From john.sutton at mq.edu.au Mon Nov 6 17:11:13 2017 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 06:11:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Jared Medina (Delaware), 'The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Body Representations', Macquarie Uni, Nov 23, 11am Message-ID: CEPET colloquium series. Contact/ enquiries Kirk Olsen, kirk.olsen at mq.edu.au * Title: The cognitive neuropsychology of body representations * Where: Room 3.610, Level 3, Hearing Hub Building, Macquarie University * When: Thursday November 23, 2017 * Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm * RSVP: Kirk Olsen (kirk.olsen at mq.edu.au) * Abstract: Individuals with impairments after amputation (phantom limbs) and brain damage have contributed to the concept of a ?body schema? ? an online, multisensory representation of the body in space. While the concept of the body schema has been of some heuristic value, its utility is limited by a lack of specificity. To that effect, we have proposed a new account of sensorimotor body representation ? dissociating the traditional ?body schema? into different subsystems. In this talk, I will discuss how evidence from individuals with brain damage can contribute to a greater understanding of how we represent the body in space. First, I will discuss how evidence from both behavioral testing and functional neuroimaging with brain-damaged individuals provides insight into plasticity and tactile localization. Next, I will use evidence from individuals with tactile and crossmodal synchiria to understand the role of interhemispheric inhibition in representing stimuli on and around the body. Finally, I will present evidence from novel illusions using a mirror box to demonstrate how stored body representations influence both multisensory integration and our sense of embodiment. * Jared Medina is an Assistant Professor in the Psychological and Brain Science department at the University of Delaware. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 working under Brenda Rapp, and was a postdoctoral fellow with H. Branch Coslett at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused on how the brain represents the body and space around us, using evidence from cognitive neuropsychology, brain stimulation (TMS), functional neuroimaging, and behavioral studies with neurologically-intact individuals. https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/healthy-people/centres/centre-for-elite-performance-expertise-and-training/news-and-events/events/events/2017-Colloquia-Series ________________________________ Professor John Sutton Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia john.sutton at mq.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xMnXB1UXrnmzTD?domain=johnsutton.net https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M41aBLU2M0EoSr?domain=mq.academia.edu https://www.cogsci.mq.edu.au/members/profile.php?memberID=237 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.Vardoulakis at westernsydney.edu.au Tue Nov 7 04:11:00 2017 From: D.Vardoulakis at westernsydney.edu.au (Dimitris Vardoulakis) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 17:11:00 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2018 Message-ID: I am forwarding the message below on Andrew Benjamin's request: Dear Colleague, I am writing, as the Director of the 2018 Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Citta di Castello, Italy, to tell you a bit about the event and to ask that you consider either attending or encouraging your students to attend. In case you are unfamiliar with the Collegium, please allow me to tell you a bit about it. The Collegium is a three-week gathering that occurs every year in a small town in Umbria, Italy. Generally speaking, a topic or a related series of topics is selected by that year's director, scholars are invited to participate in a variety of ways constituting a "faculty" for a given week, and graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s apply to attend the collegium for the entire three-week arch as "participants." Each week one scholar offers a central "course" on that week's topic, which comprises three two-hour lectures, followed by one hour of discussion, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. These courses provide the backbone for each of the three weeks. Around the course are organized "text seminars," on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons, in which six to eight students are led by faculty members in a discussion of texts stipulated by the course-giver, as well as three or four satellite "lectures" on Tuesday and Thursday, which are given by other speakers and are related in some way to the central course theme. In sum, each week there is one central course, three to four lectures, and eight or nine text seminars. Admission to participate in the Collegium is extremely selective, with between thirty and fifty students and academics early in their careers being admitted to attend as participants. And over the three weeks, about 45 invited faculty members total will cycle through in one-week rotations. Although it varies from year to year given the topic and the director, about half the participants are usually from North America and half are from other parts of the world. Past Collegia have featured courses or lectures by such eminent figures as Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Emmanuel Levinas, Werner Marx, Gianni Vattimo, Robert Solomon, and John Sallis. This year, the focus of all three weeks will be the philosophy of Aristotle, and in particular, the participants will watch over there three weeks as the human being, as z?on logon echon/z?on politikon emerges out of/as an extension of/in opposition to the way of being of a simple z?on or a natural living being. From the three course-givers to the independent lecturers to the text seminar leaders, I think you will agree that we have a terrific lineup of expert and original Aristotle readers. And every text seminar will be led or co-led by at least one faculty member who can work closely and expertly with the Greek text. Additionally, we will have a 'Z??-Drawing Course' for the participants, offered by artist-in-residence, Mathew Girson, whom some of you may remember from 2016's Heidegger Circle meeting--he showed a series of extremely faint sketches of Heidegger's library in his Schwarzwald H?tte. Girson teaches drawing as a practice for training one's vision to bring beings to light. The aim of this two-hour course (to be held on Tuesday afternoon of the first week) will be to teach the participants to perceive the dynamics Aristotle sees at work in life, in the living of the living being. By the heightened attentiveness provoked by the drawing activity itself, the students will come to see living beings as a soul actualizing and dynamically ordering through time the material potency of the body. All participants will have a sketchbook and set of pencils, and they'll be encouraged to keep sketching for the entire three weeks. The weekend trips will be organized according to those two "drives of Nature" that Nietzsche uncovered at the source of Ancient Greek tragedy in the Birth of Tragedy. The first weekend we will experience the lusty embodied Dionysian moment in the art of the Etruscans in the tombs and museums of Orvieto, stopping off for some wine-tasting at a vineyard on the way back to Citt? di Castello. The second weekend, we will enjoy the Apollonian luminosity and pristine order of the Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna. I hope that graduate students and young faculty will consider attending as participants, and I also hope more established faculty members will STRONGLY urge their students to attend. This year's meeting will be an invaluable experience for any student working centrally on Aristotle, and even for any student working on a topic in ancient Greek philosophy. But I am also hoping that the program will be of interest to students working in quite distant periods and on a variety of fundamental philosophical issues, indeed, to all students who just want to firm up their understanding of this most fundamental thinker in the Western tradition. Please let me know if you have any questions or requests. And please feel free to contact the Collegium assistants at any point in the coming months with any practical problems that arise--Cameron Coates (CCOATES at depaul.edu) and Khafiz Kerimov (KKERIMOV at depaul.edu). Any potential participants from Australia can also contact Professor Andrew Benjamin at Monash University (andrew.benjamin at monash.edu) for further information. Sincerely, Sean D. Kirkland Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Department of Philosophy 2352 N. Clifton Ave. Suite 150 DePaul University Chicago, IL, 60614, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au Tue Nov 7 11:22:34 2017 From: mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au (Matthew Del Nevo) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 00:22:34 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] BIENNIAL CONFERENCE IN PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND CULTURE 2018 Message-ID: <874A2EFF78B57C418696905D7762A98501C28B0652@CISS04.CIS.local> "Beauty and Tradition" The theme is to be interpreted broadly and from the disciplines of philosophy, theology, history, social science, literature and the arts. The conference specifically aims to foster interaction between scholars in the universities and scholars in theological colleges. It also encourages young scholars. Friday 28th to 30th September 2018 Venue: Catholic Institute of Sydney, 99 Albert Rd, Strathfield NSW 2135 Convenors: Peter Forrest (UNE), Jim Harrison (SCD); Shane Mackinlay (CTC/UD), Matthew Del Nevo (CIS) Richard Colledge (ACU); Angus Brook (UND); Ian Tregenza (Macquarie) John McDowell (UD). Emeritus: Andrew Murray sm For details check the website http://www.cis.catholic.edu.au/news-a-events/biennial-conference Proposal submission deadline 20 June 2018. Submissions to: mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au Matthew Del Nevo Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Catholic Institute of Sydney 99 Albert Rd Strathfield NSW 2135 Australia Phone: + 612 9752 9504 Fax: + 612 9746 3998 http://www.cis.catholic.edu.au/faculty/faculty-staff-whos-who/99 A Member Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity SCD CRICOS Registration 02948J -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this paper, I lend support to Cooper?s claim by outlining the accumulation of epistemic power that appears to result in a kind of oblivion concerning realities for Black people and police conduct. Ultimately, I claim that some accumulations of epistemic power can lead to resilient oblivion, i.e. impaired schedules of salience. When: Wed 8 Nov 2017 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2mpABDcqMl9NSZ?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6eKdBDsLp1wqhV?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/6eKdBDsLp1wqhV?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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The unique selling point of the framework is that it will unify perception, cognition and action within a single explanatory framework (Friston and Stephan 2007, Hohwy 2013, Clark 2016). Even more astonishing is the claim that a single principle, the free energy principle, is the ultimate explanation for all of the above, as well as the evolution of the brain as a predictive engine (Friston 2013). In amongst the empirical applications of predictive processing, a diverging set of philosophical accounts of the framework have recently emerged. In particular Andy Clark?s (2013, 2016) action oriented account of the framework which gives more emphasis to the role of embodied action and Jakob Howhy?s (2013) account of the framework as largely a matter of internal predictive processes in the brain (Howhy 2013, Fabry 2017). These are important statements that frame predictive processing and the free energy principle in terms of externalism and internalism about the mind. This conference explores both the philosophical and empirical consequences of the predictive turn and brings together Clark and Hohwy at a conference in Australia for the first time. Keynotes: Andy Clark (Edinburgh/Macquarie) Jennifer Windt (Monash) Jakob Hohwy (Monash) Speakers: Rachael Brown (ANU) Phillip Gerrans (Adelaide) Colin Klein (Macquarie) Regina Fabry (Giessen) Michael Kirchhoff (Wollongong) David Kaplan (Macquarie) Sidney Carls-Diamante (Auckland) Colin Wastell (Macquarie) Daniel Hutto (Wollongong) Richard Menary (Macquarie) With daily summaries by John Sutton (Macquarie) Attending the conference is free, but spaces are limited. Please contact Alex Gillett if you would like to attend: alexander-james.gillett at students.mq.edu.au Dr. Richard Menary Associate Professor ARC Future Fellow Macquarie University Department of Philosophy ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Google Scholar Page academia.edu site Phil Papers Profile Books: Cognitive Integration Palgrave Macmillan and Amazon The Extended Mind (ed.) MIT Press -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Fri Nov 10 15:20:57 2017 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 04:20:57 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: Aesthetics and Politics, 20 November, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) workshop, "Aesthetics and Politics", to be held on Monday 20 November at Macquarie University. All welcome, but please register for a seat with Michael Olson! CAVE Workshop: Aesthetics and Politics Date: Monday 20 November Time: 09:30 - 17:00 Venue: Australian Hearing Hub Lvl 5 Seminar Room, 16 University Ave, Macquarie University The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers at different stages of their careers who share an interest in the relationship between politics and aesthetics, in other words the representational dimensions of political theories and political practices, and the political dimensions of aesthetic theories and aesthetic practices. The work presented at the workshop will consider how both historical and contemporary philosophical ideas can shed light on the complex nexus of aesthetics and politics. Contact: Michael Olson All welcome! 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