From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Oct 17 12:59:53 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:59:53 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Tom Dougherty @ Wed 18 Oct 2017 13:00 - 14:00 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a113edb24a4bc3a055bb47a4b@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Tom Dougherty Title: Affirmative Consent Abstract: One of the most significant recent developments in sexual offence policy has been the proliferation of affirmative consent policies, which prohibit sexual activity with someone who has not acted in a way that clearly expresses her consent. I argue that if this prohibition has a proportionate sanction, a policy along these lines can be defended on the grounds that we have a duty of due diligence investigate other people's willingness to participate in sexual activity. However, I pose a challenge for the view that communicative behaviour is necessary for valid consent from a moral point of view. 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/9OVQB5UkYX1NFl?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lqmYBbSKOZGztY?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/lqmYBbSKOZGztY?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/z4nRBmU6nqwRhE?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Wed Oct 18 14:24:48 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 03:24:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Public Lecture: Tim Soutphommasane (Race Discrimination Commissioner), "Moral Psychology and Race, " 9 November, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to the annual Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) public lecture. This year, we are pleased to have Dr. Tim Soutphommasane (Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner) as our speaker. He will be talking about moral psychology and race. Tim Soutphommasane, "Moral Psychology and Race" Date: Thursday 9 November 2017 Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Venue: Australian Hearing Hub Theatre, 16 University Avenue, Macquarie University All welcome, but please register as spaces are limited! Register here: Form. About our speaker: Dr Tim Soutphommasane has been Race Discrimination Commissioner since August 2013. Prior to joining the Australian Human Rights Commission, Tim was a political philosopher and held posts at The University of Sydney and Monash University. His thinking on multiculturalism, patriotism and national identity has been influential in shaping debates in Australia and Britain. Tim is the author of four books: I?m Not Racist But ? (2015), The Virtuous Citizen (2012), Don't Go Back To Where You Came From (2012), and Reclaiming Patriotism (2009). He was co-editor (with Nick Dyrenfurth) of All That's Left (2010). He has been an opinion columnist with The Age and The Weekend Australian newspapers, and presented the documentary series Mongrel Nation on ABC Radio National (2013). Tim is an adjunct professor at the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University and chairs the Leadership Council on Cultural Diversity. Born in France and raised in southwest Sydney, Tim holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford, and is a first-class honours graduate of The University of Sydney. 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 Wed Oct 18 14:59:55 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 03:59:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Adam Piovarchy @ Thu 19 Oct 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <001a11c02a32c22c13055bca456b@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. When: Thu 19 Oct 2017 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: The Muniment Room, University of Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1RkoBZsaDNn3uE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/V81oBdUwDodLI9?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/V81oBdUwDodLI9?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/5vY4BRfnDRWGt7?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com Thu Oct 19 06:02:00 2017 From: michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com (michael kirchhoff) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 06:02:00 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] UOW Philosophy Research Presents Message-ID: *UOW Philosophy Research Presents: * *What does it mean to ?offend?, ?insult? ?humiliate? and ?intimidate?? Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (Cth) and the problem of harm* Speaker: Dr. Sarah Sorial (UOW) Date: 25 October 2017 Time: 15.30-16.45 Venue: 19.2072 (Research Hub) Abstract: There has been significant public debate about the wording of section 18C of the Commonwealth *Racial Discrimination Act (RDA)*, specifically in relation to the words ?offend? and ?insult.? The inclusion of these words in the offence, it is argued, is not only too broad and too vague, but also unduly restricts freedom of speech. Part of the problem is that the legislation does not define the key terms ? offend, insult, humiliate and intimidate, or establish a harm threshold ? and so leaves itself open to the charge that it is too imprecise to have any meaningful legal content. In our ordinary understandings of these terms, we tend to think that the words ?offend? and ?insult? refer to relatively innocuous types of speech and so speech that does these things ? offends or insults others ? should not be regulated because it does not cause harm. My claim is that a failure to adequately define these terms within the appropriate context has distorted what is at stake in these debates; namely, that the offending or insulting speech is not only also racist speech, but is also speech that *does* certain things when uttered in certain contexts. In this paper, I take up this definitional challenge with reference to Joel Feinberg?s discussion of harm and its relation to hurt and offense. While the terms offend, insult, humiliate and intimidate mean different things and do not necessarily cause *harm, *words are, as philosophers of language have demonstrated, very complicated things. Their meaning and what they do are often context dependent. My claim is that in the context of societies characterized by racism, discrimination, and inequality, racist speech typically does *all* these things at once: it offends, intimidates, humiliates and intimidates. Including these terms in the legislation arguably captures the complexity of what goes in the context of a racist utterance in a society characterized as such. Aimed at staff and postgraduates, but open to all. 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... 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URL: From nicholas.smith at sydney.edu.au Fri Oct 20 07:40:55 2017 From: nicholas.smith at sydney.edu.au (Nicholas Smith) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:40:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Two Fixed-Term Lecturer Positions in Philosophy at the University of Sydney Message-ID: <7CD464FE-937A-4675-A767-E32BE789D01F@sydney.edu.au> The University of Sydney is advertising two fixed-term Lecturer positions in Philosophy: Lecturer in Philosophy (Epistemology, Metaphysics and Logic) Four-year fixed-term position at Level B, commencing January 2018 For further details and to apply: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EM1LB5ULGaekTR?domain=tinyurl.com Lecturer in Philosophy (Ethics and Critical Thinking) Three-year fixed-term position at Level B, commencing January 2018 For further details and to apply: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Rv1VB2fl4LKzIQ?domain=tinyurl.com Applications close 11:30pm, 12 November 2017 (Sydney time). --- Nicholas J.J. Smith FAHA Professor of Philosophy Chair of Department Department of Philosophy, Main Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia +61 2 9036 6242 nicholas.smith at sydney.edu.au http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/staff/profiles/nicholas.smith.php From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Oct 20 15:00:13 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 04:00:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Andrew Latham @ Thu 26 Oct 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <001a1146fbf68320fb055bf28200@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Andrew Latham TBA When: Thu 26 Oct 2017 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: The Muniment Room, University of Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Xq1VBlS5NoYwcz?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/78eDB7UdzwZWSM?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. 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URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Fri Oct 20 15:06:25 2017 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 04:06:25 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 24th of October in Blackshield room: Carl Craver (wustl) (With Mark Povich) Message-ID: The Directionality of Distinctively Mathematical Explanations Carl Craver (Washington University) (With Mark Povich) Date: Tuesday, 24th of October Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Blackshield room, W3A 501 * All welcome *Note the changing venues this semester Abstract: In "What Makes a Scientific Explanation Distinctively Mathematical?" (2013b), Lange uses several compelling examples to argue that certain explanations for natural phenomena appeal primarily to mathematical, rather than natural, facts. In such explanations, the core explanatory facts are modally stronger than facts about causation, regularity, and other natural relations. We show that Lange's account of distinctively mathematical explanation is flawed in that it fails to account for the implicit directionality in each of his examples. This inadequacy is remediable in each case by appeal to ontic facts that account for why the explanation is acceptable in one direction and unacceptable in the other direction. The mathematics involved in these examples cannot play this crucial normative role. While Lange's examples fail to demonstrate the existence of distinctively mathematical explanations, they help to emphasize that many superficially natural scientific explanations rely for their explanatory force on relations of stronger-than-natural necessity. These are not opposing kinds of scientific explanations; they are different aspects of scientific explanation. 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/xMnXB1UR1MDKiW?domain=mq.academia.edu Philpapers Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M41aBLUv3bkKUz?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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I draw on recent attempts by Andy Clark and Jakob Hohwy to 'read off' the metaphysics of perception from the scientific theory of hierarchical predictive processing, and argue that further justification is required for our naturalist metaphysical conclusions, and further elucidation of the nature of the metaphysical claims being made. For more details please contact: alexander-james.gillett at students.mq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: