiments show agent behaviour is more determined by circumstantial environmental factors than by stable, inner character traits. Because of this, globalist accounts of virtue ethics are empirically inadequate. A number of philosophers have responded to this by providing alternative explanations of subject behaviour which are consistent with the existence of global character traits. These explanations include saying subjects act badly because they experience new desires, because they have competing global character traits, because they lack practical wisdom or because they experience weakness of will. Though I don't aim to vindicate Doris, I argue that all of these explanations face important explanatory gaps. I argue a better explanation can be provided by thinking about the set and strength of subjects' perceived reasons for action. 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The dominant views are committed to the idea that access to other minds is always observational and based on evidence.In this presentation, I discuss how to best account for the relevant forms of joint intentional action and argue that agents in such interactive scenarios have a practical understanding of other minds. I end by addressing some well-known problems of the observational view in this novel framework. Aimed at staff and postgraduates, but open to all. Best wishes Michael *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: